THIS SCENE IS A TESTAMENT TO THE GOVERNMENT’S SURRENDER TO CAPITAL!

To the Press and the Public

The cry of “I’m starving!” rising from Eskişehir to 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.

A government that cannot provide its own citizens with a single loaf of bread or their legal rights has lost its ability to find solutions; it has taken its legitimacy from the people and pledged its existence as collateral to the interests of capital. To shackle someone who says, “I am hungry,” is the certification of an inability to govern, of having no words left to speak, and of a conscience yielding its place to a cold state apparatus.

We See and We Declare:

The Hegemony of Capital: Today, the political authority acts not as the arbiter of the people, but as the guardian of the private property of a handful of capitalists. The fact that those who seek their rights are declared guilty, rather than those who plunder the miner’s sweat, is proof that the state has lost its impartiality and become a branch of capital.

The Expression of Fear: That shackle is not a means to stop the miner, but a futile seal imposed by the ruling power to conceal its own crumbling authority. Erecting a gendarmerie barricade against a fundamental human cry—such as hunger—demonstrates the complete collapse of the social contract.

Moral Collapse: A system that drags its workers through the mud has no right to speak of justice, development, or humanity. There is no system here, only a mechanism of oppression that protects the powerful.

As the Cultural Workers’ Union, we are raising our voices against this injustice on the stage and this helpless approach to governance. No ideology that excludes humanity from its core and crushes labor under the weight of property can stand for long.

We call out to those in power: Shake off this helplessness in the face of capital! Remove those shackles from the workers’ wrists. For history will not record those who shackle their people, but the honorable resistance that breaks those shackles.

We Stand with the Workers, Not with Capital! Shoulder to Shoulder Against Oppression!

CULTURAL WORKERS’ UNION