Down with the government of Taliban,
the new guardian of imperialist businesses!
Down with the Doha deal between the Taliban and the Northern Alliance under the US command!
Free & Sovereign National Afghan Assembly
To recover the nation, break with imperialism, get the land, conquer bread, decent wages and work for all
Disarm the Taliban and all the warlords!
Generalized arming of the workers and poor peasants!
For a revolutionary provisional workers and peasants' government!
In Afghanistan, the US has withdrawn, leaving the Taliban in charge of guarding the businesses. This is what they had agreed about in Doha (Qatar) where, under the US command, there had been meetings of the representatives of this bourgeoisie with the former Afghan US-puppet government of a bourgeois coalition known as “Northern Alliance”. The US intention was, as declared by all the participants of this conference, to form a unity regime together with the Taliban government, performing a orderly power transfer. That is to say, they decided that, in the face of the US withdrawal, the Taliban was to be appointed as head of the Afghan government, as long as it guarantees the US companies to keep having the same businesses amidst a power sharing. The US left and Taliban was handed the US weapons and the control of the army’s facilities and equipment, including the airport now.
However, the power transfer was not an orderly one, because as soon as the US troops started to withdraw, the state started to disintegrate quickly. The US was not even entirely out that the Afghan president Ashraf Ghani ran away. So the Taliban rushed to reach Kabul and keep a steady control on the masses, preventing, suppressing and slaughtering any attempt of uprising. That is to say, the Doha pact was in crisis, as a part of it banished in hot air. It still has its “Taliban” leg stepping on Kabul and most of Afghanistan, openly upholding the Doha pact. But its other leg, the Northern Alliance, is laboriously trying to get back on its feet after its spectacular collapse and be able to asume his assigned role of controlling part of Afghanistan. That’s why they ask from afar to enter the business deals, as Ashraf Ghani says from UAE. They also use their army-parties to make some sort of a guerrilla war in some provinces of the Afghan north where they are a majority, as in Panjshir valley. They even conducted some demonstrations where they rose the Afghan flags opposed to Taliban's. Its goal is to install the Doha pact regime as agreed, today praised by Biden and the governments of France and Germany, which also travelled to Doha.
There are also bourgeois fractions that have not entered the agreement. The international imperialist press calls them “ISIS-K”. Its way of negotiating is through bourgeois terrorism, which is indiscriminate, with attacks as the one in the airport, where in orden to negotiate their slice they killed hundreds of women and children with their bombs. Their goal is to open a negotiation and enter the Doha pact.
But on the other hand there were demonstrations of Afghan women in the capital city, Kabul, fighting for their rights to vote, to work, to study, etc. They marched for 3 straight days since last Thursday. On the last day they were repressed with teargas by the Taliban.
Down with the Doha pact! Free & sovereign National Afghan Assembly! Generalized arming of workers and poor peasants!
In the face of this situation, now is the time to deal a revolutionary blow to the regime in crisis, before the Taliban settles as US guardians! The US, the main murderers in Middle East, have just gone away. Now the Afghan poor peasants and workers, regardless of our ethnic group and religion, must fight shoulder to shoulder against the Taliban. May the Afghan lion show its teeth and get rid of the last hyenas! Down with the Taliban government!
Down with the Doha pact between the Taliban and the Northern Alliance under the command of US imperialism! Let's end with every type of imperialist intromission and all its agents!
For a revolutionary National Assembly, with delegates 1 each 10,000 inhabitants, recallable at any moment by their voters, with a wage equal to that of an average worker! This assembly must break with imperialism to recover the Afghan nation, give land to the peasants, nationalize the foreign trade and design a workers' & popular economic plan in favour of the exploited masses of Afghanistan. This assembly must guarantee the right of self-determination of the different ethnic groups and nationalities.
Access to free and quality public education! As it is being fought by marching in the streets of Kabul, “equal rights for women!” Freedom for meetings and associations!
We need the right to build unions and organizations of workers and poor peasants where we can fight for our rights, for a decent wage, work for all and bread in every home of the Afghan workers. In the last days, Afghanistan went through a serious devaluation of its currency, which watered down the wage of the workers, in addition to the fact that many people cannot collect their wages for the restrictions imposed on the bank withdrawals. US imperialism and their junior partners and agents stole away even the Afghan bank reserves, while the workers suffer from hunger, shortages and a huge unemployment. Children are taken as slaves to work in the opium plantations. Enough is enough! Return the 8 bn US dollars of the Afghan reserves that the US impounded! Immediate wage increase to take wages at the level of the family basket, indexed according to the cost of living! Reduce the working hours to share the working hours, so that all the unemployed can enter to work! Free the children from slavery, as they are taken to the opium plantations to harvest the crops for the warlords!
For the assembly to be truly free and sovereign, we need to end with the army-parties of the businessmen, which are all at the service of imperialism, and conquer the generalized arming of the workers and the poor peasants. Disarm the Taliban and all the warlords! Weapons for the people; one man, one gun! Let’s take the weapons the US left for their new guardians, the Taliban, to defeat them and carry our struggle forward!
For a provisional revolutionary workers and peasants' government!
The working class cannot expect anything either from the bourgeois leaderships, or from the Taliban, the new guardian of the US businesses, which are linked through thousands of connections and common businesses with imperialism, or from the Northern Alliance which were the managers of the imperialist occupation for 20 years, promoting misery and hunger, championing the plunder of the Afghan nation.
The riches of Afghanistan cannot remain in the hands of warlords or businessmen allied to imperialism! Expropriate the land of the large properties to make collective farms work, and share the land among the poor peasants, and nationalize banking into a single state bank, with which we can guarantee all the workers and the poor free access to retrieve their savings and wages and give cheap loans to the peasants! There is the source of food where we can grow wheat and have bread for all. This is the source of wealth where opium poppy is grown, used to extract opium, critical raw material for meds. Expropriating the labs without compensation where morphine and other opium based meds are engineered, as well as the mineral wealth in lithium, cobalt, gas and oil fields, and also all the transnational companies, we will recover our resources to quench the hunger of our bloodied nation and get, finally, our desired freedom.
All these can only be guaranteed by a revolutionary provisional workers and peasants' government, based on the armed self-determination organs of the masses, the shoras, which must be set up in each city, region and coordinated in the nation.
One single struggle in the entire region!
We must join forces with our brothers in Iran, who are rising against a totalitarian bourgeoisie such as the one that is trying to be imposed here in Afghanistan. One single fist against one single enemy!
The fight of the Afghan people lives also in the fighting waged by the masses in the entire Middle East, such as Syria, Palestine or Iraq, against their regimes that are only in favour of imperialism and make the workers and the common people ever poorer.
The fight in Afghanistan is indissolubly linked to the struggle of the Pakistani working class, who marched, rose and crossed the borders to fight against the US invasion in 2001. We call them too, to fight against the oppressor allies to imperialism and recognize the right of the self-determination to the Pashtun nation, part of whose territory is in Pakistan.
The Afghan working class is part to the working class in the region, and its struggle is part to a single fight with the workers of Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, that is to say, to restore the dictatorship of the proletariat under revolutionary ways in the former soviet Muslim republics.
The fight for a workers and peasants' Afghanistan must be on the way for a federation of workers' and socialist republics comprising the entire central Asia.
Our allies are the workers in the imperialist metropolises
If the US imperialists left it was essentially because of the struggle of the US workers that hit the core of US imperialism. For years, specially in 2006-2008, the US workers and their anti-war movement paralyzed the ports and took to the streets massively. They marched against “Protective Edge” Zionist offensive on Gaza, funded and commanded by Obama in 2014. Last year, the working class and the black people in USA staged a huge uprising where the very president Trump ended up hidden in a bunker under the White House. That’s why the US working class imposed imperialism the need to withdraw the troops and a loss of firepower for new counterrevolutionary adventures and invasions. It cannot even use its Zionist gendarme facing the revolutions in Maghreb and Middle East.
The pro-imperialist left hides this. They say the Taliban defeated US imperialism, hiding the pact between them in Doha; and mainly they don’t take into account the class struggle. Those who truly imposed a limit to US imperailism in its invasions are the masses, not some local bourgeois fraction with which they do business together.
This is an islamophobic left, which spent years slandering the working class in Maghreb and Middle East and its struggle, denying its existence, calling it “terrorists”, “barbaric peoples”, isolating its revolution from all the workers in the planet. This treacherous left supported al-Assad, Putin and the Iranian Ayatollah openly, all of them people that drowned the Syrian masses in a bloodbath, perpetrating one of the bloodiest genocides in the 21st century. They support Zionism, gendarme of imperialism, with its “two state solution” policy for Palestine. They took care of subordinating the working class to its executioners, especially to the Democratic Party of the US imperialist butchers, under the pretext of “confronting Trump”.
Against this left, servant of imperialism, we call the working class of the central countries, especially the US working class, to keep on marching against the counterrevolutionary adventures of their governments. The US troops withdrawal is a gigantic step forward, but we still have a long road ahead. The European workers are marching in support of the Afghan refugees. This is the way forward! In the streets of the imperialist capitals we will win definitively, defeating imperialism. From New York, Paris and London to Kabul, one single struggle, one single enemy!
Abu Muad |