Re: [A-List] No Taksim May Day in Turkey: 500-900 Demonstrators Detained

["Yoshie Furuhashi" <critical.montages@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, May 4, 2008 at 12:17 AM, Sabri Oncu <sabri_oncu@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>  > Suppose the AKP will lose the next elections.  Will the domestic and
>  > foreign policies of Turkey be very different from what they are now?
>
>  Why should I suppose that? I know that they will!
>
>  But, my answer to your question as it is stated is: No!
>
>  On the other hand, you are still making the same mistake:
>
>  You are not talking about the domestic and foreign policies of a
>  homogeneous entity called Turkey!

Well, we could say the same about many countries integrated into the
empire to various degrees: most working people, if asked, don't really
favor their ruling class's foreign policy; nor do they really like
neoliberal elements of domestic policy, albeit things are far more
complicated here than in the case of foreign policy.

>  You are talking about the domestic and foreign policies of the ruling
>  classes of a heterogeneous entity called Turkey, and their policies
>  will not change!
>
>  Who gives a shit to  islamists, nationalists, liberals and the like?
>
>  They are all the same!

If they are all the same, though, why so much social conflict
revolving around these divisions?

Getting back to the Turkish unions' failed attempt to reclaim Taksim,
what's new is not repression -- the prohibition goes back to 1978.
What's new is that this year more workers, with all major unions'
backing, attempted to assemble there than in recent years.
-- 
Yoshie
<http://montages.blogspot.com/>