Okan KARAÇAMRevolutionary Textile Workers' Union - TÜRKİYEThe textile and garment sector has been the largest sector of production and trade since the Anatolian civilizations up to the Ottoman Empire and, later, the Republic of Türkiye. …

Ntima MAKHETHAUnited Textile Employees - UNITESolidarity embodies genuine unity, mutual support towards a common goal, built on trust, empathy and shared values. Below is brief outline on how we can better utilize the aforementioned to…

Ashila DANDENIYA General Secretary of Stanup Workers Union - SRI LANKA I am Ashila Dandeniya, general secretary of Stanup Workers Union, and I am also a former garment factory worker.  We started work on the…

Bilge Seçkin ÇETINKAYABIRTEK-SENIn the face of increasingly integrated global supply chains, fragmented and localized labor resistance is no longer sufficient. From Turkey to India, from Bangladesh to Uganda and Nigeria, textile and garment workers are…

Rebecca NOMUSABI Uganda Textile, Garment, Leather and Allied Workers‘ Union|UTGLAW PREAMBLE. The Uganda Textiles union which had its greatest strength in the north, called a strike of textile workers in 1934 to protect worsening working…

Dr. Derya UğurPresident of the General Health Workers' Union - TÜRKİYEThe privatization and marketization of institutions, which are established with the taxes and hard work of the people and which must be operated to serve…

Dr. Halit SUICMEZEconomist-Writer - TÜRKIYEConcepts of “poverty threshold and hunger threshold” are constantly on the agenda in Türkiye.Obviously, misery, poverty, hunger, subsistence indicators are phenomena deepened by capitalism. On the background of poverty and hunger,…

Hüseyin Ozan UYUMLUTÜRKİYEWar is a man-made mass trauma with serious destructive consequences observed for many years. Wars are as old as human history (Karakoç, 2022). Wars made the world a very scary place. Every generation…