The media in the West insist that the war in Afghanistan is
against "terrorists", but a closer look shows a people resisting imperialist
aggression. The country has been brought close to barbarism, but there is still
potential for revolutionary developments.
Although the dismantling of the old state owned planned economy was an enormous reactionary step backwards and Marxists are utterly opposed to it, there is one positive element in the process: the creation of the largest proletariat in the world. The development of capitalism in China brings with it class contradictions that are preparing a new revolutionary upheaval in Chinese society. Once this massive Chinese proletariat moves decisively it will shake the whole world.
Women
are a doubly oppressed layer of the working population in all countries, but in
countries like Pakistan
the oppression of women is extreme. Nowhere more than Pakistan, however,
is it clear that this oppression is class-based. The solution lies in a united
struggle of female and male workers to eradicate the very system that is the
root cause.