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they know the situation. They understood that they were bargain-
ing with bosses who had promised to pay wages but did not do
so. We said we would not abandon that place until we got our
rights back, and if there were complaints from them we would ex-
pose them too as enemies of workers, and with that we took our
leave.

Under the conditions we were in, it would be necessary to oc-
cupy the factory. The workers, our lawyers and the DIH got to-
gether and we discussed occupying the factory as soon as possible.
It was difficult for us to persuade some of our friends but in the
end we decided to occupy it after the Wednesday action. We
wanted to keep this a secret and did not want talk of it to reach
others.

On Wednesday morning we gathered together but found that
the front of the factory was under siege. There were thousands of
police there, and TOMAs and police armoured cars. They had
come to prevent us from removing anything from the factory. We
had to give up the occupation. We ended the action by reading
out a press statement. The police left when it became clear we
would not enter the factory.

We asked each other how this could happen. One of our
friends confessed. He said he had spoken by telephone to a lawyer
he knew, asking him if there was a legal problem about carrying
out a factory occupation. We now understood our resistance was
not against one boss but against all bosses, and in our stubborn-
ness we chanted the slogan, “By resisting we will win!”

After what had happened in Taksim we could not carry our

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