I will never forget the shock I got when I was promoting Syria solidarity a decade ago and other COMMUNISTS (the tradition of the THIRD INTERNATIONAL!!!) told me it was wrong to make a fuss about overseas movements, or at least anything outside of the Pacific region
But the fact is that modern liberal, center-left, and left political movements are *insufficiently* transnationalized — especially when compared to the transnational right. We are *behind* the curve. Our leaders are behind the curve.