Imperialism Follow

Afghanistan has suffered through 43 years of war as a result of a series of imperialist interventions. Revulsion at that is the central reason why Kabul and the country’s other major cities were captured by the Taliban in such a short space of time.

The US paid private contractors £136 billion, over the eight years to 2019.

Here are some of our key articles written as the regime in Afghanistan collapsed, a grievous defeat for British and US imperialism

Historian of British empire, John Newsinger, has no time for politicians’ crocodile tears over Afghanistan

Not two weeks ago, Labour’s leader Keir Starmer said his party should be “very proud” of its right wing governments’ “achievements” under Tony Blair.

As Haiti is struck by earthquakes, Sam Ord explores the damage that imperialism has done

In September 2001, as the West moved to start bombing Afghanistan, Socialist Worker spoke out against the war. This was our editorial comment

The words of US president Joe Biden have come back to haunt him awfully quickly.

After 20 years, at least a ­quarter of a million killings and trillions of pounds spent on military assaults, the Taliban has overthrown the Western-backed government in Afghanistan.

No one should be in any doubt that Afghanistan was Britain’s war as much as it was the US’s.

The Taliban movement is retaking control of Afghanistan after two decades of Western occupation. Nick Clark explores the group

The people responsible for wrecking Afghanistan are now wringing their hands at the chaos that they have left behind.