An attempt to understand what is going on in the current wave of protests in Turkey. A text by the International Section of Perspektive Selbstverwaltung (Anarchist Organisation in Berlin) based on the statement „To Struggle Against the Order of Exploitation, Tyranny and Plunder!“ by a number of anarchist groups and organisation active in Turkey.
The pictures we see of the protests in turkish cities these days are spectacular and at times meandering between causing amusement and confusion: A giant Pikachu is being chased by the cops, young men are doing pushups while being under fire from cops using rubber bullets and tear gas, protestors using the Turkish national flag to try to protect themselves from the police, barricades being broken, opposition party members handing flowers and Simit to the cops, a man running towards the police frontline to ask for a lighter. It can be confusing to look at these images, amplified by social media as manifestations of a humorous Gen-Z protest culture. And it can get even harder to understand what is actually going on in Anatolia and Mesopotamia these days, when noticing that the liberal media unilateral chooses pictures of a Sufi-Dervish wearing a gas mask, while mostly framing the protests as merely an uprising out of anger over the arrest of an opposition candidate. In this short text we will try to step away from the sensationalist reports and take a look at the current developments from a different angle.
„„From the street to our workplaces and from our workplaces to the street““ weiterlesen
Internationalist Night with Perspektive Selbstverwaltung (PS) in Café Cralle. A monthly get-together with internationalist comrades by the internationalist section from PS.
Überall auf der Welt organisieren sich Lohnabhängige außerhalb von starren Gewerkschaftsbürokratien und streiken für ein besseres Leben.
Freitag 18.10. // 19 Uhr
Anarchist*innen aus den Kiezen