VI Congress of Emek Partisi

From En Marcha
# 1562 January 5 to 13, 2012

Resolution

We support the peoples who have rebelled for their rights and their freedom; we condemn the imperialist conspiracies against Syria and Iran.

Throughout 2011, the Arab peoples of North Africa and the Near East have risen one after another. They do not want to be victims of the consequences of the hegemony of monopoly capitalism nor to be subjected to poverty and unemployment, and they rejected the repression of the autocratic dictatorships that safeguarded such hegemony. The despotic regimes that have lasted for 30 to 40 years have been the main reason for the disorganization of the oppressed masses and have served as an obstacle to their attaining consciousness. The peoples who have risen up have achieved some victories but they have not been able to reap important fruits of this struggle, such as for example to achieve their own political power. Therefore, these reactionary bourgeois forces supported by Western imperialism have maintained or have tried to maintain their hegemony through the strengthening of their pillars with new collaborators, seeing that their hegemony was in difficulty.

The Arab peoples, who have risen up, have realized their potential and have tasted certain victories, which is why their struggles have still not been repressed in any country except for Libya. Despite their low level of consciousness and organization, the peoples are carrying forward their uprisings with an effort to try to overcome their weakness, and they insist on opposing the attacks by reactionary forces that have been organized especially by elements of political Islam, which has become more moderate and pro-American in almost all those countries.

We understand that the communist parties and organizations that are signing this document, gathered at the Sixth Congress of the Party of Labor of Turkey, express our pride and solidarity with the struggles of the masses of the people, not only in the Arab countries of North Africa and the Near East, but also in Europe, from Spain to Greece, and in Latin America, from Venezuela to Ecuador, for their social and popular rights and freedoms; as well we proclaim our support for the just struggle of the Palestinian people against the Zionist imperialism of Israel.

However, we are aware of the fact that our main weakness is the inadequate level of consciousness and organization of the peoples of the world, with a view to any process of struggle. The imperialists and their collaborators take advantage of this weakness in their efforts to renovate the weakened bases of their hegemony and to repress those struggles through ideological penetration and infiltration in those struggles of the peoples that imperialism claims to support, manipulating these struggles towards their own interests and eliminating the popular features of these struggles.

Western imperialism, which maintains hegemony in its hands and tries to strengthen its position in relation to the ascending imperialist powers, not only aims to reinforce its hegemony in the countries under its influence through the repression of the popular struggles, but also tries to establish its hegemony by extending its influence on the peoples and their struggles and using them as a tool in countries such as Syria and Iran, which have not yet been subjugated.

We do not support the regimes of either Assad or Khamenei. However, we stress the fact that the imperialist powers are intervening with the support of the reactionary forces in the region such as Turkey and the Saudis, in the name of support for the so-called “opposition” in Syria and Iran under the pretext of the struggle for “democracy” and “repression of the dictators”; these policies have nothing to do with the right of self-determination of the peoples or the democratic and social aspirations of peoples. We are opposed to imperialist interventions – economic as well as political and military – for whatever reason, whether they are called by their obliging collaborators or not, and we condemn such policies that only lead to war, bloodshed and suffering.

We call on the peoples of the world, especially the peoples of Syria and Iran, to be alert to the interventions and imperialist tricks such as those that have taken place in Libya, to show solidarity with the struggles of the peoples of the region and to support the fight against imperialism and its reactionary forces.

Ankara, December 2011

Communist Party of Albania
Communist Party of Benin
Party of Labor of Belgium
New Party of Cyprus
Marxist Leninist Communist Party of Ecuador
Communist Party of Spain (ML)
Organization for the Reconstruction of the Communist Party of Greece
Communist Party of the Workers of Tunisia
Emek Partisi of Turkey

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EMEP: Violence against women is rising!

Today, 25 November and Solidarity Day Against Violence Against Women ‘in the violence against women in our country, hidden and open forms is in progress.

2011′s Turkey the right to life, the woman is one of the biggest problems. Killed in Sudan reasons, the rape, beaten, tortured and tormented, forced to commit suicide in a horrific increase in the number of women there. According to official records of the General Directorate of Security only 138 days, 6 hours, every 10 minutes, 1 family is experiencing domestic violence incident.

Retain her state, the law applicable

The women said they were in danger of their lives in their hands while stating that the announcements of the crime, the state, women are obliged to provide the security of police stations, municipalities, institutions like the judiciary protects the perpetrators of violence. Killers of women in the courts, incentives, good conduct, and drive yararlandırılıyor, violence, abused and raped, even murdered women’s experiences and responsible, guilty of being advertised.

Law enforcement officials are insensitive, slow to investigate, family courts, unauthorized, became insufficient protection, women are left helpless. State officials “holy” the family said, “breaking” the woman said slots are grave.

On the one hand that says do not believe in gender equality, women at every opportunity, “at least three children,” doğurmalarını who advised the Prime Minister, the AKP government during the 1400 percent in the face of increasing women’s murders, “the media exaggerate” giving speeches.

On the other hand, Fatma Sahin AKP government’s Minister of Family and Social Policies, the most comprehensive law against violence against women, they will ‘glad tidings’, but why not apply the existing laws do not mention the rights of women.

To break the integrity of the family, the family babysitter, cleaner, cook woman struggling to sound as the AKP, the law enforcement solution, not the family is referred to the Imams. Their recommended that women should be given more trust in the arm in Cyrillic So you’d like the yen.

Poverty, insecurity, unemployment, fueling violence

Maintenance of any service not met by the state, the AKP government in Turkey, carried out his hand as a result of neoliberal policies in the face of violence than women in the güçsüzleştirildi tırpanlanan social rights. Millions of women have no income and no insurance. Women’s labor force participation rate fell to its lowest level in recent years, the period of the AKP government. The greatest harm to the forms of flexible working, more women working part-time jobs and see a short-term.

World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Index released every year, this situation once again revealed. Politics, education, employment and health, equal to men and women in 122 countries of 135 countries this year was Turkey. On the other hand, inequality of women and men in Turkey, participation in the economy 132, 106 in education, in health 62 and 89 are equal opportunity ranked.

Poverty, insecurity and fueling a domestic violence women’s unemployment. For fear of becoming unemployed women, gender discrimination in the workplace, harassment audio çıkaramıyor, even afraid of becoming pregnant.

Zamlara-breathing “update,” he said, as the wave passes “binmeyin luxury car, do not buy the second house,” said the Prime Minister’s ‘advanced’ democracy, bread, even when you have to think twice, does not cover the demand for equality of women with no field.

Increases the severity of the war

Created by the war, hate, fear and hostility, violence normalleştiriyor environment. Obstructing a peaceful solution to the democratic demands of the Kurdish problem in the ear of power, aggressive attitude of war, violence, and discriminatory mentality fueling ötekileştirmeci, paves the culture of lynching.

Adversely affect the lives of working people all forms of violence, results in the form of burning women alive. All citizens, not only the Kurds, not only the mothers of all women in dire need of peace.
Burning of women in peace and hope for the request, the government and the opposition’s provocative / deceptive trying to strangle the duels. For a peaceful democratic solution to the Kurdish problem, women engaged in politics, being placed in the target, funny reasons were arrested.

This is the common sufferings in the country where the Turkish and Kurdish workers exploited, discrimination, hostility and alienation is the source of the animosity to violence.

The responsibility of the State should meet!

Important dates of the fight against violence against women in the 25 November, the disclosure of the source of violence in the history of the symbol of a struggle. What makes people’s lives unbearable in their struggle against the dictatorship in 1960, Dominican Mirabal sisters were murdered, women all over the world have suffered sexual, political and cultural commemorating the struggle against violence.

The Labour Party, in all forms of violence against women and discrimination continue our resolute struggle against violence against women reddettiğimizi and on this occasion we declare once more. An end to violence against women and women’s murders, but on the prevention of violence and the elimination is possible with the development of coherent and concrete policies. To do this, first hand, and immediately the following conditions must be fulfilled:

- Turkey has signed international agreements need to be met, urgent measures should be taken in this direction, to ensure cooperation between government agencies;

- Regulation and sanctions to ensure genuine equality of men and women bring, establishing budgets accordingly;

- Penalties for violence against women and killing of the immediate end to the practice of hardening, relaxation vetahrik reduction;

- Removal of the law of prevention of violence against women, violence, psychological and legal support to women who, work, social security and amenities such as the provision of independent housing;

- An adequate number of shelters open, municipalities that do not fulfill the obligation to punish;

- Women in shelters, social, economic, adjusted so as to participate in political life;

- The definition of a special clause in the Constitution the principle of equality between women and men;

- Women’s low-wage, uninsured, unsecured, disorganized çalıştırılmalarının prevention;

- Disabled, elderly, child, patient care services free of charge by the government to undertake;

- To fulfill its obligation to ensure equality in all areas of women, combating violence against women and follow-up will take further steps to realize the immediate establishment of the Ministry of Gender Equality.

Selma GÜRKAN
General Chairman

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Joint Statement on the situation in the Middle East

January 16, 2012

Support the people who have risen up for their rights and their freedom! We condemn the imperialist conspiracies against Syria and Iran!

During 2011 the Arab people in North Africa and the Middle East stood up, one after the other. They did not want to be exposed to the consequences of monopolistic capitalist hegemony, as unemployment and poverty. They said no to oppression from the autocratic dictatorships that have watched this hegemony. But the 30-40 year-old despot regimes has been the main cause of the disorganization of the oppressed masses and has also prevented them from developing their awareness. The people who stood up have won some victories, but could not reap the real fruits of their struggle, to be able to form their own political power. At the same time, these bourgeois reactionary forces, supported by Western imperialists, preserved or try to preserve its hegemony by strengthening the power base with its new partners, although this hegemony has encountered certain difficulties.

The Arab people who stood up realizing their potential and tasted victory, and their struggle has not yet been turned down in any country, except in Libya. Despite the low consciousness and organization continues their people revolt and tries to overcome their weaknesses. They insist on resisting the reactionary forces that have reorganized themselves, especially through the advent of political Islam, which has been moderate and pro-American in almost every country.

“We oppose all imperialist interventions, whatever pretext”

We, the undersigned revolutionary communist and working parties that meet the Turkish Labor Party 6 Congress, expressing our pride and solidarity with the peoples’ mass struggles, not only in the Arab countries of North Africa and the Middle East, but also in Europe, from Spain to Greece, and in Latin America, from Venezuela to Ecuador, who are fighting for their national and social rights and freedoms, and we declare our support for the Palestinian people’s just struggle against imperialism and Israeli Zionism.

However, we are also aware of the fact that our biggest weakness is the inadequate consciousness and organization level of the world’s people, whether to rebel or other fields. And the imperialists and their collaborators exploit this weakness in attempts to renew the decaying basis of its hegemony and suppress the fighting by infiltrating the ranks of the people they claim to support, by manipulating these games in their own interest and remove them from their popular content.

The western imperialists, who have world domination in their hands and trying to strengthen its positions in competition with the rising imperialist powers, has not only aims to strengthen its domination in the countries that traditionally have been under their influence by suppressing the people’s struggles but they are also trying to establish its hegemony by influencing people and their struggles and use them as lifting rods in countries like Syria and Iran, as they have not been able to force the knee.

We support either Assad or Khamenei regime. But we also underlines the fact that when Western imperialists intervene with support from the reactionary forces in the region, the Turkish and Saudi reactionary forces, under the pretext of “democracy” and “dictator’s repression” has such a policy has nothing to do with people’s right to self or with people’s social and democratic aspirations.

We oppose all imperialist interventions – economic, political and military – whatever pretext, whether they are invited by the cooperative lackeys or not, and we condemn such a policy, which only brings war, blood and tears.

We ask all people of the world, and particularly the peoples of Syria and Iran, to be on guard against the imperialist interventions and traps in the style of the Libyan example, to show solidarity with the struggles of the peoples of the region and to continue the struggle against imperialism and the reactionary forces .

Ankara, 20.12.2011

Albania’s communist party
Benin Communist Party
Belgium’s Labour
Cyprus’ new communist party
Ecuador’s Marxist-Leninist Communist Party
Spanish Communist Party (Marxist-Leninists)
Organization for the reconstruction of Greece’s Communist Party (Anasintaxi)
Tunisian Communist Workers’ Party (PCOT)
Turkey’s Workers’ Party (Emek Partisi)

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Turkey: Sixth Congress of the Labour Party (EMEP) Resolution

We support people who have rebelled for their rights and freedoms, condemn the imperialist conspiracies against Syria and Iran.

During 2011, the Arab peoples of North Africa and the Middle East have raised a after another. They did not want to be reported to the consequences of the hegemony of monopoly capitalism, nor voted on unemployment and poverty, and have rejected the repression of autocratic dictatorships that preserved this hegemony. The regimes despotic that lasted for 30 or 40 years have been the main reason for disorganization of the oppressed masses and have served as obstacles to the realization. The people who have raised have won some victories, but failed to collect the real fruits of their struggle, such as risucire to conquer their own political power. Therefore, the bourgeois reactionary forces backed by Western imperialism have maintained or are trying to maintain their hegemony, which has been questioned, strengthening their bases with new workers.

The Arab peoples that have been raised, have realized their potential and have tasted some victories, their struggles have not yet been crushed in any part, except Libya. Despite the low level of consciousness and organization, people have brought continue their uprising with an effort that aims to overcome the weaknesses, and continue to against the attacks of the reactionary forces that have reorganized especially through of political support, which has become a force moderate and pro-U.S. based in almost all countries.

We, the communist and workers parties and organizations have signed this document, meeting in VI Congress of the Workers’ Party of Turkey, we express our pride and solidarity with the mass struggles of the peoples, not only of the Arab countries of North Africa and the Middle East, but also of Europe, from Greece to Spain, Latin America, Venezuela and Ecuador, for the rights and social freedoms and national, as we proclaim our support for the Palestinian people’s just struggle against imperialism and Zionism in Israel.

Nevertheless, we are aware of the fact that our main weakness is the inadequate level of consciousness and organization of the peoples of the world, both during the uprisings in other processes. The imperialists and their accomplices take advantage of this weakness in their efforts to restore the decaying bases of their sovereignty and punish these struggles by ideological penetration and infiltration into the ranks of the people who claim to want to support, exploiting the struggle for their interests and by eliminating popular features.

The Western imperialism, which keeps the global hegemony in his hands and tries to strengthen its position in competition with the imperialist powers on the rise, not only aims to strengthen its hegemony in countries traditionally under its influence of suppressing popular struggles, but also attempts to establish its hegemony influencing people and their struggles, using them as levers to countries like Syria and Iran, which have not yet been subdued.

We do not support schemes and Assad | Ahmadinejad. However, we stress the fact that when the imperialist powers involved with the support of the reactionary forces of region such as Turkey and Saudi Arabia, in the name dell’apoggio the so-called “opposition” Syria and Iran under the pretext of fighting for “democracy” and “suppression of dictators, “these policies have nothing to do with rights to self-determination and their democratic aspirations and social. We oppose all actions imperialist – both economic and political and military – whatever their reason, they are desired by their accommodating staff or not, and condemn these policies only bring war, bloodshed and suffering.

We appeal to the peoples of the world, especially the peoples of Syria and Iran, to be in guard against the traps and imperialist interventions like those that occurred in Libya, show solidarity with the struggles of the peoples of the region and to support the fight against imperialism and the reactionary forces.

Ankara, December 2011

Communist Party of Albania
Communist Party of Benin
Workers’ Party of Belgium
New Cyprus Party
Marxist Leninist Communist Party of Ecuador
Spanish Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist)
Movement for the Reorganization of the Communist Party of Greece (1918-55)
Communist Party of Workers of Tunisia
Turkish Labour Party

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EMEP: Turkish planes killed 36 civilians

36 civilians have been killed by the bombardment of Turkish F-16 warplanes in Ortasu (Roboski) of Uludere district of Şırnak last night.

Among 50 people whose ages range between 15 and 30, 36 have been confirmed dead so far. 15 others are reported missing.

Relatives of victims are trying to find the scattered parts of bodies in the area. The bodies are reported to be completely burnt and unrecognizable. Four bodies were brought to the Şırnak State Hospital, while peasants took many charred bodies to the Ortasu village atop tractors and mules. According to the villagers, the bodies were charred as their diesel drums exploded, while some were left under the rubble of a big rock under which they took shelter.

Fehmi Yaman, the mayor of Uludere said: “We have 30 corpses, all of them are burned. The state knew that these people were smuggling in the region.”

The killing of 36 civilians in an air raid in the southeastern province of Şırnak is an “unfortunate operational accident,” ruling Justice and Development Party deputy chairman Hüseyin Celik said.

General President of the Labour Party (EMEP) Selma Gurkan called Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan and General Staff to resign. She added: “This crime can not be legitimised by any reason or cause. The main responsible of this attack to the people are the government and the General Staff. Committers and soldiers must be on trial immediately and give the account of this brutality.”

Labour Party (EMEP)
International Relations Bureau
http://www.emep.org

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EMEP: AKP government has broken a record: 29 journalists were arrested in one day

There is no other example of such a thing, before neither in Turkey nor in the world: 29 journalists were arrested in one day. The number of the detained journalists has raised to 96…

49 journalists and media workers, most of which work for the Kurdish press, were arrested on 20th December in the context of nation-wide so-called KCK (Koma Civaken Kurdistan- Union of Communities in Kurdistan) operation.

There have been 36 detained people in total (29 journalists, 7 media workers) in one day by the decision of Istanbul specially authorized 9th high criminal court.

This is an obvious massive injustice against the journalists.

It is obvious that we confront the most massive injustice to journalists during the history of the Turkish Republic, if we exclude the period of 12th September coup just because we do not have any sufficient statistical information. Further more there is no other example of 29 journalists being arrested in just one day in the world.

The AKP government has broken a record.

Just now there are 96 journalists detained, including the 29 journalists being arrested on 24th December 2011. 17 of them are concessionaires and responsible editors. Thanks to AKP, Turkey is the leading country in terms of the amplitude of detained journalists. The AKP government has already converted Turkey into a big prison full of journalists. Turkey has already broken its own record on the numbers of detained journalist by the last detentions.

The main reasons for coming to this point are the Anti-Terror Law (TMY), which social opposition forces call Anti-Social Law, Courts-Martial, State Security Courts (DGM) and specially authorized high criminal courts, which are the favourites of AKP.

It is time to promote the solidarity with the detained journalists, revolutionary, socialist press, especially the Kurdish press. Freedom of press, freedom of thought and expression and the defenders of human rights are now facing another struggle.

Anti-Terror Law (TMY) must be annulled, specially authorized high criminal courts (OYM) must be abolished, the detained journalists must be released.

Labour Party (EMEP), Turkey
International Relations Bureau

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EMEP: Provincial congresses completed

ISTANBUL

Who died in the struggle for working-class revolutionaries special honor for the opening speech of the President of the EMEP Istanbul Provincial Trust In fact, the language of the discourses of democracy, the AKP government’s reduction in its policies and vice versa, he said. Who want democracy, for freedom, everyone who is opposed tutuklandığına remarkable fact, noted that 5 thousand prisoners BDP’linin.

The AKP’s own country to bring democracy to neighboring countries which claim to democracy, freedom bombs on the Kurdish people who want real yağdırdığını that the AKP government adopted it as its task to protect the interests of the imperialist powers in the region said.

Vandal’s organize

And workers to increase with each passing day that the attacks against the real, asked to be removed from severance pay, flexible working and asked to apply to the regional minimum wage, he added. In fact, urban renewal and public housing also said that the problem will grow.

All these attacks against the workers, the public-laborers, women, young people and stressed that they have to organize the public the real, the People’s Democratic Congress (NGO) also noted that it is a tool.

Attacks against the Kurdish people but also for workers pointed out that fact, “Anyone who says this is why labor must go with the Kurdish problem,” he said.

SHOULD unite

“In our country, a battle which lasted for 30 years, workers, working people, a bomb on them sending their children to the mountains, who lead the AKP government are faced with,” said Leather-Binali Thai Business Tuzla branch president, said the arrest of freedom, those who want to special prosecutors.

Workers, public workers and Thai people who note that the merger of the squares, Bell and leather workers in trade unions because they are SAVRANOGLU telling their troubles, “I just lived in them for using their constitutional rights. So need to unite, “he said.

Branch Manager Training You No. 2 in the Hasan Soil public sector workers and workers must unite, the contribution of EMEP’in it said it would be great.

Councillor Ibrahim Dogan Kartal Municipality of Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality and also warned the people of urban transformation.

POLICY OF WORKERS

Sabri Topcu, Deputy Chairman of the EMEP, 12 September, the slaughter of thousands of people recalling the name of democracy, “the problem of the system, the layout problem. Article 82, but Sept. 12 changed the Constitution, the laws have not changed. This is why the problem system problem, “he said.

Imperialism would have left their children in case of continuation of such attacks is a beautiful language in the world will not bring artillery, for the people, brought together in a common struggle of the workers should be organized, he said. Artillery, “the class has to make policy for the power of workers. There is only one correct. EMEP is right also. Wherever we were, let’s policy, the party, let us explain to the public, “he said.

THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING ORGANIZED

Following the speeches of the delegates took the floor guest.

“I started to work as child labor in textile, taken from school at age 12. I was a young woman, I became the mother of textile workshops. Managers bosses have lost my child because of the pressure, the hospital’s been left alone in front of the time, I realized I should have thought about and organized. I joined the Labour Party of such “idea Akgul said textile workers, 5 women murdered each day goes, every year 80 thousand workers spent in work accidents, recorded live in a country where thousands of workers. Akgul, “a working shipyard worker falls jetty, divers searching for it finds the body of another worker. Disorganization such a thing. Even when you have no idea of ​​the happens. EMEP’te organized for it to be meaningful, “he said. 10 trade union formed by the Union Platform Emphasizing the importance of trade union power Union Akgul, “the districts of the trade unions of workers, kıraathanelerine, tea is not going olacaklarına, the opposition can not be birleşmiyorsa with the NGO,” he said. Akgul, EMEP’in said that the first duty should be to organize the women.

We can not talk WITHOUT UNIVERSAL

EMEP’te is organized for many years, the party who said that school is a dock worker Ali Dogan, “If you are going to be graduating and working as Memet Kılınçaslan olabilmeliyim party,” he said.

The bosses at Tuzla shipyards in reducing the number of workers, Yalova not stop moving the deaths that Dogan, arise where the trade unions with workers ‘struggle, workers’ caucuses and the road next to the workers when there is a problem, he said.

Dogan, Universal newspaper without reading the discussion be done daily, every worker should be taught in the Universal said.

Universal Culture Magazine Editorial Director Nuray Sancar, said the work carried out within EMEP’in intellectuals.

Hunter Revolution lawyer criticized the AKP Government policies regarding women.

Onur Aydin, speaking on behalf of Labour Youth, young people under the umbrella organization of the party struggles to büyüteceklerini said.

UNIONS MUST BE A PARTY TO Kurdish Question

Sayyed, who spoke on behalf of the EMEP Istanbul Provincial Organisation Leo gave his speech made the following statements: “The Prime Minister apologized to the people of Dersim. The Prime Minister today that region is cut off people’s suffering knows and them knowing that the apostle of democracy. This is really no excuse for the war policies of the last gonna wish it, to stop the fighter jets, 5 thousand BDP’li politicians free to leave. CHP also have to confront its own history, in the eyes of the AKP fails to do what you do not go one step further in the eyes of the Dersimis. Discharged in the struggle for survival as thousands of workers coming from the village give metropolises. Today, the PKK announced that the workers are being resisted union recognition. It divides the workers at the factory boss. This is why the unions to resolve the Kurdish problem peacefully and on the basis of equality must be a party.”

Those in attendance

Leather-Business Tuzla branch president of the Congress Binali Thai, Harb-business Anatolian Side Branch President Hussein over, Cooperative Thesis No. 5 Branch President-Business Rabia Özkaraca, Road No. 1 Branch-Business President Michael Arcan, the Haber-1 No. ‘lu Branch President Ahmet Karatay, Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality and the City of Eagle Councillor Ibrahim Dogan, President of Branch No. 1 of all Bel-Sen Kadri Sword, No. 2 Branch Manager Training You Hasan soil, EMO, Haber-Sen, the SES Sisli Branch managers also attended.

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IZMIR

Organization of the Labour Party in Izmir Province, 6 Congress made the day before the local Victims of Ataturk Stadium Referees. EMEP and EMEP, Deputy Chairman of the General President of the Selma Gurkan Varlı’nın Abdullah also attended the congress, in resisting the demands of the workers took part in SAVRANOGLU and Hugo Boss.

Who participated in the resistance and the concentration of establishments sendikalaşan new congress hall, hung, “Imperialism and the War Against Business, Peace, Freedom” and “not be American Shield” drew attention to the signs.

In his opening speech the President of Congress in Izmir Province Jabbar blacksmith, who teach the AKP’s mercy even in periods of the junta, told everyone to pay obeisance to inhibit. Smith, chauvinism, as the winds of democratic forces in Izmir estirilmeye attempted, to do propaganda for peace and brotherhood, he added.

‘POLİTİKLEŞMELİ WORKERS’

President of the rostrum chanting slogans from the EMEP Selma Gurkan, acquired rights of the working class all over the world to speak with the crisis began by telling how they received. In Turkey, the dismissals, showing the effect of overtime and slavery working conditions of workers to organize activities to the crisis, stating that in the Gurkan, the working class should be organized as a political or vested rights of the working class at the first time gasbedeceğini stressed the rise of the bourgeoisie. The only way to starting your own power, the working class, union with the Kurdish people’s struggle for freedom and unity of faith to other parts of society, he said. Every segment of society trying to put pressure on the AKP government said Gurkan, “trying to give the Kurds and Alevis setting. Trade unionists trying to parse. Arresting intellectuals. Izmir municipality and trade unionists in the operation, the Prime Minister’s apology in Dersim, the AKP’s ‘I want to Izmir and Dersim’ must düşünmememiz serzenişinden independent, “he said. Democratic Peoples’ Congress (NGO) formed by touching on the importance of unity Gurkan, the words “If you fail to be together, baby Ryan, Ugur Kaymaz and Ceylan Önkol’a conscience that can not pay our debts,” he concluded.

‘Combine the power of the AKP stop’

BDP Council Member Hayri Fever Party, evaluated the developments in the international arena, the AKP government in Turkey through the struggle for democracy and freedom of expression has been asked to being closed. Prime Minister’s apology evaluating Dersim Fire, “the AKP government, has to face in the 80-year history of the republic. Because Dersim, the Kurdish question, and that denial is a product of politics can not be assessed independently. Lighted in the dark on this, “he said.

‘Trade union struggles SİYASALLAŞMALI’

Single Food-Business Advisor to the Governor General Gursel, Kose, adopt the Kurdish problem in these situations, capital, language, religion and attacked anyone regardless of race, he said. “That’s Hugo Boss and SAVRANOGLU resisting. But this fight siyasallaşmalıdır. The trade unions, labor organizations, may be peace without entering into the work? “Said Kose, combative trade union power of trade unions came together and formed a union that fights for the Union, not only economic demands, but also women’s, youth, the environment will fight against the invasion is noted in many fields, such as . Leather-Business Branch Chairman of Maku Alagoz, workers, women, Kurds, Alevis, is the problem of students and unite themselves to the problem by asking what other workers stressed the need for unification. Ramis, Scott BES Izmir Branch President, highlighted the importance of combining political struggle with the trade union struggle.

The speech in resisting WORKERS

Resistance and the Hugo Boss factory in front of the sacked workers Gülten Genghis, the constitutional rights for the use of trade union rights are not unionized jobs have been booted, and now the interior in the direction of his friends said applied pressure.

Aydin Gençaslan SAVRANOGLU workers, the new boss wants to go to get compensation from them, saying, “We passed the size of the work material, we want to work decently. Each one of us with asthma, bronchitis, diseases such as I have. Women have children but treatment can be friends. We live in what era? “He said.

Schneider succeeded in unionization in the working Cihan workers, the next tasks in the industrial region of Cigli organize unorganized workplaces, he said.

DEU AUDIO Workplace Representative Gunseli Ugur, only the right to health care workers gasbedilmediğinden, speaking of the decree law of privatization in health, he said the last strokes.

UNION emphasis came to the fore

NGO Delegate Semra Uzunok Izmir, this congress is a way of salvation, and all the oppressed against the AKP-CHP said they are not without options, it is everyone’s duty to strengthen the unity, he said.

Spokesman of the period in Barka EGEÇEP Ertugrul, he is an American magazine, read an article about Arab baharıyla began by telling. Determinations by Labor Party there, said he wrote much earlier, “So this party, to interpret the world and Turkey. Environment is also the right of the struggle of this party is still here. Capital, energy resources, and the waters are attacking. However, this can not continue like this, “he said.

The Executive Board Member Ozer is EGEÇEP Akdemir, local environmental resistance trapped in the platform must be bridged and HDK’nin revealed a very important opportunity in this regard, he said. Poet and Author, Asim Gonen, buluşturulması art should be pointed out that the class struggle. (Izmir / UNIVERSAL)

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ANKARA

CALL FOR JOINT FIGHT AGAINST WAR POLICIES

Labour Party (EMEP), “Imperialism and the War Against Business, Peace, Freedom” launched şiarıyla and conference process was completed in Ankara.

EMEP Ankara Provincial Organization 6 Congress of South Stage Yilmaz was the day before. The AKP government’s policies and the war continued, both inside and outside workers announced that they would fight for the all-out attack against the laws.
“No to war, long live the brotherhood of peoples”, “Business, peace, freedom” slogans from a large number of trade union congress, was the guest of the democratic mass organizations and political party leaders.

In his opening speech, Deputy Chairman of the EMEP Haydar Kaya, drew attention to the hypocritical attitude of the AKP carried out over the Dersim. Kumar, “Erdogan said Dersimis apologized, today the people of Dersim, continues to rain bombs on the Kurds,” he said.

‘WAR bill paying Workers’

Ankara Provincial Chairman of the EMEP Sağdıç Principle of Light, the AKP government has expressed okuttuğunu grace period of September 12. Government and domestic politics, and foreign policy that uses the language of war Sağdıç, called on to fight together against the politics of war.

Referring to discussions of paid military Sağdıç, 30 thousand dollar bill for the war policies of non-poor people’s children would have to pay with their lives, he added.

Referring to the light on women’s murders, murders of women struggle against the work, bread, drew attention to the importance of presenting the freedom struggle.

Countries in the world and the bankruptcy of capitalism that says Ankara Provincial Co-Chair of the BDP Vuranok Meral, in search of new market capitalism is targeting the Kurds, he said. Now, “I wonder whether today was nobody,” but, “How many people were taken,” he came to a state that asks Vuranok, believed in freedom, peace and called on all forces to fight together.

AKP KHK’lerle function of the Assembly expressed the CAP Provincial Board Member Arif finished Basa, said there were an open lawlessness. Organized attack against the forces of law stated that the Basa, the answer could only be said that the organized forces.

CALL unions

Organized Industrial Zone in Xinjiang working metal worker Unaldı War, touched on the rights gaspları and layoffs. Unaldı, trade unions, “the boss of organized industrial zones, everything between the two lips. Come here to start work, we also let you, “he made the call.

Universal Newspaper, Sultan Özer Ankara representative, the workers and working people taking power through which the growing Evrensel’in difficult process in the country was becoming more and more important, he said. Under the pressure of the organs of power in almost all the newspapers and the press spokesman of the government stating that they are becoming Ozer, Evrensel’in more laborers to be taught to read and made the call. Sağdıç re-elected president of the provincial elections held in the light of Policy. (London / Universal)

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ESKISEHIR

YOUTH CONGRESS ATTENDS walk

Eskisehir Province before the Labor Youth Organization convention, congress delegates and conducted a walk Pandora Wedding Hall, accompanied by slogans.

Speaking on behalf of the management board of the Congress President Abraham Akgun Eskisehir Province, workers and laborers taken mangle, oppression and exploitation increased with each passing day, the shadow of imperialism created the climate of war and the growing chauvinism, work, peace and freedom in the provincial congress in şiarıyla gerçekleştirdiklerini said.

Organising Secretary of the United Fuat Fabric, Metal-strike from the Labor Party and Universal periods in Eskisehir and the other provinces, the newspaper constantly reminding them that they, too, would be with them always stressed that the Labour Party and the Universal newspaper.

6 Organisation of Aydin Province Congress, EMEP, Deputy Chairman Abdullah Varli were present. Many political parties and democratic mass organization representatives attended the congress. Newly elected president of the provincial Attorney Advisor Hicran.

Chairman of the Provincial Congress, a new provincial organization Kirsehir Hasan Altınşık, şiarını all the people in the party congress called on to fight to accomplish more.

MERSIN

MERSIN WORKER PARTICIPATION WAS GREAT

Organisation, the speeches delivered in Mersin Province has come forward calls to unity and struggle.

130 days left behind the direnişleriyle Mersin port workers attended the congress. Nedim Koroglu participating in the congress, Deputy Chairman of EMEP, the AKP government period, unemployment, poverty, hunger, said they were facing more attacks such as a raise. Education and health, which expressed to customize the Koroglu, the government now says the severance indemnity diktiğini eye. Referring to Prime Minister Erdogan’s Dersim özrüne Koroglu, “Kurdish problem is the problem of Dersim. No one örtmemeli the top. Apology or something it would not work. The identity of the Kurdish people, culture, mother tongue, is the value of everything he recognizes an apology, “he said.

Van after the earthquake in the urban transformation of government, providing lesson where it stated that proponents of rent Koroglu, “it is used for urban regeneration. Now, with the Decree çıkarıyorlar laws without asking anyone. The result of this, “he said.

CALL FOR TURKISH-business

Speaking at the congress in Port Worker November Kilic, said not enough support for the ongoing resistance of the port has called for unity. Previous resistance, unions, political parties that had seen them more Sword, Port-Business, criticized the attitude. Addressing the Turkish-Business management, Sword, “There are a lot of Kurdish workers. Whether a day is a pattern of unfair to the Kurds. Peace in the fraternity, as well. Damn you, such as the head of the confederation, “he said.

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GAZIANTEP

POWER SHOULD BE FIGHTING FOR

Member of the EMEP GYK İlbay Ilhan, Gaziantep Provincial Congress in his speech pointed out that the global economic crisis.

Greece, Italy, to rescue the situation after the crises of the imperial states, and until yesterday they received a common attitude of democracy, elections, such as the words were uttered, but the order for the protection of the public will forget everything in two days left unchecked governments, the governments were left technocrat.

Fenugreek Fenugreek strike lasted 74 days old worker, Mehmet Celik recalled, “He knew that after the strike, reach a point, only the working class by fighting within the law. This is why working class of Turkey will never sacrifice the power struggle, “he said.

Speaking on behalf of the youth labor Sezin Ugur, youth riots took place in the world and in Turkey, but Turkey, noting that this situation occurs very unorganized manner, all segments of the youth around their own demands of organized labor in his youth called for a fight.

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ADANA

CALL FOR FIGHTING ADANA’DA

6 organization EMEP Adana Province Altıhan music hall was the usual convention. Speaking at the congress, President of the Seville City Tool, the AKP trying to intimidate the opposition and said that war against each segment. Adana, anti-democratic practices are widespread in the tool that transfers, in every action, the sound is cut and the penalties that everyone said that these groups are asked to be kept under pressure and called for struggle against oppression.

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KAYSERI

I communists AKP MÜSLÜMANSA

The Labour Party Kayseri 6 Hall of the Provincial Congress, Provincial Directorate of Culture was the usual. Approximately 150 people attended the Provincial Congress, delegate of the NGO Tacer Isaac, Egitim-Sen Branch Chairman Unsal Sadat, Haci Bektas-i Veli Association President Kenan Akpinar, Kayseri Province Alevi Cultural Centre and SDP President Sadat Arrow Representative Armanç Lightning also made a speech.

Text metal worker who spoke at the congress Stars, “I make prayer, worship as a Muslim I am a worker makes. AKP supposedly defending Islam, but ‘give workers the right to sweat dries.’ Called even if it does not fit. Theirs Müslümanlıksa, I communists,” he said.

Labor Party Member of GYK Aslandogan Jacob, the Wall Street invasions, Europe, strikes and riots in the Arab world should be read correctly, in the light of developments in all of Turkey’s oppressed segments of the parties to act together HDK’yı care about the request, he said.

After speeches of the delegates, the annual report and financial report, unanimously acquitted, the elections were made available. Provincial elections held re-elected as President Ismet Gümüşoluk. EMEP’in Kayseri Provincial Administration occurred the following names: Ismet Gümüşoluk, Adile Flower, Action Sarioglu Aslandogan, Metin Yıldız, Murat Arpaci, Hope Eagle, Veli Sahin.

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EMEP: The Country is still governed with the zeal of a diktat!

We left behind a referendum campaign full of lies, threats and dirty tricks, forced on the people by the AKP (Justice and Development Party) government, and resulted in a patchwork style amended constitution which was originally imposed by the 1980 military coup. In an effort to strengthen its own power and assert its status quo this government, which represents the repressive and exploitative capitalist order, managed to get people’s approval for its amendments on the constitution. In order to maintain its rule for another term the government manipulated people’s aspiration for democracy and change. For the same purpose, they initiated discussions for preparing a new constitution. Yet, after the referendum country’s same immediate problems and need for democratisation remain to be resolved, not by the AKP government or the forces of the bourgeois order but by the initiative and intervention of the workers and the working people.

Constitutional amendments did not receive the support of the majority.

The AKP government, its supporters and the bourgeois media in its service have portrayed the referendum results as a big success with popular support, with some going as far as to say that the people have seized power.

Despite government’s propaganda based on dirty tricks, threats, lies and manipulation only 58% of the voters voted Yes, with a remaining 42% saying No, and 23% of the electorates not participating. This explains why in the eyes of the public this constitutional amendment, which was initiated by an illegitimate government and parliament, would not be considered legitimate because it did not get the approval of a reasonable majority. The fact that those who did not seek public consultations for their amendments and who subjugated people by use of power and money call these referendum results as a manifestation of “free will” shows how barefaced and zealous they are for a diktat.

It is not a case, as suggested, of higher level of democracy or popular gains.

There have always been discussions about our country’s democratisation problems and, in conjunction with this, the need for a new and democratic constitution. However the changes proposed through the referendum of 12 September were not concerned with any of this. Demands from the workers for the urgent need for democracy were not regarding how the members of the Constitutional Court or of the Board of Judges and Public Prosecutors would be elected. These were the demands of the power hungry AKP and capitalists seeking full hegemony and stability.

These arrangements would, without a doubt, serve further unbridled and aggressive exploitation, through a plundering and ranting system. Yet, the masses demand for democratisation were evident in many fields: removing obstacles to political and trade union organisations of workers; a constitutional guarantee for the demands of the Kurdish people regarding their identity, language and equal rights; a genuine secular state ending discrimination on and manipulation of the freedom of religion and conscience. Unless these demands are met it will not be possible to talk about a democratisation process. For this reason, this referendum did not contribute to the democratisation process or the improvement of people’s conditions. The winner is the repressive and reactionary capitalist rule and as long as the AKP government is ruling, a popular gain will not be possible.

EMEP: On the course of the crisis and the international situation

The economic crisis with its sharp deterioration especially in the last quarter of 2008 and the first quarter of 2009 -much sharper than that of the 1929 crisis-, relatively slowing down in the second quarter.

One of the characteristics of the recent crisis is the fact that it started in the US, the largest economy in the world, in the construction and manufacturing –especially metal, automotive and related industries- simultaneously with a crisis in the financial sector, overshadowing the former and profound enough to cause a total destruction, that it speedily joined up with the crisis burst out in the other advanced capitalist countries and has become a general crisis spreading over to dependent countries. This course of development has created the impression that the economic crisis had originated from the crisis in the financial sector in the US.

Bourgeois-capitalist circles claim that this crisis is a product of the economic policies, especially wrong financial and monetary policies which led to increasing speculation, over-inflation and “bubbles” in the financial sector; and they try to disseminate these theses using every means available. This misinformation campaign is accompanied by the propaganda that economic crisis can be prevented and overcome by correct economic policies and tighter regulations in the financial sector. This propaganda is designed to conceal the fact that capitalist economic crises are inevitable stages in the process of capitalist development, that they are a product of capitalist mode of production driven by profit and the market, thus developing in an anarchic and uneven way, that they are the apex of the contradiction between the productive forces and the relations of production, and an exploding manifestation of this contradiction. It aims to whitewash the capitalist system and prevent the discontent and anger of the workers and labourers from targeting the capitalist system directly. Moreover, this and similar other propaganda are used to stop people understanding the real cause of the crisis, its magnitude and its destructive effects; and legitimize the economic policies and attacks used to shift the burden of the crisis onto the shoulders of the proletariat and the peoples.

EMEP: No to NATO and Missile Defence System

The Justice and Development Party (AKP) government keeps lying to the peoples of Turkey. Prior to the NATO’s Lisbon meeting, AKP authorities, Prime Minister Erdogan and Foreign Minister Davutoglu both stated that they had objections to the certain articles of the Missile Defence System Project that was put on agenda by NATO.

Following the Lisbon meeting, in which Turkey was represented by President Abdullah Gul, official statements said Turkey succeeded in presenting its case, as if its objections to the Project were actually put under consideration. During NATO Lisbon meeting the Missile Defence System Project was approved, NATO – EU relations were discussed with both non-NATO member EU countries and NATO member non-EU countries as well as updating the road map and making new decisions on Afghanistan occupation. The objections of the AKP government to the Project were represented as not mentioning any country name as the Project is organised against any particular country or countries (from which Iran should be understood), employing some Turkish staff members in the command echelon and specifying where exactly the enemy missiles would be shot by the Missile Defence System.

None of these objections were put on the agenda during the Lisbon summit. Despite not mentioning any particular country name, it is obvious that this Missile Defence System Project was organised against the peoples of the Middle East, notably of Iran and Syria. Certain critical issues such as where exactly the enemy missiles would be shot by the Missile Defence System, in which country the System would be located and who would push the launch button were not negotiated during the Lisbon summit. When the Missile Defence System Project is actualised, whatever are the objections of the AKP government, the United States administration would be the one, which will be in charge of decision making and pushing the launch button as the head of NATO. The Missile Defence Projects also paves the way for missile and missile hardware sales to Turkey and other NATO members. The US weapon monopolies are certainly the ultimate winners of this Project. The Missile Defence System Project caused the AKP foreign policy to collapse. The policy called “zero problem with neighbour countries,” which is so called conducted by the Foreign Minister Davutoglu, has also turned out to be a monstrous lie. Missile Defence System Project means problems with the neighbours; it means the participation of Turkey as a border gendarmerie in the threat posed by the EU and US to the neighbour countries.

It also means being a part to the conflict on Israel’s side on behalf of the US. Since the day one of its foundation, our Party (EMEP) defends the idea that Turkey should drop out of NATO membership. NATO is not a defence organisation; it is a war machine that aggressively poses a threat for the peoples of the world as well as standing as the gendarmerie of the international imperialist capital. NATO, which tried to fool the peoples of the world with the big lie that it was defending the so called World Peace against the threats posed by USSR and Warsaw Treaty for a long time, increased its power and strengthens its presence after the collapse of the Soviet Union and Warsaw Treaty. When the role of NATO in the recent occupations and assaults is considered, it is clear that NATO is not an organisation which protects the World Peace, but threatening it. Turkey should immediately drop NATO membership and focus on peace and friendship policies with its neighbours.

NATO should be dispersed.
Nuclear weapons should be eradicated.
The armament race that is teased by imperialist monopolies should be terminated.

Kamil Tekin Surek
Vice President
Press Statements

Is the New Ottoman Empire Possible?

From EMEP

The executives of AKP (Justice and Development Party) have been designating The Ottoman Empire as an enviable ‘model’ for a while; and comparing the policies of Turkey with the power and impression of self-confident Ottoman. The Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan, has just stated: “We have to bring the Republic to that position.” by referring to the Empire. Additionally, Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu relates their government with the omnipotence of ordering the region. Fetullah Gulen who has close relationships with the Turkish governors as well as the US government, preached Turkey to follow policies over “the credit inherited from the Ottoman Empire”. There was an emphasis of “mighty Turkey” on the General Basbug’s speech in Mardin (A Kurdish city in Turkey). Previous statements exemplifying Turkey as a powerful and “modal” country of the region has also been made by the governors of the USA and NATO. As it was stated that Turkey has become “the pivot country”, USA Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, recapitulated that Turkey is “the strong country of the region.”, when she was in Turkey.

These statements that emphasize the “power” of Turkey in accordance with its future role in the region are supported by diplomatic, military, politic and some economic approaches. “Negotiation traffic” with countries in the region has become frequent in recent years. A number of deliberation with Iraq, Iraqi Kurdistan, Iran, Syria, Palestine, Azerbaijan, Georgia has been done in short periods. Despite the tension related to “Karabakh Problem” and ” the genocide”, first steps has been taken for improving relations with Armenia and for opening borders. The policy of keeping Azerbaijan on “little brother” chair continues. “Patronage” to Geoargia has been held in cooperation with the USA. Relations with Iraq and Iraqi Kurdistan Federal Government have been amended in consideration of “eliminating” Kurdish resistance in Turkey, capitalizing energy resources, and getting a share of the cake as being transportation route towards Western markets. Agreements have been signed. A role has been taken in “the reconstruction of Iraq and Kurdish region.” The Foreign Minister declared that “they work like a government” and that their goal is “complete integration.” Visa practises in Syria border have been abrogated. “Bilateral friendly relations” between Russia and Iran and negotiations regarding the extention of the scope of trade agreements are being pursued, etc.

EMEP: About the upcoming elections in Turkey

In 12th June, there will be general elections in Turkey. Because of the 10 percent threshold we participated the elections with independent candidates under the flag of Labour, Democracy and Freedom Block. The political party of the Kurdish movement in Turkey (BDP) and the Labour Party (EMEP) are the main powers of this block. Also there are 16 parties and organisations in this Block.

Labour, Democracy and Freedom Block has presented its elections manifesto, as follows;

DEMOCRATIC SOLUTION AND PEACE AT THE KURDISH PROBLEM

The Kurdish question, where no one demands a choice except a democratic, peaceful solution, must definitely be solved within this period. It is now not a promise but a task to review the past by consulting our consciences and to stop the blood still poured because of the Kurdish problem.
When people are so disposed and hopeful about peace, we will not let the war begin again for AKP’s (ruling party) votes and interests. We will take initiative for a lasting peace and we will display the two faces of the AKP, which on one hand feeds from conflicts and on the other hand declares everyone except itself as warmongering.

None of us has any endurance left for a war to last 30 years more, for a single life to be lost, for the wealth to be lost. The power in particular, all circles must set their political and economical rents aside and display a will of solution with an intimate approach for the constitution of a lasting peace that the Turkish society has longed for many years; the demands and expectations of the Kurdish people must be taken into account and the three-year old talks in Imral? must urgently be turned into a negotiation process. The ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), just like all the powers that insist on the impossibility of a solution and subject the Turkish society to war, conflict, pain and tear for economic rents rather than people’s living together in peace and brotherhood, will be forced by us to pay the price before history. We will introduce the solution with our own power and determination and without hoping for help from the power for the solution.

ECONOMY

Central, regional and local mechanisms will be created to provide the supervision and participation of producers, consumers and employees outside of the government in the economy management through professional groups and civil society organisations;

For the development of industrialisation, agriculture, animal husbandry, science and technology on the basis of political and economic democracy in accordance with the society’s general interests, the targets will be the participation of the society in the economic life through cooperatives and modern democratic aggregate enterprises where employees also take part in return for their labour;

Development projects will be created with the participation of Local and Regional Authorities and Civil Society Organizations, Regional Development Centers will be established to eliminate regional disparities with certain intense investments, a Central Development Fund will be established to be transferred to the depressed areas.

EQUAL AND FREE SOCIAL SECURITY FOR ALL

Low-income families will be supported by social benefits; the homeless will be taken under protection and security,

Street children and orphans have substance dependence and live under poor conditions likely for all kinds of abuses. Our alliance will establish centers for these children where they will be provided with accommodation, education, guidance and health care,

People with old-age and disease cases requiring special care will be included in the social insurance,

An effective fight will be given against illegal employment; disincentives will be applied for the inclusion of all employees within social security.

CONSTITUTION

We will all together issue the new constitution which doesn’t impose any ideology and describe the nation and citizenship on an ethnical basis, restricts the powers of the state, predicated on individual-collective rights, sides with labour, a gender libertarian constitute that shows the same respect to the nature and the human being and protects all separate cultures, beliefs, values of Turkey.

DEMOCRATIC AUTONOMY

We regard the Democratic Autonomy, which means democratic self-government, as the reinforcement of the qualifications appropriate to the democratic republic.

A radical reform must be made in the political and administrative structure for the actualisation of the Democratic Autonomy, which will be the assurance of democratic union and the model of direct and participatory democracy, not of division and deterioration as asserted. Besides the official language Turkish, regions will use other second and third languages (like Kurdish) according to their specific needs.

SUPPORTS FOR THE BLOCK

Independent candidates of Labour, Democracy and Freedom Block have been supported by hundreds of intellectuals, academicians, writers, singers, producers, actress, and journalists. Many NGOs, workers confederations and trade unions also announced their support for the block’s candidates.

Also, former Palestinian guerrilla commander Leyla Khaled came to Mersin to support Labour, Democracy and Freedom Block candidate Ertugrul Kurkcu. Addressing the crowd on the feast organized by the Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) Mersin Branch, the long time activist Khaled said; “We share the same struggle. If I am here with you today is because I see your struggle as my struggle. We will be witnessing the joy of the victory on June 12.”

OUR PRESIDENT IS AN INDEPENDENT CANDIDATE

The ex-president of the Labour Party, Abdullah Levent Tuzel is participating to the elections as an independent candidate of this Block from Istanbul, the biggest city of Turkey. He used to resign from the presidency of EMEP in order to be an independent candidate. Tuzel was an independent candidate from Izmir in the 2007 parliamentary elections but was not elected. There are almost 60 independent candidates especially at the Kurdish region of Turkey and some western cities like Istanbul, Izmir, Ankara (the capital), Mersin and Adana, etc.

At other cities, more than 40 cities, we participate to the elections as Labour Party (EMEP). And at these cities, members of the block will support EMEP as roof party of the Block.

The Working Class & the Labourers have won in the May Day

From the Labour Party of Turkey on May Day:

The May Day celebrations held all around the world and in Turkey has been a day on which the working class and the labourers have declared that they do not want to pay the cost of the crisis. The massive character as well as the prevalence of the celebrations has stood out and they have also revealed both the periodical weaknesses and the opportunities for improvement and reinforcement within the workers’ movement and the trade union struggle.

Both around the world and in our country, the May Day of 2009 has been witnessed to the most prevalent and massive May Day celebrations of the recent years.

The capitalist system is undergoing its most severe crisis after the Second World War. The role of the capitalist system’s attacks (such as dismissals from work, wage reductions, all the different forms of leave without pay and flexible work being implemented etc.) channelled by the hands of the states and governments and directed towards the sections forming the main body of the working class has been significant. In many countries, beginning with France, the trade unions and confederations have put aside the competition between them and have celebrated May Day together against the attacks of the capital.

The economic crisis collectivising the demands, to such a degree, in the celebrations held on an international scale has brought out the international character of the working class movement in the same degree.

More than 300 thousand workers and labourers have participated in the celebrations held around 100 different venues in our country. Another characteristic to stand out in the celebrations has been the Kurdish workers and labourers participating massively and in a widespread manner and claiming the May Day celebrations this year. The Kurdish workers and labourers have expressed their economic and democratic demands together with their class sisters and brothers. This picture gives strength and hope in terms of the future of the common struggle of the Turkish and Kurdish workers and labourers.

However and unfortunately, on the contrary to the tendency around the world, the confederations and trade unions in our country following a “dividing” line of action rather than one respecting the unity of the workers and labourers, has caused participation to remain at the current levels when conditions for different results actually existed. To such an extent that some of the confederations, not content with limiting the division based on “we must go to Taksim Square” to Istanbul, have resorted to dispatching written instructions to the trade union branches in other cities around the country telling them to stay away from joint celebrations.

It is gladdening to see that, despite these negativities the workers, labourers and the trade unionists feeling responsibility towards the labour movement have not paid attention to the “imposing from the top”, subjective approaches of the confederations’ and trade unions’ central administrations disregarding the unity and interests of the labourers and not taking the will of the grassroots into consideration at all and these forces have organised joint celebrations everywhere except for Istanbul and a few other locations around the country. This situation has demonstrated that the idea of the capital’s attacks being only repulsed with a complete struggle has been accepted among the labourers at the grassroots.

This attitude that is pro-unity has shown both that our Party’s May Day tactic has been claimed by the working class and the labourers and has, once again, put forward the path that needs to be trodden by the movement of the workers and the trade unions.

At the point reached today, the central administrations of confederations and trade unions should regard the class movement from a position in accordance with this tendency of the grassroots rather than their own positions and should immediately take the steps in order to build a united line of struggle. In addition to this, insistence on the policy of “We must go to Taksim Square” is one of the most fundamental obstacles in front of maintaining class unity. We must know that the discussions currently carried out around “Taksim Square”; beyond being a simple discussion among the working class and the labourers as to whether the “march took place or not in Taksim Square” or whether the “number of participants was reasonable or not”, is in fact an ideological problem existing between the working class and the elements outside of the class.

May Day will only correspond to the values it represents both historically and in terms of today as long as it is celebrated as a day on which the widest unity of the workers and labourers is maintained around the most urgent economic, social and political demands. A platform on May Day that does not ensure the unity of the workers and disregards their demands cannot be defended on behalf of the working class; no matter what the pretexts put forward happen to be. This is the reality that those insisting on “Taksim Square” refuse persistently in seeing.

Undoubtedly; celebrating May Day in Taksim, beyond being a wish, is the right of the working class of Turkey. However; a genuinely workers’ May Day will have been celebrated in Taksim Square when the workers and labourers have defeated with their own forces the restraints and bans pertaining to this issue imposed by the capital’s governments and the state and have rendered sovereign their own platform with their unity and their demands. What has been experienced in Taksim on the May Day of 2009 has nothing to do with this situation.

The subjectivist attitude and understanding put forward by those setting forth the symbols of the past and their own feelings in a manner alienated from the duties of the present day is a typical indication of the position they have been flung to that is outside of the class.

On the other hand, another reality made obvious one again by the events in Taksim is that the government as well as the Governor and the Chief of Police that are “at the head” of Istanbul as the government’s representatives, deem running this city with police terror as an accomplishment. The police terror storming around Taksim on May Day cannot be accepted by anybody or any organisation on the side of democracy nor can it be justified. The Governor and Chief of Police of Istanbul should immediately resign as those responsible for these actions.

Taking all of these facts into consideration, our Party will continue to offer all its accumulation and means of struggle to the service of the working class and the trade union struggle.

Long live May Day; the day of international unity, struggle and solidarity of the working class!

Long live the unity of the working class!

EMEP: May 1 – Workers of our Country & All the World, Happy Worker’s Day!

Unity, struggle and solidarity to all workers and toilers of our country and the world. Happy May Day 1. Unfortunately, the 20,011 in a Mayıs’ına peace, democracy and freedom in front of the demands of international capital, the imperialist powers and their collaborators sought by the conditions of blood and violence are going to repression.

The neo-liberal economic crisis of 2008 with the ship thoroughly rampant aggression is endless. Snow ambition eyes darkened in such a period, the country’s workers, victims of crimes over the business of death is news. The last two years, the economy grew significantly, while the social welfare of workers and working people’s share of unemployment, hunger and poverty.

On the other hand, the number of dollar billionaires s taking it to 36 while 3000 new millionaire. In short, the full capital and the AKP government vurgunculuğudur a crisis.

In this environment, to search for the right to organize trade unions, workers and workers who want to strike, Prime Minister Erdogan’s response, “do not ask me to strike” is. This attitude of Prime Minister Erdogan and the AKP government is not the first example showing that the levels of labor in which enmity. For miners who died in the mines of Zonguldak “would die knowing that entered the mines,” said the same Prime Minister.

Obstructing the search for ways to organize and the rights of the working class trade union, anti-democratic laws and practices of political extensions June 12 elections, the working class and toiling in front of our people was increased once more. Parties in order to help the trillions of treasure, while independent candidates to be nominated for the workers actually removed from the application fee of 7,800 pounds are prevented.

June 12 elections, wills have been obstructed from work the other cutting the Kurdish people. Anti-democratic Election Law (10% threshold), because “Labor, Democracy, Freedom Block” of the candidates participating in elections as independent candidates brought to the desired YSK veto of Turkish and Kurdish workers in all nationalities, workers, intellectuals and the people’s struggle püskürtülebilmiştir. ODP is the “missing paperwork” to enter the grounds that the elections are prevented.

It seems that he is, the AKP government, the working class, working people plugging their ears and attitude of the Kurdish people will continue to justify the demands. 1 million 700 thousand students in the future that it obscures the password rezaletindeki a continuation of the attitude of the government’s impassive.

There is no doubt that another compilation, Kürdüyle, Alevisi, all nationalities and all faiths Sünnisiyle workers and laborers, young people and women on May 1 in the attitudes and practices do not recognize the AKP government and the capital account front Pervan ask, before the June 12 elections, the AKP’s first big slap will take.

May 1: Workers of our country and all over the world, Happy Emekçilerine (Workers Day)!

Haydar KAYA
EMEP V. GENERAL CHAIRMAN

EMEP: Imperialist attack on Libya must be stopped immediately!

Libya, on the agenda for some time now due to the people’s rebellion against the Gaddafi regime, has now become the target of heavy attacks lead by the USA, France and the United Kingdom with the support of the United Nations. These attacks are explained by the imperialist forces on the pretext of liberating the people of Libya from Gaddafi’s “atrocities”. What these “justifications” really amount to, has been previously witnessed during the occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan.

The first news coming from Libya, exposed to heavy bombardment and intense missile attacks, are that in addition to the military targets, the people are also suffering as a result of these attacks.

For some time, the peoples of Middle East and North Africa are struggling against reactionary dictators. In Tunisia and Egypt, the people’s struggle has resulted in the overthrowing of the dictators but in Libya, Gaddafi has set about attacks in order to suppress the people’s revolt. Just as the tyrannical policies implemented by Gaddafi against his people are not in any way acceptable neither are the imperialist attacks against Libya. The imperialist countries and the UN, that has become a tool of these forces, have not, until today, carried democracy to any country from the ‘outside’ and the situation in Libya will be no different.

It is, at the same time, shameful that the Turkish government has given green light to and has supported this imperialist attack.

The US, attacking Afghanistan in 2001 with very similar excuses, continues its occupation of this country. It is also a well known fact that “democracy” is still far away from both Afghanistan and Iraq, occupied by the US in the same way, after all the deaths and destruction experienced in those lands. Even these examples from our recent history are indication enough that the imperialist attack towards and occupation of Libya will not be bringing any democracy to this country.

The people of Libya should determine their own destiny and the imperialist attack must be stopped immediately.

Labour Party (EMEP)

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