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THE RESISTING KAZOVA WORKERS HAVE STARTED
THEIR WORK TO ESTABLISH A COOPERATIVE. AT THE
SAME TIME THEY WILL ALSO CHALLENGE THE MONOP-
OLIES WHICH PRODUCE GENETICALLY MODIFIED
SEEDS BY CREATING PRODUCTION WITH LOCAL VEG-
ETABLE AND FRUIT SEEDS.

The Kazova workers, who started resistance for their rights a
year ago, have begun to keep their promise to establish a cooper-
ative.

They had started their resistance on 27 February 2013 to the
taking away by the Somuncu family of four months’ wages, sen-
iority and notice. Their demands were right and just. The people

supported them and mobilised in favour of the Kazova workers.
The people’s solidarity and aid places a responsibility on the Ka-
zova workers.

The Kazova workers promised the people that they would cre-
ate a production cooperative. They took a decision to create a pro-
duction cooperative with no bosses at the head in which they
would produce for themselves, creating inexpensive but good qual-
ity sweaters, and they explained this to the people. The Kazova re-

sistance was born in solidarity from the people and it had to be
part of the people’s resistance. They were continuing a struggle in
every area to support their own labour, with the bosses who had
stolen from them removed. Kazova workers did everything they
could to be part of this struggle. By sending uniforms to the
Cuban national youth team and the Basque youth team they were
challenging imperialism. However small in scale, they created an
example of international solidarity. They decided to produce local

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