STATEMENTS

TKP calls for nationalization of construction services 

The Communist Party of Turkey (TKP) made a statement calling for the nationalization of all of the construction services. After the healthcare, education, and energy services, construction services became the fourth call for nationalization by TKP.

All construction services must be nationalized, every citizen’s right to live in decent cities that are compatible with nature, secure houses that are suitable with human health have to be secured, basic needs such as water, electricity, and heating have to be provided without any charge, the right to work and safety of construction workers have to be ensured by the state.

https://news.sol.org.tr/tkp-calls-nationalization-construction-services-177048

 

Free vaccine for everybody immediately! 

The most important way to stop the COVID-19 pandemic and infection is widespread immunisation, in other words, vaccination. Necessary steps to save humanity from the destruction of the pandemic shall be taken as soon as possible. 

The right to vaccine cannot be delayed under today’s circumstances. No citizen’s right can be postponed. The right to vaccine cannot be left to the bosses’ conscience. 

As a result of global inequalities among nations, certain countries can access to vaccines more than their populations while poor countries cannot access to vaccines. This is ripping poor countries’ right to vaccine, and bargaining over vaccine is a crime against humanity. The commodification of the right to vaccine by pharma monopolies cannot be accepted. 

What is to be done is obvious: The state shall provide free vaccination transparently accessed by all citizens. The selling of vaccines shall be forbidden. 

It is our call to our citizens: We shall unite to demand our right to vaccine!

https://news.sol.org.tr/tkp-free-vaccine-everybody-immediately-177049
 

NEWS FROM TURKEY & TKP

Turkish gov't bans alcohol sales during weekend lockdowns 

Turkish government's ban on alcohol sales during weekend lockdowns has stirred a new debate in the country as many people consider the ban under the pretext of the fight against COVID-19 as an ideological attempt of political Islam to control private life.

https://news.sol.org.tr/turkish-govt-bans-alcohol-sales-during-weekend-lockdowns-177050

Minimum wage in Turkey: Poverty rises among working people amid pandemic 

A survey on the Reality of the Minimum Wage in the Days of the Pandemic conducted by the Confederation of Progressive Trade Unions (DİSK) once again revealed the great impoverishment of the working class. 

3.3 million workers (17 percent of all employees) work at a wage below the minimum wage. The number of workers working for less than half the minimum wage is close to 1 million. The number of workers who have to live with the minimum wage or less is around 7.5 million (38.3 percent of all employees).

21.7 percent of private-sector workers are paid below the minimum wage. Average wages fall back to the minimum wage level. 

See below for other findings of the survey, including the status of women workers and private sector workers.

https://news.sol.org.tr/minimum-wage-turkey-poverty-rises-among-working-people-amid-pandemic-177046

Turkish Thoracic Society warns: Risk continues when shopping malls and factories are open

In the statement was said that shopping malls are risky areas due to insufficient ventilation systems. There is social mobility in these areas, which increases the risk of contamination.

Moreover, 1 out of 5 health workers have been COVID-19 positive, with 209 deaths among health workers so far. 

https://news.sol.org.tr/turkish-thoracic-society-warns-risk-continues-when-shopping-malls-and-factories-are-open-177045
 

ARTICLES
 

What is the path for Venezuela?

Ekin Sönmez, the CC member of the Communist Party of Turkey (TKP), analyzed the situation in Venezuela before the elections.

"What is happening in Venezuela should not be a repetition despite the struggle of the people. We need to trust the political consciousness of the people, which was tested for twenty years. This consciousness carries the Popular Revolutionary Alternative to the election. Chavistas could still fight for the revolution."

For full article: https://news.sol.org.tr/analysis-what-path-venezuela-177042