Class struggle in Turkey "Picture yourself in this situation: You have managed to form a trade union in your workplace. You've gotten formal recognition from the government. Under the law, your employer is obligated to open negotiations with you. But the employer refuses. So you go out on the picket line. A year goes by, and the situation doesn't change. What do you do? This is what happened to workers at DHL Express in Turkey. They have been on the picket line since 17 July 2017 -- over 300 days. They have now turned to the international labour movement for help. We need to send thousands of messages to the management of DHL Express to tell them to recognise the union, to open negotiations, and to play fair with their employees." DHL vs. the trade union
“The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.” —Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilisation and the Remaking of the World Order, 1996, p. 51