Early on the morning of Monday, February 6, a devastating earthquake shook the Middle East, ripping the Earth apart and reducing buildings to rubble.
INTERNATIONAL: Turkey
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Turkey: The Erdoğan Regime Is Living on Borrowed Time
The economic crisis gripping Turkey has pushed the ruling class into a political crisis. These events are a harbinger of revolution.
Turkey Attacks Northern Syria: For a Revolutionary Fightback!
Down with the Turkish war of aggression against Rojava! Down with the imperialists, who are all complicit in this atrocity!
Argentina, Turkey, and the Debt Bomb Under the World Economy
On paper, the world economy seems to be doing great. Yet, 10 years after the the global financial crisis, a crisis of new proportions is looming on the horizon.
Erdogan Pushes Turkey Further into the Syrian Quagmire
The desperate bid by Erdogan to cling to power is threatening to push Turkey and the whole region towards an even deeper crisis.
The Turkish Provocation: Will It Lead to War?
This morning the Turkish military shot down a Russian military aircraft on the border with Syria. It is unclear so far whether it was ground fire or Turkish jets that brought down the Russian plane. But that is a mere detail. What is quite clear is that this was a blatant provocation by the Turkish ruling clique.
Turkey: Thousands Take to the Street as Crisis of the Regime Deepens
Following Saturday’s heinous terrorist attack, tens of thousands of people have taken to the streets in the biggest mass movement since the Gezi Park movement of 2013. But quite contrary to the intentions of the attack, it seems to have isolated the crisis-ridden Erdogan regime even more.
Political Earthquake in Turkish Elections
The result of Sunday’s Turkish general elections and the clear defeat of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s AK Party mark a qualitative change in the situation in the country and bear important consequences for the whole of the Middle East.
IMT Statement: Kobane Threatened with Massacre—Fight Imperialism! Defend the Kurds!
The forces of ISIS are closing in on the besieged town of Kobane on the Turkish-Syrian border. Thousands of terrified Kurds have fled to Turkey in a desperate attempt to bring supplies and reinforcements, but find themselves blocked by the Turkish army, which is preventing reinforcements, arms, and supplies from crossing the frontier. While the rest of the world looks on, the people of Kobane are threatened with an unspeakable bloodbath.
Soma Massacre: Anger Sweeps Turkey—Down with the Government of Murderers and Thieves!
274 miners have been declared dead and up to a hundred are still trapped underground after an explosion in a Turkish coal mine in the western town of Soma. The accident reveals the ruthless exploitation and extreme inequality behind the economic growth of the past decade.
The Communist: Voice of America’s Communist Generation
The Communist is the official newspaper of the party of the Revolutionary Communists of America. It is different from any other publication you’ll find in the US today. Behind this newspaper, there’s a vast network of communist activity from coast to coast. It is a tool for organizing in the streets, at protests and strikes, for building communist cells in our neighborhoods, workplaces, and campuses.
The RCA is on a mission to carry Bolshevism into the political arena of a country that’s ripe for it. Yes, we’re Bolsheviks living in the digital age, and we also use social media and our podcast to spread the communist program. But we’re not the kind of internet leftists who stay inside and “do politics” online. That’s why we need something we can carry with us into the streets and put into people’s hands. The physical paper is an instrument for building a real-life organization—a genuine Communist Party of fighters.