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· "Race, Gender, and Class in American Politics: Anything New?" -Immanuel Wallerstein
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· The March to War: Israel Prepares for War against Lebanon and Syria -Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya
· Workers’ demand for whole world on this May Day - Lal Khan, Pakistan
· Barbaric 'honour killings' become the weapon to subjugate women in Iraq -
· Lebanon - Presidential elections postponed again…government in continuing crisis
· "France Back in NATO? Is this for real?" -Immanuel Wallerstein
· Israel - Israeli ex-soldiers expose abuse of Palestinians


   
· Turkey/Istanbul – Reflections from War Zone after the government’s attack on May Day Celebrations · Iraq - May Day 2008 Statement from the Iraqi Labour Movement
· Turkey/Adana – Police attack May Day demonstrators in Adana · Turkey/Istanbul – Turkish Government attacks in an all-out war against laborers to prevent May Day Celebrations! MINUTE BY MINUTE ACCOUNT OF CLASHES ON THE STREETS OF ISTANBUL
· Turkey/Istanbul – 100 House Representatives will participate in Taksim May Day Celebrations! · Turkey/Istanbul – Police arrest people hanging May Day posters
· Turkey/Istanbul – Laborers defy Turkish government ban on May Day · Turkey/Istanbul – Even the May Day posters of Freedom Solidarity Party are banned!
· Morocco - Lax standards blamed for high death toll in Morocco factory fire · Turkey/Istanbul – People react and solve the cell phone base station problem!
· Afghanistan - Leave Taliban alone, Afghan president tells West · Malaysia - 'Western Leaders Are War Criminals’
· Canada - Canadian Union of Postal Workers Passes Boycott Resolution against Israeli Apartheid · Turkey/Sakarya – Fascist Turkish mob attack Kurdish Party’s cultural festival: 1 murdered
· Turkey/Giresun – Police attack street theater troop · India - "We don't need the US to conduct our foreign policy"
· Turkey/Istanbul – Ship builder worker injured after falling · Turkey/Diyarbakir – May Day banned again!
· Iran - Updates on Striking Workers of Alborz Tire Manufacturing Company · Palestine - UN Agency: If Israel doesn't supply fuel, food distribution will stop



   
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Public sector unions continued to be a target of government interference. Individual members faced fines and disciplinary action. In the private sector workers faced anti-union harassment, including dismissals, while strikers faced police violence and arrest. Two union leaders were imprisoned for 40 days. There has been virtually no progress on bringing the law into line with international labour standards.

Trade union rights in law

No real progress has been made in bringing the country's legislation on workers' and trade union rights into line with international standards. The changes are in draft form only, in contrast to other areas of law that have been changed with a view to Turkey's accession to the European Union.

The agenda for the left shows some changes when compared to pre-election days. With the exception of two, the entire legal and illegal left participated in the elections. The resulting failure forced these parties to an internal evaluation while still keeping a stiff upper lip to the external world. Running independent candidates partially achieved the desired “goal” with the election of Ufuk Uras (12). The vacuum left by social democracy and the left pulled the CHP to an opposite, right wing, position than its traditional social democratic trend. Although it is not suitable for the task, the Kurdish DTP (13) party claimed it was the umbrella organization for the left. Looking at the “welfare” methods used and the resulting victory of the governing AKP, some left organization too started to shift towards help campaigns to the people.

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Left Politics while entering a new era of destruction - Current Agenda

The class character of the September 12 military coup (which also included Özal’s contributions) was revealed in the first appearance of General Evren, the head of the military coup, on his TV and radio announcement of the military takeover. In his initial statement Evren targeted the trade union movement and compared his salary with that of a waiter. The "deception" of the previous March 12 junta was no longer on the agenda.


Of course the traditional gender roles continue as they were before. It is not easy to eliminate the relationship between the oppressed and the oppressor that goes back centuries. A women who can go out or work can not be the same as before especially if she has now also lived the experience of a strike. You know, they say, strike is a school. For many women here, it truly has become one.
You know, you can not oppress most of these girls easily any more.

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