Afghanistan
Kamikaze Kapitalism - BM Combustion
BM Combustion explores the Gulf War, September 11 attacks and the war in Afghanistan, and their relation to daily life.
Horror Yesterday, Horror Today, Horror Tomorrow
Another day, another war looming, another anti-war leaflet.
Against capitalist war, against capitalist 'peace' - No War But The Class War
Leaflet produced following the 2001 invasion of Afghanistan
War
As the bombs fall on Afghanistan, we are told there are only two sides: the side of Western civilisation vs. terrorism, or the side of faith vs. infidels. But we refuse to take sides with those who pose such false oppositions. Our perspective is proletarian; the only side we take is that of the working class and the dispossessed of the world.
Preliminary notes on the situation in Palestine and further abroad - No War But The Class War
Leaflet from 2002, looking at the Palestinian and Afghan conflicts through the lens of the changing development of capitalism in those regions.
In a region marked by intermittent war, sporadic terrorism and permanent repression, one of the most significant features of the situation in Palestine and the surrounding territories has been the series of events that have resulted in the neutralising of the Palestinian proletariat. The major milestones in this process are as follows.
Days like these - Red and Black Notes
Red and Black Notes editorial, looking at the results of the aftermath of the September 11 World Trade Centre attacks and the war in Afghanistan.
Days Like These
In a macabre co-incidence, at the same time as officials in New York announced the death toll in the destruction of the World Trade Center towers had dipped below 3,000, news sources around the world were announcing that casualties in Afghanistan had exceeded 4,000. For those who had invoked the rational of "an eye for an eye," the score ought to have been settled and then some.
The Neoliberal Wars - Treason pamphlet
Warfare has significantly changed in the last thirty years. From 1945 until about 1975 most wars were
part of the worldwide movement of decolonisation that saw the formation of dozens of new states in
Africa and Asia. Since then most wars have been civil wars within the decolonised countries, sometimes
1920-2001: Afghanistan - A Potted Social History - Melancholic Troglodytes
AFGHANISTAN:
A Potted Social History
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If the history of Afghanistan is about any one thing, it is about playing hard to get when capital turns on the charm: a mainly small-holding peasantry and artisanal population that spurns the joys of wage-slavery; saturated carpet
Afghan sounds - British troops and oil pipelines...
It was recently announced that yet more British troops are heading for Afghanistan.
George Bush and his malleable sidekick, Tony Blair , have decreed that in their crusade to save the world (especially the USA and UK) from the far-reaching tentacles of terrorism - and heroin[ism] - Afghanistan must be tamed.
The next Afghan war
As up to 5,000 more British troops are sent to fight in Afghanistan, Paul Rogers from Open Democracy examines the changing situation in the volatile country and looks at what will face the soldiers on their arrival.
The deteriorating security situation in Afghanistan has attracted little attention in the western media but much more concern among security analysts.
On September 11 and "Against the Double Tragedy"
{Note: Looking back over this, I regret only one phrase, which I think is survivable as this was written immediately after the establishment of the suicide bombers as members of al-Qaeda. Even so the phrasing is poor. Chris Wright, November 29 2005.}
