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6 July 2006
Afghan conflict re-ignites; Guantanamo Bay - put Bush in the dock!: FIVE UK soldiers, part of US-led coailiton forces in Afghanistan, have been killed in Helmand province in clashes with Taliban fighters...
6 July 2006
'War on terror' undermining our democratic rights
One year after July London bombings: ON 7 JULY 2005 four suicide bombers on London's public transport system blew themselves up killing 52 people and injuring hundreds...
22 June 2006
Feature: THE US is the world's only superpower yet, despite its overwhelming military might, in relation to Iraq, Afghanistan and now Somalia it has become embroiled in situations that it cannot control. Peter Taaffe writes.
15 June 2006
Guantanamo Bay, Iraq, Afghanistan...: THE RESULT of George Bush spreading his version of 'freedom and democracy' is evident worldwide: three Guantanamo Bay prisoners have hanged themselves, while death and destruction continues in both Iraq and Afghanistan...
1 June 2006
Iraq - lame duck leaders have no solution
WHILE ACTING Prime Minister John Prescott was amusing himself on the croquet pitch, the real thing was in Washington D.C. for talks with his partner in crime - the senior partner, that is -George Bush, writes Keith Pattenden.
21 July 2005
al-Qa'ida: US imperialism's deadly legacy
THE LONDON bombings have drawn attention to the Islamic terrorist training camps operating in the Afghanistan/Pakistan border areas...
19 February 2005
Pakistan: Deepening crisis in Baluchistan province
THE PROVINCE of Baluchistan in Pakistan, bordering Afghanistan, has recently suffered from flooding, causing hundreds of deaths...
12 February 2005
The Socialist prints May Day greetings from socialists, trade unions, youth and student organisations, from around the world...
27 November 2004
Western hypocrisy on Afghanistan
"NINETY PERCENT of all heroin sold in Britain originates from Afghanistan. Stopping that trade is directly in our interests."...
22 May 2004
Sanctioning Torture From The Top
"THE RULES were, 'Grab who you must. Do what you want'." That was a former US intelligence officer, explaining the official army attitude towards the torture and maltreatment of Iraqi prisoners. It shot an enormous hole in the official...
29 November 2003
GEORGE W Bush should reflect that it was his father, George Bush senior, (a former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) director), who as US Vice-President in the 1980s, helped arm, train and finance Osama bin Laden and his fellow Islamist groups to wage a guerrilla war against the Soviet army then occ...
23 August 2003
Occupying forces face hostility
THE BRITISH military in Basra, Iraq's second biggest city, is under attack. This is not from 'rogue elements' of the former Ba'athist regime but local residents incensed at the lack of mains electricity...
19 July 2003
Weapons of mass destruction: A Web Of Lies From Day One
THE JUSTIFICATION for Bush and Blair launching a destructive war on Iraq was based on a lie. Who says so? CIA director George Tenet...
19 April 2003
Reconstruction after war: Who Gains And Who Loses?
Bosnia Herzegovina: FOLLOWING ITS bloody conquest of Iraq, the US administration is now trying to impose a 'reconstruction' plan on the country...
14 December 2001
War in Afghanistan leaves conflict and chaos
"VICTORY TODAY can look a lot like defeat tomorrow". This quote from Time magazine (3 December) aptly sums up the situation in Afghanistan. Tony Blair has said that the "future is bright"; that the...
14 December 2001
Imperialism - Wars Without End
SOCIALISTS SAY that the world's mightiest power, the USA, has been fighting a war in Afghanistan to defend imperialist interests...
7 December 2001
Global Crisis: Fight for a socialist world
War, terror, recession, poverty... NOOR MOHAMMED, aged ten, lies fighting for his life in an ill-equipped Afghan hospital. Agham, the village where he lived in Eastern Afghanistan, was reduced to rubble at the weekend by US B52 bombers.
7 December 2001
Afghanistan - A future of conflict and instability
Capitalism Offers No Solution: ON THE same weekend that un-elected, unrepresentative delegates were meeting in Bonn to try and stitch up a political settlement for Afghanistan, US bombs slaughtered up to 300 Afghan civilians...
30 November 2001
War... Recession... We Won't Pay The Price!
WITH BATTLES continuing in Afghanistan and Bush's bellicose threats to Iraq, Somalia, Sudan and other poor nations, it is clear that the war is not over...
30 November 2001
Afghanistan 'Endgame': Not The End Of The 'Game'
BUSH AND the US military have now clearly stated their aims in this so called "endgame" in Afghanistan and the next phase of their "war against terrorism"...
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