tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3081320827566289783.post7865909717158264253..comments2024-02-19T16:54:06.139+00:00Comments on Trade unions and global restructuring: This is just a beginning: Gezi resistance and the legitimacy crisis of the AKP government!Andreas Bielerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08920020665441380498noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3081320827566289783.post-22496082109278293782013-10-21T09:27:06.801+01:002013-10-21T09:27:06.801+01:00Hi,
Thanks a lot for the comment. As I tried to ar...Hi,<br />Thanks a lot for the comment. As I tried to argue, the link between TEKEL and Gezi (and between Gezi and the resistance movements of the Mexican teachers, Colombian peasants or the Brazilian urban discontent) is the neoliberal restructuring of the peripheral capitalist space. I think if we focus on these processes which creates the structural conditions of these movements rather than some personal or rhetorical links, then we would be able to link ‘different’ political periods within the last three decades of authoritarian neoliberalism in Turkey which was started and institutionalised by the 1980 coup d’état and continued and perfected by Erdogan’s 11 years old government. This would prevent us from wrongly identifying the AKP’s rule as a pseudo moderate/pro-Islamic period but an era when Turkey’s financial and industrial capital has been trans-nationalised and the neo-liberal reforms had been completed. <br />Ertannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3081320827566289783.post-41472292638137796862013-10-18T01:51:46.211+01:002013-10-18T01:51:46.211+01:00Hello,
The author should also acknowledge that we ...Hello,<br />The author should also acknowledge that we lost TEKEL resistance. The resistance process is forgotten in public discussion (except those tiny resistant groups) and didnot produce any durable effect on the general politics or even public memory in Turkey. The linkage between TEKEL and Gezi is almost non-existent, except again those ones who participated both and maybe in their self-fulfilling best wishes. Let us not romanticise the events and be realistic. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com