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The conditions of the crisis do also cherish very important revolutionary opportunities. While they sharpen the contradictions between labour and capital, they also make capitalism being questioned and create suitable conditions for the propaganda of socialism.

01 December 2008 /International Bulletion/ Issue 76

 

The financial crisis that has exploded together with the housing credits not being paid back in the USA and that quickly surrounded the whole world means nothing else than the collapse of the financial system of neoliberalism. Then, the crisis had an impact on the real production and the capitalist world entered a new economical crisis. This economical crisis that in terms of its extent is to be compared with the depression of 1929-1933 made the arguments of the bourgeois's "neoliberalism" be discussed even among bourgeois economists. By applying a "state interference" to the economy, the imperialist and capitalist states started to rescue the ruined monopolies with what they steal from the workers and labourers. With price increases, dismissals and packets to tighten the economic belt more, the world bourgeoisie tries to let the working class and the labourers pay for the crisis, to steal from the workers and labourers and add it to the capital and by this, to overcome the crisis. The crisis of capitalism makes the workers and oppressed only face hunger, poverty, unemployment and misery.
The collaborating Turkish bourgeoisie has also been started to be influenced by the crisis. Although the collaborating AKP government tries to pass over the discussions claiming that the crisis won't have an impact on Turkey, it has come up with economical packets one after another a long time ago. It founded the Economical Social Council to announce its packets. At first hand $7,1 billion of the budget were given to the capital for its function. It settled on with the IMF on the 20th stand-by agreement. The main consumption products` prices were increased to a high extent. While because of the price increases within the last two months, natural gas was increased by 82% since New Year's Eve 2008 and electricity by 52%´, during the same period workers` and labourer officials` salaries were regarded to be suitable for a poverty increase of 4 and 6%. To that, tax raises were added. In many cities bus and train tickets were increased. The annulment of the unemployment insurance and indemnity for seniority came again to the agenda with the pretext of the crisis.
There has been a quick rise of dismissals. While in the textile sector 500 factories and small production places had to be closed only in the past year, almost 5000 workers were dismissed within only one year. Shipbuilding, metal and textile have been the main sectors where workers lost their jobs. At the zone of Tuzla shipyards where 40,000 workers are employed at least 1500 workers were recently dismissed. The Number 1 KROM producer Eti-Krom Elazig removed 68 workers. In the metal and ceramic sectors hundreds of workers lost their jobs. Sending the workers on holiday without paying them anything has become a trend applied broadly.
Revolutionary and progressive forces have started to organise the united action of the working class and the oppressed. Under the title 'We won't pay the bill for the crisis' the Socialist Platform of the Oppressed ( ESP ) is organising actions in many boroughs and first of all in the labourers' quarters demanding the cancellation of the price increase. The Labourer Officials of the ESP have started a campaign for two months with the demand 'Take the price increases back'.
Dynamic unions such as Birlesik Metal-Is , Limter-Is and Textile-Sen and trade associations announced their program of struggling against the crisis. This program in fact contains the foundation of platforms of united action mainly on a local, regional and country level and the organisation of resistance committees at factories and work places. 100,000 workers and labourers from all cities participated in the central rally organised by the unions KESK and DISK on November 29 saying 'We are not responsible for the crisis, and we won't pay the bill for it!'. The rally showed the unity of the will of the workers and labourers against the crisis, and at the same time it showed that the confederations don't have a permanent program of action against the crisis. Single resistances have started against the high number of removals at work places and factories. Apart from the strikes there are also occupations of factories. Especially at the metal sector where dismissals have reached its peak, many resistances have been realised. The canteen workers of Cebeci Campus, Ankara University, who had been dismissed, occupied the canteen together with the university's students.
The conditions of the crisis do also cherish very important revolutionary opportunities. While they sharpen the contradictions between labour and capital, they also make capitalism being questioned and create suitable conditions for the propaganda of socialism. It is vital that the revolutionaries and communists struggle to organise the united action of the workers and labourers and the oppressed forces.
 

 

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The conditions of the crisis do also cherish very important revolutionary opportunities. While they sharpen the contradictions between labour and capital, they also make capitalism being questioned and create suitable conditions for the propaganda of socialism.

01 December 2008 /International Bulletion/ Issue 76

 

The financial crisis that has exploded together with the housing credits not being paid back in the USA and that quickly surrounded the whole world means nothing else than the collapse of the financial system of neoliberalism. Then, the crisis had an impact on the real production and the capitalist world entered a new economical crisis. This economical crisis that in terms of its extent is to be compared with the depression of 1929-1933 made the arguments of the bourgeois's "neoliberalism" be discussed even among bourgeois economists. By applying a "state interference" to the economy, the imperialist and capitalist states started to rescue the ruined monopolies with what they steal from the workers and labourers. With price increases, dismissals and packets to tighten the economic belt more, the world bourgeoisie tries to let the working class and the labourers pay for the crisis, to steal from the workers and labourers and add it to the capital and by this, to overcome the crisis. The crisis of capitalism makes the workers and oppressed only face hunger, poverty, unemployment and misery.
The collaborating Turkish bourgeoisie has also been started to be influenced by the crisis. Although the collaborating AKP government tries to pass over the discussions claiming that the crisis won't have an impact on Turkey, it has come up with economical packets one after another a long time ago. It founded the Economical Social Council to announce its packets. At first hand $7,1 billion of the budget were given to the capital for its function. It settled on with the IMF on the 20th stand-by agreement. The main consumption products` prices were increased to a high extent. While because of the price increases within the last two months, natural gas was increased by 82% since New Year's Eve 2008 and electricity by 52%´, during the same period workers` and labourer officials` salaries were regarded to be suitable for a poverty increase of 4 and 6%. To that, tax raises were added. In many cities bus and train tickets were increased. The annulment of the unemployment insurance and indemnity for seniority came again to the agenda with the pretext of the crisis.
There has been a quick rise of dismissals. While in the textile sector 500 factories and small production places had to be closed only in the past year, almost 5000 workers were dismissed within only one year. Shipbuilding, metal and textile have been the main sectors where workers lost their jobs. At the zone of Tuzla shipyards where 40,000 workers are employed at least 1500 workers were recently dismissed. The Number 1 KROM producer Eti-Krom Elazig removed 68 workers. In the metal and ceramic sectors hundreds of workers lost their jobs. Sending the workers on holiday without paying them anything has become a trend applied broadly.
Revolutionary and progressive forces have started to organise the united action of the working class and the oppressed. Under the title 'We won't pay the bill for the crisis' the Socialist Platform of the Oppressed ( ESP ) is organising actions in many boroughs and first of all in the labourers' quarters demanding the cancellation of the price increase. The Labourer Officials of the ESP have started a campaign for two months with the demand 'Take the price increases back'.
Dynamic unions such as Birlesik Metal-Is , Limter-Is and Textile-Sen and trade associations announced their program of struggling against the crisis. This program in fact contains the foundation of platforms of united action mainly on a local, regional and country level and the organisation of resistance committees at factories and work places. 100,000 workers and labourers from all cities participated in the central rally organised by the unions KESK and DISK on November 29 saying 'We are not responsible for the crisis, and we won't pay the bill for it!'. The rally showed the unity of the will of the workers and labourers against the crisis, and at the same time it showed that the confederations don't have a permanent program of action against the crisis. Single resistances have started against the high number of removals at work places and factories. Apart from the strikes there are also occupations of factories. Especially at the metal sector where dismissals have reached its peak, many resistances have been realised. The canteen workers of Cebeci Campus, Ankara University, who had been dismissed, occupied the canteen together with the university's students.
The conditions of the crisis do also cherish very important revolutionary opportunities. While they sharpen the contradictions between labour and capital, they also make capitalism being questioned and create suitable conditions for the propaganda of socialism. It is vital that the revolutionaries and communists struggle to organise the united action of the workers and labourers and the oppressed forces.