Category Archives: Sendika

We won’t accept oppression, and we won’t bow to censorship: Sendika.Org will not be silenced!

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To the attention of friend and foe alike:

Amid its murder of socialist youth via the jihadist gangs that it has fed at the cost of many lives in the Middle East, its call to war amid the bombing of Kandil, as well as its operations against socialists and the Kurdistan Freedom Movement under the pretext of fighting ISIL, the AKP has not hesitated to also impose draconian censorship measures.

While giving the order for war, war criminals Tayyip Erdoğan and Ahmet Davutoğlu have also moved to silence the free press. On the morning of 25 July, access to Sendika.Org, ANF, ANHA, DİHA, Rojnews, Yüksekova Haber, Özgür Gündem and BestaNuçe was all blocked. Continue reading

AKP-backed ISIL group massacres at least 30 in southeastern Turkey

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At least 30 people were killed and 76 more were injured after a suspected member of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) staged a suicide bombing against members of a socialist youth federation as they prepared to travel to Kobane to help in the city’s reconstruction.

The blast targeted members of the Federation of Socialist Youth Associations (SGDF) at around 13.00 local time at the Amara Cultural Center in the southeastern province of Şanlıurfa’s Suruç district, which lies directly across from Kobane in Rojava. Continue reading

Urgent Call for Solidarity with the Struggle in Turkey

URGENT CALL FOR ACTIVE SOLIDARITY ACTION
TO STOP BRUTALITY IN TURKEY!

Dear comrades, friends, sisters and brothers of our movement!
This is an urgent call for more active international solidarity actions with people who resist in all cities and towns of Turkey for 10 days for their democratic rights.

Prime Minister Erdogan and his government is attacking people who try to voice their democratic reactions and demands in all city squares with tear gas, water cannons, other despotic measures and civil war threads for 10 days.

According to the Turkish Medical Association’s first hand data, as of 5th June, 3 people are dead; in total 4355 people applied for injuries, 10 persons lost their eyes and 3 people are in life critical condition because of anti-riot police brutality. Even on 6th June, the day when the delegation for Gezi Park? met with Vice Prime Minister, in various cities, in the first place Ankara, deadly attacks of the anti-riot police against peaceful demonstrations continued without a break. Continue reading

Protest by militant Turkish trade union against South African government

Protest by militant Turkish trade union against South African government
‘Murdered workers are our class brothers’

Militant trade union of the precarious health workers of Turkey,
Devrimci Saglk-Is (Revolutionary Trade Union of Health Workers)
affiliated to DISK (Confederation of Progressive Turkish Trade Unions)
today made a demonstration and press statement in front of the South
African consulate in Istanbul, Turkey. Members of the trade union told
that “murdered workers in South Africa are our class brothers” and
left black wreath for protesting the government and red cloves for the
murdered workers. President of the precarious Energy Workers’ Trade
Union also participated in the demonstration. The protesters shouted
“Long Live International Solidarity” in front of the consulate.

President of the Revolutionary Health Workers Trade Union Mrs Arzu
Cerkezoglu reminded that the mine workers in South Africa started
striking for the miserable wages to rise as their most basic right.
She told, “We as the workers in Turkey closely know this approach
which thinks it is normal to kill 34 striking workers. The striking
workers who are murdered in South Africa as they demand a human life
are our class brothers. We shout our solidarity with them with the
belief that what is important for the working class is not the country
they live in or the colour of their skin but their struggle and
labour.” The health workers protesting the South African government
left a black wreath and red cloves in front of the consulate building
in Istanbul.

Solidarity with Mine Workers at Marikana Platinum

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17 August 2012
Abahlali baseMjondolo Press statement

Solidarity with Mine Workers at Marikana Platinum

Abahlali baseMjondolo are deeply shocked by the murderous cruelty of the South African police, and those that give the police their orders, at the Marikana Platinum Mine in the North West. The killing of more than 40 mine workers yesterday by the SAPS is immoral and brings great disgrace on our country. There were other ways and much better ways to handle the situation. Yesterday will always be remembered as a dark day in the long history of oppression in South Africa.

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