Resignation of Erdogan’s one-man government! Tens of thousands of workers, students, retirees, young people, men and women have taken to the streets of several cities in Turkey to express their repudiation of the reactionary government of Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The… Read More ›
Comrade Erol “Arif” Büyükkaraca has died. Comrade Arif was a long-time member of the Executive Board of the Labor Party of Turkey (Emek Partisi), and a life-long proletarian internationalist and revolutionary. Many of us got to know Comrade Arif at… Read More ›
Statement from the Labor Party (Emek Partisi) of Turkey, Dec. 2, 2024. Translated for the Red Phoenix. The HTS (Hayat Tahrir al-Sham), a continuation of Jabhat al-Nusra, ISIS’ first organization in Syria, and the Syrian National Army, which includes structures… Read More ›
Statement by the International Conference of Marxist-Leninist Parties and Organizations (ICMLPO) | July 18, 2024– The European election results have mercilessly exposed the crisis of the bourgeois-capitalist system and its internal contradictions. In many countries, the number of non-voters and… Read More ›
The following is a comradely greeting sent from the Labor Party of Turkey (EMEP) to the American Party of Labor on behalf of the party’s Fifth Congress. Dear Comrades, Not only because the American continent is one of the largest,… Read More ›
Turkey — Özak Textile was established 10 years ago in Urfa in southeastern Turkey as the 4th textile factory of Özak Holding. The factory mainly produces for international companies such as Levi’s, Zara and Hugo Boss. Since 1985, the holding… Read More ›
The most important lesson that the opposition should learn from these elections is that despite the unequal equation, it is in the government’s favour to prevent the struggle of the people by equating change and democracy only with votes. By… Read More ›
Labour Party of Turkey (EMEP) made a statement on the presidential and parliamentary elections held on 14 May. EMEP called on all laborers to mobilize to overthrow the one-man regime in the second round. “Despite the ruling party’s use of… Read More ›
The economic crisis, poor working conditions and the presidential and parliamentary elections to be held on May 14 dominated the May Day rallies. Published in Evrensel Daily. May Day, International Day of Unity, Struggle and Solidarity of the Working Class… Read More ›
By the Labour Party (EMEP) — Turkey. On February 6, two successive earthquakes, of 7.7 and 7.6 magnitude, occurred in the south-eastern city of Kahramanmaras, Turkey, affecting a large area and turning many cities, towns and villages into rubble. In… Read More ›
By Ercüment Akdeniz, via Evrensel Daily. It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch… Read More ›
Maurice B. | Red Phoenix correspondent | New York– The following was a speech given by members of New York Earthquake Solidarity at the Feb. 19th vigil for victims of the Feb. 6th earthquake that has devastated Turkey and Syria…. Read More ›
via Evrensel Daily. Criticizing President Tayyip Erdoğan’s decision to declare a state of emergency in 10 provinces devastated by earthquakes, EMEP said, “The people’s need is not a state of emergency but the organization of emergency aid and solidarity.” In… Read More ›
From Scintilla, Issue 130, January 2023, by Piattaforma Comunista – for the Communist Party of the Proletariat of Italy In recent times the striving for “Greater Serbia” by the Serbian bourgeoisie, which has always had historical pretensions, has been revitalized…. Read More ›
Armenian by birth, Garbis Altinoğlu – who occasionally used the pen name Gumus Velli – relocated to Amasya, Turkey early in life. He was drawn to Marxism-Leninism as a young man and recognized his role in history as a revolutionary…. Read More ›
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