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ABOUT US / “Nisan” (April) is a monthly Trotskyist publication. Our aim is socialist revolution, abolition of capitalism and building of socialism. We support workers’ and students’ mobilizations, and fight to extender workers’ democracy. Against any type of dictatorial and repressive regime of the dominating classes we support the right of national self-determination. Our struggle is on international scale and we take part in the reconstruction of IV. International as a world party of the working class. CONTACT US / gazetenisan@gazetenisan.net
Interview with the leader of the Free Union of Iranian Workers: “Death to the tyrant,…
The protests which started under the leadership of women after Mahsa Jina Amini was murdered by the “morality police” in Iran have quickly spread across the country. And they have evolved…
Left alliances and class independence
Negotiations for possible alliances for the presidential and parliamentary elections, which are to take place within nine months at most, have been going on within the socialist movement…
Solidarity with the revolt of Iranian women and working people against the…
In Tehran, Iran, after 22-year-old Mahsa Amini was detained and beaten by the “morality police” for not wearing her headscarf properly and lost her life on 16 September as a result of the…
No to xenophobia against immigrants! Let’s unite in labor struggle!
As Erdogan and government officials keep declaring their determination to fight inflation at every turn, official inflation rate has reached 70% according to the latest statement of TUIK…
To build the Labor Alliance: Let’s organize a united and massive May 1st!
After the minimum wage had fallen below the hunger limit under the downpour of price hikes, there rose an expectation among the masses that the government might offer an interim increase in…
The main task: Building the labor alliance
Erdogan has kept saying that “we will enter a period in which each new month is better than the previous one” every time he made a statement regarding the state of our economy in recent…
Ukraine: Appeal for an international campaign
We are calling for organizing a big international campaign of support and solidarity with the Ukrainian resistance for the defeat of the Russian army invasion! No to NATO!
The…
What this new era of struggles needs: A workers’ alliance
In the aftermath of the announcement of the 2022 minimum wage and of the process of collective bargaining agreement in the metal industry, both of which left the masses of workers in utter…
Workers will not be the guinea pigs of the Erdogan government!
It was not more than a year ago when Erdogan’s Palace government almost doubled the interest rates. Back then, Erdogan was arguing that the interest rates were “a bitter cure” and that…
The Left in Today’s Turkey
Interview with our writer Atakan Çiftçi published by the Persian political left magazine Aasoo, in January 2022. This is the English translation of the interview.
1. The co-joined…
Full support to the mobilisation of the people of Kazakhstan!
Down with the Nazarbayev-Tokayev regime! Imperialism out of Kazakhstan!
With the 50 percent increase in gas prices by the government on 2 January 2022, a massive revolt broke out in…
Labor Alliance and the socialists
How will the wreck created by the governing People’s Alliance be removed? If the People’s Alliance loses the elections, will it hand over power peacefully? If the Nation Alliance comes to…
Unity and division: What should the “Third Option” look like?
While the destruction caused by the palace regime in every field of life has been deepening every passing day, the disintegration process of the Palace coalition accelerates, and its social…
Regime, opposition, and refugees…
Racist, discriminatory, and aggressive policies towards refugees have been getting stronger and more widespread in recent times. The racist attack on Syrians that took place in the Altındağ…
Discrimination divides, struggle unites!
The cost of the destruction and misery caused by the one-man regime has been increasing by day. The pandemic management that has been sacrificed to greedy bosses’ profit-making from day one…
Are early elections the only solution?
As the conflicts within the People’s Alliance and the quarrels between different interest groups deepen, it becomes harder to keep up with the “lively” political agenda of the country.…
Worker’s manifesto: A plan for united struggle plan, a mass May 1st!
We have been emphasizing for some time that the class character as well as the monstrous and rotten state of the one-man regime has become much clearer before the eyes of the widest…
The withdrawal decision from Istanbul Convention is null and void!
The One-Man regime, which had to shelve the discussions on the Istanbul Convention in face of the persistent struggle of women last summer, now tries to bring the process to an end as a…
On Tripoli and its uprising
Tripoli is the second most important city in Lebanon in terms of its population as well as its economic and administrative weight, so it is known as “the second capital” of Lebanon.
The…
As the People’s Alliance is being dissolved… What kind of a solution?
The People's Alliance is coming to an end. Social discontent is widespread in the face of the destruction that it has caused in every field from economy to pandemic management, foreign…
Tunisia: a new popular rebellion!
Mobilisations have been going on in Tunisia since the night of 14 January. The popular uprising that started in December 2010 demanding work, bread and dignified life, overthrew the…
The rotting of the palace regime
It has been nearly a month since Erdogan announced that they “initiate a new era of economic and legal reforms.” This statement was made in the immediate aftermath of the dismissal of the…
We don’t accept it and we don’t give in: We are uniting our struggles!
"We don't want a trustee rector!" Following the appointment of Melih Bulu from AKP as the trustee rector of Boğaziçi University on January 1 through a Presidential decree, this slogan first…
The formula of Erdogan’s regime to extend its life: Lies, war, and repression!
The landscape of destruction that the People’s Alliance is responsible for is becoming more and more clear in every field of life. The economic situation is dire… The broadly defined…
Justice for George Floyd! Solidarity with the struggle of the people of the US!
The brutal murder of George Floyd by the police in the city of Minneapolis on May 25 led to an unprecedented mass protest wave in the US. The protests, which began with demanding punishment…
All imperialist and expansionist forces, out of the Middle East! We are calling the…
1. Trump,
the president of the US imperialism, got Kasim Suleimani, the commander of the
Jerusalem Force under the Iranian Revolutionary Guards (Pasdaran) and the
leader of Shiite…
Mobilisations in the Middle East: “People want the fall of the regime”
El Socialista, the publication of Izquierda Socialista in Argentina, interviewed with Görkem Duru from the Workers' Democracy Party (Turkey), the official section of the International…
Lebanon: the victory of the masses! Hariri’s government collapses! Fight on!
In Lebanon on 17 October, the masses began an insurrection against the austerity plan the government launched together with the IMF for a way out of the serious economic crisis in which…
Popular uprising in Iraq: “The people want the fall of the regime!”
Revolt of the Iraqi people against capitalist destruction policies, lack of social services, corruption and sectarian regime has been ongoing since the early October. Although Prime…
All support to the Chilean people!
Thousands of young people, workers and popular
sectors took to the streets in Santiago and in all the cities of the country to
repudiate the actions of President Piñera and the military.
…
Lebanon: Popular revolt against the government’s austerity policy
The people want the regime to leave!
In Lebanon, since 17 October, the most massive
mobilisations in the country's history against the austerity policies the
government set in motion has…
Protest in Istanbul against refugees’ deportation
On August
2, “We Want to Live Together” Initiative organized a demonstration in Kadıköy
(Istanbul) to protest deportation of refugees, particularly Syrians. Political
parties, NGOs,…
Heavy blow to the People’s Alliance in Istanbul… Time to raise the workers’ alliance!
According to unofficial results, Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality
elections resulted in a clear landslide victory by the National Alliance’s
candidate İmamoğlu. This means a heavy defeat…
Party assembly declaration of IDP: Let’s strengthen a workers’ option in local…
At its party assembly meeting on 27
January 2019, Workers’ Democracy Party (IDP) discussed its
political stance regarding local elections to be held on 31 March
2019 and its course of…
Oust Maduro with the autonomous mobilisation of the workers! Neither Trump nor the…
The situation is untenable. The political and social crisis is grievous.
The hunger, lack of medicines and repression is unbearable. The workers and the
people want Maduro and the…
The Assad regime and its allies are preparing for a bloody final act in Idlib
After capturing the rural Damascus and Daraa region in the south, the Assad regime and its allies now go after Idlib. While Russia and the regime have already started carrying out air…
It is not over! Workers in struggle will speak last
The June 24 snap elections took place under the state of emergency conditions. The opposition was neither given the time to prepare for them, nor received freedom of expression.
During…
The palace is dragging the country to disaster… The key to solution is mobilization!
After alliance negotiations have taken the final shape upon the decision of the palace alliance for “snap elections”, we are on the way to June 24 elections in an atmosphere where two main…
Let’s stop economic destruction and war politics together!
Erdoğan/the Palace continues to make epic history. New heroic deeds add on to this “local and national” epic through steps taken in domestic and foreign politics each and every day. These…
“My Stealthy Freedom”: An interview on Women’s Movement in Iran
A social media campaign has been ongoing in Iran for a while against compulsory hijab law. To protest, Iranian women share their photos wearing white headscarves or symbols by using the…
Morocco: Specter of Rif, Nightmare of the King
Last October in Rif city of Al Hoceima in the northern Morocco, a young fishmonger Mouhcine Fikri was crushed to death in the garbage truck while trying to retrieve his fish confiscated and…
Referendum Declaration by IDP
Although the Supreme Electoral Council has not explained its final decision regarding the results of constitutional referendum on April 16, it explained YES votes to be 52.41%…
On the death of Fidel Castro
The announcement of the death of Fidel Castro has had a great global impact. The Cuban people are in mourning. Millions in the world mourn the leader who directly led, along with Che,…
Freedom for all detained HDP deputies! Unified struggle against the repression of the…
One more threshold has now been overcome to put Erdoğan’s presidency project in practice; according to the statement of the Ministry of the Interior, 13 People’s Democratic Party (HDP)…
Call for international solidarity with the farmers and agricultural workers of the…
As part of the ongoing revolutionary process in Tunisia, the farmers and agricultural workers of the Jemna oasis call the working class worldwide to act in solidarity in defense of their…
Saturday October 1st: Worldwide day of fury for Aleppo
The people of Aleppo, which resists the genocide Al Assad, is systematically bombed by Syrian and Russian planes, with the passive complicity of the US. Aleppo is the Guernica of the 21st…
To be a Trotskyist today
Let's start with understanding what it means to be truly Marxist. We cannot make a cult, as it has been done for Mao or Stalin. Being Trotskyist today does not mean agreeing with everything…
Government ousted in Tunisia
The Prime Minister Habib Essid’s government, unable to get the required amount of votes of confidence in the Parliament, was ousted as of last night (July 30, 2016). The one-and-a-half-year…
Neither the military coup, nor the (presidential) palace regime! Time for the union…
1. We have left behind a military coup attempt that lasted from the evening of July 15 until the early morning on Saturday and ended when the soldiers surrendered. Unlike what AKP opponents…
The coup and the purge
All coups and coup attempts are, in and of themselves, are civil wars of small scale; they have winners and losers. While the consequences of the conflict, the fate of the losers, and the…