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of the building supported us. He said that ‘the building is mine
and the workers are my guests’. The workers overcame this large
obstacle though there were new ones to contend with.

Unal: “We had to make major efforts to stop the firms that
the Somuncu family owed money to from seizing the machinery.”

He continued: “On the one hand we were struggling against the
police department. It was hardly even morning when they tried
to raid the building with bailiffs. Meanwhile, to be able to produce
we needed to repair the machinery. Because the boss had decided
that ‘if I cannot profit from them nobody else will either’ and had
taken the machines apart. We struggled to repair those machines
and are still struggling with the problem now.

They fear the labourers

Unal said they had experienced a difficult struggle and their
resistance had encoun-
tered considerable re-
pression: “Kazova has
been a resistance that
flows along a path of its
own. We set out to gain

what we had earned
through our labour. Our
behaviour was not one
of ‘We will turn our ac-
tions into a programme
of class struggle and lead
Turkey from the front’.
And yet that is what it

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