Turkey campaign
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About 100 people attended the first WSL public meeting in London on the campaign "Don't Let Turkey become another Chile!"
The meeting strongly pressed home the message of the imminent danger of military-fascist take over in Turkey.
The WSL platform speaker and a number of speakers from the floor explained whyTurkey has now become a key strategic country for imperialism in the face of the blows it has suffered from the struggles of the masses in fran and the Middle East.
Crises
In the face of acute economic and political crises, the Turkish bourgeoisie has been forced to abandon any type of "democratic" forms of rule and instead to look desperately for means to suppress the workers and peasants.
Already in 19 cities martial Workers Socialist League E LABOÜR TAGHANE Available (16p inc postage)| from WSL, 31, Dartmouth Park Hill, London NW5 1HR] law is in force to suppress the workers movement and the Kurdish movement, which has been deeply influencad by the struggles of Kurds in Iran.
Speakers explained further how the fascist danger has doveloped in Turkey as a result of popular front betrayals of Stalinist and reformist leaders in Turkey who uncritically support the ruling bourgeois. party Ecovit's RPP. Portraying: the RPP as the 'democratic' alterative!.. to fascism, they subordinate the independence of the working class behind it and thus disarm the masses in the face of great historical danger.
The WSL campaign on Turkey contres on the demand that the Turkish workers'orga. nisations break from Ecovit and his generals and fight for the independence of the working class through the united front of workers organisations and armed workers defence against fascist attacks.