[they too should back the RPP. Such support…]
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they too should back the RPP.
Such support is simply a continuation of the Popular Front alliance with bourgeois parties which characterises Stalinism throughout Europe today.
But while the Stalinists mobilise workers on demands of bourgeois democracy, the bourgeoisie is mobilising fascists to destroy it.
In the last four months alone 50 workers have been killed, hundreds wounded and factories controlled by terror as fascists forced workers to join the facsist union confederation. Ecevit's party offers no alternative to this.
The reformist parties-the Turkish Labour Party and Turkish Socialist Labour Party-follow similar lines to the CP in seeing Ecevit's party as the main progresuve force Tha TlP failat i aattempt to ally with Ecevit and has been fc rced to stand independently.
The TSLP and the Turkish Socialist Party both failed to quality under the laws for the election--leaving the TLP as the only workers party at the polls.
The political independence of the working class from the bourgeoisie is the central issue in this election.
For this reason there must be no vote for the bourgeois RPl, but a demand that the ILP break al links with the RPP and put forward a socialist programme aimed at uniting the struggles of workers and peasants.
And one of the key demands in such a programme must be for united workers defence squads against fascio attark
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