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The ruling Justice
and Development Party (AKP) of Turkey has been stepping up its fascist
attack on the people to the extent that it even prevented the organising of
March 8th — International Women’s Day — programmes. It also ruthlessly
suppressed the SEKA working class struggle in the month of February. In
retaliation against the governments actions against the workers and women the
TKP/ML militants blew up six offices of the AKP.
SEKA is a state-owned
paper producing factory which the government tried to privatize. For over 70
days, paper workers were in strike. They didn’t leave their factory during the
strike. The strike ended in the beginning of March. The factory was transferred
to the municipality, and the workers gained some rights. The reactionary
trade-union tried to stop the strike. Workers resisted not only the government
they also resisted the trade union. But because of not having a revolutionary
leadership, this strike could not get it’s main demands — primarily to stop the
privatization. A TKP/ML statement said "State-owned enterprises are trying to
be privatized according to the looting policies of imperialism that will result
new members for unemployment army. Because of this, we should learn from the
SEKA resistance. The resistance in SEKA did not gain victory completely, but it
showed the worker’s and peasant’s how they can protect their economic,
democratic right’s; but the ending of this resistance also showed us the
capability of the Turkish ruling classes and their "success" in blowing out the
spark before it became a fire. Once more, this resistance showed us that before
the yellow trade-unions end strikes, we should unite and struggle against these
aggressive policies. To solve these problems, we should combine the economic,
democratic struggle with the struggle for political power. There will be
exploitation, cruelty, unemployment, poverty as long as the Turkish ruling
classes are in power. Because of this, we should organize and struggle to
establish a People’s Democracy. We, the TKP/ML militant’s, express our
solidarity with the SEKA worker’s, and to show the legitimate and rightful
hatred of our people to the Fascist Turkish Republic’s aggressive policies over
the working class and labouring people, we destroyed 2 AKP offices in Istanbul
and 1 office in Izmit on the 26th of February".
Then again on March
6th the entire country was shocked at the level of fascist attacks on the
demonstrations commemorating International Women’s Day. The attacks were so
brutal that even the EU delegation demanding democratic norm for entry into the
EU were surprised In a statement of the TKP/ML it was said that "also because
of the government’s fascist terror over protesters that was celebrating March
the 8th, we destroyed AKP offices in Istanbul, Ankara and Mersin on the 13th of
March". The statement further added "Of course the wild attack on
protesters on March 6th is not independent of the Turkish Republic’s fascist
character. This was not a surprise for anyone who knows t what kind of democracy
there is in Turkey? The reality regarding EU membership can be seen by our
people even if some ‘leftist’ writers, having sold their pen and soul to the
ruling classes, await a democratic revolution through entry into the EU. It is
clear to us, that democracy can only come through struggle that is against the
system. We know that democracy cannot be exported by any foreign power such as
the EU imperialists. …. The real reason for this brutal intervention by the
police is because the revolutionaries organised this demonstration and that the
initiative was in the hands of the revolutionaries not in the hands of the
state. The fascist Turkish republic wished that wishes that the revolutionaries
accept the lines it draws. This was the real reason for the wild attacks of the
police to hinder revolutionaries from celebrating March 8th. The first
intervention of the police against the masses was done a half-hour before the
demonstration began. The police’s aim was to scatter the masses before the
protest began. But just one hour later, a bigger crowd gathered to celebrate the
day and to protest against fascism. It was this that made the police mad. The
terror of the police is because of the determination of the masses.
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