🔴 Communist Party of Denmark: Hands Off Greenland!

Greenland's dependence on Denmark is the result of colonial subjugation – not a voluntary choice. If Greenland wants to break this dependence, the choice is the Greenlanders'; but Denmark cannot run away from its obligations.
The Arctic, and thus also Greenland, has enormous geostrategic importance, among other things due to its location close to Russia and China. With the melting of the ice in the Arctic, the coveted northern corridor is moving closer to reality. Trade routes are about to change, and thus interest in Greenland and its resources increases. It is increasing as the monopolies' competition for markets globally is intensifying day by day.


It is an oversimplification to simply explain the recent worsening situation around Greenland with arguments that Donald Trump cannot be trusted. The situation is the result of huge financial interests and not the quirks of a single person.

Therefore, it is hypocritical to witness the Danish government's diplomatic dance with the USA, since Denmark itself is part of the problem for Greenland. Against the background of Denmark as an oppressive colonial power, but also as an uncritical accomplice of the United States, the Danish state is part of the imperialist alliance anchored in NATO and the United States. Denmark itself opened for the USA's military presence in Greenland a long time ago and is also about to open the door for the same in Denmark itself.

Denmark thus contributes to increasing uncertainty in the world. The hostages here are the Greenlanders, who are just a pawn in imperialism's game. The Greenlanders should, if they wish, be their own masters. The competition of monopolies for markets, raw materials and transport routes automatically leads to territorial redistribution of the world, to imperialist wars and border changes. Imperialist competition aims at supremacy and the exercise of power over weaker states and people. It aims at the monopolies' profit, profit for the few, but also at weakening opponents. That is why it is relentless and cynical. DKP believes that the people must show the way for the confrontation with the bourgeois and anti-people politics in every version, the power of capital and thus the exploitative and war-making system. The Danish government must realize that its closest ally is not doing so out of a good heart, but to secure its own financial interests. Exactly the same as is the case with Denmark's grip on Greenland. Therefore, we must respect the Greenlanders' right to determine their own destiny and speak out against any kind of increase of insecurity in the world. DKP says STOP interference by foreign powers in Greenland's affairs. Hands off Greenland!

DKP's national management, 14 January 2025

🔴 On Elon Musk's live chat with the leader of the far-right AfD party

Recently, Alice Weidel, the frontwoman of Germany’s far-right AfD party, was interviewed by tycoon and Trump supporter Elon Musk. In their much-publicized virtual conversation, Weidel blurted out that Hitler was a “communist” and a “socialist” in order to show the distance that supposedly separates her from Nazism, since Hitler was “not a conservative” or “a libertarian” and that her party and she are “exactly the opposite”.
Who knows? Perhaps Weidel knows better than the industrial capitalists who supported Hitler, such as the then chairman of the Association of German Industry, Krupp. Perhaps, in her view, even the German capital that gave millions of marks to the National Socialist party, effectively bringing Hitler to power, was also communist.

Perhaps, the US monopolies of Ford, General Motors, IBM, etc., which played a catalytic role in supporting Nazism and made huge profits, were covert supporters of communism.

Or, perhaps, even the heads of Ford and IBM themselves, who were awarded the medals of the “Grand Cross” by the Third Reich, were unaware of what they were getting into with Adolf...

The henchmen of capitalism, such as the AfD, compete with the European Union in the propaganda of equating fascism with communism. This doctrine of equation is a must in order to whitewash the most barbaric form of capitalist power, fascism and Nazism, and to slander the greatest achievement of the peoples, socialism–communism and workers’ power. Therefore, the trust of business giants like Musk in such forces is a given…

Commentary of the daily newspaper “Rizospastis” , Organ of the CC of the KKE, published on 11/1/25.

The oligarchy does not perpetuate itself by retaining power permanently in the same hand, but by dropping it with one hand in order to catch it again with the other, and so on.

From Parliament.
[—Roebuck's and Bulwer's Motions]
Karl Marx

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There are two forces on Earth that can decide the destiny of mankind. One force is international capitalism, and should it be victorious it will display this force in countless atrocities. The other force is the international proletariat that is fighting for the socialist revolution through the dictatorship of the proletariat, which it calls workers’ democracy.

V. I. Lenin
Seventh All-Russia Congress Of Soviets (1919)

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The forms of domination of the state may vary: capital manifests its power in one way where one form exists, and in another way where another form exists—but essentially the power is in the hands of capital, whether there are voting qualifications or some other rights or not, or whether the republic is a democratic one or not—in fact, the more democratic it is the cruder and more cynical is the rule of capitalism. One of the most democratic republics in the world is the United States of America, yet nowhere (and those who have been there since 1905 probably know it) is the power of capital, the power of a handful of multimillionaires over the whole of society, so crude and so openly corrupt as in America. Once capital exists, it dominates the whole of society, and no democratic republic, no franchise can change its nature.

V. I. Lenin
The State: A Lecture Delivered at the Sverdlov University
July 11, 1919

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Vladimir Lenin, the leader of the 1917 October Revolution, passed away on January 21, 1924, but his impact is immortal. Lenin's fusion of Marxist theory with revolutionary action gave rise to the first socialist state and reshaped the world. His analysis of imperialism as capitalism’s highest stage and his vision for a socialist future remain a guiding light for the proletariat. Lenin is alive, and his revolutionary ideas continue to inspire and guide the struggle for liberation and the overthrow of capitalist domination worldwide.

Thank you, Lenin,
for the energy and the teachings,
thank you for the firmness,
thank you for the Leningrad and the steppes...
Thank you, Lenin,
for the hope.

- Pablo Neruda, Ode to Lenin.

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Seen in Milan, Italy: An effigy of Elon Musk appeared on Piazzale Loreto—the site where Italian fascist dictator Benito Mussolini’s body was displayed in 1945—placed there by a student activist group.

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On this day, 22 January 1891, Italian Marxist philosopher Antonio Gramsci was born in Sardinia. One of Gramsci's most important contributions to the workers' movement was his theory of hegemony, which describes how the capitalist class maintains its power most of the time not through open violence and repression but through ideology and its domination of culture.
Gramsci was a vocal critic of fascism, and dictator Benito Mussolini, until he was arrested in 1926. He was put on trial, during which his prosecutor stated: "We must stop his brain from working for 20 years."
However, Gramsci continued his work in prison, writing extensively and evading sensors. In one of his letters from prison, he wrote of the importance of both realism and hope:
"The challenge of modernity is to live without illusions and without becoming disillusioned. I’m a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will."

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I hate the indifferent
By Antonio Gramsci

I hate the indifferent. I believe that living means taking sides. Those who really live cannot help being a citizen and a partisan. Indifference and apathy are parasitism, perversion, not life. That is why I hate the indifferent.

The indifference is the dead weight of history. The indifference operates with great power on history. The indifference operates passively, but it operates. It is fate, that which cannot be counted on. It twists programs and ruins the best-conceived plans. It is the raw material that ruins intelligence. That what happens, the evil that weighs upon all, happens because the human mass abdicates to their will; allows laws to be promulgated that only the revolt could nullify, and leaves men that only a mutiny will be able to overthrow to achieve the power.

The mass ignores because it is careless and then it seems like it is the product of fate that runs over everything and everyone: the one who consents as well as the one who dissents; the one who knew as well as the one who didn’t know; the active as well as the indifferent. Some whimper piously, others curse obscenely, but nobody, or very few ask themselves: If I had tried to impose my will, would this have happened?

I also hate the indifferent because of that: because their whimpering of eternally innocent ones annoys me. I make each one liable: how they have tackled with the task that life has given and gives them every day, what have they done, and especially, what they have not done. And I feel I have the right to be inexorable and not squander my compassion, of not sharing my tears with them. I am a partisan, I am alive, I feel the pulse of the activity of the future city that those on my side are building is alive in their conscience. And in it, the social chain does not rest on a few; nothing of what happens in it is a matter of luck, nor the product of fate, but the intelligent work of the citizens. Nobody in it is looking from the window of the sacrifice and the drain of a few. Alive, I am a partisan.

That is why I hate the ones that don’t take sides, I hate the indifferent.

Indifference is actually the mainspring of history. But in a negative sense. What comes to pass, either the evil that afflicts everyone, or the possible good brought about by an act of general valour, is due not so much to the initiative of the active few, as to the indifference, the absenteeism of the many. What comes to pass does so not so much because a few people want it to happen, as because the mass of citizens abdicate their responsibility and let things be. They allow the knots to form that in time only a sword will be able to cut through; they let men rise to power whom in time only a mutiny will overthrow. The fatality that seems to dominate history is precisely the illusory appearance of this indifference, of this absenteeism. Events are hatched off-stage in the shadows; unchecked hands weave the fabric of collective life – and the masses know nothing. The destinies of an epoch are manipulated in the interests of narrow horizons, of the immediate ends of small groups of activists – and the mass of citizens know nothing.

But eventually the events that are hatched come out into the open; the fabric woven in the shadows is completed, and then it seems that fatality overwhelms everything and everybody. It seems that history is nothing but an immense natural phenomenon, an eruption, an earthquake, and that we are all its victims, both those who wanted it to happen as well as those who did not, those who knew it would happen and those who did not, those who were active and those who were indifferent. And then it is the indifferent ones who get angry, who wish to dissociate themselves from the consequences, who want it made known that they did not want it so and hence bear no responsibility. And while some whine piteously, and others howl obscenely, few people, if any, ask themselves this question: had I done my duty as a man, had I sought to make my voice heard, to impose my will, would what came to pass have ever happened? But few people, if any, see their indifference as a fault – their skepticism, their failure to give moral and material support to those political and economic groups that were struggling either to avoid a particular evil or to promote a particular good. Instead such people prefer to speak of the failure of ideas, of the definitive collapse of programmes, and other like niceties. They continue in their in-indifference and their skepticism.

August 1916.