A distinctive feature of the demonstrations in Turkey was the contradiction between the growing militancy of masses of workers and youth, and the efforts of union officials and pseudo-left groups leading the marches to channel this militancy into a dead end.
The Workers’ Party of Turkey, which announced its support for Kılıçdaroğlu, the presidential candidate of the bourgeois opposition, is setting a new political trap for workers and youth.
The TİP's call for a “peace accord” aims to direct growing social opposition against the cost of living and war behind pro-imperialist establishment parties.
The record of this alliance’s constituent parties and its founding statement show it is a political extension of bourgeois opposition parties like the Kemalist Republican People’s Party.
“Thus, although the idea of socialism has today been undermined by a series of defeats, making it credible again as a libertarian, egalitarian and democratic alternative; offering a vision of an emancipated future where people govern themselves; making desirable a society where everyone would work less and benefit from more time to realize themselves. this is an indispensable element of revolutionary strategy.”