Afghanistan

Armed women from one of the revolutionary militias defending the revolution against US backed jihadists

Imran Kamyana — The Saur Revolution of 1978 is a ray of hope in these dark times, and proves that even in the most backward regions and most difficult situations, this system of oppression and exploitation can be challenged and overthrown.

Stop the deportations: Solidarity statement with Afghans in Pakistan

We, the undersigned concerned individuals, scholars, policy-makers, activists, and organisations reject the government of Pakistan’s deportation plans and stand in solidarity with Afghans in Pakistan – and elsewhere.

‘Education is key to the emancipation of Afghanistan’: An interview with Malalai Joya

In 2021, Malalai Joya, under threat from the re-imposed Taliban regime, was forced to leave Afghanistan and live in exile. In this wide-ranging interview, she discusses the background to the return of the Taliban in Afghanistan and the shape of resistance today.

Afghanistan one year on

The US withdrawal of 2021 was a military victory for the Taliban. For at least two years leading up to it, the Afghan government forces were losing more people dead and wounded each month than they were recruiting. So those forces shrank.

Why the Taliban won: A review of 'No Good Men Among the Living: America, the Taliban and the War through Afghan Eyes'

No Good Men Among the Living: America, the Tal

A Postnihilist Manifesto: Making Afghanistan and other margins the locus for world emancipation

Afghanistan: The United States’ longest war was founded on false pretences

Afghanistan: The end of the occupation

By Nancy Lindisfarne

Afghanistan’s tragedy

By Valentine M. Moghadam

July 21, 2021 — Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal reposted from Against the Current — Afghanistan has been in a state of chaos since at least the Taliban resurgence in 2006 and the entry of the Islamic State group (Daesh) more recently. Assaults have been made not just on Afghan police units and U.S. military targets but also on prisons, schools, funerals and maternity wards across the country. In early 2017, the UN estimated that some 18,000 civilians had been killed since 2015 alone.

Taliban gunmen attacked the Intercontinental Hotel in Kabul in January 2018. Daesh attacked offices and staff members of international NGOs. Women and men who have worked with those offices have been targeted with threatening “night letters” and some with assassination.

Global capitalist crisis and Trump’s war drive