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My impression of this party is very positive, this election campaign it has gone all out in a way it hasn't before and seems to have connected to capture broad layers of Turkish society who want change, breaking beyond its largely Kurdish background. the fact of these bombings and other repression (have heard thousands of HDP electoral observers have now been arrested) shows how seriously the regime views its threat. On 7 June 2015 at 05:37, Andrew Pollack via Marxism < marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu> wrote: > ******************** POSTING RULES & NOTES ******************** > #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. > #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. > #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. > ***************************************************************** > > some of the best activists in NY around Gezi Park, the mining murders, etc. > are HDP supporters, will stay in touch re solidarity against the attacks > > On Sat, Jun 6, 2015 at 11:37 AM, MM via Marxism < > marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu > > wrote: > > > ******************** POSTING RULES & NOTES ******************** > > #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. > > #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. > > #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. > > ***************************************************************** > > > > > On 06 Jun 2015, at 3:13 PM, Louis Proyect via Marxism < > > marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu> wrote: > > > > > > I was vaguely aware of this party but had no idea that it had become so > > influential. It is not just "left-wing". It is seen as Turkey's Syriza. > My > > wife just told me that her relative in Izmir thinks it can break the > > two-party stranglehold on Turkish politics (Islamists vs. Kemalists.) > > > > The stakes are very high. I know a few people within the party, who have > > been working all out for several months in hopes of ensuring they pass > the > > 10% threshold. Polls have hovered between 9.5-10.5%, maybe trending > > slightly higher in the past month or so, although Turkish polling is > > notoriously unreliable. If they don’t pass 10%, AKP will quite possibly > > have the numbers necessary to push through some drastic constitutional > > changes that will have a devastating effect on opposition politics and > the > > left. Apparently there have been police raids of polling stations and > > arrests of polling station workers in HDP areas just in the past few > hours, > > but I don’t have reliable details yet. > > > > _________________________________________________________ > > Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm > > Set your options at: > > http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/acpollack2%40gmail.com > > > _________________________________________________________ > Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm > Set your options at: > http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/stuartmunckton%40gmail.com > -- “Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is humanity’s original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.” — Oscar Wilde, Soul of Man Under Socialism “The free market is perfectly natural... do you think I am some kind of dummy?” — Jarvis Cocker _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
