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PAPER OF THE WORKERS SOCIALIST LEAGUE ITAIN sues. issues issues between RPP and Justice Party supporters and deaths were reported from Hatai and Soke. In general, however, this was much less than expected.

The comparative peace of the election was in contrast to many of the events that preceded it.

Since the massacre at the workers demonstration in Istanbul on May Day there have been many attacks, mostly by the NAP on supporters of Ecevit and left wing parties.

On 29 May a coach carrying Ecevit was shot at by unknown assailants. In Ismir Airport on the same day Mehnet Isvan, a senior leader of the RPt, was shot in the leg by a gun which later proved to have been in the hands of a policeman.

After only getting about 10,000 to his final mass meeting in Istanbul on 1 June, Demirel then sent a "personal and secret" signed letter to Ecevit warning him not to hold his final meeting on 3 June, and giving the precise place where a group of "illegal Communist-terrorists" would put themselves to shoot at him.

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EUROPE 6 issues. 12 issues 24 issues Turkish Labour Party allowed the bourgeois RPP its allocated time and place, and over 300,000 according to some reports came to an "illegal" meeting, the final election rally of the RPP.

Whatever the results of the final electoral arithmetic, it seems most likely that Ecevit, inheritor of the mantle of the bourgeois revolution of Kemal Ataturk, will be in government shortly.

He will bring with him the hopes of many millions of Turkish workers trade unionists and peasants to whom he has promised credits.

But Ecevit is not the leaders of a workers party or a workers movement.

The party of big capital and international imperialism is being replaced by the party of the native bourgeoisie, which is also incapable of solving the immense political and economic problems that face with unemployment at just over 2,000,000, inflation at just over 18% and a foreign payments debt approaching crisis point, Ecevit, like the others, will have to approach the IMF with cap in hand.

Ecevit He will without question, introduce policies of austerity and cuts in living conditions. He will not have the opportunity now for a foreign adventure like the invasion of Cyprus which marked his last period in government to take away attention from these problems.

However the election campaign has shown clearly that the Turkish masses are on the move. Not only did many hundreds of thousands come to the meeting but strikes under the leadership of the Stalinists of the DISK federation are now stopping half of the car industry an over three quarters of the production of refrigerators and washing machines.

These struggles will noW certainly be called off by the Stalinists and other workers leaders who have falsely told the working class that they can rely on Ecevit for democratic rights and economic gains.

UNITED FRONT

There must be a fight in the Turkish labour movement for the independence of the working class in its struggle to defend jobs, wages and basic rights.

The demand for a united front of workers' parties must be put forward as an essential step in the building of a revoluionary leadership necessary to achieve socialism.

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