Re: [L-I] Turkish hunger strike: additional remarks
Further to what was written previously, it is worth commenting on the claim that prisoners smuggle weapons inside the jails. The mafiosi can and do achieve this, with the connivance of guards and prison officials. The political prisoners - called "terrorists" by the state - are unable to do this. They and visiting relatives are searched much more carefully (indeed visits often do not take place because relatives refuse to accept degrading strip searches), and they do not receive the connivance and toleration that the system extends to the mafiosi. After all, revolutionaries are a threat to the system, while mafiosi and fascists are the quintessence of the system in Turkey. What the system fears about the revolutionary prisoners is their esprit de corps and their capacity to organise in the prisons. The authorities hope that isolation cells will break this down. DHKC London Information Bureau - - Original Message - From: "dhkcbureau" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, November 24, 2000 6:18 PM Subject: Re: [L-I] Turkish hunger strike > From: "Louis Proyect" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Friday, November 24, 2000 4:49 PM > Subject: [L-I] Turkish hunger strike > > > > Hunger Striking Turk Inmates Weaken on 'Death Fast' > > > > By REUTERS > > > > Filed at 11:18 a.m. ET > > > > ANKARA (Reuters) ... But authorities say the cell system meets European standards and, moreover, will break the influence of organized criminals and political prisoners > who recruit and run gangs in the dormitory-style wards with weapons smuggled in from the outside... ___ ___ Leninist-International mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http://lists.wwpublish.com/mailman/listinfo/leninist-international
[L-I] UK donates £10m to Serbia
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_1017000/1017521.stm BBC News, full article at http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_1017000/1017521.stm Britain is to donate £10m of emergency aid to Serbia to help avoid a humanitarian crisis as the harsh Balkan winter approaches. International Development Secretary, Clare Short, made the announcement, saying the recent uprising that deposed former President Slobodan Milosevic had left the Yugoslav republic ill-equipped to cope. "The people of Serbia are suffering the consequences of a prolonged period of social and economic collapse," Ms Short said. "The prospects for hundreds of thousands of people are looking increasingly desperate as the winter approaches." Living standards drop Britain has already pledged about 17% of a £120m EU grant to help the country cope and provide support to new President Kostunica, who is reforming the country in the wake of the uprising. Ms Short stressed that Britain is fully committed to helping Serbia now that Mr Milosevic is no longer in power. "We hope that the election of President Kostunica will lead to major reform in Serbia. "We and the international community are committed to helping with the reform process," she said. -- Mine Aysen Doyran PhD Student Department of Political Science SUNY at Albany Nelson A. Rockefeller College 135 Western Ave.; Milne 102 Albany, NY 1 _NetZero Free Internet Access and Email__ http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html ___ Leninist-International mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http://lists.wwpublish.com/mailman/listinfo/leninist-international
[L-I] EU hails triumph of Balkan Democracy
>I'm very much astonished to read such thing from you, comrade Mine. Owen may be wrong or not on the question of stateownership in Croatia/Serbia, but at least he is no defeatist running after one or another bourgeois regime because he can't think about real power of the workers. This is the difference with many leftists raised on the milk of the Stalin school of falsification and related agent-theories. Sorry to detect that you have been somehow tainted by this too. >Well, I think we shoiuld asll stop thisd kind of personal "arguments", but don't forget that this time around it was not me who started them. >A. Holberg Very true, Wosni! We are all comrades here despite our differences over the rule of Milosovic. So, let's pay attention to the realities of Yugoslavia instead of naming each other "pro-imperialist traitors" . Frankly, I don't think that my defense of Milosovic makes me a Stalinist or a pro-imperialist traitor, if I already *denounced* the counter-revolution that took place in Yugoslavia. As Marxists, we must have a commitment to the unity of socialist nations instead of siding with imperialist powers encouraging ethnic divisions in the name of introducing democracy. And the reason I believe so is documented below. As the article below indicates, it seems "progressive" Croatians have already started negotiations with EU. Mine --- BBC News http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/europe/newsid_1038000/1038639.stm Friday, 24 November, 2000, 16:17 GMT EU hails triumph of Balkan democracy Croatian demonstrators protested against Mr Kostunica Leaders of the European Union and six Balkan countries have ended an unprecedented meeting in the Croatian capital, Zagreb, with an agreement to promote reforms and reconcilation. The concluding statement declared that democracy and reconciliation in the Balkans were an essential part of closer links with the rest of Europe. It welcomed democratic change in Croatia and Yugoslavia, but called for respect for international obligations - including co-operation with the international war crimes tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. The declaration also noted that the EU had promised about $4bn in aid over the next six years to support reforms in the Balkans. Macedonia leads "Democracy and regional reconciliation and co-operation on the one hand, and the rapprochement of each of these countries with the European Union on the other, form a whole," it said. The declaration said the summit had taken place "at a time when democracy is about to carry the day throughout this region". "This movement is developing in the interests of all the countries in the region and offers them new prospects," the declaration continued. The declaration was signed by the leaders of Albania, Bosnia-Hercegovina, Croatia, the former Yugoslav republic of Macedonia, and Yugoslavia. On the margins of the summit, Macedonia formally signed an association agreement with the European Union, making it the first Balkan country to become a potential candidate for EU membership. The accord recognised the progress made by Macedonia in achieving political and economic reform. The EU is due to begin talks with Croatia too on an association agreement. War crimes tribunal UK Prime Minister Tony Blair warned that Europe faced a continuing threat from narrow-minded nationalism. Speaking at the summit, he said nationalism, in the name of misguided patriotism, would take countries backwards. Mr Blair's spokesman added that the focus should be on the fact that countries like Britain, France and Germany were able to "sit down together and offer the hand of friendship to people in the Balkans". Earlier, the current EU chairman, President Chirac of France, told the Balkan leaders that their future lay in the family of Europe. But he said it was in everyone's interest that those who had committed crimes were judged and punished. The Croatian President, Stipe Mesic, said it would be impossible to discuss normalisation of relations with Serbia unless Belgrade co-operated fully with the tribunal. In evidence of the continuing tensions among Balkan states, about 300 right-wing Croatian demonstrators protested outside the conference at the participation of the new Yugoslav President, Vojislav Kostunica. The BBC Diplomatic Correspondent Barnaby Mason says the summit was originally intended to highlight the new Western-oriented government of Croatia as a beacon for the region, and at the same time to put pressure on Belgrade to mend its ways. Upstaged But the fall of President Slobodan Milosevic in September changed all that. Now it is Mr Kostunica who is the centre of attention. So the Croatians were pointedly drawing attention to their co-operation with the international war crimes tribunal in The Hague, and asking when the Serbs are going to match it. Our correspondent says the European powers do not want to give the impression that Mr Kostunica is getting an easy ride,
Re: [L-I] Turkish hunger strike
A few comments on the Reuters report: Twelve, not eleven prisoners, died in the 1996 Death Fast. (Hayati Can of the TKP(ML) died when the protest ended and he was being taken to hospital.) One hundred prisoners (63 DHKP-C, 31 TKP(ML) and 6 TKIP) are on the Death Fast now, but nearly 1,000 started the indefinite hunger strike, so presumably the prisoners described as coming off the hunger strike are those who are not on the Death Fast. In 1996, the first prisoner to die, Aygun Ugur, also of the TKP(ML), died on the 63rd day, but the health of many prisoners is now inferior to what it was in 1996, especially among longer-term inmates. So there is a danger that prisoners on the Death Fast will die earlier than last time. A medical bulletin on the condition of the Death Fasters in Umraniye Prison (an important pre-trial prison in Turkey) is available and will be translated into English as soon as possible and placed on this list. DHKC London Information Bureau - - Original Message - From: "Louis Proyect" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, November 24, 2000 4:49 PM Subject: [L-I] Turkish hunger strike > Hunger Striking Turk Inmates Weaken on 'Death Fast' > > By REUTERS > > Filed at 11:18 a.m. ET > > ANKARA (Reuters) - The health of some Turkish inmates on the 35th day of a > ``death fast'' hunger strike over planned prison changes has begun to fail, > a human rights worker said on Friday. > > More than 800 leftist Turkish prisoners across the country have gone on > hunger strike to protest against government plans to transfer inmates from > large wards to cells. Forty inmates were beginning to see the symptoms of > failing health for refusing all food and water after vowing to fast until > death. > > ``The situation is growing worse. Many of the hunger strikers are losing > their vision and have memory loss,'' said Mesut Cetiner of the Human Rights > Association (IHD), which is monitoring the unrest. > > Eleven prisoners starved to death in 1996 in a protest against prisoner > transfers. > > The Justice Ministry declined to comment for this story. > > The Anatolian news agency said 31 protestors at a jail in the western city > of Aydin had quit the strike on Thursday. > > Another 815 protesters are drinking small amounts of water mixed with > sugar, Cetiner said. > > Some 30 relatives of the protestors have also gone on hunger strike in > Ankara and the southeastern city of Adana, he said. > > ``We're already dead in our homes as we watch our sons die,'' sobbed a > mother of a hunger striker at an IHD press conference earlier this week. > ``I gave a healthy son to the system and I want a healthy son to come home.'' > > Plans to transfer prisoners to maximum security jailhouses have sparked > criticism among inmates, families and rights activists. They argue the > cells, which hold one to three people, will isolate prisoners, leaving them > vulnerable to assault. > > Turkish police are often accused of torturing those in their custody. > > But authorities say the cell system meets European standards and, moreover, > will break the influence of organized criminals and political prisoners who > recruit and run gangs in the dormitory-style wards with weapons smuggled in > from the outside. > > The government has proposed a general amnesty that would free tens of > thousands of felons to ease the overcrowding. > > The IHD's Cetiner says the amnesty would not affect the hunger strikers, > because the legislation excludes those convicted of political crimes. > > > Louis Proyect > Marxism mailing list: http://www.marxmail.org/ > > ___ > Leninist-International mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To change your options or unsubscribe go to: > http://lists.wwpublish.com/mailman/listinfo/leninist-international > > ___ Leninist-International mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http://lists.wwpublish.com/mailman/listinfo/leninist-international
[L-I] War Against Civilians (Madison, Wisconsin / Thursday, Dec. 7)
>From: "Gregory Elich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Subject: Madison, Wisconsin event: War Against Civilians >Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 07:10:53 -0500 > >WAR AGAINST WOMEN AND OTHER CIVILIANS IN >YUGOSLAVIA AND IRAQ > >A Photographic and Eyewitness Report > >Thursday, December 7 >7:00 PM >Pres House >731 State Street >Madison, Wisconson > >by > >GREG ELICH >Internationally known activist and writer on the war in Yugoslavia. Toured >Yugoslavia in 1999 and Iraq recently in November 2000. > >GEOFF BERNE >Internet commentator and Kosovo protest leader. > >Also with Susan Nossal, member of U.S. Out Now and the WI Coordinating >Council on Nicaragua; and Darlene Gakovich, member of the Dane County >Peace Coalition, born and raised in Belgrade, Yugoslavia > >Sponsored by U.S. Out Now >For more information, call Rae at 608-835-7501 ___ Leninist-International mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http://lists.wwpublish.com/mailman/listinfo/leninist-international
[L-I] Turkish hunger strike
Hunger Striking Turk Inmates Weaken on 'Death Fast' By REUTERS Filed at 11:18 a.m. ET ANKARA (Reuters) - The health of some Turkish inmates on the 35th day of a ``death fast'' hunger strike over planned prison changes has begun to fail, a human rights worker said on Friday. More than 800 leftist Turkish prisoners across the country have gone on hunger strike to protest against government plans to transfer inmates from large wards to cells. Forty inmates were beginning to see the symptoms of failing health for refusing all food and water after vowing to fast until death. ``The situation is growing worse. Many of the hunger strikers are losing their vision and have memory loss,'' said Mesut Cetiner of the Human Rights Association (IHD), which is monitoring the unrest. Eleven prisoners starved to death in 1996 in a protest against prisoner transfers. The Justice Ministry declined to comment for this story. The Anatolian news agency said 31 protestors at a jail in the western city of Aydin had quit the strike on Thursday. Another 815 protesters are drinking small amounts of water mixed with sugar, Cetiner said. Some 30 relatives of the protestors have also gone on hunger strike in Ankara and the southeastern city of Adana, he said. ``We're already dead in our homes as we watch our sons die,'' sobbed a mother of a hunger striker at an IHD press conference earlier this week. ``I gave a healthy son to the system and I want a healthy son to come home.'' Plans to transfer prisoners to maximum security jailhouses have sparked criticism among inmates, families and rights activists. They argue the cells, which hold one to three people, will isolate prisoners, leaving them vulnerable to assault. Turkish police are often accused of torturing those in their custody. But authorities say the cell system meets European standards and, moreover, will break the influence of organized criminals and political prisoners who recruit and run gangs in the dormitory-style wards with weapons smuggled in from the outside. The government has proposed a general amnesty that would free tens of thousands of felons to ease the overcrowding. The IHD's Cetiner says the amnesty would not affect the hunger strikers, because the legislation excludes those convicted of political crimes. Louis Proyect Marxism mailing list: http://www.marxmail.org/ ___ Leninist-International mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http://lists.wwpublish.com/mailman/listinfo/leninist-international
[L-I] German police wants to cover up racist murder
Below is the Frankfurter Allgemeine account of a racist murder German police initially wanted to cover up a simple accident. Today its front page news on most German papers. This case shows how far the level of racist violence has risen in some parts of Germany nowadays. A group of about fifty Neonazi thugs drowned a six year old child at a public swimming pool. 200 onlookers just watched the scene. This is far beyond the usual level of violence in capitalist society. According to reports on German TV yesterday it was more or less an open secret in the town what has happened. But still police initially closed the case as an accident. It is sheer nonsense when the CNN/Reuters dispatchs is writing something about 'local authorities beeing intimitaded by neo-nazis.' Actually there rather seems to be a silent complicity between the police, local authorities, the 'respectable citizens' and the racist thugs. Johannes CNN/Reuters account can be found at: http://www.cnn.com/2000/WORLD/europe/germany/11/24/germany.racists.reut/inde x.html >From www.faz.com Neo-Nazis Accused of Murdering German-Iraqi Boy in Saxony By Peter Carstens SEBNITZ. Three radical right-wingers were arrested this week on charges of killing a boy of German-Iraqi parentage three years ago at a public swimming pool packed with more than 200 onlookers who did nothing to save the helpless child. Following extensive inquiries by the parents and the delayed resumption of investigations by the authorities, Saxon police arrested the three suspects, two men and a women aged between 20 and 25 years, all residents of Sebnitz. The 6-year-old boy accidentally "drowned" on June 13, 1997, in the town's municipal pool, according to the initial official investigation. The Frankfurter Rundschau newspaper recently revealed that foul play was "absolutely ruled out" a year later by the chief state prosecutor in Dresden. According to the report, which will be released on Friday, the parents never believed that the death was the result of a mere bathing accident. And the boy's mother, Renate Kantelberg-Abdulla -- a representative of the Social Democratic Party on the town council -- recently said that the prosecutor's office in Pirna had stopped its investigation because the case "could not be solved." So the parents took the case into their own hands. According to their reconstruction of events based on new witness statements, the boy, Joseph visited the swimming pool in Sebnitz with his older sister, a town of roughly 10,000 residents along the Czech border, in the early afternoon. Just a few minutes after he arrived, about 50 youths -- who, from their appearance, could have been Neo-Nazis -- ripped his towel off him. In full view of several adults, they boy was forced to swallow a liquid, possibly a sedative. Residues of the drug "ritalin" were found during a second autopsy on the body, which was paid for by the parents in January. The dazed boy was then beaten, an observation confirmed by heavy bruising to the left ear that was overlooked during the first autopsy. Witnesses also said the boy was tortured with an electric shock instrument. Amid cries of "come on, throw him in," the semi-conscious boy was then thrown into the swimming pool, they say. Then, a number of Joseph's attackers trampled on the submerged body until it went limp. Ten minutes passed before the body was dragged out of the water. More than 200 people were at the swimming pool on that warm summer day. Attempts to resuscitate the child failed. An anonymous caller later confirmed the parents' initial suspicions that they should have pressed murder charges from the outset. The bereaved parents sent their evidence to a criminologist in Hannover, who produced a report urging a reinquiry into the death, finally forcing the state prosecutor to reopen the investigation. ___ Leninist-International mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http://lists.wwpublish.com/mailman/listinfo/leninist-international
[L-I] Turkey: (2) TAYAD Bulletins on hunger strike/Death Fast
(This is a reissue. It looks like last night when we tried to send the second part we actually sent the whole item by mistake, so it was too large for the system. We are reissuing the second part, and hopefully it will be small enough. DHKC London Information Bureau.) November 12, 2000 No. 198 OUR SONS AND DAUGHTERS ARE APPROACHING DEATH. TODAY IS THE 23RD DAY OF THE HUNGER STRIKE. AND WE ARE STILL WAITING FOR SOMETHING TO HAPPEN! Today is the 23rd day of the hunger strike in the prisons. With every passing day our offspring approach nearer to death. On the one hand, while they are playing the game of entering the European Union and claiming to be on the road to democratisation, while on the other hand repression and tyranny are being stepped up. Hunger, poverty and unemployment become worse every day while there are those in our country who lead lives of ease, carried aloft by green US dollars. Life has another face here: exactly a year ago, on November 12, some of our people were buried under a pile of concrete and lost their lives. And behind the destroyed walls in the hungry days of cold winters, our people are forgotten in tents. In our country where there is no justice, those who want a country of freedom and equality are tortured in the prison bath or their arms are severed from their bodies. What oppression is there that is like this? Whose justice do our sons and daughters want? Thousands of our people were killed in the (August 1999) earthquake, others live in poorly equipped tents that are dangerous to stay in when the weather is cold, and millions of our people live on the edge of hunger - where is their justice, who represents justice for them? In a place without justice, those who want justice are legitimate, and in a place of torture where honour is ground underfoot, what more honourable thing can there be than to resist tyranny? This honourable resistance is honour itself. We are proud of our children for the resistance they are conducting. We are on the side of our sons and daughters who represent justice. They want to confine the lives of all of us within the four walls of these cells. Let us not remain silent to those who are trying to destroy life. November 13, 2000 No. 199 TODAY IS THE 24TH DAY OF THE HUNGER STRIKE OUR SONS AND DAUGHTERS APPROACH A LITTLE NEARER TO DEATH EVERY DAY The hunger strike in the prisons, which is in its 24th day, is continuing. If the demands for the 'F' Type prisons to be closed are not accepted, the hunger strike will be transformed into a Death Fast. Our sons and daughters have started a just and honourable resistannce. In this world there is nothing more lofty and honourable than wanting justice instead of injustice and being prepared to pay the price for it, there is nothing more legitimate than resisting tyranny and oppression. Now our children are in the midst of an honourable resistance and are paying the price for it. We as the TAYAD families, will continue to be on the side of this just resistance and will not remain silent in the face of death. November 14, 2000 No. 200 ON THE 25TH DAY OF THE CONTINUING INDEFINITE HUNGER STRIKE TO CLOSE DOWN THE CELL-TYPE PRISONS, WE ARE ALSO SUBMITTING OUR BODIES TO HUNGER Today our sons and daughters are on the 25th day of their hunger strike. They will turn it into a Death Fast if their most human demands, for which they are paying the price of hunger, are not accepted. We are also submitting our bodies to hunger as part of this just resistance, and we will not permit our sons and daughters to be destroyed in the cells. Nor will we be spectators to the deaths of our greatly beloved sons and daughters. The resistance of our sons and daughters, who are prepared to pay the price of living in a human way, is also our resistance. Let us be on the side of those who have started this resistance to oppression and let us not remain silent about what they are going through. November 14, 2000 No. 201 THE DEMANDS OF OUR SONS AND DAUGHTERS, FOR WHICH WE TOO ARE GOING ON HUNGER STRIKE This is the 25th day of our children's hunger strike. The state is continuing to be insensitive, continuing not to offer a solution. These are the demands for which our children will die: The closure of the 'F' Type cell prisons. Law 3713 with all its consequences must be abolished. The Tripartite Protocol must be abolished. The State Security Courts and all the consequences flowing from them must be abolished. At regular intervals, the prisons must be supervised by delegations of lawyers, doctors, prisoners' families, representatives of relevant non-governmental organisations and the Association of Judicial Personnel. Those responsible for massacres in the prisons must be swiftly indicted and punished. Our friends who are suffering from various ailments or from the Death Fast or were wounded in operations in the prisons and have had no medical treatment are to be released. Those who tortured our sons and daughters when they were detained
[L-I] More on virus removal
It looks as if the Corporate Edition of Norton Antivirus removes MTX as well. Here are the steps: (a) Uninstall any antivirus working on your PC and install NAV corporate edition (b) Insert in drive the first of 5 rescue diskettes of NAV you have previously prepared on a clean PC (the file go.bat must be modified by adding the following to the only command it contains: "> c:\list.txt"). Diskettes MUST be write protected (c) launch the program by booting your PC with first diskette inserted, this will take your PC to operate on DOS (not on Windows DOS Mode, but on DOS). Then insert second diskette and write the command "A:\go". This will launch a very low level cleanup, which may take very long. (d) once the cleanup is over, then you look at the list.txt you have generated. Always on DOS! (e) whatever file that the NAV has not fixed and is displayed as a virus that the program was unable to clean, you should simply delete by the good old method of writing "del" on the command line. Johannes ___ Leninist-International mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http://lists.wwpublish.com/mailman/listinfo/leninist-international
Re: [L-I] Turkey: (1) TAYAD Bulletins on hunger strike/Death Fast
Dear Mine, The mafia in the prisons are partly a reflection of the corrupt system in Turkey, and partly a tool of it. Because of their ability to bribe guards and officials they are able to obtain luxuries and various forms of privileged treatment. Many of the mafia are also fascists or are linked to fascists, and this makes them useful to the state for provocations against revolutionary prisoners who are in different wards of the same jail. Quite often the mafia and gangs in a particular jail will start fights with one another, and this provides the state with an excuse to carry out an operation in the jail whose real target is the revolutionary prisoners and not the mafia. There was an outbreak of such clashes in two prisons right at the start of the hunger strike, and it was clearly orchestrated to divert attention from the hunger strike and justify state intervention. The system is responsible for nurturing the mafia in Turkey's prisons, but it is now trying to use that same mafia as an excuse to bring in the 'F' Type prisons - not to deal with organised crime but to isolate the revolutionary prisoners. We don't know what the mafiosi and gangs think about the 'F' Type prisons but we suspect they would bribe and obtain privileges in them just like they do in the existing dormitory prisons. The left in Turkey is hostile to the 'F' Type prisons, and judging from the TAYAD congress in Istanbul earlier this month, a fairly wide spread of liberal opinion opposes them too. The best propaganda against the 'F' Type prisons is probably the September 1999 Ulucanlar Prison massacre, and many other incidents: a state that would do that in the existing prisons is eminently capable of turning isolation cells for political prisoners into torture chambers and execution cells, especially for prisoners who refuse to give up their revolutionary convictions. DHKC London Information Bureau - - Original Message - From: "Mine Aysen Doyran" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, November 24, 2000 1:41 AM Subject: Re: [L-I] Turkey: (1) TAYAD Bulletins on hunger strike/Death Fast > > Dhkc comrades! > > This issue of F type prison is really arousing my interest, not that I don't > know about it, though. What is the Turkish mafia currently prisoned in Turkish > prisons thinking about it? Do you know? During my short visit to Turkey during > the summer, I was shocked to hear how corrupt the Turkish prison system was > becoming (just as everything else since neo-liberal restructuring!). My father > was complaining about the fact that a network of mafia activities were taking > control over prisons. They were harassing other prisoners, shooting each other, > buying officials (and the state eventually) and establishing their bourgeois > kingdom. I also read in the local newspapers that those business men having > Swiss and US bank accounts abroad were actually dealing money in prisons., i.e. > former fascist Agaca calling mafia Cakici from his cell on the mobile phone, and > asking money because he was short. Local newspapers were writing "Cakici > promised to lend money to Agaca on the cellular phone!" (as if this is fucking > something to be proud of ) > > Millions of dollars are being circulated in prisons. The justice system is > becoming increasingly corrupt. The Turkish judges are bought and sold. US is > massively imposing its neo-liberal demands. We are facing arabesk liberalism > combined with Turko-American jingoism. What does the Turkish left think about > these issues? I wonder. > > > Mine > > > > > > > > > > dhkcbureau wrote: > > > (This message is rather long so it is being divided into two parts) > > > > TAYAD FAMILIES ARE CALLING YOU! > > LISTEN TO THEIR VOICES! JOIN YOUR VOICES TO THEIRS! > > > > October 14, 2000 > > No. 157 > > ONCE AGAIN, UNRESTRAINED ATTACKS IN GALATASARAY > > To put a stop to the construction of the cells, to have the anti-terror law > > abolished, this week the families of prisoners were in front of Galatasaray > > High School once again. The state, which is trying to legitimise the > > isolation cells, has nothing left to defend them and is trying to prepare > > new scenarios to bring about provocations in Umraniye Prison. We families of > > prisoners will frustrate these scenarios they are trying to put into effect > > such as that there is a tunnel, a rebellion has broken out etc. We condemn > > the unrestrained attack by the police on the families of prisoners who were > > standing by their sons and daughters in front of Galatasaray High School > > today, and call for our families who were arrested to be immediately > > released. Fifteen persons were detained. Here are the names we were able to > > discover: > > Eylem Goktas > > Fadik Adiyaman > > Gulcicek Bal > > Mihriban Yesil. > > > > October 23, 2000 > > No. 162 > > ON THE THIRD DAY OF THE HUNGER STRIKE STARTED BY OUR SONS AND DAUGHTERS > > Because of yes
[L-I] HELP Russian Workers global e-mail attack!
RUSSIA INFO-LIST from International Solidarity with Workers in Russia - [EMAIL PROTECTED] ISWoR web-site -http://members.aol.com/ISWoR/english/index.html ** * URGENT - please distribute this protest letter widely Support the All-Russia Workers' Day of Action on December 1st against the Barbaric new Labour Code Join the global e-mail protest NOW! The list of international signatures will be published internationally, on and after December 1st. The All-Russia Campaign in Defence of the Present Labour Code consider international solidarity from workers around the world, individually and through their unions or other progressive organisations, as very, very important. Please sign the following letter. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dear President Putin, As you know the second all-Russia Day of Action against your new draconian anti-union laws (Labour Code - KZot) takes place on December 1, 2000. The first protest on 17 May, brought out 300,000 workers across Russia. Since the introduction of privatisation in Russia, workers and their families have suffered enormous hardship. They have seen the average male life expectancy plummet from western levels to just 56. Non-payment of wages has become normal, schoolchildren have had to stay home because their schools cannot afford heating, diseases of poverty like tuberculosis have become epidemic, and all over the country people have been forced to live off what they can grow in their back plot. Now, on top of all this suffering, your government intends to introduce a new Labour Code that will destroy basic rights held by workers for decades. The new Labour Code, devised with the enthusiastic encouragement of the IMF, will impose a system of casual labour everywhere, removing from the trade unions all power to act. While at present workers cannot be legally fired if the union opposes it, the new Code will allow bosses to fire at will, as well as to spy on the private lives of workers, and blacklist any who have been active trade unionists. The length of the working day will be increased from 8 to 12 hours, and employers will be able to impose a 56-hour week without overtime pay. Additionally the new Code legalises child labour and forces pregnant women to work night shifts. We, as part of the world workers and pjrogressive movement protest against your barbaric new Code. We demand that the right of workers to organise in trade unions is maintained. We condemn your attempts to legally impose nineteenth century working conditions. We affirm our solidarity with the All-Russia Campaign Against the Labour Code, who have called for a mass Day of Action on 1 December 2000 against this disgraceful attack on working people. Signed City .. Country Union/Organisation . _ Please send e-mail copies to the following FOUR addresses [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Vladimir Putin, President of Russian Federation [EMAIL PROTECTED] - The State Duma (lower house of Russian legislature) [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Coordination Committee of the All Russia Action in Defence of the Present Labour Code via Oleg Shein, Duma Deputy, Co-Chairman of Zaschita "Defence" union [EMAIL PROTECTED] - International Solidarity with Workers in Russia - (ISWoR-MCPP) Supporters are also welcome to draft their own messages of protest and solidarity, with copies to the four e-mail addresses above. Faxes can be sent to President Putin at FAX (+7-095) 206 02 66 with copy to campaign organiser Oleg Shein at FAX (+7-095) 292 89 06 Further information can be found on the ISWoR English-language website at: http://members.aol.com/ISWoR/english/index.html or on the ISWoR French-language website at: http://www.chez.com/isworsitr/index.html This e-mail has already been (or is being) translated into Spanish, French, Russian, Italian, German and Finnish - if you can help with any other language, please contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] immediately. ** The RUSSIA INFO-LIST puts out information and analysis from a wide range of sources. If you have something you would like to distribute on Russia Info-List, or want to help in our practical solidarity work, contact: >[EMAIL PROTECTED]< Box R, 46 Denmark Hill, London, SE5 8RZ, England *** ___ Leninist-International mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http://lists.wwpublish.com/mailman/listinfo/leninist-international
