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Titolo: Messaggio dal partito Comunista Pakistano

Malgrado la retorica un tantino pesantuccia, penso sia da leggere.
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Kabul Falls
by Farooq Tariq, general secretary, Labour Party of Pakistan
www.labourpakistan.org
The Northern Alliance (NA) took over Kabul today, November 13, without
much resistance. The Taliban&#8217;s much-threatened &#8220;jihad&#8221;
(holy war) was nowhere to be seen when the Northern Alliance forces
arrived. Kabul was taken without any serious fight from the Taliban. The
myth created by the Taliban and their supporters internationally that no
one could defeat the Taliban will be shattered within days across the
globe after this shameful surrender by the Taliban in Kabul. It was not,
as some media persons have suggested, a tactical retreat; rather, it
shows the total collapse of morale among the Taliban.
The U.S.-sponsored Northern Alliance took over Kabul only a day after
Bush made a public plea to the Northern Alliance not to take Kabul. Bush
wanted to please the visiting Pakistan military ruler, General Pervez
Musharaf. The Pakistan government is now pleading for a UN peacekeeping
force to help form a broad-based government. This is just to be saying
something after the Pakistan president was publicly humiliated by this
takeover.
The U.S. government desperately wanted a win. It felt it needed a big
victory immediately. That is why the public plea of President Bush for
the Northern Alliance not to enter Kabul was put aside to allow for this
much-waited event. The surrender of Kabul shows the absolute dictatorial
nature of the Taliban and its fast-disappearing social base. The ordinary
citizens of Kabul seemed quite delighted over this victory. The Northern
Alliance issued the first order that women can go back to jobs. This is
just to please its masters in the imperialist countries. The majority of
the Northern Alliance has no different policy on women than that of the
Taliban. Once the Northern Alliance strengthens its power base, the real
face of these fundamentalists will come out in the open.
U.S. imperialism has once again used the same old tactic of  &#8220;the
enemy of my enemy is my friend.&#8221; They have paid a heavy price for
supporting and promoting the religious fundamentalists against the former
Soviet Union in the past. They are repeating the same tactic, and if they
continue to support the Northern Alliance, it will be like bringing up
another monster that could go out of control in a very short time.
The defeat in Kabul for the Taliban is no victory for U.S. imperialism.
It had to take the support of another religious fundamentalist group. The
group might make some changes in its outlook in the initial phase, but it
will not change its real aim of Islamic revolution in Afghanistan.
The Taliban will now lose power in Kandahar as well. Its will to fight a
guerrilla war after retreating to the mountains will not have much
weight, and the Taliban will be rooted out of Afghanistan for the time
being. Osama may lose his life alongside of many Taliban leaders. But
religious fundamentalism will not be dead with the death of its
best-known leaders.
The strategy of the Taliban to move into the tribal areas linked to the
Pakistani border will not meet with much success. The Taliban chapter of
history has ended. There is not much time left before they will formally
be out of power from all parts of Afghanistan. Now religious
fundamentalism will have to wait a long time to take over state power
again, as it did in Afghanistan and Iran. But religious fundamentalism
will not die down, and the extreme face of these forces will carry on by
suicidal attacks, guerrilla activities, and so on.
The taking of Kabul by the Northern Alliance (NA) has brought more
difficulties for Gen. Musharaf&#8217;s military regime in Pakistan. This
action of the NA has been carried out contrary to the strategy of Gen.
Musharaf. It seems that U.S. imperialism has played a double game. On the
one hand, it has been assuring the Pakistan regime that it will not do
anything against its interests. On the other, it has armed the NA to take
on the Taliban. U.S. imperialism was very worried that its own soldiers
should not be killed in this war. So the strategy was to arm the NA to do
the job instead. The U.S. military gave full air cover to the NA to move
forward to Kabul. Now the reactions of Tony Blair and Bush also indicate
that the taking of Kabul is no surprise for them and they had already
planned that things would go like this.
The Pakistan military regime has been taken aback by the speed of the
events and the way the Taliban has left without a fight. Only Pakistanis
and Arab jihadis were left behind in Kabul to be massacred by the NA
forces. Their bodies lying in the streets of Kabul show the methods and
tactics that will be used in future as well by the NA. The Taliban
ditched these foreign Mujahidin and left on their own, the night before
Kabul fell.
General Musharaf&#8217;s strategy to carry on his policy of supporting
the Mujahidin in Kashmir while opposing the Taliban was accepted for the
time being by U.S. imperialism. General Musharaf will have no other
choice but to retreat from his Kashmir policy. He cannot have two
policies on the same issue of terrorism. He has to choose one. But if
General Musharaf does not listen to U.S. imperialism on Kashmir, he may
lose his power as well as his life. The Bush administration has been
praising General Musharaf&#8217;s regime for its brave and timely stand
to support them. But the fall of Kabul has changed many things. It will
have a decisive effect on U.S. imperialism&#8217;s strategy toward
Pakistan.
Now the focus of so-called world attention will be Kabul, not Islamabad.
The Islamabad leaders have to speak again and again to U.S. imperialism
about the promises it has made to them all along. Most of these promises
will be forgotten. The fall of Kabul, and in a few days Afghanistan, to
the NA and U.S.-allied forces will change the psychology of U.S.
imperialism.
The fall of Kabul was not a surprise for us here in Pakistan. Religious
fundamentalism was fighting a war they were bound to lose. The Pakistan
regime had abandoned them, and you cannot fight a war with religious
feelings alone. We said again and again that the Taliban would lose the
war in a short space of time.
The Taliban was the most hated regime that the Afghan masses had ever
seen in their whole history. It wanted to carry out its medieval policies
by force. The people of Afghanistan were forced to adopt some of these
policies. But they never had any mass social base in Afghanistan. The
religious fundamentalist forces were a tiny, very committed minority who
were able to hold on together thanks to all the support they were
receiving from the international religious fundamentalist forces.
The fall of Kabul will not bring any stable regime in Afghanistan. It
will further polarize the situation, and a civil-war-type situation will
remain as before. But the difference will be that now the religious
divide will recede into the background and the national divide will come
to the forefront. Afghanistan is a mess of history in all forms. It is a
jungle of different nationalities, each with its own tribal identity.
This mess cannot be solved on the basis of capitalism, which can only
further enhance the national divide. There is not going to be a massive
pumping-in of U.S. dollars to stabilize the situation. The new Afghan
leaders will be given some peanuts and then left to fight among
themselves.
Afghan history has once again seen a change of power in Afghanistan after
five years of brutal rule by the Taliban. But this change once again will
not bring any change in the poverty of the masses of Afghanistan.
There could be a little so-called liberal time in Afghanistan if a
broad-based government is established under the influence of U.S.
imperialism. The Northern Alliance is in a very powerful position. It can
dictate its terms, but it is unable to unite the different fighting
nationalities. U.S. imperialism&#8217;s strategy will be to establish a
broad-based government loyal to the aging Zahir Shah. But this government
can be very short-lived, as it will not be able to control the situation.
A new phase of civil war can be seen in Afghanistan in the future.
The Pakistan government has been supporting the Taliban for seven years.
Suddenly it had to oppose them. Now, it has no friendly forces in
Afghanistan. If a government in Afghanistan is established against the
wishes of the Pakistan military regime, this could open up a new phase of
hostility with Pakistan. A war between Pakistan and Afghanistan cannot be
ruled out in these circumstances.
The Labour Party of Pakistan will help the tiny forces of the Left in
Afghanistan to take advantage of the limited time it may have to build
itself inside Afghanistan. The Weekly Mazdoor Jeddojuhd is planning to
print a monthly edition of its paper in Pushtu with the close
collaboration of the Afghanistan Revolutionary Labour Organization.
The Left internationally should carry on to oppose the strategy of U.S.
imperialism of waging war and bringing a new puppet regime to
Afghanistan. The war has not ended. It has entered a new phase. The
anti-globalization campaign linked with the peace movement must carry on.
One fundamentalist group is gone; the other, with the help of the U.S.,
has come to power. We have no choice but to oppose this new change in
Kabul, and to struggle instead for a better, democratic and socialist
change

Premetto di non conoscere benissimo l'inglese da traudrre interamente il
post.
Ma in Pakistan i partiti politici nn sono stati soppressi dal colpo di stato
di Musharaf?

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 Malgrado la retorica un tantino pesantuccia, penso sia da leggere.
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Beh, non é proprio un partito comunista... é il labour party... credo sia
diverso, o no?
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 diverso, o no?
Non saprei.  Un partito puo' chiamarsi come vuole.  Basti pensare al
partito liberaldemocratico russo.  Se Giorgio ci dice che il labour party
del Pakistan e` un partito comunista, non me la sento di contraddirlo.

[cut] and I wouldn't call Tony Blair a communist!
Of course, me neither :)
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