A gang of ministers and mafia-type capitalists rip off and bring to destitution the working people through price and tax increases

During the last five years the monarch-fascist party of “New Democracy” is in the government, there has been an abrupt and significant decline in the living standards of great parts of the population. The cause of this is in the successive price and tax increases imposed by the Karamanlis government as a part of its extreme neo-liberal economic policy. The attitude of the prime-minister and his cabinet to the high inflation and, the, almost daily, increases in the prices of articles of mass consumption, is all the more provocative because the only "reason" they can come up with is the increase...

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Hundreds Of People Showed Their Support For Hayat TV

Hundreds of people gathered for the call of the Association of Intellectuals for Democracy to protest the shutting of Hayat TV. From the Galatasaray Post Office in Istanbul, the group faxed the protest text “Turn On My Television” to the Ministry of Interior, the Supreme Council of Radio and Television (RTÜK) and Türksat A.Ş. The Association of Intellectuals for Democracy is formed by the Turkish Writers Unions (TYS), PEN Center for Turkey, the Turkish Journalists Union (TGS), the Platform of Istanbul Branches of the Confederation of Turkish Labor Unions (Türk-İş), the Platform of Istanbul...

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Hayat TV Is Back After Three Weeks

Hayat TV, whose broadcasting was stopped by the Turksat authorities following a warning by the Security Branch of the Ministry of Interior on the grounds that it was aiding the pro-Kurdish Roj TV, is open again.Meeting with the Radio and Television Supreme Council (RTÜK), Türksat, the Ministries of Interior and Communication, Hayat TV managed to start broadcasting again after it was taken off the air on July 15. Çubukçu: Opening the channel was harder Hayat TV’s Broadcasting Director Aydın Çubukçu told that it had become apparent how this banning was not based on the regulations as soon...

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Stop the Imperialist Escalation in the Caucasus

Communiqué of the Communist Party of the Workers of France (PCOF) For several days, the situation in the Caucasus is again becoming dangerously inflamed. Pushed by the US imperialism, the Georgian reactionary regime began the hostilities with a military operation whose stated goal was to retake control of the "separatist" territory of South Ossetia supported by Moscow. The Russia of Medvedev and of Putin responded with a military counter-offensive of great scope. The bombs of the two camps have fallen on the civil population in South Ossetia, but also in Abkhazia and various towns of Georgia,...

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Meeting of European Marxist-Leninist Parties and Organizations in Madrid

In June representatives of the Marxist-Leninist Parties and Organizations of Europe met in Madrid: the Communist Party of Spain (M-L), Communist Party of the Workers of France (PCOF), Revolutionary Communist Party of Turkey (TDKP), Communist Platform (Italy) and the Revolutionary Organization of Norway, to deal with questions of the work of communists in the trade union movement. In the first place the meeting analyzed the present political and economic context, characterized by a deepening of the aggressive policies of imperialism. The term “neo-liberalism” refers to the policies of imperialism...

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Hundreds Of People Showed Their Support For Hayat TV

Hundreds of people gathered for the call of the Association of Intellectuals for Democracy to protest the shutting of Hayat TV.  From the Galatasaray Post Office in Istanbul, the group faxed the protest text “Turn On My Television” to the Ministry of Interior, the Supreme Council of Radio and Television (RTÜK) and Türksat A.Ş.   The Association of Intellectuals for Democracy  is formed by the Turkish Writers Unions (TYS), PEN Center for Turkey, the Turkish Journalists Union (TGS), the Platform of  Istanbul Branches of the Confederation of Turkish Labor Unions (Türk-İş),...

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The Youth Movement in Turkey

An interesting article found in http://www.emep.org Unemployment, poverty, no social security, a reactionary education with fees, deprivation from basic rights and freedoms and the oppression and terror that accompany all this shape the circumstances that Turkey’s ruling classes present to the youth and hold them in. The exploiting ruling classes want a youth that does not think, discuss or rebel, that is individualistic, indifferent, indolent and agnostic, running after instant “happiness”. That is why they use all the tools and opportunities at their disposal, from the media and press organs...

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