Azerbaijan

Murad Gattal spoke to Azerbaijani trade unionists and left-wing activists about the state of society following Ilham Aliyev’s election for the fifth presidential term and the Third Karabakh War. The rise of authoritarian tendencies and nationalist rallying around the flag that followed in the aftermath of the ‘small victorious war’ brings up questions about the future, and even existence, of the left movement in the country.

Murad Gattal on the causes and prerequisites for a new escalation in the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict and the transformations that it caused in Azerbaijani society.