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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. 

Between Trump and Putin

Europe at the crossroads of history 

by Daniel Tanuro

Tempest republishes an article from Daniel Tanuro responding to the political alliance between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin and its meaning for the European Left. Tanuro warns against any alignment with European capital and the imperial interests of the European Union while highlighting the importance of defending the Ukrainians right to self-determination.