The people of Afghanistan are getting the same served up canned-artificial constitution from the same president (George “Frat-brat” Bush) who stole two elections and heads a near one-party state. Just as in Iraq democracy can be packaged and shipped off to some foreign land, to be supplanted on people by brute force. As in Iraq, it’s a propaganda ploy for the new “American Century” where we force the importation of our phony democracy on a foreign government. Those who resist get called “terrorists.”
Here are some excerpts from ”Afghanistan: 4 years after the U.S.-led invasion,”
Revolution #019, October 23, 2005,
October 10, 2005. A World to Win News Service. As the counting of the votes from the September parliamentary election in Afghanistan continues, October 7 marked the fourth anniversary of the U.S.-led invasion. Since the election is the last step in the plan worked out by the big power-sponsored conference in Bonn, Germany, shortly after the December 2001 invasion, this is an appropriate time to take stock of what the invaders have achieved.
The U.S. and its allies handpicked Afghanistan’s participants at the Bonn conference, representatives of Islamic fundamentalist jihadi, tribal notables, warlords and other reactionaries no less hated by the people than the Taleban. The conference’s choice for head of the provisional government, Hamid Karzai, a U.S. puppet issued from and approved by the country’s most backward forces, was a signal indicating what sort of regime would be imposed--or in other words, what kind of social system Afghanistan would have and what kind of relationship would prevail between the country and the world’s dominant powers.
The U.S. imperialists control the Afghanistan government’s foreign and internal policies. Karzai is allowed at most to comment on tactical points or make empty speeches for public consumption. U.S. envoy Zalmay Khalilzad openly led the configuration of the new regime at Bonn, during the Loya Jirga and at other key points. He is now playing the same role in Iraq. The electoral democracy that the occupiers are building for Afghanistan is nothing but a regime that suits their interest and has been enforced on the people of Afghanistan in the same way as similar regimes imposed by the British in the 19th century and the Soviet invaders in the 1980s.
The puppet regime has no air force. The occupation forces are building an Afghan army in a way that cannot challenge them on the ground either. In the name of protecting the electoral process and fighting the increase in pro-Taleban insurgents, and also faced with the rise of mass anti-occupation protests, the occupiers and especially the U.S. have been trying to sharply increase the number of foreign troops. The U.S., however, cannot spare soldiers now fighting an increasingly difficult war in Iraq. In fact, the Bush government would like to be able to bring some American troops there from Afghanistan. Donald Rumsfeld, at a recent NATO meeting in Berlin, asked the NATO countries to increase their forces in Afghanistan. This was opposed by France, Spain, and Germany, which have a different strategy there. But Britain agreed to send 4-5000 more soldiers. Canada and Holland also responded positively, and Australia and New Zealand, though not in NATO, have also indicated that they might comply. In all, NATO recently agreed to boost its forces from 10,000 to 15,000, although there is still a dispute about the degree and way in which they will take part in fighting in the increasingly unstable eastern and southern part of the country.
Maoists denounce Afghanistan elections
“I’m not voting this time,” a Kabul food stall seller told BCC. “They’re all warlords.” A report for the British broadcaster said that many people dismissed the candidates with a phrase meaning they all have “blood on their hands”.
Final results of this election are to be made public 22 October.
Supporters of the Communist (Maoist) Party of Afghanistan distributed a leaflet in Kabul and many provincial areas in the period before the election.
It begins, “The puppet regime consists of traitors and the servants of the imperialist occupier, no matter what form that takes. This regime represents the main section of feudals and compradors. The managers of this regime are criminal elements and bandits and thieves who directly or indirectly have played an important role in the destruction of the country and the homelessness of millions of people.”
The leaflet concludes, “Considering all these obvious and clear facts, the C(M)PA calls for the complete boycott of this comedy show, this deception organised by the imperialists and local reactionaries that is called the election of Parliament and local councils. We call on all revolutionary, nationalist and democratic forces and figures and advanced masses to join actively in the campaign for the boycott of this reactionary imperialist election.”
According to reports, the leaflet was well received, especially by the students who were the first to get it and eager to discuss its points. It also made the regime and its thugs furious.
The following is excerpted from a much longer article appearing in the August (no. 8) issue of the C(M)PA’s publication Sholeh.
A huge number of Taleban and jihadi war criminals, powerful local bandits, reactionary mullahs, ex-Khalqi and Parchami criminals [Khalq and Parcham were the two revisionist, pro-USSR parties in power during the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan], bureaucrats and technocrat traitors of Zahir Shah and Daoud Khan [the last two rulers of Afghanistan before the Soviet invasion] and ex fake leftists and real capitulationists have queued to enter the central Parliament and local councils of the puppet regime.
They announced their willingness to participate in the deceptive imperialist-reactionary election show and ultimately serve the US, British and other occupiers. All these varied forces were pulled into taking part in the presidential election game last year and today’s Parliament and local council elections by the attractions and money waved by the US and other occupier imperialists. Meanwhile, the people are being flooded by a mass of deceitful promises of economic, educational, health, agricultural and other projects by the imperialists and other foreign reactionaries.
These elections represent a market, but the buying and selling reflects not the kind of market typical of capitalist countries but rather a colonial and semi-feudal market... Election games in a country like Afghanistan are only a thin layer to cover the ugly face of semi-feudal and comprador [big businessmen dependent on foreign capital] despotic rule because the social-economic structure of its society doesn’t allow the development of democracy, even a bourgeois democracy [where the capitalists rule through elections]. The national bourgeoisie is usually too weak to create the ground for the realization of democracy…. The destruction of the prevailing socio-economic structure and continuing struggle along this road is essential for the creation and development of democracy in these countries. This task can only be led by the proletariat. In other words, democracy in the oppressed countries can only be realised by New Democratic Revolution, a national-democratic revolution under the leadership of the proletariat that would lead the country towards socialism and not capitalism.
The current elections for Parliament and the local councils of the puppet regime is the last ring in the chain forming the puppet regime, a chain that started with the conference of national traitors in Bonn and continued with the transfer of power to Karzai, the puppet of the US invaders and their allies. Since then, with the direct military, political and financial support of the invaders, they invented the Emergency Loya Jirga [council] and the Constitutional Loya Jirga so that the puppet regime could have an “elected” boss and a “constitution”.
Karzai, the head chosen at the Bonn conference and Emergency Loya Jirga, was then “elected” with the direct military, political and financial support of the occupiers. Since then the military, security and civil institutions of the puppet regime have also more or less taken form with the direct help of the occupiers. But all these imperialist occupation measures have not led to a stable and powerful regime in Afghanistan. A puppet regime is by nature shallow and empty and cannot have real power. Such a regime is like a parasite dependent and reliant on foreign masters. It cannot breathe or even exist without the help of the imperialist occupiers.
The elections for the puppet regime’s national Parliament and local councils are supposed to create the law-making branch of this regime and officially complete its formation. After that Afghanistan is supposed to have all three main branches of government, a judicial system, a law-making assembly and executive organs including a “national army” and “national police” and an “elected” president. So there should be no problem, and the “elected ruling power” would be able to control the country. If that were true, there would be no need for the presence of the foreign occupying forces in Afghanistan. These “guest” officers and soldiers should be able to happily go home. But this is not the case and it could not be like that. Completing the formation of this regime is completing the formation of a puppet regime, and the nature and character of this regime cannot be changed just like that. The puppet regime can continue its rule only by relying on the occupying imperialist forces and their direct political and financial support, so the colonial situation remains intact.
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