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A crowd of people waving flags of the country of Georgia, with a paintstroke-filter effect.

The fight for democracy, social justice, and equality in the Caucasus

Interview with Members of Georgia’s Movement for Social Democracy

by Vano Abramashvili, Maia Barkaia, Ia Eradze, Ashley Smith, and Sopho Verdzeuli

Tempest’s Ashley Smith interviews Vano Abramashvili, Maia Barkaia, Ia Eradze, Sopho Verdzueli, who are all members of a new Left organization in the country of Georgia. In the midst of high levels of struggle, including one of largest and most sustained mass protests in their country’s history, socialists in Georgia have come together to form the Movement for Social Democracy to attempt to fill the vacuum on the Left.