Support Turkey speakers' tour
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FOR Thatcher and Reagan military juntas are a tactical question and this week the dictatorship that gets no Tory government criticism or USA TV spectaculars devoted to it showed the world why.
Three more anti-fascists were hanged by General Evren as the Turkish state authorities continued their repression of the left, the workers movement and Kurdish people. All democratic rights have been swept away in order to defend the interests of the Turkish capitalists and their international backers. NATO and the Pentagon watch approvingly at the monster they helped give birth to.
Critics of the regime outside Turkey (they are not allowed to exist within) are labelled by General Evren as "brainwashed" , no doubt confident that if he had the chance he could make them think differently. In reality the propaganda campaign mounted in Evren's defence by the majority of Western governments makes the task of those involved in solidarity work against the junta immensely difficult.
To counter this wellfinanced laundering of the dictatorship's blood-stained uniforms the Turkey Solidarity Campaign is organising tour of Turkish trade unionists to allow them to present the truth to the jabour movement in this country.
Sponsorship
Important backing for this has built up significantly in the past few weeks. Sponsorship has come from the Fire Brigades Union, the Scottish Regional TUC, the Northern Region TGWU, Rotheram and several other trades councils, Sheffield City NUR and many more trade union branches.
Kent Area National Union of Mineworkers have said they will organise meet ings at three of their pits.
The organisers are partic ularly keen to fix meeting: of rank and file trade unionists in workplaces where thi is possible as well as the main public meetings so fa planned.
Some of these can stil be arranged and anyone ab! to organise one should get i touch with TSC nationally as soon as possible.
The Speakers Tour give workers here the chance tr hear first-hand from thei Turkish counterparts abou their struggle to first bulk and now defend their orgar isations. It is a uniqu opportunity not to b missed.
Turkey Solidarity Campaign: Box BM 5965, London WC1I 3XX.
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