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Solidarity Party of Afghanistan
The Solidarity Party of Afghanistan (Dari: حزب همبستگی افغانستان; Hezb-e Hambastagi-ye Afghanistan; abbr. SPA) is a minor left-wing political party in Afghanistan.[4] The party platform focuses on four main issues: labourism, secularism, women's rights, democracy, and opposition to NATO's Resolute Support Mission in Afghanistan.[5] The party is strongly critical of the Afghan government, which it views as corrupt, fundamentalist, and dominated by warlords.[5] The party claims a membership of some 30,000.[5] HistoryThe party boycotted the 2005 and 2010 parliamentary elections.[4] The party was suspended in June 2012 following a Kabul demonstration in late April 2012 where the party accused a number of Afghan leaders, including former leaders and commanders, of committing war crimes over the last three decades of conflict, and demanded they be brought to justice.[4] The SPA boycotted the 2004, 2009, and 2014 Afghan Presidential elections as the party alleges that an individual cannot be elected without the approval of the US government.[5] The party does, however, take part in provincial elections as it believes these elections to be more democratic and harder for central government to control or rig.[5] No SPA members ran in the 2013 provincial elections, although the party did support certain candidates.[5] The party condemned the 2019 Turkish offensive into north-eastern Syria. According to photographic evidence from 24 March 2024, the Solidarity Party of Afghanistan were involved in the creation of a monument for the Murder of Farkhunda Malikzada in Kabul, where she was lynched.[6] See alsoReferences
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