Prime Minister and the AKP government tell us that we should be happy: Because Turkish economy is growing. Turkish economy is the second fastest growing economy after China. Well done! What does this economic growth cost? What do workers get from it? All worker friends should ask themselves these questions?
Hundreds of people were killed, thousands injured and many more left homeless in the wake of the earthquake in Van and Ercis. As UID-DER we launched a solidarity campaign after the quake with the slogan “Forge Workers’ Solidarity with the people of Van!” During the campaign we witnessed once again that despite all racist incitements there is no hostility between Turkish and Kurdish toilers.
Dear friends of UID-DER,
We'd like to express our many thanks for your encouraging solidarity message to the coming November 6 International Workers' Solidarity Rally.
We'll distribute its Japanese translation to all the participant of the rally.
It is a must for all workers around the world to get united against this criminal capitalist order and its bloody policies like the ones that promote nuclear power and weapons. Here in Turkey we are trying to raise the consciousness of workers and organize them to fight capitalism and its nuclear policies.
Van and Ercis were severely struck by a 7.2 magnitude earthquake on October 23 causing an enormous devastation. The number of people who lost their lives is already more than 600 and it is unfortunately expected to rise. And there are more than 4000 injured.
Van downtown and Ercis, a near town in the province Van, were rocked by a 7.2 magnitude earthquake on October 23 at midday hours, resulting in more than 600 death and more than 4000 injured so far. There are many people who are still under the rubble. Van is mainly a Kurdish town and the area is intensely populated by poor Kurdish people.
In Japan almost 30 thousand people lost their lives due to the earthquake on 11 March and the subsequent tsunami. And the radioactive material released from the nuclear power plant Fukushima Daiichi has been threatening whole life throughout the country beginning with the region the power station located.
Our Association of International Workers Solidarity, UİD-DER, has been founded in June 2006 by Workers Self-Education Groups (WSEG) which have been active in different industries such as metal, textile, petrochemistry. Revolutionary vanguard workers who make up WSEG had been conducting work in union rank-and-file, factories, strike places for many years. UİD-DER is the fruit of this continuous work carried on in a working class discipline. And we keep carrying on our work to strengthen this base on an international level as well.
We have received your 12,000 signatures. Thank you very much. We are eternally grateful for your warm and wonderful efforts. We ...
Today we've received your 2nd package of anti-nuclear power plants of 3797 signatutes.
We'll immediately forward these precious signatures to our colleagues fighting in Fukushima.
Thanks again for your ...
Dear mothers,
You are waging an honourable struggle, expressing the feelings of the working ...
Struggle for more democracy still continues. With the call of several organizations, thousands gathered at ...
Our dear class brothers/sisters, as your class brothers/sisters in Turkey, we share your suffering and your completely justified anger against capitalist system which is responsible for the series of ...
As your class brothers/sisters in Turkey we sincerely and enthusiastically salute your revolt against Mubarak dictatorship, which you have been carrying on for many days in great persistence and resolve. ...
Brother and sister workers, we are struggling to get by on a net minimum wage of 599 liras. Every year, in the run-up to December, the question of the amount of upcoming increase on minimum wage comes to ...
Who are they, banning headscarf for students and public employees, ignoring the demands of Alevis and prohibiting use of Kurdish? ...
Echoes of 12 September Constitutional Referendum are still alive as the debate continues. Undoubtedly, the majority of the working ...
Since the beginning of capitalist class’ rule over the world, production has become more and more international with time. Always ...
International solidarity with UPS workers, who have been dismissed because of unionizing, expands as they keep fighting to be ...
We, the Akkardan workers, have been giving a fight to protect our jobs and honour for about 2 months. We have fought and are still ...
We, the workers of Akkardan Company, were laid off from our jobs on January 26, 2010. However, we did not end up going home and instead we started to fight back in front of the factory for our children’s ...
More than 500 workers of Germany rooted Mahle Mopisan’s factory in İzmir Gaziemir Free Trade Zone, are sacked because of unionization with United Metal Workers Union. The boss of Mahle Mopisan exerted ...
I work in a private hospital as a cleaning worker. I’m on the night shift permanently. I work around 14 hours a day and wonder sometimes how I could keep standing after so much working. It must be the ...
I’m an 18 years old worker in the shoemaking sector. The factory I work at has around 300 workers and I could say that almost the half of them are children. I also started to work at the age of 14.
We are non-unionized workers from Sincan who are coping with the rats of the boss and campaigning to unionize the workplace with the support of UID-DER. Our struggle still continues despite the suppression ...
Now they are in a resistance (a wildcat strike) and fighting for their jobs. Every day they gather in front of the factory with ...
It’s been over two months and Tekel workers keep fighting for their jobs against all odds. They started on December 15 by gathering in Ankara arriving from all over the country. They managed to make their ...
The most important thing with this year’s May 1 events in Turkey is the failure to organise a united mass demonstration in Istanbul due to disputes over venue. This meant wasting an opportunity to show a ...
“Workers’ Solidarity Festival” organized by UID-DER with the slogan “Against Crisis and War - Forward to May 1” was held with great enthusiasm. Hundreds of working men and women from every age joined the ...
.thumbnail.jpg "van depremi (5)")
