Solidarity with 502 Turkish trade unionists on trial
I’m in Istanbul for the next few days as part of an international trade union delegation. We’ll be attending the opening of the second stage of a trial of leaders of KESK, the public sector union, over 500 of whose members have been charged with a wide range of crimes including terrorism. In the photo – Lars Bengtsson, international secretary of the Swedish national trade union centre TCO; Abdullah Muhsin, from the British teachers’ union NASUWT; Eric Lee; and four KESK activists. More details tomorrow.
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The restaurant seems somehow familiar…
A huge trial and a huge story. I missed it completely until you passed it along.
For the moment, only LabourStart is running the story in French.
http://www.labourstart.org/fr/wordpress/
It’s inspired, this evening, several follow-ups on campaigns not to be found elsewhere.