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Suicide bombers have this time hit the heart of working class Ankara, the capital and second largest city of Turkey. This is the third in a row for the city: on 10 October, two successive explosions killed more than a hundred people during…
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The world has entered 2016 full of concern and horror. World capitalism, eight years after the Lehman Brothers collapse, is sinking further in its still unresolved, rapidly deepening crisis dragging humanity into ever greater austerity,…
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The Revolutionary Workers' Party (DIP) was invited to talk at the annual education for activists' conference of the Trotsky School of Socialist Action/Ligue pour l'Action Socialiste of Canada. The theme was "Reform or Revolution". On…
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The President of the Republic of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, has attacked a petition signed by over 1,200 academics criticising the ongoing police and military operations in many Kurdish towns ordered by the government. Among many things…
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In Sultanahmet, one of the most touristic and central parts of Istanbul, a bomb attack of ISIL killed 11 persons and left dozens of people wounded. The Revolutionary Workers’ Party condemns this attack and offers its condolences to the…
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A series of acts of terrorism worldwide and war against Syria which is carried out by ISIL supported by Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Turkey with capitalist countries of the West behind them led by the USA again brought inadmissible close Europe…
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The conference was held in Istanbul on the 29th of November, 2015. There were two opening speeches at the beginning of the conference, one by Selim Sezer, on behalf of BDS Turkey, and the other by Zeina Hamad from the Palestinian diaspora…
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Savas Matsas, Secretary General of the Workers' Revolutionary Party (EEK) of Greece, was invited to talk on the current situation in Greece at several events in England and Scotland during the month of November. He spoke first in London at…
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The downing of the Russian warplane by the Turkish air force has signalled the threat of an outright regional or even world war with devastating consequences for humanity. This is one episode of the torment to which Syria has been…
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Sungur Savran, a leader of the DIP, was interviewed by Doug Henwood, director of the US radio station Left Business Observer (LBO), on the results of the 1 November 2015 elections in Turkey. Download link: http://shout.lbo-talk.org/lbo…
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Tariq Ali talks to the scholar and academic Sungur Savran, about the ongoing crisis in Turkey, a country backed by NATO and run by an Islamist government led by Erdoğan. teleSUR
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Turkey’s elections have stunned the whole world. A turnaround of such a magnitude in a matter of five months is probably unprecedented in electoral history. Having lost a full one fifth of its electorate (nine percentage points) in the…
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The immense catastrophe that struck Turkey in the streets of Ankara, the capital city, on 10 October, when two bombs exploded in the midst of a thronging crowd of what would possibly turn out to be hundreds of thousands of people, leading…
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We lost more than one hundred lives during the Ankara rally on October 10. The Revolutionary Workers Party mourns all the comrades we lost, men and women, young and old, with whom we had united in a struggle for freedom, and offers…
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Turkey is rapidly being transformed into another Syria. Terrorists protected by the state explode bombs in the midst of tens, maybe even hundreds of thousands of people in the capital city of Ankara. Over one hundred deaths, close to four…
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The results of the early regional elections of 27 September have aggravated the most important political crisis of the last forty years in the Spanish state. Arthur Mas, president of the Generalitat de Catalunya called an election with a…
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Alexis Tsipras ha vinto clamorosamente la propria scommessa. Ha voluto precipitare le elezioni per capitalizzare la popolarità della propria figura e salvarsi dal fallimento della propria politica. Prima che le masse potessero verificare…
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After capitulating to the EU, the ECB, and the IMF on July 12 by signing a third package of the most barbaric austerity measures tied to a new bailout of the unsustainable Greek debt, after spreading disappointment, confusion, and disgust…
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The following interview was published on the left-wing Italian web-site Il pane e le rose (Bread and Roses) on 13 September 2015, on the eve of the elections of 20 September. The interview with Savas Michael-Matsas, Secretary General of…
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The Kurdish town of Cizre, a settlement with a population of approximately 150 thousand souls in Southeastern Turkey, is now under siege of the Turkish armed forces and the so-called “special operation force” of the police for a second…
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