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· "Is Europe Imploding?" -Immanuel Wallerstein
· Turkey: Union movement an inspiration to us all -Eric Lee
· Things we've learned from the Tekel workers- Riza Turmen (Milliyet)
· Tekel and the loss of dignity- Joost Lagendijk (Hurriyet Daily News)
· "The United States Misreads Brazil's World Policy" - Immanuel Wallerstein
· TEKEL Workers’ Resistance: Re-Awakening of the Proletariat in Turkey - Erinç Yeldan*
· Revolutionary Possibilities in Iran - Kambiz Sakhai
· Against the status quo: An Interview with Iranian trade unionist Homayoun Pourzad


   
· Turkish Dock Workers Union Joins Boycott against Israel · COSATU condemns Israeli state piracy
· Turkey - Thousands march in support of Turkey tobacco workers · Egypt - Theme park workers go on strike
· Egypt - Tanta Flax and Oils workers escalate protests · Turkey - Tekel workers keep on their struggle
· France - French refinery workers stage sympathy strikes · Germany - EasyJet strike in Berlin causes cancellations
· Turkey - Locals protest urban transformation on Istanbul's historic peninsula · France - Ikea offers to meet with French labor leaders
· Egypt – Tanta workers continue sit-in protest downtown · Turkey/Ankara - Women Tekel workers meet PM Erdogan
· Turkey/Istanbul - Marmaray workers protest outside Istanbul governorate · Greece - Athens protest: 'We are at war with them, as they are with us'
· Turkey - Hunger strike leaves three more Tekel workers hospitalized · Greece - Fired-up Greek workers will take their anger to the streets to protest pay cuts
· USA/Connecticut - Workers killed in power plant blast · Turkey/Agri – Support for TEKEL workers from the top of Mount Ararat
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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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