With the Turkish elections fast approaching on June 7, Dave Nellist, the national Chair of the Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC) sends the following message in solidarity with the Peoples’ Democratic Party (Halkların Demokratik Partisi – HDP): Across the world the political representatives of the rich multinational companies and bankers have attempted to force […]
Following massive protests in London, more than hundred people gathered in Leicester city centre earlier this afternoon to call for an end to imperialist violence. Organized by the local Kurdish community, today’s rally aimed to call attention to the nightmare being inflicted upon Syrian Kurds, most particularly in the town of Kobane, which for some […]
Following the death of Berkin Elvan, a young Turkish boy who was shot by the police last summer and had been in a coma ever since, a protest took place in the centre of Leicester yesterday as a display of solidarity with the people of Turkey. Disgustingly the Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan referred to […]
On Saturday Leicester Socialist Party members joined forces with local people protesting against the violent actions of Turkish police and the refusal of Prime Minister, Tayyip Erdogan, to listen to the demonstrators. We are now proud to call ourselves “capulcular”, a word originally used by Erdogan, with the literal meaning of “rioter” or “riffraff”, but […]
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