Istanbul, Izmir and Bursa: Workers met in Assemblies
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The vanguard workers in Istanbul, Izmir and Bursa have come together in assemblies and discussed upon how to struggle against the attacks and exploitation that imposed to our working class by the capital through international organisations such as IMF and WB and their local collaborators such as AKP government. The assemblies that are organised together by Limter-Is , Tekstil-Sen (Textile-Union) and vanguard workers from ESP in these metropolises, where working class quantitatively forms the important average, have turned into a free platform of workers. They, aiming at the common workerB4 will against the capital's attacks, brought together hundreds of workers.

The socialist vanguard workers have met with the masses of workers through conducting widespread activity before the assemblies by forming commissions in factories, districts and neighbourhoods. ESP, which has organised meetings with the leading workers in other cities where assemblies had not taken place, discussed together with the workers the current situation of the trade-union movement and how to spread the understanding of class unionism among the workers and labourers.

The workers, who have been kept silence and forced to listen in other times, were the people who always talked during the assemblies organised on 15 and 16 January in Izmir, on 16 January in Istanbul and on 30 January in Bursa. The enthusiasm due to free expression of their thoughts from the stage has spread around. Being together has given the power, joy and commitment in the struggle and put its mark on the assemblies.

The workers in the Istanbul assembly, which was attended by 850 workers from textile, metal, petro-chemical, dock, leather, service and food sectors and where 70 workers made speeches, have discussed on "how we can develop the workers' solidarity?", "what we can do against the exploitation and the slavery laws?", "how we can increase the common struggle of working class, labouring peasantry, labouring civil workers, students and the oppressed?" and "how we can develop the common struggle with the international working class?".

And the people in the Izmir assembly, which was attended by 250 workers and labourers from textile, shipment, leather, service, metal, transportation and shoe sectors, supported by 31 organisations and where 58 people made speeches, have presented draft resolutions in following headings: "The offensive laws and perspectives of the struggle", "Number 4857 law on work", "2831-2822 and the workers want freedom", "Unemployment: the chronic illness of capitalism", "Women workers and child labour under capitalism", "Basic law on the public management", "Privatization in rail and docks", "The law on pension and the problems of organisation", "Do we know our rights?" and "The problems faced in work-life".

At the assembly in Bursa, which was organized by the vanguard workers and supported by many sections of the unions, about 100 workers came together and discussed their problems. The assembly was dedicated to the workersB4 leader Yasar Okcuoglu, who has been murdered by the fascist dictatorship. The following topics have been discussed: "How can we fight against the slavery laws?, How can we reforce workersB4solidarity?, How can we develop the common struggle of the working class and other oppressed? and how can we advance in the common struggle with the international working class?"

The General President of Textile-Union, Ayse Yumli Yeter, who made the opening speech, said that the working class in Turkey is apathy and disorganised, and therefore we will make an important step in response to end this disorganisation through this assembly. The Textile-Union organisation expert, FFCsun BandA6r, who made the opening speech in Izmir, said that the aim of the assembly is to discuss together with them the problems of the workers, labourers and the unemployed and to find the ways of solution. The assembly in Izmir is dedicated to SFCleyman Yeter, the Education Expert of Limter-Is, who was massacred in police custody in 1999. Many representatives from trade-unions and democratic mass organisation have also supported the assemblies by participating them. At the assemby in Bursa, the representative of the ESP, Serpil Arslan, underlined in her opening speech the necessity of a decisive and militant class struggle against the attacks and depriving of our rights.

The assemblies ended by taking concrete action and activity decisions

The people at the assemblies have said that it is necessary to follow a de facto and legitimate struggle, the way of united and militant workers movement and united people's resistance such as in Bolivia, Argentine, Brazil and South Korea, and that the assemblies have represented a modest step serving the construction of a united people's resistance. The defence of the work-places against the privatization and the support of the ongoing struggles in the work-places which are on the target of privatisation, the increase of base initiative against the union bureaucracy, and the formation of Workers' Leagues by the workers, public workers and the unemployed those who are members or not members of a union and with or without insurance are among the decisions taken at the assemblies. It is also being said that the agenda and demand of the international workers' movement is gradually getting united and, in connection with that, the opportunities of regional solidarity and regional united struggle is getting increased. They noted that we should consider the opportunities of solidarity between the working class of Turkey and the Middle East, Balkans and Caucuses because of the need for development of concrete relations. They also said that we must organise activities serving the construction of international class solidarity by any form of organisation.

Some of the decisions of the assemblies are as follows:

* Active struggle against the liquidation of SSK (Social Security Institution)

* Participation to the campaign called "8 March to became a day of waged holiday"

* To work for Mayday to become a day of waged holiday

* Campaign against work without insurance and being a member of tradeunion

* To form Workers' Leagues and Committees in neighbourhoods and domains

* To create opportunities to organise unemployed workers, to form associations in proper regions

* To organise a campaign against the tax deduction at minimum-wages

* The de facto fulfilment of common organisation of workers and public workers

starting from work places in spite of laws

* To work for unionization of women those who work at home or doing house cleaning

* Creation of child workers commissions in the unions to end exploitation of child labour

* To show the way for organisation and unionization demands of the outsourcing

workers

* Organisation of common line in struggle by a concrete action programme

against the privatization, outsourcing and flexible work

* To organise actions against the isolation and solitary confinements, to bring the extra-judicial killings to open - to bring perpetrators to justice and to organise common line of struggle against the attacks on the Kurdish people

* Widespread distribution of the resolution of Assembly

The assemblies have become a meaningful step in terms of ending disorganisation of working class, drawing the lines of opportunities of struggle against the slavery laws and closing the gap between the working class movement and the socialist movement. They have also represented the practical steps of communist vanguard's direction and concentration towards the working class which is the main power of the revolution.

The vanguard workers have already started to act to realize the decisions of the assemblies and for creation of Workers' Leagues that brought forward as the model of organisation.
 

 

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The vanguard workers in Istanbul, Izmir and Bursa have come together in assemblies and discussed upon how to struggle against the attacks and exploitation that imposed to our working class by the capital through international organisations such as IMF and WB and their local collaborators such as AKP government. The assemblies that are organised together by Limter-Is , Tekstil-Sen (Textile-Union) and vanguard workers from ESP in these metropolises, where working class quantitatively forms the important average, have turned into a free platform of workers. They, aiming at the common workerB4 will against the capital's attacks, brought together hundreds of workers.

The socialist vanguard workers have met with the masses of workers through conducting widespread activity before the assemblies by forming commissions in factories, districts and neighbourhoods. ESP, which has organised meetings with the leading workers in other cities where assemblies had not taken place, discussed together with the workers the current situation of the trade-union movement and how to spread the understanding of class unionism among the workers and labourers.

The workers, who have been kept silence and forced to listen in other times, were the people who always talked during the assemblies organised on 15 and 16 January in Izmir, on 16 January in Istanbul and on 30 January in Bursa. The enthusiasm due to free expression of their thoughts from the stage has spread around. Being together has given the power, joy and commitment in the struggle and put its mark on the assemblies.

The workers in the Istanbul assembly, which was attended by 850 workers from textile, metal, petro-chemical, dock, leather, service and food sectors and where 70 workers made speeches, have discussed on "how we can develop the workers' solidarity?", "what we can do against the exploitation and the slavery laws?", "how we can increase the common struggle of working class, labouring peasantry, labouring civil workers, students and the oppressed?" and "how we can develop the common struggle with the international working class?".

And the people in the Izmir assembly, which was attended by 250 workers and labourers from textile, shipment, leather, service, metal, transportation and shoe sectors, supported by 31 organisations and where 58 people made speeches, have presented draft resolutions in following headings: "The offensive laws and perspectives of the struggle", "Number 4857 law on work", "2831-2822 and the workers want freedom", "Unemployment: the chronic illness of capitalism", "Women workers and child labour under capitalism", "Basic law on the public management", "Privatization in rail and docks", "The law on pension and the problems of organisation", "Do we know our rights?" and "The problems faced in work-life".

At the assembly in Bursa, which was organized by the vanguard workers and supported by many sections of the unions, about 100 workers came together and discussed their problems. The assembly was dedicated to the workersB4 leader Yasar Okcuoglu, who has been murdered by the fascist dictatorship. The following topics have been discussed: "How can we fight against the slavery laws?, How can we reforce workersB4solidarity?, How can we develop the common struggle of the working class and other oppressed? and how can we advance in the common struggle with the international working class?"

The General President of Textile-Union, Ayse Yumli Yeter, who made the opening speech, said that the working class in Turkey is apathy and disorganised, and therefore we will make an important step in response to end this disorganisation through this assembly. The Textile-Union organisation expert, FFCsun BandA6r, who made the opening speech in Izmir, said that the aim of the assembly is to discuss together with them the problems of the workers, labourers and the unemployed and to find the ways of solution. The assembly in Izmir is dedicated to SFCleyman Yeter, the Education Expert of Limter-Is, who was massacred in police custody in 1999. Many representatives from trade-unions and democratic mass organisation have also supported the assemblies by participating them. At the assemby in Bursa, the representative of the ESP, Serpil Arslan, underlined in her opening speech the necessity of a decisive and militant class struggle against the attacks and depriving of our rights.

The assemblies ended by taking concrete action and activity decisions

The people at the assemblies have said that it is necessary to follow a de facto and legitimate struggle, the way of united and militant workers movement and united people's resistance such as in Bolivia, Argentine, Brazil and South Korea, and that the assemblies have represented a modest step serving the construction of a united people's resistance. The defence of the work-places against the privatization and the support of the ongoing struggles in the work-places which are on the target of privatisation, the increase of base initiative against the union bureaucracy, and the formation of Workers' Leagues by the workers, public workers and the unemployed those who are members or not members of a union and with or without insurance are among the decisions taken at the assemblies. It is also being said that the agenda and demand of the international workers' movement is gradually getting united and, in connection with that, the opportunities of regional solidarity and regional united struggle is getting increased. They noted that we should consider the opportunities of solidarity between the working class of Turkey and the Middle East, Balkans and Caucuses because of the need for development of concrete relations. They also said that we must organise activities serving the construction of international class solidarity by any form of organisation.

Some of the decisions of the assemblies are as follows:

* Active struggle against the liquidation of SSK (Social Security Institution)

* Participation to the campaign called "8 March to became a day of waged holiday"

* To work for Mayday to become a day of waged holiday

* Campaign against work without insurance and being a member of tradeunion

* To form Workers' Leagues and Committees in neighbourhoods and domains

* To create opportunities to organise unemployed workers, to form associations in proper regions

* To organise a campaign against the tax deduction at minimum-wages

* The de facto fulfilment of common organisation of workers and public workers

starting from work places in spite of laws

* To work for unionization of women those who work at home or doing house cleaning

* Creation of child workers commissions in the unions to end exploitation of child labour

* To show the way for organisation and unionization demands of the outsourcing

workers

* Organisation of common line in struggle by a concrete action programme

against the privatization, outsourcing and flexible work

* To organise actions against the isolation and solitary confinements, to bring the extra-judicial killings to open - to bring perpetrators to justice and to organise common line of struggle against the attacks on the Kurdish people

* Widespread distribution of the resolution of Assembly

The assemblies have become a meaningful step in terms of ending disorganisation of working class, drawing the lines of opportunities of struggle against the slavery laws and closing the gap between the working class movement and the socialist movement. They have also represented the practical steps of communist vanguard's direction and concentration towards the working class which is the main power of the revolution.

The vanguard workers have already started to act to realize the decisions of the assemblies and for creation of Workers' Leagues that brought forward as the model of organisation.