Turkey Pro Mars Endure
Socialist Press1977 1977-05-25Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 2 →
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Since the May Day shootings the right wing parties have exploited the violence efforts to discredit the "left" parties-even including the bourgeois Republican Peoples Party led by Mr. Ecevit.
Meanwhile the Stalinist-dominated left wing trade union confederation DISK has declared they are not even going to mobilise a protest demonstration against the killings, even though a Maoist group has now published a picture of plain clothes policemen firing from rooftops into the crowd.
The Interior Ministry has accepted that these men are policemen. But they claimed that the police were there "to arrest a suspected anarchist"!
By ignoring this class evidence that the violence was policeprovoked, and by centring their attack instead on the 1 Maoists, blaming them for the killings, the Stalinists are playing the game exactly the way the ruling National Front coaltion would like.
There is a need for an immediate sorters' inquiry into the May Day billines to pur an end to rumours Since May Day fascist attacks have continued-killing at least ten, with dozens wounded. Every political party is now discussing how to protect the polling stations. DISK has announced it will mobilise workers for this purpose; but the fascists have also stated that they will "guard the polling stations"
Of course the question confronting DISK and all workers' organisations is not defence of the pollint booths, but a continuing defence of all workers against As a group of 15 WSL supporters shouted on the May Day rally, there must be an immediate turn to build workers defence squads drawn from all tendencies within the workers movement to combat fascist terror.
Meanwhile more evidence is emerging of the scale of the economic crisis which is now forcing the employers onto the offensive in turkey.
Japanese banks, and banks in several European countries are now refusing to cash cheques drawn on the Bank of Turkey because of its lack of assets. Turkish embassy
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