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Brazilian football club celebrates Che Guevara link

BRAZIL |31-12-2013| You would be forgiven for thinking that the football players with Che Guevara portraits emblazoned on their jerseys were members of the Cuban national teamplay. Instead they play for a small Brazilian football team, Madureira Esporte Clube, from a Rio de Janeiro suburb. Earlier this year, Madureira decided to use Alberto Korda’s famous photograph of the revolutionary leader for one of ...

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Roboski monument opened in Amed

AMED | 30-12-2013 | A monument has been opened in the Kayapınar district of Amed province on Monday in memory of 34 Kurdish civilians killed by Turkish warplanes on 28 December 2011. The Roboski monument in the Rojava Park has been built by the municipality. The monument which was sculpted by sculptor Suat Yakut is in the form of a ...

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Agreement ends SL Garment strike in Cambodia

CAMBODIA | 20-12-2013 | C.CAWDU and SL Garment Processing sign an agreement to end a three-month long strike in Cambodia, including the re-hiring of 19 dismissed union representatives, payment of half of the lost wages and the removal of a newly appointed manager. After more than five months of dispute, including strikes that were violently repressed by the police, SL ...

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A black mark on Turkey; Maraş Massacre

MARAŞ | 19-12-2013 | According to official numbers, 111 people, mostly Alevis, were massacred savagely in the Maras Massacre from 19 to 25 December 1978. The witnesses of the massacre can not forget the agony of massacre despite 35 years passing over it. Thousands of Alevis were wounded during the incidents, over 111 people were massacred, more than 552 houses ...

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We will not forget the revolutionary prisoners who were brutally massacred on December 19th 2000 in the prisons in Turkey!

ISCWPP | 05-12-2013 | On December 2000 the security forces of the fascist Turkish state started a parallel bloody operation in 22 prison, resulting in the killing of 28 revolutionary prisoners.  The directive of this bloody operation was given by the coalition government at that time DSP, ANAP and MHP, during the operation hundreds of prisoners were injured. In prisons ...

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A Massive Corruption Scandal In Turkey in Erdoğan’s government

ISTANBUL | 18-12-2013 |  Turkish prosecutors unveiled a sweeping anti-corruption campaign this week that reaches deep into the country’s conservative government. More that 50 people have been detained so far, many of them tied to Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the powerful prime minister. The investigations have drawn in business tycoons close to Erdogan, the sons of three of his ministers and ...

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Elected BDP MPs yet to be released

TURKEY | 14-12-2013 | Following the landmark judgment of the Constitutional Court in releasing the CHP (Republican People’s Party) MP Mustafa Balbay, lawyers for BDP (Peace and Democracy Party)  MPs in custody have applied to the courts for the release of their clients, saying a precedent has been set. Elected BDP deputies have still not been released despite the publication ...

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Punto Deri workers entered third month of protest

ISTANBUL | 08-12-2013 | 28 dismissed workers at Punto Deri, members of IndustriALL Global Union’s Turkish affiliate Deri-Is, have been picketing for more than three months for their fundamental rights. Located at Istanbul’s famous leather zone Zeytinburnu, Punto Deri produces for may international brands such as ZAPA, Strenesse, Lacoste, Laurel, Armani, Beckham, Bijing Sheng, Denham the Jean Maker, Girgio Sam, ...

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