Sunday’s protest, the largest in Denmark for over a decade, is part of an upsurge of working-class opposition across Europe to the ruling elite’s determination to make them bear the cost of militarism and war through social spending cuts and attacks on wages and worker rights.
The Social Democrats’ overtures to the right are bound up with the recognition that the deeply unpopular policies the next Danish government must carry out need to be worked out behind the scenes and imposed with the aid of a strong parliamentary majority.
Like neighbouring Sweden, Denmark is emerging as one of the most ruthless proponents of a criminal herd immunity strategy that, unless opposed, plans to make mass infection and death a permanent feature of daily life.