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Demonstrating against war in Afghanistan, photo A Hill
17 November 2010
Afghanistan: Withdraw the troops now!
The Nato onslaught on Afghanistan is now in its tenth year. Ten years of horrific brutality inflicted on those who have fought against the invasion and on many thousands of civilians in the areas under...
4 August 2010
Afghanistan: US strategy in disarray
The concerted might of the strongest and largest military force in the world, that of the US, is failing to defeat the disparate and crudely equipped Taliban militias in one of the poorest countries of the world...
Youth Fight for jobs demonstrate against war, terror and racism
30 June 2010
Western strategy on Afghanistan in tatters
ANOTHER GRISLY milestone has been reached in Afghanistan: over 300 British soldiers have now died, since the war began in 2001. The average age of those killed is 22.
No such records are kept of civilian deaths in Afghanistan. It is estimated that thousands of Afghan civilians have been directly killed due to military action, including use of air strikes by the US forces, writes Niall Mulholland.
Former Prime Minister Tony Blair as Pinocchio - cartoon by Alan hardman
3 February 2010
Taliban insurgency, poverty and corruption Brown's Afghan crisis deepens
WITH THE body count of UK troops at over 250 and with a general election looming, Gordon Brown is desperate for an exit strategy from Afghanistan, writes Dave Carr.
Stop the War Coalition demonstration October 2009, photo Bob Severn
9 December 2009
THE OCCUPATION of Afghanistan has lasted eight years; it has cost thousands of lives and billions of dollars, writes Ken Douglas.
Anti-war demo October 2009, photo Bob Severn
24 November 2009
Afghanistan: Brown and Obama scrabbling for an exit strategy
THE CORONATION of Afghanistan's president Hamid Karzai offers no solution to the long suffering workers and poor peasants of Afghanistan, writes Nick Chaffey.
3 November 2009
Pakistan - New wave of terrorism as the guerrilla war escalates
In recent weeks attacks carried out by Taliban fighters and a new ground offensive by the Pakistani government in the Waziristan region on the Afghan border, have deepened Pakistan's social, political and ethnic fault lines...
22 September 2009
Afghanistan: an unwinnable war
THE US and NATO's top military chief in Afghanistan has told his political bosses that western forces will fail there unless there is a change in policy...
26 August 2009
Afghanistan: Withdraw foreign troops
Called by Stop the War Coalition, Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and British Muslim Institute
The August presidential elections in Afghanistan will bring no relief to the Afghan people. A similar government to the previous one is the expected outcome, with even less room to make meagre concessions...
12 August 2009
Afghanistan: 40 years of failure?
FACED WITH a mounting death toll of civilians and military forces and Nato's failure to build a democratic state, the incoming head of the British Army says that British troops may have to stay in Afghanistan for 40 years...
29 July 2009
Afghanistan - Withdraw the troops
THE BRITISH government is cynically exploiting the tragic deaths of British soldiers to justify the continuing war in Afghanistan, writes Paula Mitchell.
13 May 2009
Imperialism sucked deeper into Afghan quagmire
AS BARACK Obama dispatched 20,000 more US troops to Afghanistan, it was reported that an American airstrike in the west of Afghanistan wiped out over 100 civilians on 4 May, writes Dave Carr.
17 September 2008
Middle East: End imperialist aggression!
The brutal occupations and conflicts in Iraq, Afghanistan and the Palestinian territories continue, causing great suffering to millions of people. This week Peter Taaffe, the general secretary of the Socialist Party, answers questions posed by The Socialist.
25 June 2008
Afghanistan - paying the price of western occupation
"THEY HAVE paid the ultimate price, but achieved something of lasting value" is what prime minister Gordon Brown said about the recent nine deaths of armed forces personnel in Afghanistan, writes Jim Thompson.
12 March 2008
Iraq, Afghanistan: The bitter fruits of war and occupation
FIVE LONG, bloody years of war and occupation, led by US imperialism, has left Iraq as a dangerous, violent and divided society, despite promises of stability and democracy...
6 February 2008
Bush and Brown's Afghan strategy lies in tatters
"MAKE NO mistake, NATO is not winning in Afghanistan." These are the words, not of an anti-war group but of the opening line of a report by think-tank The Atlantic Council of the United States... By Tom Baldwin
19 July 2007
'Strategic failure' in Iraq and Afghanistan
Editorial: Bush still claims that Iraq under US and British military occupation is making progress towards a stable, democratic society...
21 June 2007
Iraq and Afghanistan: Many British people hope that, as prime minister, Gordon Brown will hasten the withdrawal of British forces from Iraq...
4 April 2007
Book review: PERVEZ MUSHARRAF, Pakistan's military dictator in presidential clothing, is unlikely to survive in his post much longer...
8 March 2007
What's Left? - not Nick Cohen!
PETER TAAFFE reviews What's Left? by Nick Cohen and replies to his accusation that the 'left' supported Saddam Hussein because it opposed the invasion...
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