A video from Harbiye, a district close to Taksim Square in Istanbul.
Author: nickglais
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Police attack and disperse crowds on Taksim square : Erdogan reverses course, again
Not Dispersal – Not Intervention – Just Brutal Attack
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Democracy and Class Struggle
After seeming to reach a peaceful understanding with protesters, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan reverses course, again, and has police clear the park. Mike Giglio reports.
Just days after protesters and the government of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan appeared to reach an
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“Press Release: Abahlali base Mjondolo: We are All Turkish Democrats”: a Statement of Solidarity with the Turkish Struggle
Abahlali base Mjondolo is a democratic, membership based movement of shack dwellers and other poor people in South Africa. In 2005 our experience of suffering and injustice led us to decided to organize ourselves and to represent ourselves. We are struggling for land and housing as a vital step towards the restoration of our dignity and the recognition of our equality.
We have been severely
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Veteran Black Panther Larry Pinkey condemns Obama
“Larry Pinkney is a veteran of the Black Panther Party, the former Minister of Interior of the Republic of New Africa, a former political prisoner, and the only American to have successfully self-authored his civil/political rights case to the United Nations under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.
He is an editorial board member of the online publication, The Black
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Morocco : 48 hour Hunger Strike in Marrakech Prison in Solidarity with Turkish People
National Union of Students of Morocco Aziz Group – Basist Democratic Way MLM
Local prison Boulmherez – Marrakech
48-hour hunger strike in solidarity with the Turkish people!
The regime leads a fierce and barbaric attack against the popular masses in Turkey. All means are used to silence these uprisings many and situations of repression, exploitation, marginalization oppression suffered the -
Clément Méric, Comrade and Martyr for the Struggle from Partisan of The Revolutionary Communist Party of Canada
Fascist terror struck in the streets of Paris on Wednesday, June 5 when a gang of thugs probably associated with “les Jeunesses Nationalistes Révolutionnaires” (“Revolutionary Nationalist Youth”) beat to death an 18 year-old antifascist activist, Clément Méric.
The incident occurred near the Saint-Lazare train station while the victim was leaving a clothing store. As his comrades and
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Declaration of Solidarity with People of Turkey from National Union of Students of Morocco University of Cadi Ayyad Marakech (French and English )
Union Nationale des Etudiants du Maroc
Université Cadi Ayyad Marrakech
Déclaration de solidarité avec le peuple Turc
« En s’appuyant sur l’union et la lutte du peuple comme seul facteur déterminant pour anéantir le colonialisme et ses chiens de garde »(Président Mao Tsé-toung).
Le soulèvement actuel du peuple Turc démontre au quotidien et avec persistance le caractère
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Turkey’s Civil Revolt: Istanbul Rising plus Livestream
See Also : http://democracyandclasstruggle.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/komunist-onder-ibrahim-kaypakkaya_8.html
http://democracyandclasstruggle.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/kemalism-and-fascism-revolutionary.html
http://democracyandclasstruggle.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/statement-of-mkp-maoist-komunist.html
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James Kelman: ‘Britain Is A Country’ Fallacy – Britain is not a country, it is the name used by the ruling elite and its structures of authority to describe itself.
Democracy and Class Struggle publish an extract from James Kelman’s article “Britain is a Country Fallacy” and recommend you read the full article has it is copyrighted and cannot be reproduced in full here.
This article goes to the heart of the debate on the national question in British Isles, my own article attacking current British cosmopolitan leftism has having nothing to do with
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London: Anti G8 Protestors arrested in Regent Street : Carnival Against Capitalism
Hundreds of riot police have been deployed in and around central London to help deal with anti-capitalist protests ahead of next week’s G8 conference.
The demonstrators had said they would stage a “Carnival Against Capitalism” ahead of the two-day summit in Belfast, Northern Ireland next week.
There was a raid on a building in Soho occupied by organisers of the demonstrations ahead of the