{"id":5053,"date":"2026-05-01T16:09:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T14:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=5053"},"modified":"2026-05-01T16:15:59","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T14:15:59","slug":"turkey-the-netherlands-georgia-iran-and-our-newsletter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=5053","title":{"rendered":"Turkey, the Netherlands, Georgia, Iran and our newsletter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5056 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/5828-300x225.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/5828-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/5828.jpeg 360w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>New campaign &#8211; Turkey:<\/strong> We launched <a href=\"https:\/\/www.labourstartcampaigns.net\/show_campaign.cgi?c=5828\"><strong>a new campaign<\/strong><\/a> at the request of DISK. As of this writing, it has 2,835 supporters and appears in 12 languages with more coming.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Victory in the Netherlands:<\/strong> We learned that <a href=\"https:\/\/labournewsnetwork.org\/2026\/04\/23\/there-is-justice-4-pawel\/\"><strong>Pawel Rudzki<\/strong><\/a> was reinstated and compensated after a long, hard fight &#8212; a big win for him and his union, the FNV, which thanked us for our help with a campaign last year.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Newsletter:<\/strong> Our weekly mailing (usually on Thursdays) is increasingly a newsletter, with photos and short articles. We&#8217;ve also been using it to show how LabourStart has been engaged with ongoing struggles in Turkey (KESK trial) and Eswatini (repression of the teachers union), as well as more direct campaigns hosted today on LabourStart.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Iran:<\/strong> At the request of Free Them Now I recorded a solidarity video for May Day.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5055\" src=\"http:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/rustavi-300x226.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"226\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/rustavi-300x226.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/rustavi-1024x771.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/rustavi-768x578.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/rustavi-1536x1156.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/rustavi.jpeg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5054\" src=\"http:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/chiatura-300x226.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"226\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/chiatura-300x226.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/chiatura-1024x771.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/chiatura-768x578.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/chiatura-1536x1156.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/chiatura.jpeg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Georgia:<\/strong> During my week-long visit to Georgia, I travelled with union activists to meet manganese miners in Chiatura and chemical workers in Rustavi (where we had a LabourStart campaign about 9 years ago). Both are places that we may well be called upon to launch campaigns this year. In Tbilisi, I met with the leadership of the newly-formed Movement for Social Democracy, who are very involved in labour issues.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New campaign &#8211; Turkey: We launched a new campaign at the request of DISK. As of this writing, it has 2,835 supporters and appears in 12 languages with more coming. Victory in the Netherlands: We learned that Pawel Rudzki was reinstated and compensated after a long, hard fight &#8212; a big win for him and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5053"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5053"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5058,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5053\/revisions\/5058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}