Episode 19! Labor, Work, and the Strike w/Knar Khudoyan

We discuss recent workers' strikes (over the past year) in Armenia - especially that of workers at Zangezur Copper and Molybdenum Combine and of Indian migrant workers at the Grand Textile factory in Ijevan - with Knar Khudoyan who has been writing on labor issues in Armenia for years as a journalist. We turn our attention, also, to what it means to be in the liminal period of the strike and the possibilities of freedom that it opens to as well as what constitutes work and labor. Check out Khudoyan's article on the Zangezur strike here: https://leftrenewal.org/articles-en/khudoyan-noise-vibration-and-dust/ Check out "'Sew Faster' at Gunpoint," about the Grand Textile strike, here: https://epress.am/en/2025/08/27/indian-workers-strike-in-ijevan.html