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This year, mayday actions in Turkey and Northern Kurdistan were not only big in numbers, but also widespread and including very broad sectors of the society. Neither the uninterrupted terror of detention and imprisonment, nor the attempt to weaken the central demonstration at Taksim Square in Istanbul by dividing it and try to insist on "not voicing political demands" by means of unions close to the regime like Turk-Is were successful. On the contrary, the workers and their organisations loudly shouted their demands all over the country against mortally work accidents, outsourcing as well as for a democratic solution of the Kurdish question, against 4+4+4, the aggression against Syria and protested against the situation in the prisons.
Next to trade-unions like those organised in DISK , KESK , TMMOB and TTB , also the Platform of Unity of Workers' Unions formed by 10 unions of Turk-Is dissident to the centre of the confederation was present at the rally at the Taksim Square. Revolutionary organisations such as the ESP , People's Front, DHF broadly participated at the rally, next to various progressive political parties and groups such as Halkevleri and SDP . Many football fan groups like Carsi, Tek Yumruk, Devrimci Trabzon, FenerbahChe, Sol Acik, feminists, several organisations of the national minorities such as the Armenian, Georgian, Circassian, Las etc., democratic mass organisations, human rights organisations, youth organisations, organisations of the oppressed Allevite denomination, political and democratic organisations of the Kurdish national movement participated at the rally. Banners of the underground hackers' organisation RedHack pulled attention.
Our party MLCP, TIKB and TKP/ML were the revolutionary organisations who opened their illegal banners at the rally.
HDK opened a banner written "Long Live Mayday" in many different languages spoken in Turkey/Northern Kurdistan and was one of the most prepared sectors of the action.
Mayday demonstrations were organised in numerous localities, including Konya, where the first Mayday demonstration took place for the first time after the military coup of 1980.
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