Anarchist Communist Initiative in the Turkish May Day celebrations

greece / turkey / cyprus | anarchist movement | news report Thursday May 04, 2006 15:36 by Ender Yilmaz - AKİ akinisiyatif at yahoo dot com

Thirty thousand workers and students participated in the May Day demonstrations in Kadikoy/İstanbul. Its size was smaller compared to the previous years, mainly because 1st May was Monday. Social Democratic DISK was the biggest trade union on the field. The demonstration was generally peaceful except the conflict between Kurdish DTP and HOC.

About 60 people from Anarchist Communist Initiative walked behind the banner "No War Between Nations, No Peace Between Classes". We distributed the Turkish translation of Michael Schmidt's "Five Waves" and a leaflet with a text on the current events on one side and a summary of anarchist communist ideas on the other. Our main slogans were:

"Capitalism Is Occupation, States Are Occupiers - Class War Against Occupation", “Workers – Will Unite; Workers – Will Fight; Workers – Will Win; We Will Build A Communist World”, “Long Live People’s Fraternity (In Kurdish And Turkish)”, “Another War Is Possible – Class War Against The War”, “All States Are Murderers – We Shall Destroy The Murderer State”, “Murderer State Will Pay Back – Workers Will Judge The Murderers”, “Freedom Will Come With Fighting Workers”, “Freedom Will Come With Resisting Workers”, “A Communist World Will Come With Anarchy”, “European Union – A Lie, Democracy – A Lie, Human Rights – A Lie, Down With The Bourgeois Democracy”, “In Workplaces – Self-Management, In Communities – Self-Management, For Everyone – Freedom, For Everyone –Equality, Our Aim – Communism, Our Aim – Communism, Our Aim – Communism, We Will Build A Communist World”, “Down With MGK (National Security Council), MIT (National Intelligence Agency), JITEM (Secret Counter-guerilla Intelligence Agency), Counter-Guerilla”, “Neither Exploitation Nor Domination, Long Live Anarchist Communism”, “Revolution Is The Only Way, Anarchy Is The Only Way”, “Neither Parties Nor Leaders, Support The Workers”, “Direct Action, Direct Democracy, Long Live Workers’ Self-Management”, “Equality, Fraternity, Freedom To The Kurds”, “More Revolts, More Resistance (In Kurdish)”, “Long Live Workers’ Unity, People’s Fraternity”, "This World Belongs To Us, Down With Imperialism"