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Afghanistan: The Taliban takeover – what are the lessons for the workers’ movement internationally

By Niall Mulholland (Committee for a Workers International – CWI) On Sunday 15 August, Taliban militiamen, packed onto their trademark pick-up trucks, drove unopposed into Afghanistan’s capital, Kabul, ousting the US-backed government of Ashraf Ghani. Thousands of fearful residents, many with bitter memories of the last Taliban regime, tried desperately to board planes to flee the hardline Islamic force. Ghani ...

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