September 11 Aftermath
US planned war in Afghanistan long before September 11
By Patrick Martin, November 20, 2001
Insider accounts published in the British, French and Indian media have revealed that US officials threatened war against Afghanistan during the summer of 2001. These reports include the prediction, m...
Anti-war protestors speak out in London
By our reporter, November 20, 2001
A number of participants in the London demonstration against the war in Afghanistan held November 18 spoke to the World Socialist Web Site.
100,000 demonstrate in London to demand end to war in Afghanistan
By Mike Ingram, November 20, 2001
Up to 100,000 people marched in London November 18, to demand an end to the bombing of Afghanistan.
Hollywood enlists in Bush’s war drive
By David Walsh, November 19, 2001
“Samuel Johnson’s saying that patriotism is the last refuge of scoundrels has some truth in it but not nearly enough. Patriotism, in truth, is the great nursery of scoundrels, and its annu...
No substance to Blair’s new evidence against Al Qaeda
By Chris Marsden, November 19, 2001
Last week, Britain’s Prime Minister Tony Blair, announced that the dossier of evidence supposedly linking Osama bin Laden’s Al Qaeda network with the September 11 terrorist attacks had bee...
US exploits chaos to push its own political agenda in Afghanistan
By Peter Symonds, November 19, 2001
Following the collapse of the Taliban regime over the last week, Afghanistan is rapidly reverting to the political pattern that existed in the early 1990s, with rival ethnic and religious groups, trib...
SEP meetings in Britain
The bombing of Afghanistan and the new "Great Game"
By Chris Marsden, November 16, 2001
The following is the text of a speech delivered by Chris Marsden to a series of four public meetings in the British cities of Sheffield, Leeds, London and Manchester. Marsden is the national secretary...
Fall of Kabul sets stage for further political conflict in Afghanistan
By Peter Symonds, November 15, 2001
The rapid disintegration of the Taliban hold over much of Afghanistan, including the fall of the capital Kabul on Tuesday to the US-backed opposition forces of the Northern Alliance, has left the US a...
SEP meetings in Australia
The war in Afghanistan: the socialist perspective
Part 2
By Nick Beams, November 12, 2001
This is the second and concluding part of a report delivered by Nick Beams to Socialist Equality Party public meetings in Sydney and Melbourne on November 4 and 8 respectively. The first part was post...
The killing fields of Afghanistan
By Richard Tyler, November 12, 2001
The first month of the war being prosecuted by the richest and most powerful military state on the planet has seen America unleash a terrible arsenal of destruction against one of the world’s po...
Bush’s speech on homeland defense: the banality of reaction
By Patrick Martin, November 10, 2001
The speech delivered by George W. Bush in Atlanta Thursday night was billed by his aides as the most important since he addressed a joint session of Congress nine days after the September 11 attacks o...
SEP meetings in Australia
The war in Afghanistan: the socialist perspective
Part 1
By Nick Beams, November 9, 2001
This is the first part of a report delivered by Nick Beams to Socialist Equality Party public meetings in Sydney and Melbourne on November 4 and 8 respectively. Part 2 was published on November 12. Be...
