Announcement
Announcement
THIS SCENE IS A TESTAMENT TO THE GOVERNMENT’S SURRENDER TO CAPITAL!
The cry of “I’m starving!” rising from Eskişehir toward Ankara is not merely the cry of a worker; it is the starkest summary of an era, a governing philosophy, and the capitulation of an entire political will in the face of capital. As cultural workers who observe life, interpret society, and turn words into action, we see not “power” but deep helplessness in the shackles fastened to the miner’s wrist.
To the Press and the Public
The cry of "I am hungry!" rising from Eskişehir towards Ankara is not merely a worker's scream; it is the starkest summary of an era, of an approach to governance, and of an entire political will kneeling before capital. We, culture workers — who observe life, make sense of society and turn words into action — see in the handcuffs placed on that miner's wrist not "strength" but a profound helplessness.
A government that cannot secure a morsel of bread and the legal rights of its own citizens has lost the capacity to produce solutions; it has taken its legitimacy away from the people and pawned its existence to the interests of capital. Handcuffing someone who says "I am hungry" is the official seal of an inability to govern, of having nothing left to say, and of conscience yielding its place to a cold state apparatus.
We See It and We Declare It:
The tutelage of capital: today the political power acts not as the people's arbiter but as the private-property warden of a handful of capital owners. That those who seek their rights — and not those who seize the miner's sweat — are declared criminals is proof that the state has lost its impartiality and become a branch office of capital.
An expression of fear: those handcuffs are a futile seal, applied not to stop the miner but to conceal the government's own shaken authority. Erecting a gendarmerie barricade against as basic a human cry as hunger shows that the social contract has completely collapsed.
Moral disintegration: an order that drags its workers along the ground has no right left to speak of justice, development or humanity. What exists is not an order but merely a mechanism of repression protecting the strong.
As the Culture Workers' Union, we raise our voice against this injustice on the stage, against this helpless approach to governance. No mentality that removes the human being from its centre and crushes labour beneath property can stand for long.
We call on the government: shake off this helplessness before capital! Take those handcuffs off the worker's wrist. For history will record not those who handcuffed their people, but the honourable resistances that broke those handcuffs.
We stand with labour, not with capital! Shoulder to shoulder against repression!
CULTURE WORKERS' UNION
