Kaldıraç

Kaldıraç Movement is revolutionary socialist movement along Marxsist-Leninist lines that has been waging a political struggle around the Kaldıraç Magazine since 1994. As a part of the world revolutionary movement, it aims at the working class government through socialist revolution in the Anatolian geography. It continues its political activity and organizing practice in line with the ideas in the Kaldıraç Magazine and books published by Kaldıraç Publishing House. Headquartered in Istanbul, the publishing house also has offices in Ankara and Izmir. Kaldıraç Movement has its origins in a historical process that it describes as "two defeats and one victory.” While the two defeats are the September 12 Coup and the dissolution of the USSR, the victory is the Kurdish Revolution. Kaldıraç Movement describes the state of the Republic of Turkey as a colonized state built against the October Revolution on the basis of rejection of the working class, the destruction and denial of peoples, and anti-communism. It sees struggling against this state with every means as necessary and legitimate. In its origins, the movement set out with the slogan "Forward to the revolution! Either socialism or death!" and engaged in intensive work and analyses on the state and revolution, the Kurdish Revolution, the disintegration of socialism in the USSR, revolutionary ethics and the new...