Communist League in UK supports Turkish Kurds

Militant/Dag Tirsén

MANCHESTER, England — Some 150 people joined a march here Nov. 12 against the Turkish government’s arrest of Selahattin Demirtas and Figen Yuksekdag, co-chairs of the Kurdish-based Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), and other party leaders. The action, organized by a coalition of Kurdish groups, ended with a rally. One of the speakers was Pete Clifford, with microphone, Communist League candidate for mayor.

“From Turkey to the U.K. to the U.S. the rulers have no answers to their unprecedented crisis and never-ending wars,” Clifford said. “From Erdogan to May to Trump, all fear working people will find ways to resist their rule.” He called for British imperialist forces to get out of the Mideast. “The Kurds’ fight for their homeland strengthens working people there and here.”

Many at the protest were interested in the U.S. presidential election, and five picked up The Clintons’ Anti-Working-Class Record by Jack Barnes, national secretary of the Socialist Workers Party in the U.S.

—  DAG TIRSÉN