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Sende Gazeteci ve yapimcisi Dündar’ i destekle

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Türkiye ve dünya çapinda en çok soruşturmaya ve tutuklanmaya maruz kalan ülkelerin başinda geliyor. Cumhurbaşkanı Erdogan 12 yillik Iktidari doneminde basın ve yayın kuruluslarinin büyük bir bolumu kendi güdümünde almiş durumda. Kendini eleştiren muhalefet basini baski altına alan Erdogan en son kendisi hakkında eleştirel bir makale yayınlayan “New York Times’i“, Yerini, bil, sinirini bil demeye kadar vardirdi. Baski rejiminin hedefinde

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Questions & answers about the colonial hooligan of the sea: Michiel de Ruyter

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The action group Michiel the Robber in which Doorbraak also participates, recently announced a protest action against the colonialist and nationalistic content of the movie “Michiel de Ruyter”. Subsequently a fierce public debate burst out regarding this hooligan of the sea. The media and other parties are currently firing all sorts of questions at our action group. So it is

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Anti-Muslim racism and anti-Semitism in Europe (longread)

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Anti-Semitism and anti-Muslim racism in the European Union: why we must get rid of the Left’s ambiguities and fight together these two evils, without capitulating in front of the (Left and Right) identitarians who want to divide us. Around 1,1 millions Jews live in the European Union and 19 million Muslims. It’s obviously very difficult to compare the situation of

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Contre le “Workfare” et le travail forcé pour les chômeurs: campagne internationale du 25 avril au 2 mai

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L’organisation britannique Boycott Workfare appelle à une semaine internationale d’action contre le travail obligatoire et les sanctions dont sont victimes les allocataires, du 25 avril au 2 mai. Le groupe néerlandais Doorbraak soutient cette initiative et appelle les travailleurs et les organisations aux Pays-Bas à se mobiliser eux aussi. Dans les deux pays plusieurs actions ont déjà été planifiées. Rejoignez-nous,

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25 April to 2 May: international week of action against workfare and sanctions. Come join us!

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In het Nederlands En Français Translation: Frodo Tromp The British organisation Boycott Workfare calls for an international week of action against workfare and sanctions for people claiming benefits, from 25 April until 2 May. Doorbraak supports this initiative and also calls people and organisations in the Netherlands to take action. In both countries already several actions have been planned. Join

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Don’t confuse solidarity with empathy!

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Last week some of us “were” Charlie. Or maybe we “were” Ahmet. Or wouldn’t it be better if all of us “were” Nigerians right now? In fact, last summer we “were all Palestinians”, and just a few months ago all of us “could not breathe”. This expression of commitment to the victims of violence or oppression is certainly not new

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Column: Actually, we don’t have any freedom of speech at all

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Freedom of speech is an eternal source of discussion. We keep talking about it. But let’s be honest: do we actually have freedom of speech? And I don’t mean that we have the freedom to say: “I am against this government”. We also we’re not talking about the fact that “the Constitution states that…”. And we certainly don’t talk about

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Conservatives of Turkish origin for a long time felt quite at home with the social-democratic PvdA

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In November 2014 two members of Parliament of Turkish origin, Tunahan Kuzu and Selcuk Öztürk, caused quite a stir in the PvdA after their party member and deputy prime minister Lodewijk Asscher announced that in the coming five years he will be investigating the Turkish religious organisations in the Netherlands. The Turkish term for such organisations is Cemaatler and they

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Column: Get lost with this tolerance of yours!

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This is a poster used by the Dutch government to promote openness to other cultures: “Now that I use Tolerance I know that you can eat Surinam okra.”

Racism is showing it’s ugly face in the Netherlands. The demonstrations against the racist Black Pete caricature generated reactions that make it crystal clear. We are often told by our supporters that the days of the so very “progressive and tolerant” Netherlands are really over. Our opponents claim that “they” have been quite “tolerant” towards “the allochtons” (= people from

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