This week marks the tenth anniversary of the invasion of Afghanistan by the US and its allies--and the country is in shambles and conflict rages. Award-winning journalist Jonathan Steele, who has reported from Afghanistan for thirty years, discusses how the United States has ignored the lessons from the Soviet occupation of that country. And he argues that the US needs to negotiate a settlement and exit entirely, rather than leaving advisors behind.

Last May, workers facing mass layoffs at the Ssanyong Motor company in South Korea took over their factory. The occupation lasted 77 days and ended after pitched battles with police commandos, who dropped tear gas on them from helicopters; the workers responded with home made catapults and fire bombs. Radical writer Loren Goldner talks about the state of class struggle in South Korea, following IMF austerity and casualization of the workforce.

As the economic crisis grinds on for working people around the world, two impressive examples of militancy stand out. Kari Lydersen reported on the 2008 occupation of Chicago's Republic Windows and Doors factory as it was unfolding and talks about the history on the shop floor which provided fertile ground for action. And Chris Spannos discusses the ongoing resistance in Greece, where generations of Greeks have mobilized wave upon wave of general strikes and actions in opposition to austerity measures there.