Numerous friends, comrades and workers paid farewell to veteran Danish communist Anton Nielsen who died at the age of 84. The civil funeral took place on January 6 at the Construction Workers' Union (BJMF) in Copenhagen.
The memorial event was attended, among others, by members of the KKE and KNE branches in Denmark.
Anton Nielsen, a bricklayer by profession, was a lifelong committed communist and anti-imperialist, President of the anti-fascist group Horserød-Stutthof Foreningen, member of the FIR.
Following the counterrevolutionary overthrows in the beginning of 1990s, Nielsen and his comrades played a leading role in the formation of a marxist-leninist Communist Party in his country.
In 2011, he received a six-month prison sentence due to his active support to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP).
