Rød Ungdom is to consider at its national convention at Easter a proposal to replace the Army with a so-called people’s militia.
The socialists in Rødt’s youth wing appear to believe that only socialists should be admitted into this militia. The enemy is defined as fascists and the police.
The tasks fit into the policy pursued by people who flirt with communism.
– The labour movement must organise its own self-defence organisations to defend strikes, demonstrations, occupations and meetings from fascists and the police.
– We demand that the Army be dissolved and replaced with a people’s militia under the democratic control of the labour movement, it states in the proposal which is recommended adopted by the organisation’s editorial committee (redaksjonskomité), but not adopted, writes Klassekampen.
The proposal does not come from the leader of Rød Ungdom, Halvor Bergkvist.
– I am not the proposer, and the proposer must answer for why the proposal has been put forward.
Bergkvist finds it necessary to emphasise that the organisation distances itself from political violence.
But little indicates that the entire organisation shares this view; this particularly applies to the youth wing, which praises Muslim terrorists and laughs at conservatives who are killed.
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The person behind the proposal does not wish to comment on what he means a “self-defence organisation” is to do or what is meant by a people’s militia.
The parent party Rødt is likely in the process of growing tired of all the scandals from the youth wing, and on this occasion as well clearly distances itself from the proposal.
– This proposal differs fundamentally from Rødt’s policy for a strong and independent defence with universal conscription and under democratic control, says party secretary Reidar Strisland.
Strisland points out that Rødt wishes to strengthen the Armed Forces (Forsvaret) as a democratic organisation and rejects the idea of replacing soldiers with varied political views with a people’s militia linked to the labour movement and socialism.
But the parent party appears to be in the process of simply ignoring all the nonsense that comes from Rød Ungdom.
– Rød Ungdom may make its own decisions, says Strisland.
The leadership in Rødt will, however, not take such proposals seriously.