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26 July 2007 |
Elections in Turkey
Backlash against
military intervention,
but the crisis
continues
Sungur Savran
A slap in the face of the partisans of
military intervention and the self-appointed defenders of the republic
against the alleged danger of the sharia! The outcome of the general
elections held in Turkey on 22 July 2007 clearly shows that a majority of
the people unambiguously refuse to support the line of the military and its
civilian henchmen! Read More >>
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7 July 2007 |
İşçi Mücadelesi moves toward
founding revolutionary party
İşçi Mücadelesi (Workers’ Struggle) has recently
made a qualitative leap forward. At a meeting held on 23 June 2007 in the
auditorium of one of the most important trade unions of Turkey, the
petroleum, rubber and pharmaceutical workers’ union, Isci Mucadelesi
declared the foundation of the Initiative to form a Revolutionary Workers’
Party. Read More >> |
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27 June 2007 |
International solidarity:
Jorge Altamira visits factory
on wildcat strike
 On Wednesday June 27, Jorge Altamira,
the leader of the Partido Obrero (Workers’ Party) of Argentina, paid
a visit of solidarity to the workers of the Sanovel Pharmaceutical Factory,
who had been fired a week ago for attempting to unionize in Petrol-İş (the
union for petroleum, rubber and pharmaceutical workers.)
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May Day 2007 of İstanbul |
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28 April 2007 |
The fifth military intervention of Turkish history
Workers’ Struggle
An article by our comrade Sungur Savran, written six months ago in October 2006, and published on this web site under the title “Chronicle of a Crisis Foretold”, explained clearly the rising danger of a coup by the Turkish military in the context of the presidential elections of April 2007. In the words of that article, “to borrow from the Chronicle of a Death Foretold of Marquez, if there was ever a pre-announced national political crisis in history, it could not have beaten the present situation in Turkey in precision!” April 2007 came and on the night of 27 April Turkey was shaken with the news of a proclamation of the General Staff (diffused through the web site of the General Staff, thus probably constituting the first ever virtual military intervention in political history!), containing the thinly disguised threat of a takeover if presidential elections were not immediately aborted.
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January 2007 |
The last Armenian
Sungur Savran
“We’re all Hrant, we’re all Armenians!” So chanted the
hundreds of thousands of marchers, mostly Turkish and Kurdish, in
Istanbul on Tuesday 23 January 2006 during the funeral procession of
Hrant Dink, the foremost representative of the Armenian community in
Turkey and a leftist.
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January 2002 |
Our Aims
The text below introduces our
politics to those who are exposed to our literature for the first time. It
was first published in issue No. 1 of İşçi Mücadelesi (Workers’
Struggle) in January-February 2002. İşçi Mücadelesi came out every
two months until October 2005, when it was transformed into a monthly.
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May 2006 |
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Setting
out on the road
Editorial Board of Devrimci
Marksizm
This is the launching manifesto of
Devrimci Marksizm (Revolutionary Marxism), a theoretical journal. The
Turkish version appeared in issue No.1 of the journal. As the text makes
clear, Devrimci Marksizm is the theoretical journal initiated by the
group İşçi Mücadelesi (Workers’ Struggle). The Editorial Board
includes other revolutionary Marxists and the journal is run autonomously by
the Board. The journal was launched in May 2006. A second issue appeared in
November 2006. Henceforth, it is intended to be a quarterly journal.
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October 2006
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Situation
in Turkey
Chronicle of a Crisis Foretold
Sungur
Savran
The month of Ramadan is traditionally
calmer politically in Turkey than other times. Not so this time around. The
month of October started with a series of declarations by the top brass of
the Turkish armed forces. Read More >>
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5 December
2006
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CRFI
and Christian Rakovsky Center
at
International Meeting in Beirut!
The “Beirut
International Meeting in Support of the Resistance” was organized during 16th-19th
November, by the participation of representatives from the US to Cuba, from
Brazil to Argentina, from Greece to Italy, from Iraq to Palestine, from
Syria to India. Read More >>
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Early 2005 |
The World Situation and Our Tasks
This text was written in early 2005
with the purpose of explaining to audiences, domestic and foreign alike, the
overall analysis carried out by İşçi Mücadelesi (Workers’ Struggle)
for the last fifteen years, i.e. since the collapse of the Berlin Wall. It
provides a broad picture of the policies pursued by the group throughout
these years, naturally concentrating more on the recent period than the more
distant past. It consists of two sections, one on the international
situation and the other on the situation in Turkey.
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November-December 2004
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Place no
faith in the lies of the EU and the bourgeoisie!
The road
to emancipation lies not in the European Union, but in class struggle!
This is the English translation of the text of a brochure
published by İşçi Mücadelesi (Workers’ Struggle) in November-December
of 2004, on the eve of the European Council summit on 17 December 2004,
which was going to decide whether negotiations with Turkey would start for
the country’s accession to the European Union (EU). There was immense
interest in the question of Turkey’s accession to the EU within all layers
of society and this brochure, which specifically aimed at working class
audiences, was distributed widely in many working class neighbourhoods.
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January 2002 |
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Theses on Eurasia Wars
Permanent revolution against permanent war!
These “Theses” were drafted immediately after the 11 September events of
2001. They venture into a general characterisation of the international
situation in the period opened up by these earth shaking events. Over five
years have gone by since the “Theses” were drafted. Looking back over those
years, we believe that the prognosis put forth here has been confirmed even
down to certain details. We publish the text here in the belief that the
characterisation of the world situation provided in this document still
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