After at least a decade and a half of stagnation, the working class movement of Turkey is making a great stride forward, thanks to the militant action of the workers of a now privatised former state economic enterprise, Tekel, the state monopoly of tobacco and alcoholic beverages. The resolute and tenacious fight put up by the 12,000 Tekel workers and their families has made an electrifying impact on major sections of the working class. Despite the dogged resistance of the top bureaucracy of the Türk-İş confederation, the biggest of Turkey, to which the Tekel workers’ union is affiliated, the pressure for a general strike is mounting. Given the immense social and political contradictions Turkey has been subject to within the last few years, this new awakening of the proletariat adds still another tension to a society already torn apart by strife and dissension, but is susceptible to change the whole chemistry of the country and to create the possibility of a progressive resolution to the already existing problems.
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Resolution of the International Secretariat of the CRFI

The World Capitalist Bankruptcy

The world capitalist crisis, universally acknowledged as the worst in the history, has not ended; we are in the midst of its unfolding. At the end of 2009, the specter of sovereign defaults from Dubai and Greece to Ireland shaking the Euro-zone and the European Union as a whole and revealing the catastrophic impact of the mountains of debts on capitalist States all over the planet, starting from the United States themselves, belied early claims for a recovery.
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Vielä yksi luottoluokittaja laski eilen Kreikan lainat A1-tasolta A2-tasolle. Vieläpä luokitusnäkymät arvioitiin negatiiviseksi (negative outlook). Se tarkoittaa sitä, että maa on jatkuvasti syynin alla, ja pian tullee uusi luokitus. Moody’s:n mukaan, Kreikan velkaongelmaa on mahdotonta ratkaista pelkällä talouskasvulla. Tämä on jo neljäs luokituksen laskeminen tänä vuonna.
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