War in Afghanistan
Afghan election crisis enters new stage
By James Cogan, October 15, 2009
Two months after voting took place, matters are coming to a head. A decision has to be made over the fate of Washington’s puppet government in Kabul.
Another costly week in Afghanistan
By James Cogan, October 13, 2009
The 100,000-strong US and NATO occupation force in Afghanistan is continuing to suffer casualties at an unprecedented rate.
Eight years after invasion
Washington faces deepening debacle in Afghanistan
By Bill Van Auken, October 7, 2009
Eight years after the US invasion of Afghanistan, the Obama White House sand the Pentagon are engaged in a heated debate over whether to send another 40,000 troops in an attempt to salvage an interven...
The Australian Labor Party and the war in Afghanistan
By Socialist Equality Party (Australia), October 7, 2009
Since its election in November 2007, the Rudd Labor government has escalated Australian military involvement in the Afghan conflict. Just as Afghanistan is now referred to as Obama’s war, so it has ...
White House-military tensions over Afghanistan
By Patrick Martin, October 6, 2009
Growing tensions between sections of the military brass and the Obama administration have emerged openly in the conflict between the top commander in Afghanistan, General Stanley McChrystal, and the W...
Heavy US troop losses in insurgent attack in eastern Afghanistan
By Barry Grey, October 5, 2009
The United States military suffered its worst single-engagement losses in more than a year on Saturday, when several hundred insurgents attacked a remote outpost in northeastern Afghanistan, killing e...
US, NATO reach “consensus” to sanction rigged election in Afghanistan
By Jerry White, September 29, 2009
The US and NATO countries involved in the occupation of Afghanistan have signaled their willingness to recognize the re-election of Afghan President Hamid Karzai despite evidence of massive fraud in t...
Australian adviser to US military provides chilling insight into neo-colonial mentality
By James Cogan, September 19, 2009
David Kilcullen, a top Australian-born advisor to the US military, delivered a lecture in Sydney on September 3. His remarks provide an insight into the methods and mentality of those directing the US...
Eight years since 9/11
The pretext for a historic shift in world politics
By Patrick Martin, September 11, 2009
September 11, 2001 marked a watershed in US imperialist policy. Each new outrage—invasions, torture, kidnappings, domestic spying, flouting of constitutional norms—was justified with the all-purpo...
Massacre in Kunduz bares real nature of Afghanistan war
Statement by the Socialist Equality Party
September 9, 2009
The latest massacre of civilians in Afghanistan is not the result of “bad decisions”, an alleged “disregard of NATO rules” or an “unclear situation”. It is rather the inevitable result of ...
Britain: Eric Joyce MP resigns over UK policy in Afghanistan
By Robert Stevens, September 5, 2009
Eric Joyce, an aide to British Defence Secretary Bob Ainsworth and Member of Parliament (MP) for Falkirk, resigned Thursday.
For the mobilization of the working class to end the war in Afghanistan
By Joe Kishore, September 4, 2009
There are clear signs of growing popular opposition in the US and around the world to the war in Afghanistan, as the Obama administration readies another major increase in the US troop presence.
