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When the U.S. left Afghanistan in August it also froze almost all foreign aid to the country.
It has now come to light that the major part of the economy under the U.S. military and its puppet government was completely dependent on that foreign aid.
In other words, the U.S. invasion destroyed (...)
November 16 marked exactly three months of Taliban occupation of Kabul. It’s just not the fall of Kabul, but the fall of a country along with all its achievements of 20 years. Despite US occupation and the Taliban insurgency, Afghanistan was also developping. For some of those outside (...)
Commentary [Il Manifesto]. The only way to save Afghanistan is solidarity of the progressive, democratic and secular forces. If we want an independent, democratic and prosperous Afghanistan in which men and women have equal rights based on democracy, people need strong solidarity to be free (...)
A political tsunami has hit the Graveyard of Empires. Afghanistan’s president fled the country as Taliban advanced on Kabul effectively holding power after it was ousted by the US-led invasion.
The US President Biden confirmed the end of two decades of military presence in Afghanistan. Although (...)
[Jeddojehad (Struggle), a left-wing, online Urdu-language daily in Pakistan, is posting reports from Kabul. Filed by Yasmeen Afghan (not the author’s real name), these reports depict the picture from inside Kabul and cover what is often ignored in the mainstream media. For a wider circulation, (...)
Two days before the fall of Kabul to the Taliban, I was gearing up to interview one of the Afghanistan’s most prominent women’s activists. I have long admired Selay Ghaffar for her role in not only promoting gender equality and social justice policies, but also for her resolute opposition to the (...)
Nooruddin Turabi, in charge of Afghan prisons, says executions and removal of hands will restart, but possibly not in public
The Taliban will resume executions and the amputation of hands for criminals they convict, in a return to their harsh version of Islamic justice.
According to a senior (...)
The defeat of the U.S. and the seizure of power by the Taliban mark a real turning point. This reveals both imperialism and fundamentalism as obstacles to human emancipation at a time when Afghan women are leading the resistance. Not the Same as the Fall of Saigon
The sudden collapse of the (...)
The daily Jeddojehad [Struggle], a leftwing online Urdu-language daily in Pakistan is posting reports from Kabul. Filed by Yasmeen Afghan [not the real name], these reports depict picture from inside Kabul and cover what is often ignored in the mainstream. For a wider circulation, these reports (...)
A while ago, I was watching news as usual on Swedish state TV (Svt 1). I am in general a huge fan of the Swedish television system (but this is a topic for another time). However, the news coverage on Svt is always so very problematic when it comes to Cuba and Venezuela [as a rule], the Middle (...)
THE Taliban are puppets of the Americans and the ‘Western crusader’ because they met CIA and US officials! There can’t be a wackier, stupider claim but this one led to the Islamic State Khorasan (IS-K) sending a young heaven-seeker who blew himself up at Kabul airport on Aug 27, killing up to 170 (...)
National cricket team included in prohibition, as interim government containing no women starts work
Afghan women, including the country’s women’s cricket team, will be banned from playing sport under the new Taliban government, according to an official in the hardline Islamist group.
In an (...)
Rallies in Afghanistan have already been broken up violently, now ‘severe consequences’ are threatened for demonstrators
The Taliban has moved to tighten its crackdown on escalating protests against its rule, banning any demonstrations that do not have official approval for both the gathering (...)
Country will once again be officially known as an Islamic emirate, as at least two people killed in protests.
The Taliban have announced an all-male caretaker government including an interior minister wanted by the FBI, on a day when at least two people were killed by violent policing of (...)
The daily Jeddojehad [Struggle], a leftwing online Urdu-language daily in Pakistan is posting reports from Kabul. Filed by Yasmeen Afghan [not the real name], these reports depict picture from inside Kabul and cover what is often ignored in the mainstream. For a wider circulation, these reports (...)
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 suffering a real debacle, this time in Afghanistan. We will have to see in the period to come to what extent (...)
Yet again, puritan barbarism has landed Kabul. Yet again, the bigger barbarism, the US imperialism, paved the way for the junior partner, the Taliban. However, instead of examining Kabul’s ignominious fall, let’s begin by flagging dangerously brave resistance to the Taliban occupation.
The first (...)
August 16. As the world was watching, in horror, the Taliban victory march on Kabul, residents of the town had literally locked themselves in. Next day, while the Kabul airport was thronged by terrified Afghans trying to escape the Taliban, elsewhere it was a pin drop silence in a sprawling (...)
U.S. President Joe Biden invoked Afghanistan’s historical nickname as “graveyard of empires” in order to justify his decision to speed up the withdrawal of American troops from this poor country. He was thus asserting that attempts at securing control over Afghanistan are doomed to fail, while (...)
SAAPE extends its solidarity to women, men and children of Afghanistan who are once again at the toxic crossroads of war and violence, political instability and an uncertain future.
The return of the Taliban in the Afghanistan government is a setback for the progressive forces in the world, (...)
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