Ecosocialists win Greenland elections by opposing Australian mining project

April 19, 2021
Issue 

On April 4 an ecosocialist party, Inuit Ataqatigiit, won a snap election in Greenland in what was a virtual referendum campaign on a proposed uranium and rare earth mining project by an Australian company, Greenland Minerals Ltd.

Peter Boyle spoke to Niels Henrik Hooge from Friends of the Earth Denmark and Søren Søndergaard a MP from the Red-Green Alliance in Denmark about the result.

Ecosocialists win Greenland elections by opposing Australian mining project

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