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TURKEY | 06 – 09 – 2012 | Turkish Airlines and Turkish Technic workers who are all members of the Turkish Civil Aviation Union (Hava-Is) have been on the picket line at Istanbul’s Ataturk International Airport, main hub for Turkish Airlines, for 100 days now. Turkish Airlines and Turkish Technic have fired 305 workers via text message, email and phone ...

TURKEY | 27 – 06 – 2012 | Employees of the Atılım Newspaper and the Etkin news agency (ETHA) staged a protest in Istanbul’s Taksim Square on Tuesday by selling newspapers on the street in response to a police raid into their offices the same day. Law enforcement officials Tuesday raided the offices of the Etkin News Agency (ETHA) and ...

SIRNEX | 30 – 12 – 2011 | Following the MGK (National Security Council) meeting on 28 December, the Turkish army has made a slaughter with warplanes. At least 35 burnt bodies have been reached so far. The number of casualties is feared to increase. Around 50 civilians, some of them believed to be borders smugglers, were targeted by F-16 ...

Resist commodification, modern-day slavery and other imperialist attacks on migrants and the people! Statement of the International Migrants Alliance on the International Migrants Day 2011 The International Migrants Day 2011 is commemorated amidst intensified attacks on the livelihood and rights of migrants under the worsening global economic and financial crisis brought about and intensified by imperialist globalization and war. At ...

ISTANBUL | 17 – 10 – 2011 | We are very sad to inform the international progressive public that our comrade Suzan Zengin has passed away on October 12th 2011 due to an heart damage. She had been on the emergency room since 17 days. Reason for her intense illness was the inhuman prison conditions that exist in Turkey’s prisons. ...

İNDİA | 01 – 05 – 2011 | Condemn the Illegal Detention of Central Committee Members of the CPI (Maoist) Vijay Kumar (Jaspal), Varanasi Subramaniam (Saroj), Jhantu Mukherjee along with Three Villagers by the Bihar Police! Demand the Immediate Production of the Six before a Court of Law! According to media reports, three Central Committee members of the CPI (Maoist) ...

PAKISTAN | 28 – 04 – 2011 | May Day, 2011 Message From All Pakistan Trade Union Federation Working Women Organization Dear Comrades and friends, Red salute and Revolutionary May Day greetings from All Pakistan Trade Union Federation/Working Women Organization! As you know that all over the world workers are celebrating International Labor Day on May 1st to pay homage ...

SYRIA | 27 – 03 – 2011 | The Kurdish people of Syria have not joined the current wave of unrest with any significant demonstrations against President Bashar al-Assad and his ruling Baath party. But that could change. The Kurds, representing around 10% of the country’s population, are “ready, watching and waiting to take to the streets, as their cause ...

WORLD | 27 – 03 – 2011 | Unrest has swept across the Middle East and North Africa, sparked by an uprising in Tunisia that led to the ouster of the country’s ruler. Here an overview of the risings. Algeria After 19 years, the government officially lifted a state of emergency in February following strikes and protests. But protest marches, ...

ILPS | 23 – 03 – 2011 | We, the International League of Peoples’ Struggle, condemn in the strongest terms the imperialist war of aggression being launched by the United States of America, United Kingdom, France and their allies and puppets against Libya and the people of Libya. This war of aggression is a gross violation of the national sovereignty ...