International Viewpoint - online socialist magazine

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

Ashley Smith, Collective — 2025-05-13T20:16:36Z

The country of Georgia, a small nation of 3.8 million people in the Caucasus, has been thrown into a profound crisis. Its people have risen up against the ruling party, Georgian Dream, over the passage of its Russia-style “foreign influence law,” homophobic anti-LGBTQ propaganda law, rigging of the recent election, and suspension of accession talks for membership in the EU.

- IVP604 - May 2025 / Georgia

Why have people of Georgia massively risen up against the Government?

Ashley Smith, Ilya Budraitskis — 2025-01-04T16:33:52Z

What do the protests mean for the left in Georgia and internationally? Posle and Tempest talk to Georgian activists and scholars about Georgia's mass protests

- IVP600 - January 2025 / Georgia

Statement against Azerbaijan's Authoritarianism, COP29 and Green Capitalism, Wars, and Regional Slide into Authoritarianism

Caucasus Feminist Anti-War Movement — 2024-11-23T13:25:53Z

Caucasus Feminist Anti-War Movement—C-FAM is an emerging movement of feminist and anti-war/peace activists from Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia. Unified in our defiance, C-FAM originated from a powerful solidarity action to confront the greenwashing practices at COP29 taking place in Azerbaijan on November 2024, one of the largest events in our region in recent times. Our movement embodies the principles of feminism, anti-militarism, anti-war, anti-authoritarianism, anti-nationalism, and anti-capitalism, opposing oppressive systems that perpetuate inequality and violence.

- IV598 - November 2024 / Ecology and the Environment, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia

Local Communities and Labor Movements Under Threat in Sakartvelo: Interview with Left Activists

Daria Saburova — 2024-08-09T11:41:11Z

In April-May 2024, tens of thousands of Georgians took to the streets to protest against the new "Law on Transparency of Foreign Influence," which was finally passed by the parliament on May 28th, overturning the presidential veto. This law requires NGOs that receive more than 20% of their funding from abroad to declare themselves as "foreign agents." Why did the proposal of this law cause such massive demonstrations? What are the social and political issues at stake behind the confrontation between the NGO sector and the Georgian state? How is the geopolitical competition between Russia and the West reflected in the local context, and are the Georgian protests somewhat comparable to the Ukrainian Maidan?

- Features / Georgia