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In Search of Russia's Lost Opposition

Morten Hammeken — 2026-02-12T15:19:03Z

The Russian state has forced many antiwar leftists into exile, cutting them off from ordinary Russians. But activists are well aware that change in Russia must come from within, mobilizing ordinary people around their own interests.

- Features / Denmark, Russia

Defend Greenland against the US's raid - without any illusions about the Kingdom of Denmark and the EU

SAP (Denmark) — 2026-01-27T11:18:58Z

Statement adopted by the Executive Committee of SAP (Socialistisk Arbejderpolitiks), Danish section of the Fourth International, on 26 January 2026.

- IVP612 - January 2026 / Denmark, Greenland

The Unity List remains Copenhagen's largest party

Jonathan Simmel — 2025-11-26T07:47:09Z

Local and regional elections have been held in Denmark, and the Unity List [known internationally as the Red Green Alliance] has once again become Copenhagen's largest party. The Social Democrats lost the mayoralty to the Socialist People's Party and lost ground in 86 of 98 municipalities. The results clearly reflect the national political scene, where the Social Democrats chose to form a majority government with two bourgeois parties in 2022.

- IVP610 - November 2025 / Denmark

Return from Ukraine

Bjarke Friborg — 2025-09-03T09:25:52Z

The Nordic left is making great strides in its thinking on questions of popular defence and security in Europe. This reflection is nourished by its sustained and permanent commitment in favour of Ukraine. It actively supports Ukrainian trade unions and social movements as well as progressive anti-fascist fighters who combat Russian imperialism.

- IVP608 - September 2025 / Denmark, Ukraine

Visiting a secret anarchist warehouse in Ukraine

Helene Vadsten — 2025-08-30T08:15:00Z

The Ukrainian left acts where official systems fail. Bjarke Friborg and Helene Vadsten visited Solidarity Collectives in Ukraine. Here is Helene's accout of the visit.

- IVP607 - August 2025 / Denmark, Ukraine

Enhedslisten: Support for more defence - but which defence?

John Jessen — 2025-06-27T04:46:11Z

“The new defence and security policy adopted at the annual meeting does not indicate that initiatives to organize protests against military armament will come from this direction - at least not from the party leadership. Time will tell if others take up the task.”

- IVP605 - June 2025 / Denmark

For a free and demilitarized Arctic – Defend Greenland's independence – Defend the Greenlandic people and nature

SAP (Denmark) — 2025-05-20T14:28:42Z

With Donald Trump's repeated demands that the US take over Greenland and his vice president J. D. Vance's comments on the number of US military personnel in Greenland, the imperialist competition for Greenland has taken a decisive new step.

- IVP604 - May 2025 / United States (USA), Denmark, Greenland

Trump's Greenland bid is really about control of the Arctic and the coming battle with China

Stefan Wolff — 2025-01-10T18:55:23Z

When Donald Trump first offered to buy Greenland in 2019, he was widely ridiculed and nothing much came of it, apart from a canceled state visit to Denmark. Fast forward six years and Trump's renewed “bid” for the world's largest island is back on the table.

- IVP600 - January 2025 / United States (USA), Denmark, Greenland

Heading for a general strike in Denmark?

Jonathan Simmel — 2023-01-30T11:56:03Z

“It is an exciting time in Denmark and it could open up whole new possibilities for a left that has had difficulty finding itself and mobilizing in the last few years.”

- IV576 - January 2023 / Denmark, Trade unions/workplace organizing

Danish government reopens schools, immigrants left out

Peter Saxtrup Nielsen — 2020-04-15T16:55:36Z

As of April 15, Denmark has registered 6,511 coronavirus infections and 299 Covid-19 deaths, among the lowest rates thus far in northern Europe after the early adoption of social distancing and salary supports. This relative success is being put to the test this week as Denmark began “reopening schools on Wednesday after a month-long closure over the coronavirus, becoming the first country in Europe to do so,” according to the Guardian. “Nurseries, kindergartens and primary schools were reopening, according to an AFP correspondent, after they were closed on 12 March in an effort to curb the Covid-19 epidemic. However, classes are only resuming in about half of Denmark's municipalities and in about 35% of Copenhagen's schools, as some have requested more time to adjust to health protocols still in place.”

Denmark's healthcare system has been weakened by years of budget cuts and some worry that the push to reopen parts of the economy will needlessly put the public at risk as testing remains limited. Meanwhile, the Social Democrats under Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen, along with the majority in parliament, approved a plan to pay 75 percent of workers' wages on behalf of businesses, costs that will pressurize the Danish budget in the coming months and open up a political fight over taxation and how to deal with the emerging recession.

- IV543 - April 2020 / Denmark, Covid-19 Pandemic