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issues issues On 8th April fascists attacked the students of and wounding many others.

The next day, April 9th, over 60,000 people marched in a funeral demonstration for the dead student calling for the revolutionary overthrow of the government.

ARMED CLASHES

In the resulting protests from students in many Universities in Ankara, armed clashes developed between police and students leading to a further two students being killed by police and many more badly wounded.

Confrontations spread through many parts of the city as police attacked students demonstrating around the slogans Down with the Fascists' and "The Government Must Resign' . Police arrested more than 300 students.

The Turkish National Front Coalition government consists of four right-wing bourgeois parties. It was established in March 1975, six months atter the break-down of the coalition government based on Ecevit's Republican Popular Party and the National Salvation Party.

Since then the fascists have increased their attacks on the working class, students and progressives with the full support of the state forces.

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ADDRESS . EUROPE 6 issues. 12 issues 24 issues subscription to Si issues, I enclose 1 Hundreds of violent incidents have taken place, killing more than 60 people with hundreds wounded.

These incidents show that the fascists are rapidly expanding their forces and terrorist attacks under the favourable conditions created by the right-wing government.

The international economic crisis, which is getting deeper day by day, is felt deeply in Turkey. Six million workers are unemployed while inflation is between 20 and £1.15 £2.30 £4.60 £1.50 £3.00 .56.00 ›cialist 30 per cent.

Under these conditions, the class struggle is sharpening and the bourgeoisie are trying to repress workers' struggles through methods of fascist terror.

It is also signiticant that the interests of American imperialism in the Middle East requires them to maintain a right-wing government and to establish a repressive regime The ability of the Turkish bourgeoisie to establish its united front against the working class is the outcome of the reactionary policies of the leadership of the Turkish working class.

Ecevit's Republican Popular Party (the parliamentary opposition to the National Front government) is based on the petty-bourgeoisie and is making some left sounding speeches. In words they are demanding the bringing down" of the National Front government but only through democratic and parliamentary ways. ialist interests represented by the National Front.

Most of the other "left" parties are supporting the RPP against the National Front government. In this way the RPP gathers the support of layers of workers and peasants.

UNIONS

In the unions there is a similar crisis of leadership. There are, in Turkey, about five million employed workers and two million of them are organised in unions.

They fall into two major trade union confederations, the Confederation of Revolutionary Workers Unions and the Confederation of Turkish Workers Unions.

The CTWU is the majority force and a reformist confederation -many of its leaders have been trained as trade unionists in the The CRWU was founded after a split from the CTWU and has rapidly strengthened; in the last two years many unions have split from the CTWU to join the new confederation.

But the CRWU gives all its political support to Ecevit's RPP and does nothing to establish the political independence of the working class.

During the Cyprus war, both confederations gave full support to their "own" bourgeoisie, banning all strikes and accepting the imposition of a curfew and anti-labour In the last few months the CRWU leadership has brought about the defeat of a struggle involving 400,000 public sector workers. The fight was against legislation changing the status of the workers to civil servants, thus banning their right to unionise.

But in manufacturing industry, unionisation continues to develop rapidly.

There are some parties to the left of the RPP. The Turkish Labour Party was founded after the coup in May 1960. Up to the coup in 1971, the TLP had considerable the change in the RPP kade attracted much TLP support.

In 1973, the TLP 423 11 stituted and based itself on a trades unions. It is nos strug to win the support of the -away from the RPP. But by kee the struggle against the Nati Front government on the da cratic and parliamentary lendi TLP politically identifies itself the RPP.

The illegal Turkish Commi Party (TCP) has no indepen alternative policies in this strug PARLIAMENTARY It formulates its aims as establishment of democratic pr through Parliamentary means. the Stalinists, it isn't necessar this stage for the working cla take power, but merely to some involvement in it.

On this basis, the TCP comb on policy, with the RPP and TLP.

During the Cyprus war, Stalinists of the TCP gave sup to Ecevit on the basis that he supposedly going to estal "peace" on the island.

There is also a number of sm left wing organisations. The Ma have considerable support 1 sections of peasants and studı But they divert all struggles by 1 slogan 'No to the Soviet Uni No to America - Indepen In Turkey as in all other o tries, the way to fight the fas and repressive regimes is to figh mobilize the full strength of working class in a united f against reaction.

In this only Trotskyists show the way forward. The cer demands of the struggles toda Turkey must be: * For a General Strike to b down the National FI For workers defence squ against fascist and police attack! * Down with the state secu courts and their laws!

Repeal all anti-working c legislation! * Release all political prisoners!

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