EL SALVADOR, January 26— “The long-standing US interest in Greenland mining is neither new nor accidental. It is part of a long term imperialist strategy to control territories, strategic resources, and key geopolitical routes,” said C.
“Greenland is rich in minerals, uranium and other vital inputs for the military and technological industry. It has become a priority target of the powerful imperialists,” C concluded.
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“Trump, as a grotesque but faithful expression of US imperialism, does not disguise rapacious greed,” J added. “He openly turns it into war. He proposes to buy territories, militarize regions, or ‘protect’ strategic areas. This is really the face of imperialism doing what it always does. It turns the planet into booty, reducing peoples and territories to merchandise and subjecting them to the logic of profit and domination.”
The US is not interested in Greenland’s population or development, but in what lies beneath its soil. US imperialism sees in the melting Arctic ice an opportunity for business and military control. It wants to protect Greenland’s resources and arctic waterways from China. Climate change, a direct product of capitalism, is reused as a lever for plunder. Where the ice retreats, capital advances with bulldozers, military bases, and unequal treaties.
But this is not only true of the US. The Danish state plays a central role as a colonial power. It administers Greenland under “legal” but deeply unequal domination. Denmark negotiates with the imperialist powers behind the backs of the Inuit people. It reproduces structural racism and maintains a false “autonomy” that serves to legitimize looting and to contain resistance. Danish colonialism is not a residue of the past. It is functional to global capital.
This domination has a concrete face: racism and sexism as political tools. Indigenous women disproportionately endure violence, marginalization, and exclusion, while the colonial state and corporations present themselves as “modernizers.”
“It is the same logic that applied historically in Latin America, Africa, and Asia: divide, hierarchize, and oppress to govern and plunder,” said E. “It is the same logic that plundered Venezuela, that bled Congo, and that today points to the Arctic. Capitalism has no homeland, but it does have armies, fleets, and governments at its service.”
From the communist perspective of ICWP and our newspaper Red Flag, there is no “peaceful competition” between powers. The dispute over Greenland’s mining is part of the inter-imperialist war for world hegemony. Trump doesn’t break the rules. He takes them to their most brutal form. Meanwhile, Denmark acts as the colonial business manager.
Under capitalism, no natural resources are protected from the profiteers. The solution is not national liberation based on Inuit nationalism. The only effective response to imperialist war is the mass communist organization of the working class, proletarian internationalism, and revolutionary struggle.
We call on the entire working class and all oppressed people to organize internationalist resistance against imperialist plunder. To expose war propaganda. And to strengthen our revolutionary tools, including Red Flag, our web page, our pamphlets and banners.
We invite more comrades, especially workers, to become more active in our discussions of international issues. Join the ICWP to end this capitalist-imperialist system! Long live Communist Revolution!
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