THE BETRAYAL OF AFGHANISTAN

THE BETRAYAL OF AFGHANISTAN

By Miles Lacey   Above: Taliban Insurgents enter Kabul, Afghanistan (Source: The Guardian) On August 15th, 2021, Kabul fell to the Taliban insurgents the United States and their Western imperialist allies had been fighting against since November 2001. The spectacle of thousands of Afghan people and Western civilian and military personnel trying to frantically board […]

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CHINA AND THE PACIFIC: A NEW IMPERIALISM?

By the Socialist Appeal Editorial Board   For most of the post-war period the Pacific region was treated like a United States lake. As the colonial territories of Australia, France, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States became independent between 1962 and 1994 they tended to side with the Western powers, with the […]

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