Mansa sits down with Jon Brule, longtime leader of the Spartacist League US and the ICL, to review the ICL's position on the Soviet intervention into Afghanistan in 1979 where we controversially raised the slogan "Hail Red Army!". We discuss the political situation leading to the PDPA takeover, known as the Saur Revolution, and the subsequent events which led to heightened imperialist pressure on Afghanistan and the USSR, precipitating Soviet military intervention. What were the tasks of revolutionaries in these events? And how did the failures of the PDPA and the Soviet bureaucracy lead to the rise of the Taliban? 

Jon's article which reviews our position can be found here: https://iclfi.org/pubs/wv/1185/afghanistan

Anti-imperialism and women's liberation can be found here: https://iclfi.org/pubs/wr/46/antiimperialism

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