Afghanistan
3 September 2021 · Afghanistan, Fourth International
Solidarity with the Afghan people, victims of imperialism and the Taliban
This statement was adopted by the Executive Bureau of the Fourth International on 30 August 2021 Ten years after the withdrawal of the American army from Iraq, US intervention is again suffe…
25 November 2016 · Afghanistan, Women
‘Afghan women’s struggle wont end with NATO pullout’
Orzala Ashraf Nemat is a civil society activist from Afghanistan. Under the Taliban regime, she launched underground literacy and health education programmes for women and girls. She holds a…
24 May 2013 · Afghanistan, Iraq · 4 comments
Soldier killing and the "war on terror"
Horrific as war The killing of a soldier in Woolwich on May 22nd was horrific. The indiscriminate murders of thousands of unnamed civilians in Pakistan, Yemen and Afghanistan by armed drones…
16 January 2013 · · USA, Iraq, Afghanistan, China
Ten Years since the Gulf War
image no longer in the archive In the year 2000 the Project for the New American Century, a rightwing coalition of politicians, generals, business people and academics, published its keynote…
15 January 2012 · Afghanistan, Pakistan
Pakistan and Afghanistan: What prospects for peace?
Socialist Resistance public meeting Sahar Saba, Afghan socialist and feminist and Farooq Sulehria, journalist and member of Labour Party Pakistan report on the situation now facing the peopl…
10 September 2010 · Afghanistan, Migration
Australia: the best available government
Australia now has a minority Labor Party government backed by the Greens and independents. It is the best government available in the circumstances. It is certainly to the left of any govern…
29 July 2010 · Women, France, India, Afghanistan · 2 comments
"Anti-Islamic Racism and Communalism": Indian socialists oppose veil ban
In country after country in Europe, political forces ranging from liberals (Belgium) to the openly right wing (Sarkozy in France, the Northern League in Italy) have been initiating actions t…
21 April 2010 · Racism, Afghanistan · 2 comments
Islamophobia sets the terms in The Netherlands
The Dutch government didn’t fall over involvement in Afghanistan last February; the unstable coalition stumbled over it. The islamophobic right might be the beneficiary of it. Until the twen…
31 May 2009 · · Afghanistan, Pakistan, USA
Pakistani socialists oppose Taliban and state repression
Attempts by the Pakistan military to stop the Taliban and their allies advancing through the North West Frontier Province (NWFP) of Pakistan have led to more than 2 million people fleeing th…
23 May 2009 · Afghanistan, Pakistan, USA, Women
Urgent appeal: Pakistani workers need relief from Taliban and military operations
This is a formal appeal by the Labor Relief Campaign to help in the fight against Taliban and military operations. The purpose is to provide immediate help to some of the more than 1.5 milli…
4 June 2008 · Iraq, Britain, Afghanistan
Convention of the Left - Debate '08
Convention of the Left - Debate '08 Planet, Peace, People Manchester 20-24th September What is the true cost of Britain's involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan? An invite for academic, researc…