The Red-Green Alliance was formed in 1989 by three left-wing parties: the Left Socialist Party, the Communist Party of Denmark and the Socialist Workers Party, and by independent socialists.
The Red-Green Alliance is a democratic socialist party with the aim of combining politics for social change with politics for solving the great environmental problems both on national and international level.
We are opposing corporate driven globalization, neoliberal politics and privatization and fight for a public sector in which people not profit are at centre. That is why we for years have had a slogan saying »People not profit«. As a democratic party, we stand for the extension of human and democratic rights. We therefore oppose the US-led so-called »war on terror« which confines the above mentioned rights.
Believing in building socialism from below the Red-Green Alliance put priority in social movements outside parliament - not least the trade unions - but also stands in national and local parliamentary elections. In the elections on November 13th, 2007, we gained 2, 2 % of the votes and 4 seats in the national Parliament (Folketinget).
In the municipal and regional elections on November 15th, 2005, members of the Alliance were elected to municipal councils in 14 cities, including 6 members and 9, 5 % of the votes in the party stronghold of Copenhagen. Here we have one of the seven city mayors (responsible for social affairs). We also got members in 4 out of the 5 new regional councils.
Today the Red Green Alliance has more than 4500 members of which a majority were never members of the founding organisations, and work closely together with the 1000 members of the Socialist Youth Front - of which many are members of the Red Green Alliance.
The Red-Green Alliance is opposed to the construction of the European Union, which we see as a vehicle of European capitalism, and especially to the building of a European state and the establishment of a European army.