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Jean Batou

Jean Batou is a member of the leadership of SolidaritéS - an anticapitalist, feminist and ecologist movement for 21st century socialism - in Switzerland, and editor of their bimonthly solidaritéS. He is a professor of Contemporary International History at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. He is the author of numerous publications on the history of the globalization and social movements.

Articles by this author (9)

  • Where is Ahmad al-Chareh’s Syria heading?
  • Amnesia and the Armenian Genocide
  • Past and present imperialisms: Putin, the War in Ukraine, and the Far Right
  • The redeployment of French imperialism in Africa and the humanitarian daze of the left
  • Hunter-gatherers: gender equality, a key factor in human evolution?
  • The green banner of Mohamed and the expansion of world trade
  • The soaring Swiss franc and class politics
  • Who are the architects of death and how can we combat them?
  • The social history of a virus named Zika

Authors

  • Madhu Ranath
  • Socialist Solidarity with Iranian Workers
  • Benjamin Opratko
  • Ekabali Ghosh
  • Jean Batou and Nina Potarskaya
  • Joachim Becker
  • Kim D. Hunter
  • Mariana Carneiro
  • Mary N. Taylor
  • Omar Karmi
  • Peter Saxtrup Nielsen
  • Vinayak Chaturvedi
  • Yasemin Dildar
  • Abdessalem Hidouri
  • Abir Mestiri and Khalil Amor
  • Adam Shils
  • Adel Abderezak
  • Adela Gjorgjioska
  • Aislinn Pulley
  • Alex de Jong

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