Sasha Fokina
Journalist and political analyst, co-creator of the This is Basis (Это Базис) podcast and author of the Protest Culture (Культура протеста) project. I write and speak about anti-colonial struggles, wars, and autocracies across the Global South, as well as feminist and migration issues.
For several years now, the Georgian protests have been attracting international attention. From March 2023 to the end of 2024, people took to the streets every day, despite police violence and criminal prosecution. Georgians opposed laws modeled on Russian legislation, challenged the re-election of the ruling Georgian Dream party, and protested against the rejection of European integration. Journalist Sasha Fokina spoke with Georgian left-wing activists, who described the state of civil society after the protests.
As capitalism-driven polycrisis unravels, Africa disproportionately suffers from the harm brought by climate change. The World Meteorological Organization recognises that temperature increases in Africa are slightly above the global average, leading to growing climate change costs. Meanwhile, extreme weather events across the region, including multi-year droughts and floods, create millions of refugees, although international agencies dedicated to the issue do not estimate current numbers. Despite the fact that this group is the most vulnerable among those affected by climate change, the international regime does not recognise these individuals as refugees, trapping people between existential threats from the climate and asylum bureaucracy.
