Europe

PARIS | 07-01-2014 | Workers at a Goodyear tyre factory in Northern France have been holding two managers captive in a dispute over plans to close the plant. The director of production at the plant in Amiens, Michel Dheilly and human resources chief, Bernard Glaser have not been allowed to leave the plant. Staff and management have been negotiating for ...

ATİK GENERAL COUNCIL | 01-01-2014 | WE WELCOME THE NEW YEAR WITH THE SPIRIT OF GEZI RESİSTANCE! 2014 Shall be ours! 2014 shall be full of struggle and hope for the workers and the oppressed! Since the early days of year 2000 we have witnessed uprisings which are increasing in terms of numbers and amplitude which has spread to a ...

EUROPE | 10-12- 2013| On 8th November, the typhoon Hayan (known as Yolanda within the country) has swept some areas of the Philippines to more than 300 kilometres per hour, with 5 meter high waves, one of the strongest and most disastrous ever seen to hit the earth. Right from the start it was clear that the destruction of human ...

PRATO | 05-12-2013 | At least seven migrant garment workers of Chinese origin died and three were injured in the blaze on 1 December 2013 in an industrial zone of the town of Prato in Tuscany region of Italy. The fire happened on Sunday morning in a warehouse of a textile factory, on top of which according to local mass ...

PARIS | 09-09-2013 | The members of the Paris Platform of Democratic Mass Organisations have held a commemoration at Yılmaz Güney’s grave. Approximately 250 people gathered at Güney’s grave at the  Pere Lachaise Graveyard. The commemoration started with a minute of silence, afterwards the platforms common statement was read. Quoting the statement “A seed of the revolutionary cultural art front ...

THE HAGUE | 06- 09- 2013 | The Dutch state has been found responsible by a court in The Hague for the deaths of three Muslim men after the fall of Srebrenica during the 1992-1995 Bosnian war. “The court ruled that the Dutch state is responsible for the death of these men because Dutchbat (Dutch UN troops) should not have ...

DORTMUND | 03–09–2013 | On 31st August Nazis organised a march in one of Germany’s cities, Dortmund.  Around 1000  people amongst which also ATIF and YDG were there, have strongly attempted to prevent this march. Despite all the measures the police had taken, the anti-fascist forces were able to barricade the route of the fascists.  After a long and hard ...

LONDON| 30 – 08 -2013 | David Cameron  indicated on Thursday evening that Britain would not take part in military action against Syria after the British government lost a crucial vote on an already watered-down amendment that was designed to pave the way to intervention in the war-torn country. In a devastating blow to his authority, the prime minister lost ...

LONDON | 18 – 08 – 2013 |  The womens comission of the London Gezi Solidarity tent, have organised a protest on Trafalgar Square on Saturday 17th August. The protest aimed to voice the concerns of the Rojava massacre and strengthen the demands for freedom of the Gezi prisoners. The women were wearing white t-shirts with several slogans on them, ...

SPAIN | 18 -08 – 2013 | Scores of people have been arrested in Spain and France in a crackdown on a gang smuggling Chinese nationals into Europe and the United States. Spanish police said on Saturday that 51 people had been arrested in Spain, with another 24 arrests were reported in France, following a two-year joint investigation. The bosses of ...