Europe

FRANKFURT | 20 – 11 – 2014 | In the bathroom at a McDonald’s in Offenbach, Germany on the evening of 15 November, two teenage girls were screaming for help. A 22 year-old German-born student of Turkish origin, Tugce Albayrak, heard their cries and alone rushed to their aid. She found several men harassing the two young girls and stopped them. ...

EUROPE | 07-10-2014 | Tens of thousands of Kurds have poured into the streets across Turkey, Europe and the world today in solidarity with the Kobanê resistance and in protest against the ongoing intensified attacks of ISIS gangs on the besieged Kurdish town. Demonstrators demanded urgent action worldwide in support of the Kurdish forces fighting inhuman gangs affiliated to the so-called ...

COLOGNE | 24-05-2014 | Thousands of Erdogan opponents took to the streets of Cologne to protest against the Turkish prime minister’s visit. They were demonstrating against his attitude to minorities and the mine tragedy in Soma. Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s visit to Germany yesterday was marked by a large demonstration in the city of Cologne. According to organisers 100 ...

GREECE | 15-05-2014 | We are publishing the Press Release from the CPG (ml)  concerning the Soma mine workers massacre. (AHM) The Turkish and the world working class are shocked after the new terrible crime of the capitalists at the coal mine of Soma in the Manisa province of Turkey. The workers of the whole world weep for hundreds of ...

SWITZERLAND  | 15-05-2014 | IndustriALL Global Union and its worldwide family mourn the deaths of hundreds of mineworkers in Soma, Manisa province in Western Turkey. As of the time of writing, 205 miners are dead and more than 80 are hospitalized. Rescue efforts continue to safeguard hundreds more miners trapped underground. Oxygen is still being pumped into the mine, however hopes ...

IAPL | 12-05-2014 |  The International Association of People’s Lawyers, as an international group of human rights lawyers from various countries, especially those where exploitation and state repression is most severe, has received information that the Professor of Delhi University was abducted by Maharashtra Police on May 9th, from the vicinity of Maharashtra Sadan, Kasturba Gandhi Marg, in the capital New Delhi in India. ...

ATİK | 29-04-2014 | With the initiation of the struggle waged by the Australian and American workers in the mid 1800s for the demand of mainly an eight-hour working day  and several other social rights,  was victorious and expanded after numerous prices paid; with this May Day has emerged as a celebration of the workers. The protests and meetings organized by ...

ATİK | 11-04-2014 | In the early hours of the morning on April 10th 2014 hundreds of riot police attacked the workers who were at the Greif factory occupation at Hadımköy aiming to break the resistance. The police, gendarmerie and high-tech police of the fascist states entered the factory by breaking the factory gate with construction machinery and have attacked and ...

HOLLAND | 09-04-2014 | PVV excluded from Almere council’s executive Wednesday 09 April 2014 The anti-immigration PVV is not included in the new coalition council for Almere, despite emerging as the biggest party in last month’s local election vote. The Liberal democrats D66, who were second in the vote, are taking the lead in the negotiations, which also involve the Labour ...

ATİK | 27-03-2014 | We,  anti-imperialist, anti-fascist mass  organisations struggling   in various countries in Europe, held a meeting on 8-9th February and after lengthy discussions agreed on the following subjects.  And we decided that we will continue our activities constructing an anti-imperialist struggling coordination initiative in Europe. The conditions we face are  marked by a continuing and developing crisis, being ...