This brief report from our correspondent in Istanbul concludes our article Trouble in paradise: A cautionary tale for big capital in Turkey published in May.
Scottish Socialist Party to affiliate with new left alliance
16 August 2015Today at the SSP National Council, members voted in favour of the party becoming an affiliate of a new electoral alliance for the Scottish elections next year.
Solidarity with Kurdish and Turkish activists
8 August 2015, byThis statement was adopted at the closing rally of the 32nd youth camp in solidarity with the Fourth International on 1st August at Hoge Rielen in Belgium, by the delegations present from Belgium, Britain, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Spanish state, Switzerland as well as the guests from Brazil, Mexico and the USA.]
99% stand for Climate: Our Planet, not your Business!
5 August 2015, bySix years after the failure of the Copenhagen negotiations against climate change, global corporate and political powers will meet again during the COP21. This 21st Conference of Parties will take place in Paris during the two first weeks of December 2015.
in solidarity with the sentenced protesters of the 15th July in Greece
2 August 2015, byThis statement was adopted at the closing rally of the 32nd youth camp in solidarity with the Fourth International on 1st August at Hoge Rielen in Belgium, by the delegations present from Belgium, Britain, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Spanish state, Switzerland as well as the guests
from Brazil, Mexico and the USA.
Solidarity with anti-eviction protestors in Islamabad
31 July 2015Islamabad’s development authority announced plans to remove katchi abadis, or low-income housing camps, across the city earlier this month and succeeded in obtaining a court judgement saying the settlements were illegal.
Solidarity with the prisoners of 15 July — Against police brutality
17 July 2015, byThe government of SYRIZA-ANEL who voted the new memorandum, in the same line with previous governments, has proved that they cannot enforce the new austerity measures that destroyed the life of workers and people in Greece and complete the overturn of the massive NO of the working class, without resorting to the last form of social dominance: the state-police violence and repression.
No to repression of anti-austerity demonstrators!
16 July 2015, byMore than 15,000 people demonstrated yesterday evening in the streets of Athens against the vote in Parliament of a third memorandum which imposes new austerity measures on the Greek people and workers. It was the first day of general strike since Tsipras has been in government. ADEDY (the main trade union of the civil service) demanded: “the abolition of the memorandum” and “the cancellation of the debt”.
38 Syriza MPs reject the agreement
16 July 2015, by38 Syriza MPs reject the agreement.
Overall result: 229 yes, 64 no, 6 abstain/present, one absence.
Today is a tragic day for Greece and for its Left.
Majority of Syriza CC reject agreement
15 July 2015STATEMENT by the 108 (out of 201) members of Syriza’s Central Committee
