September 11 Aftermath
Canada: Electioneering cannot obscure major parties’ support for Afghan war
The media’s hostile reaction
By Keith Jones, September 13, 2008
In a transparent election ploy, Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper declared this week that his government is “planning” to end the Canadian Armed Forces’ counterinsurgency mi...
Obama and McCain on 9/11: “unity” in support of war and repression
By Bill Van Auken, September 12, 2008
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama and his Republican rival John McCain walked side by side down the ramp into the pit where the World Trade Center once stood Tuesday in what was promoted ...
Afghan war documentary charges US with mass killings of POWs
Showings in Europe spark demands for war crimes probe
By Stefan Steinberg, June 17, 2002
A documentary film, Massacre in Mazar, by Irish director Jamie Doran, was shown to selected audiences in Europe last week, provoking demands for an international inquiry into US war crimes in Afghanis...
Interview with Jamie Doran, director of Massacre at Mazar
By Stefan Steinberg, June 17, 2002
Jamie Doran is an award-winning documentary filmmaker who has been producing films for the past 22 years. He spent seven years working for the BBC before establishing his own independent television co...
The war in Afghanistan, world politics and the perspective for socialism
Part 3
By Nick Beams, May 24, 2002
The following is the third and final part of a report delivered to a public meeting held in Sydney on May 12, 2002, organised by the Socialist Equality Party of Australia. Parts 1 and 2 were published...
The war in Afghanistan, world politics and the perspective for socialism
Part 2
By Nick Beams, May 23, 2002
The following is the second part of a report delivered to a public meeting held in Sydney on May 12, 2002, organised by the Socialist Equality Party of Australia. Part 1 was published on Wednesday May...
The war in Afghanistan, world politics and the perspective for socialism
Part 1
By Nick Beams, May 22, 2002
The following is the first part of a report delivered to a public meeting held in Sydney on May 12, 2002, organised by the Socialist Equality Party of Australia. Part 2 was published on Thursday May 2...
Washington presides over a political and social disaster in Afghanistan
By Peter Symonds, March 29, 2002
An event that failed to take place in Kabul this week reveals a good deal about the chaotic state of affairs in Afghanistan, as well as who is pulling the political strings in the country.
The makings of a protracted colonial war in Afghanistan
By Peter Symonds, March 22, 2002
A strange war is taking place in eastern Afghanistan—at least, if one accepts at face value the statements made by the US administration and the military. Victories are being won, successes are ...
Who is the US military slaughtering in eastern Afghanistan?
By Peter Symonds, March 11, 2002
In what is being billed as the largest battle of the war in Afghanistan, a US-led force has over the last week killed an estimated 500 fighters near Gardez in the eastern Paktia province. The US and a...
Australian, British and US lawyers challenge detention of Guantanamo Bay prisoners
By Richard Phillips, March 11, 2002
In an internationally coordinated campaign, Australian, British and the US lawyers have launched a wide-ranging legal challenge to the Bush administration’s detention of prisoners captured in Af...
US massacre in eastern Afghanistan
By the Editorial Board, March 7, 2002
No amount of lies or distortion from the American media can disguise the fact that US forces are carrying out a colonial-style massacre in the mountains of eastern Afghanistan. Hundreds of Taliban and...
