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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)

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

Authors

  • Syed Abdul Khaliq
  • Sylvain Chardon
  • Sylvia Zappi
  • Syria Freedom Forever
  • Syrian Revolutionary Left Tendency
  • Syriza Youth
  • Søren Søndergaard
  • T.V. Padma
  • Tadashi Kinoshita
  • Taliria Petrone
  • Tamara Knežević
  • Tamás Gerőcs
  • Tania De La Torre
  • Tansy E Hoskins
  • Tapol
  • Tara Marchelin
  • Tara Mirković
  • Taras Bilous
  • Taras Fedirko
  • Taras Kobzar

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