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Birgun Newspaper, 2 September 2013 – Kazova Starts Pro-
duction Without Bosses Or Exploitation

The Kazova workers have been resisting for 180 days and
today started to produce at full capacity, without bosses or ex-
ploiters…

H. Burak Oz

For 180 days the Kazova workers have resisted their bosses
Umut Somuncu and Mustaf Umut Somuncu who vanished into
thin air without paying them for four months’ wages, seniority or
notice, and their resistance has reached a level to be found only
in Argentina or Greece. The workers have occupied their factory
for months, they repaired machinery that was dismantled by their
bosses and the previous day they have organised an event and car-

ried out some experimental production. Today the workers are
going over to mass production.

They repaired their machines

Their bosses took away their rights, threw them out of work,
and when they learned that they were most secretly trying to re-
move property from the factory the Kazova workers occupied their

factory and when the police attacked they started an alternating
hunger strike. When they turned away bailiffs, got back machine
parts that had been removed to a neighbouring building by their
bosses and repaired machines that had been wrecked, they scored
important successes, and the previous day their resistance reached
a new dimension.

As in the Argentine and Greek examples they resemble, they

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