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Address: : Socialist League. gaining, with demands for the right to negotiate at local plant level.

Since this struck at the highly centralised bureaucratic way in which the TURK-IS exercised control over the membership it was resisted as bitterly by them as by the capitalists.

Out of this ferment of newly awakened class consciousness came the formation of the Turkish Workers Party in 1962. Leaders of two of the most powerful TURK-IS affiliatesof Maden-Is leader Kemal Turkler, shot dead in Istanbul a month before the coup.

Despite " its perfidious leaders, DISK symbolises the major gains made by the Turish workers after years of struggle and sacrifice.

It is the duty of the international trade union and labour movement to condemn unreservedly the attempts to destroy these achievements which if successful will set back the Turkish working class a generation.

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Page 4 SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 11 March, 1981 nolga algo i algr ORRO BICH Labour demonstration against the cuts, November 1979 As Labour councils up and down the country decide on rate levels for the coming financial year the question of how to respond to Tory attacks on local government finance is sharply posed. Socialist Press has consistently argued for a policy of mobilising the working class behind Labour councils in a confrontation with the Tories. But some of Labour councils have argued for raising rates in order to buy time' to prepare a movement against the Tories. Lambath council leader TED KNIGHT is recognised as expressing this view most consistently. Socialist Press supporters KEITH WHITE and IAN SWINDALE recently interviewed him. The second part of that interview is printed CHOP GWE-