May the 1st Celebrations in Turkey and Northern Kurdistan
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Throughout the recent years, the working classes' small or large but continues strikes and resistance to the outsourcing, redundancies, work murders, anti-union attacks and flexible working conditions were showing that the class was searching for dynamism and direct actions on the streets. Moreover, the influence of the peoples' uprising in the Middle East and Northern Africa has also become the elements of experience in the struggle of the workers and labourers.

 

07 May 2011 /International Bulletin / Issue 104

 

On May the 1st, the day for unity, struggle and solidarity of the working class, hundreds thousands of workers and labourers took to the streets in Turkey and Northern Kurdistan against capitalist system, bourgeois policies of destruction on workers and labourers, imperialist aggression, and national, sexual and religious repression. Particularly the Taksim Square, which bears historical importance, witnessed to a magnificent workers' meeting.
Throughout the recent years, the working classes' small or large but continues strikes and resistance to the outsourcing, redundancies, work murders, anti-union attacks and flexible working conditions were showing that the class was searching for dynamism and direct actions on the streets. Moreover, the influence of the peoples' uprising in the Middle East and Northern Africa has also become the elements of experience in the struggle of the workers and labourers. Despite to the profound affects of chauvinism provoked among workers and labourers in the west by Turkish bourgeois state in regards to the Kurdish question, the workers claimed the 1st of May in masses by taking to the streets on the basis of objective class demands.
There is no doubt that the most crowded and magnificent celebrations in Turkey and Northern Kurdistan took place in the Taksim Square of Istanbul. This year hundreds thousands of workers and labourers met in the Taksim Square which was banned for celebrations following a bloody state provocation on 1st May 1977 where dozens of workers lost their life, and was regained and opened for demonstrations last year by 3 years of consistence street actions begun in 2007 after being prohibited for 30 years.
Hundreds thousands of workers and labourers who gathered in the square under the banner of union confederations such as DISK , TURK-IS, KESK , HAK-IS, many revolutionary organisations, including ESP , HOC and DHF , BDP , the legal political party of the Kurdish freedom fight, progressive reformist parties like HALKEVLERI, EMEP and ODP , youth organisations such as SGD F, LOB , DEV-LIS, football team supporters and numerous democratic mass organisations, have shown their anger and said end to fascist repression, colonial denial and annihilation, capitalist exploitation and imperialist aggression. The PTT postal workers and Onteks workers who are continuing with their workplace resistance and the people of Arizli earthquake victims who wanted to be thrown out of their homes have carried their dynamism to the Taksim Square. Our Party MLCP militants also reached to workers and labourers by opening illegal banners.
Ten thousands of workers and labourers came together in the Sihhiye Square of Ankara for the 1st May celebrations which represented the most crowded celebrations of last five years.
In Izmir, 50 thousand workers and labourers came together under the slogan of "Secured Future and Secured Work" in Gundogdu Square. In the demonstration, the workers who are in the middle of industrial action in various sectors protested the Union management who does not support their resistance.
In Northern Kurdistan, thousands of Kurdish workers and labourers in many towns and cities have voiced the Kurdish nation's demand for equality and freedom. Independent candidates in the general elections of Labour, Freedom and Democracy Bloc, Gulten Kisanak, Leyla Zana and Nursel Aydogan have also participated to the demonstration in Amed Dagkapi.
There were May the 1st demonstrations also in Kurdish cities such as Mardin, Dersim, Adiyaman, Idil and Elazig. In Turkey and Northern Kurdistan, there were demonstrations in 100 centralities in total. More participation was observed in comparison to the previous years in demonstrations held in towns and cities like Adana, Antalya, Manisa, Bursa, Canakkale, Sivas, Malatya, Hatay and Mersin.
This year's May the 1st celebrations has also shown the level of possibility of an en masse Worker-Labourers-People Resistance on the basis of demands for political freedoms against colonial fascist Turkish bourgeois state, for rebellion against capitalist exploitation and for national and democratic rights of the Kurdish nation through backing of the wind blown in our region by the peoples' uprising in the Middle East and Northern Africa.

 

 

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Throughout the recent years, the working classes' small or large but continues strikes and resistance to the outsourcing, redundancies, work murders, anti-union attacks and flexible working conditions were showing that the class was searching for dynamism and direct actions on the streets. Moreover, the influence of the peoples' uprising in the Middle East and Northern Africa has also become the elements of experience in the struggle of the workers and labourers.

 

07 May 2011 /International Bulletin / Issue 104

 

On May the 1st, the day for unity, struggle and solidarity of the working class, hundreds thousands of workers and labourers took to the streets in Turkey and Northern Kurdistan against capitalist system, bourgeois policies of destruction on workers and labourers, imperialist aggression, and national, sexual and religious repression. Particularly the Taksim Square, which bears historical importance, witnessed to a magnificent workers' meeting.
Throughout the recent years, the working classes' small or large but continues strikes and resistance to the outsourcing, redundancies, work murders, anti-union attacks and flexible working conditions were showing that the class was searching for dynamism and direct actions on the streets. Moreover, the influence of the peoples' uprising in the Middle East and Northern Africa has also become the elements of experience in the struggle of the workers and labourers. Despite to the profound affects of chauvinism provoked among workers and labourers in the west by Turkish bourgeois state in regards to the Kurdish question, the workers claimed the 1st of May in masses by taking to the streets on the basis of objective class demands.
There is no doubt that the most crowded and magnificent celebrations in Turkey and Northern Kurdistan took place in the Taksim Square of Istanbul. This year hundreds thousands of workers and labourers met in the Taksim Square which was banned for celebrations following a bloody state provocation on 1st May 1977 where dozens of workers lost their life, and was regained and opened for demonstrations last year by 3 years of consistence street actions begun in 2007 after being prohibited for 30 years.
Hundreds thousands of workers and labourers who gathered in the square under the banner of union confederations such as DISK , TURK-IS, KESK , HAK-IS, many revolutionary organisations, including ESP , HOC and DHF , BDP , the legal political party of the Kurdish freedom fight, progressive reformist parties like HALKEVLERI, EMEP and ODP , youth organisations such as SGD F, LOB , DEV-LIS, football team supporters and numerous democratic mass organisations, have shown their anger and said end to fascist repression, colonial denial and annihilation, capitalist exploitation and imperialist aggression. The PTT postal workers and Onteks workers who are continuing with their workplace resistance and the people of Arizli earthquake victims who wanted to be thrown out of their homes have carried their dynamism to the Taksim Square. Our Party MLCP militants also reached to workers and labourers by opening illegal banners.
Ten thousands of workers and labourers came together in the Sihhiye Square of Ankara for the 1st May celebrations which represented the most crowded celebrations of last five years.
In Izmir, 50 thousand workers and labourers came together under the slogan of "Secured Future and Secured Work" in Gundogdu Square. In the demonstration, the workers who are in the middle of industrial action in various sectors protested the Union management who does not support their resistance.
In Northern Kurdistan, thousands of Kurdish workers and labourers in many towns and cities have voiced the Kurdish nation's demand for equality and freedom. Independent candidates in the general elections of Labour, Freedom and Democracy Bloc, Gulten Kisanak, Leyla Zana and Nursel Aydogan have also participated to the demonstration in Amed Dagkapi.
There were May the 1st demonstrations also in Kurdish cities such as Mardin, Dersim, Adiyaman, Idil and Elazig. In Turkey and Northern Kurdistan, there were demonstrations in 100 centralities in total. More participation was observed in comparison to the previous years in demonstrations held in towns and cities like Adana, Antalya, Manisa, Bursa, Canakkale, Sivas, Malatya, Hatay and Mersin.
This year's May the 1st celebrations has also shown the level of possibility of an en masse Worker-Labourers-People Resistance on the basis of demands for political freedoms against colonial fascist Turkish bourgeois state, for rebellion against capitalist exploitation and for national and democratic rights of the Kurdish nation through backing of the wind blown in our region by the peoples' uprising in the Middle East and Northern Africa.