Handheld users: view this page better on http://m.socialistparty.org.uk
Europe tags:
Turkey
Filter by importance | All results
London May Day demonstration, photo Jules Mattsson
5 May 2010
Workers celebrate May Day: Marching together against the bosses' attacks
IN MANY countries around the world, socialists and trade unionists marched to celebrate international workers' day on 1 May. This year in particular, in the teeth of attacks by capitalists on jobs, wages and public services, international working class solidarity is a vital necessity.
7 April 2010
Tekel workers brutally attacked by police
THOUSANDS OF workers from Turkey's former alcohol and tobacco monopoly company - Tekel - travelled to Ankara, on 1 April, to continue their protests against their sackings...
3 February 2010
Tekel workers demand general strike in Turkey
STRIKING WORKERS at Tekel, the former state-owned tobacco and alcohol monopoly, travelled last December from all over Turkey to protest in the capital, Ankara, writes Stephan Kimmerle, CWI.
5 November 2008
Turkish dockers fight workplace 'massacres'
GREENWICH UNISON branch was recently visited by an international guest. Cem Dinc is the president of "Limter-Is", the harbour, shipyard, ship construction and repair workers' union of Turkey, writes Onay Kasab, Greenwich Unison.
25 March 2008
World events and their repercussions
Two extracts from a summary of the present world situation and world relations, written by Peter Taaffe for a meeting taking place this month of representatives from European sections of the Committee for a Workers' International...
4 March 2008
Turkey's invasion destabilising region
ON 21 February up to 10,000 Turkish troops backed by helicopter gunships and aircraft bombers invaded northern Iraq, writes Dave Carr
25 October 2007
Turkey's invasion threat increases regional instability
BLOODY FIGHTING between Turkish troops and PKK Kurdish separatist guerrillas on the Turkey/Iraq border has enormously ratcheted-up tensions between the two countries...
26 July 2007
Erdogan's election victory reveals Turkey's faultlines
THE GENERAL election in Turkey took place on 22 July and, as expected, the ruling AKP (Justice and Development Party) was returned to power with 47% of the popular vote compared to the 20% for the opposition Republican People...
10 May 2007
Turkey: "No to coups, no to sharia"
TURKEY IS engulfed in political and constitutional crisis, with huge street protests in Ankara and Istanbul...
29 March 2007
Turkish state attacks Kurdish protestors
DESPITE THE Turkish government attacking and banning demonstrations on Newroz day, (21 March), hundreds of thousands of Kurdish people took to the streets, demonstrated and called for freedom...
22 February 2007
RIDING PILLION behind Bush, Blair has embroiled Britain in disastrous wars in Iraq and Afghanistan...
10 August 2006
Inspiring film of GAMA struggle
IF YOU want to show a film at a Socialist Party or trade union meeting that inspires people to struggle against the bosses' system then you should get a copy of the DVD about the action by the Turkish migrant workers employed by Turkish multinational Gama in Ireland last year...
29 November 2003
GEORGE BUSH and Tony Blair seized upon the news of the latest suicide bombings in Turkey to justify their occupation of Iraq, as part of the 'war on terror'...
13 July 2001
THE BUILDING of the Ilisu dam in south-east Turkey will lead to the forcible eviction of nearly 50,000 people, mainly Kurds, writes Onay Kasab.
13 July 2001
Solidarity with Turkish political prisoners
THE CURRENT economic crisis in Turkey adds to the horrific repression already suffered by the Turkish and Kurdish people, writes Keith Pattenden.
1 - 15 of 15 items
Search entire database: