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When that you might like is the 40-year war in Afghanistan by Tarek Ali

Rarely has there been such an enthusiastic display of international unity as that which greeted the invasion of Afghanistan in 2001

Compared to Iraq Afghanistan became the good war but a stalemate ensued and the Taliban waited out the NATO contingents

Today with the collapse of the puppet regime in Kabul

What does the future hold for a traumatized Afghan people Tarek Ali has been following the wars in Afghanistan for 40 years

The 40-year war in Afghanistan brings together the best of his writings and includes a new introduction

In this series of trenchant commentaries he describes the tragedies inflicted on Afghanistan as well as the semi-talabanization and militarization of neighboring Pakistan

I also interviewed Tarek about Afghanistan on the dig in October 2021

Before this book was published which you can find in our archives

The 40-year war in Afghanistan by Tarek Ali out now from Versailles Books

Welcome to the dig a podcast from Jacobin magazine my name is Daniel Denver and a broadcasting from Providence, Rhode Island

Argentina is the epicenter of an internationalist left-wing feminist movement that has over the past few years become a massive force across Latin America

It has demanded an end of violence against women and demanded the legalization of abortion

And then also critically made demands for the radical transformation of the social and economic orders in their entirety

Most recently the new Latin American feminist movement laid the groundwork for Chile's mass popular uprising

For the creation of a constituent assembly to rewrite the country's constitution

And for the election of Gabriel Borich as president

Today, I'm interviewing Veronica Gaggo an Argentine feminist political theorist and organizer

We discuss Argentina's feminist movement how the women's strike illuminates the ties that bind domestic labor and financial exploitation

And the popular economies and ideologies that have emerged and thrived amid the cracks and contradictions of neoliberal capitalism

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