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Kabul falls: what next?

Farooq Tariq — 2001-12-10T00:00:00Z

The Northern Alliance took over Kabul on 13th November without any serious fight from the Taliban. It was not a tactical retreat but it shows the total collapse of morale among the Taliban.

- IV336 - December 2001 / Afghanistan

“We are fighting a dual war”

Adil — 2001-12-10T00:00:00Z

Shoaib Bhatti, editor of Weekly Mazdoor Jeddojuhd (Workers Struggle) interviewed Adil, central leader of the Afghan Revolutionary Labour Organization on 11th November in Lahore, before the fall of Kabul.

- IV336 - December 2001 / Afghanistan

Afghan Workers Solidarity Campaign launched

Labour Party Pakistan — 2001-12-10T00:00:00Z

Labour Party Pakistan in close association with Afghan Labour Revolutionary Organization has decided to launch Afghan Workers Solidarity Campaign. The idea to start this campaign was discussed during the visit of Alan McCombes of Scottish Socialist Party. The SSP has already decided to actively support this campaign.

- IV336 - December 2001 / Afghanistan

Movement against war grows

2001-12-10T00:00:00Z

Around the world a series of actions and demonstrations have taken place calling for an end to the war in Afghanistan.

- IV336 - December 2001 / Afghanistan

NEW YORK CITY LABOR AGAINST THE WAR

2001-12-10T00:00:00Z

September 11 has brought indescribable suffering to New York City's working people. We want justice for the dead and safety for the living. And we believe that George Bush's war is not the answer.

- IV336 - December 2001 / Afghanistan

An act of vengeance against a whole people

2001-12-10T00:00:00Z

The imperialist aggression launched by the United States as a supposed retaliation for the attacks of 11 September 2001 - which struck the very heart of their territory for the first time - is not an act of legitimate self-defence. It is an act of military vengeance against a whole people.

- IV336 - December 2001 / United States (USA), Fourth International, Afghanistan, IC 2001

Voices against war

Phil Hearse — 2001-12-10T00:00:00Z

The war in Afghanistan has produced the most impassioned outburst of anti-war writing in the English-speaking countries since Vietnam. Unfortunately, while this finds an echo in the mainstream press in Britain, it is virtually excluded from the press in the United States, gripped as it is by an unparalleled reactionary mobilisation.

- IV336 - December 2001 / Afghanistan

Another world is indispensable!

Salvatore Cannavò — 2001-12-10T00:00:00Z

After the attacks in Manhattan and in the context of a war which promises to be long, hard and terrifying, can the movement against capitalist globalisation continue as before? Can its identity, perspectives, and priorities remain unchanged or should they undergo a profound transformation?

- IV336 - December 2001 / World, War drive/Anti-war movements

The Grand Chessboard

Charles-André Udry — 2001-12-10T00:00:00Z

Do Osama Ben Laden's "Al-Quaida" network and their Taliban supporters in Afghanistan represent the central target of the US military campaign? Certainly, the proclaimed target is wider: "international terrorism". Inside the vast "coalition" which has been set up, understanding on this theme will not be reached easily and in any case will not last.

- IV336 - December 2001 / Asia

PRC opens congress discussion

Rifondazione - PRC — 2001-12-10T00:00:00Z

We publish below extracts from the first draft resolution under discussion for the next congress of Italy's Party of Communist Refoundation, which will take place in spring 2002. This text was adopted by a very large majority by the National Political Committee (CPN) on September 16, but it was written before the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington on September 11, 2001.

- IV336 - December 2001 / Italy