Afghanistan: A Study Guide for Anti-Imperialists

What follows is sort of an annotated list of readings that should help anti-war and anti-intervention activists understand the U.S. war and occupation of Afghanistan from an anti-imperialist point of view. I may add to this as time goes on.

• “Stop U.S. War in Afghanistan and the Middle East” by the Freedom Road Socialist Organization
  Important statement from September 29, 2001
• “U.S. Out of Afghanistan” by the Freedom Road Socialist Organization
  Statement from May 2009
• “Oil, War, and Afghanistan” by the Emergency Committee Against U.S. Intervention in Afghanistan
  Great analysis from late 2001 at the beginning of the war.
• Obama committed to a hopeless imperialist cause in Afghanistan from Lalkar
  Analysis from Marxist-Leninists in the U.K. of the current state of the occupation
• “U.S. Escalates War in Afghanistan: Obama orders 17,000 Troops to Afghanistan” by Kosta Harlan
  Excellent analysis of the situation in Afghanistan now.
• “U.S. Occupation Faltering in Afghanistan” by Kosta Harlan
  Excellent analysis of the situation in Afghanistan now.
• “Afghanistan: Another Massacre” by Kosta Harlan
  Gives a good explaination of exactly what U.S./NATO occupation forces are doing these days in Afghanistan.
• “Afghan ‘Election’: No Solution to the Problem of Occupation” from Lalkar
  A Marxist-Leninist look at the August 2009 ‘elections’ to occupied Afghanistan’s puppet government.
• “Afghanistan: Mirage of the Good War” by Tariq Ali
  A good exposure of the social-chauvinist ‘good war’ line that has duped some sections of the anti-war movement since 2001
• “On the Military Situation of the Taliban and other Islamic Anti-Government Forces” by the Communist (Maoist) Party of Afghanistan
  Gives a good look at the balance of forces on the ground in the present U.S./NATO war in Afghanistan.
• “Afghanistan, Another Untold Story” by Michael Parenti
  This is a good analysis of the Cold War dynamics from which the current situation in Afghanistan arose.