A People’s Globalism: Notes Toward a New Left Internationalism

Solidarity with comrades abroad is the oldest definition of left internationalism. We look for people who are fighting for equality, democracy, and freedom anywhere in the world, and we join their fight. Think of this as the foreign policy of the left. ...  Where there are tyrants, we support dissidents. We support workers struggling to organize independent unions; we support writers whose books can’t be published in their own countries; we support feminists defending gender equality against patriarchal regimes; we support heretics and free-thinkers threatened by a ruling zealotry. Left internationalism is a solidarity of leftists.

Read more as Michael Walzer, Professor Emeritus in the School of Social Science, discusses the importance of comradeship in protecting left internationalism at the Nation.