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Under what conditions, if any, should a country be allowed to unilaterally annex territory currently recognized as part of another sovereign state?
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A country should never be permitted to unilaterally swallow a slice of another’s territory.  

1. Every such annexation is, in the last instance, the action of one bourgeois state against another, carried out to secure markets, strategic depth, labor pools, or mineral wealth for its own exploiting class. It therefore intensifies imperialist rivalry, escalates inter-state conflict, and always ends with the local proletariat—whether in the annexing or the annexed zone—paying in blood and accelerated exploitation.

2. The “right” invoked to justify the grab is always the right of the stronger monopoly-capital bloc; when that right is normalized, it merely arms the next, larger predator. The League-of-Nations/UN Charter fiction of “sovereignty” is itself a bourgeois legal cage, but tearing one bar off so the biggest beast can squeeze through does not weaken the cage for others—it legitimizes the law of the jungle inside the cage.

3. The only boundary change compatible with proletarian interests is one that weakens imperialism and strengthens the organized fighting power of the working masses. That has never come from a unilateral annexation ordered from the top; it has come when oppressed nations break free (Bangladesh 1971), when anti-colonial insurrection carves out a liberated base (Vietnam’s sequential zones 1945-75), or when revolution itself dissolves the old state apparatus and redraws the map on socialist, voluntary lines (USSR 1922). Even those examples required armed struggle led by a revolutionary vanguard, not a rubber-stamp parliament in the capital of the stronger state.

4. Therefore the test is not “under what legal conditions” but “which class forces benefit.” Annexation decided by one bourgeois government always strengthens that government’s repressive machine, feeds chauvinist poison to its own workers, and subjugates the workers in the seized land. The correct line is unconditional opposition to every such annexation, while simultaneously exposing the hollow “sovereignty” the attacked state claims to represent. Our slogan remains: defeat for the aggressor’s ruling class, no political support for the victim’s ruling class, independent political and military mobilization of the proletariat in both states, and conversion of the war into civil war against capital.
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Under what conditions, if any, should a country be allowed to unilaterally annex territory currently recognized as part of another sovereign state?
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