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"Today we are experiencing a historic day for our country, experiencing how a dream of 60 years ago comes true". These were Erdogan's words after the presentation of the two prototype models of the new electric cars in December last year, which are scheduled to roll off the production line in Turkey from 2022. Then "Turkey will finally have its own car brand". The plans have become more concrete, and new details were published in August. The first export market is to be Germany among others. But: Is the e-car production in Turkey really a sign of the strength of the independent national economy?

 

Last week, there were protests by students in several schools in France, denouncing the lack of hygiene concepts and their implementation possibilities.

In Izmir there was a strong earthquake last week, in which according to Turkish media nearly 100 people died and about 1000 others were injured. In each case after the regular earthquakes in Turkey the so-called earthquake tax is again in discussion. The "earthquake tax" is originally called "special communication tax" and raises the costs of cell phone calls, radio and television programs. It was originally raised in 1999 to repair the damage caused by the Marmara earthquake, and has been continuously expanded since 2003. According to the Ministry of Finance, the tax has raised the equivalent of USD 36.9 billion in the past 20 years.

There is a new international Website:

Communist International

International Comunista

which we like to make our readers aware of.

Time and again, important protests and disputes take place in Turkey in the countryside, which receive little attention from the outside. In a village in Ordu Province in northern Turkey, resistance by the inhabitants against drilling for mining activities has been going on for a long time. In the morning hours of October 28, the village was again occupied by gendarmerie units to ensure drilling operations.

We share a video from Austria in solidarity with the struggle of the Poor Peasants League in Brasil:

Amidst the farce of bourgeois elections in the USA revolutionaries realised actions of solidarity in numerous cities for the League of the poor Peasants in Brazil, which is being attacked ferociously by the old brazilian state. We document an overview of those actions.

We share a video from Ecuador in solidarity with the League of the poor Peasants of Brazil.