Sopiko Japaridze

Sopiko Japaridze is the co-founder of Solidarity Network Workers Center, a member-driven labour rights group in Georgia. She has been a labour and community organiser for 12 years.

Georgia is suddenly making international headlines. But its crisis isn't new

The reality is that the country’s elite, currently squabbling over power, is completely out of touch with their citizens

By Sopiko Japaridze

/ 4 Mar 2021

Georgia is suddenly making international headlines. But its crisis isn't new

In Tbilisi, delivery drivers learn their power lies in stopping work

A protest campaign in Georgia shows the potential of self-organisation by delivery drivers

By Sopiko Japaridze

/ 10 Feb 2021

In Tbilisi, delivery drivers learn their power lies in stopping work

Бизнес с оглядкой на неолиберализм. Как инвестор в Грузии рассорил местных рабочих и американских конгрессменов

Крупный инвестор столкнулся с неприятностями в Грузии, оставив сотрудников без зарплаты. Но нашел прикрытие в конгрессе США.

By Sopiko Japaridze

/ 5 Feb 2020

Бизнес с оглядкой на неолиберализм. Как инвестор в Грузии рассорил местных рабочих и американских конгрессменов

An investor standoff in Georgia brings workers, US congressmen into conflict

As a major foreign investor faces rocky times in Georgia, America looms in the shadows.

By Sopiko Japaridze

/ 29 Jan 2020

An investor standoff in Georgia brings workers, US congressmen into conflict

Georgia’s trainee doctors are sick of their uncertain futures - and are fighting back

Amid a wider political crisis in Georgia, new fees on qualifying exams have brought medical students in Tbilisi out to protest. But these fees are just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to systemic alienation and disappointment.

By Sopiko Japaridze

/ 13 Dec 2019

Georgia’s trainee doctors are sick of their uncertain futures - and are fighting back

Georgian land, Georgian freedom

A proposed amendment to Georgia’s constitution would ban the sale of agricultural land to foreign citizens. Is it a necessary evil, or a hollow gesture?

By Sopiko Japaridze

/ 21 Sep 2017

Georgia’s new constitution keeps real change in check

By reinforcing libertarian principles in Georgia’s constitution, the ruling party aims to keep government small — and the space for egalitarian politics even smaller. ქართული

By Sopiko Japaridze

/ 5 May 2017