The Workers’ Communist Party (APK), Denmark | Jan. 13, 2026—

We call for solidarity with the Greenlandic working class and Inuit people, for their right to decide the destine of their own country, Kalaallit Nunaat and their own future.

The threats from Trump and the US to take over Greenland as part of their security zone, either by military or by economic means, are an act of imperialist aggression. They only serve to protect the US’s own economic and geopolitical interests. Greenland is in the eye of the hurricane when it comes to the imperialist powers’ rivalry for plundering natural resources, military control and world domination.

The United States’ treatment of its own indigenous peoples and working class shows all too clearly that trading Danish imperialism’s supremacy in the Danish Realm for American supremacy is not an alternative or “good deal” for the people of Greenland. It’s like going from the frying pan into the fire. The Trump administration has hypocrisy tried for a long time to exploit the opposition to Danish imperialism in Greenland for its own benefit.

The Danish government is puffing itself up morally, but they have sold a people and their country to the US before. They are hoping for a deal with Trump where Denmark and the EU can keep a piece of the pie. Whether it’s open or secret negotiations of buying and selling between Danish, Greenlandic and American politicians, it’s an insult to the Greenlandic people, who is not for sale.

The Greenlandic working class, youth and people’s demand for independence and the right to determine their own future – is and will remain a fight against all imperialism. This is what Greenland’s security ultimately depends on – increased military presence from Denmark, USA, EU and NATO means the opposite and is a dangerous way.

We reject the nationalistic claims that Greenland cannot manage independence. That the country is too poor, too underdeveloped and the population too uneducated. This is an expression of colonialist thinking, arrogance and racism.

Modern Greenland holds the future, with many opportunities, resources and, not least, a growing national political consciousness that wants to reconcile progress with indigenous values and respect for nature. Who neither wants to see Greenland as an open-air museum for tourists nor a neo-colonially dependent developing country.

When Greenland today is economically weak, you have to ask yourself: Where is Greenland’s wealth disappearing to, since that is the case? The multinational monopolies take the raw materials and the money for them out of the country, and Greenland is left with the bill for the clean-up and environmental damage caused by, for example, mining. Fishing is Greenland’s largest industry, but as the EU and Denmark are making a fortune from Greenland’s fish, the Greenlandic fishermen and the workers in the fish factories are being left with pennies.

The Greenlandic economy is not developed beyond the point where it can serve as a subcontractor to the predatory behavior of the big monopolies. Therefore, it is weak. This applies regardless of which imperialist flag it flies. Therefore, it must be developed in the fight against all imperialism

Culturally, ideologically and socially, the Inuit people have been oppressed and treated as second-class people in their own country and as Greenlanders in Denmark. For the neocolonial rulers, it is not profitable to provide all Greenlanders with the knowledge and education that a modern society requires, but to keep them down in self-loathing.

The key positions in the civil service and state administration is made up of Danes together with Greenlanders trained by the colonial power. They form a special class layer that lives separately and under completely different conditions than the average Greenlander. Together with a small upper class woven into Danish, American and multinational monopolies, they sit at the top. And as we know from Denmark, civil servants, politicians and CEOs in the private sector swap positions and hats within the networks of the power elite.

The social conditions and class differences are on par with those in the US. Modern Greenland also carries with it all the inherent ills of capitalism and obstacles to development, such as private property, exploitation and a neocolonial state apparatus.

A major obstacle to developing Greenland’s independence is the Self-Government Arrangement of 2009, which deprived Greenlanders of the right to decide on foreign, defense and security policy, as well as currency and monetary policy. The Danish bourgeoisie and its government have centuries of experience in pseudo-agreements that only change the surface of things, and in hiding the truth behind apparent concessions if that is what it takes.

Any move towards greater independence will be a struggle against Danish imperialism and the neocolonial power of the Danish state – and against all other imperialism, if it is to become real steps forward.

It will not happen spontaneously. First and foremost, it requires a revolutionary party that can develop and organize a revolutionary consciousness and struggle in the working class for a break with capitalism. And that can unite the struggle for social liberation with the struggle for national independence. Today, no such party exists in Greenland. But the question, the necessity, is current and objective. The struggle for independence is a broad popular struggle, but it could also be a strong driving force in the class struggle in Greenland if it is based on the needs and interests of the working class and the rural population and can point to a future for young people.

The Danish working class and Danish revolutionaries also have a role and task in the fight for Greenland’s independence. Both by fighting Danish imperialism and weakening it through the class struggle in Denmark, but also concretely to go against every step the Danish state power takes economically, militarily and financially to maintain and utilise its neocolonial power. And through concrete and active international solidarity with the Greenlandic working class and the Inuit people.

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