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A thousand greetings to the Kazova workers!

They said about people like you, “You have nothing to lose
but your chains.”

There was nothing… Because you are the ones who curse and

who create. You create everything with your workers’ hands… But
you do not own what you create. To produce is another name for
being human, and nobody deserves this more than you. You are
the creators of the struggle that is called life. And today there are
those who resist with the slogan “We are workers, we are right, we
will win!” You are right… And you won!

They did not respect you. They thought they could slap you
on the back of the neck and you would take your bread and not

make a noise. It did not matter to them if you were hungry, in the
open air, ill or unable to pay the rent. They knew nothing other
than exploitation. And they exploited you to the very marrow.
They did not fail to say the bismillah. They had a lot of sugary
things to say about going on pilgrimage to Mecca and on Umrah.
They were the biggest Muslims. They made allowances for nobody.
They neither saw you, listened to you nor understood you. But

the real object of worship for them was money. For money they
sold their honour.

They were cronies (of the AKP)… They were those who re-
ferred to as the financial sea of the state, the simpletons who do
not eat. The benefited from the possibilities presented by the ac-
quaintances they made… They ate… They did not care whether it
was halal or haram… They ate the daily bread of our children and

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