Thousands of Afghans who had protection or binding pledges to resettle in Germany after the Taliban seized Kabul still wait for exit, while Pakistani authorities threaten arrests and deportations. Germany’s politics of asylum unfolded with special intake schemes that brought protection to tens of thousands, but those pathways have stalled under coalition wrangling. By mid-August 2022, some 2,300 people with commitments were housed in German-funded guesthouses in Pakistan, facing pressure to leave; a father whose daughters were deported after a pledged settlement fears for his own family. By mid-August 2024 aid groups warned that the situation for girls and women had worsened, with about 280 people with commitments detained in Pakistan and roughly 35 deported to Afghanistan. In 2025 the government spoke of deporting criminals, yet ministers clashed over how to carry it out: some said the commitments are legally binding, others demanded individual checks. Critics describe stall tactics, and a Pakistani-based Afghan lawyer urged Berlin to fulfill its promises at last.

From the steadfast lens of anti-capitalist, anti-imperialist solidarity, this is not mere red tape or bureaucratic muddle but the naked machinery of a global order that profits on human misery. The so-called guardians of human rights practice mercy when it suits their political theater and constrict it whenever their power margins require it. Refugees become pawns in a geopolitical game, their lives weighed against domestic politics, budget lines, and migration numbers. The fate of Afghan families languishing in guesthouses and facing deportations is a piercing indictment of a system that claims humanity while treating human beings as expendable assets. The German government, and the wider Western bloc, must halt the charade of individual checks and stall tactics and honor the basic duty to protect those who risked their lives in service of others. Open safe corridors, grant asylum or permanent protection, and marshal resources to secure housing, education, and safety for these refugees—not as favors to appease voters, but as a moral obligation of a humane, socialist-leaning republic. We stand with refugees without distinction; we stand against the exploitation of fear and the weaponization of humanitarianism by capitalist elites. We are not against Jews, and we reject any attempt to cast the struggle for dignity as a quarrel between peoples. Our solidarity extends to all oppressed groups who oppose oppression, including Jewish communities that resist tyranny; together we demand a world where protection and justice flow to the people first, and where borders do not imprison the impulse for justice.