Labour and Organising
Tech workers, wages, unemployment, professional chambers and organising at work.
95 posts
October 2026
Two Climate Summits in Antalya, and the Class of the Crisis
The Peoples' Climate Summit: The Doctors Have Made the Diagnosis, the Class Will Write the Prescription
Mass or Class? A Dossier on the Workers' Party of Turkey
Erkan Baş's Path, the Legacy of the Two TİPs, and a Comradely Invitation to a Revolutionary Class Line
What Does Europe's Youth Want?
From the Lycées of Paris to Berlin's School Strikes, from Belgrade to Madrid: A Generation's List of Demands, and Its Class
The Physician's Responsibility, the Physician's Class
The Examination Is Not Done at the Police Station
A Class Seven Layers Underground
A Hundred-and-Fifty-Year Account, from Zonguldak to Soma
September 2026
Whose Hand Is on the Shutdown Button?
A Class Map of Control, from the Language Model down to Silicon
Where Did Unemployment Hide in August?
Unemployment Did Not Fall. It Changed Clothes: Underemployment, Despair, and Longer Hours
Reading Deniz Göktaş's Defense with Young Comrades, Point by Point
Four Sentences, Eighty-Eight Days, One Class Question
The Deniz Göktaş Case and the Class of Humor
Eighty-Eight Days, Four Sentences, Two Convictions: The Full Text of the Defense and a Class Reading
The Machine Is New, the Chain Is Old: A Class Anatomy of Remote Work
The Remote and Hybrid Work Regulation: Our Rights, the Traps in the Contract, and a Programme for Unions
Not for Money, for Our Honour
From Ali Şekeroğlu's Banner to Seventy-Five Years of Retirement
Criticising Utopia Is Not Enough: A Comradely Reading of Issue 73 of Teori ve Eylem
Class Notes for Young Comrades on the Post-Capitalism Dossier and Fourteen Pieces
Four Chairs at DeFacto's Door
Why Were Computing Workers in Halkalı This Evening?
Why Do Workers Vote for the Right?
A History of the Relation Between the Right and the Working Class, and of Its Present, for Young Comrades
The Class of a Litre of Diesel
For Whom a Hundred Lira Is Cheap, and the Anatomy of Şimşek's European Comparison
What Do the Families at the Ministry of Justice Want?
I Do Not Want to Seek My Right; Give Me My Right
Council of State Day in Akbelen and the Anatomy of a Dispossession
Urgent Expropriation in Akbelen, Capacity Payments, and Twelve Years of Privatisation by the Hand of the State
Whose Family Is Safe?
A Class Dismantling of the Apparatus Built in the Name of the Family — A Process Analysis for Young Comrades
The Bell Does Not Ring the Same for Everyone
The Figures of Poverty and Inequality as Schools Open
The Class's Answer to Evrim Ağacı's Question
Why Doesn't the Opposition Win?
"Event Organizing and Comradeship" Guide Is Out
Fixing the Chair, Changing the World
Albatros Computing Cooperative and Software Cooperativism 101
We Saw a Future in Karaburun
Karaburun at Twenty: The Map of Labor, the Algorithm of Capital
The 20th Karaburun Science Congress Convenes Under the Theme "LABOR/LABORERS"
The Computing Worker's Handbook
For Everyone Whose Hands Touch the Keyboard - Labor, Rights, Organizing
August 2026
Gig Economy Dossier
Owner-Operator Courier Work: The Algorithmic Boss, Piece-Rates, and Strikes with No Name in the Law
TÜİK: Two Figures, One Country: 8.1% and 30.6%
TÜİK Released the July 2026 Labour Force Figures Today. Headline Unemployment 8.1%. Two Pages Later in the Same Bulletin, the Idle Labour Force Is 30.6%
The National AI Board: Who Is at the Table, Who Is Not?
The Table Is Set, the Chairs Are Being Assigned: Why Is Labor Absent?
A Class Look at Bill Gates’s AI Warnings
When the Owner of the Monopoly Complains About the Monopoly
Our Education Dossier Is Out: Whose School Is It?
Our New Education Dossier Is Out: 205 pages, 217 chapters. On Taking the School Back from the Market, Religious Communities, and the Algorithm
An AI Boss Fired a Human for the First Time
The Manager Is New, the Class Relation Is Old
Questions for the Computing Workers of the New World
A Class Guide for Those Newly Entering Computing and Artificial Intelligence Departments
On Turkey's Artificial Intelligence Action Plan (2026–2030)
A Class Analysis of Turkey's AI Action Plan and a Line of Struggle
"Labor in the Age of Artificial Intelligence": Our Book Is Out
We Want Our Collective Intellect Back
Let's Meet in Karaburun: "The Revolt of Crystallized Labor"
We Present Our Paper on 3–5 September
For a Left That Does Not Fear Criticism: Our New Book Is Out
"Criticizing as Comrades, Advancing Together" — Our book on criticism, self-criticism, and democratic culture in socialist politics is out free, in every format
To Be a Historical Subject in the Age of Illusions: "Organize!"
The Construction of Class Consciousness and Collective Will Against the Rotting Structure of the Capital Accumulation Regime
On Artificial Intelligence and the Technological Singularity
The Myth of the "Singularity" as a Modern Opium and the Reality of Class Struggle
From the Fields of Kırşehir to the Streets of Bağbaşı
The Dialectic of Identity and Rent in Kırşehir
July 2026
The Dialectic of Everyday Life and a Guide to Survival
From Apolitical Sleep to Organized Solidarity: A Mental Self-Defense Handbook for Youth
Digital Capitalism, the Illusion of "Goodness," and the Material Reality of Class Struggle
The Bare Sword of Truth in an Age of Harmonious Lies
The Revolt of Crystallized Labor: A Call to the 20th Karaburun Science Congress
The Expropriation of the General Intellect in AI Models, Mental Taylorism, and the Digital Panopticon
A Spiritual Barricade in a Reified World: An Epistemological Critique of Petty-Bourgeois Egoism and Revolutionary Praxis
A Guide to Protecting Mental Health Against Late Capitalism's Selfish Culture, Demolishing the Illusions of Progressive Ghettos, and Building the Human of the Future in the Field
Plunder of Nature and Capitalist Domination: From the Esra Işık Trial to Ecosocialist Resistance
The Ecological Looting Regime in Turkey, the Bourgeois Law's Mobilization Theater, and a Compass of Class Struggle for Young Comrades
The Bloody Steps of the Pyramid: The 2026 Global Dispossession War and the Birth of the 'Useless Class'
Diagnosis of the Global Crime Network Built Through State-Capital Partnership in a 2026 World Where Technology Has Become a Class Weapon
The Compass of Class Struggle: The Political Economy of Inflation and the Plunder of the Working Class
Index Wars, the July Raise Scythe, and Two Different Realities
June 2026
YÖK's Micro-Credential Push: The 'Fragmented Worker' of Digital Factories and Capital's New Rent-Extraction Zone
The Commodification of Education and a New Stage of Neoliberal Decay
An Epistemological View of Arif Koşar's Analysis of Labor Supervision and the Digital Infrastructure of Socialist Planning
From Algorithmic Panopticon to Cyber Post Office — The Limits of Cognitive Domination
The Future Forged at the Ankara Barricades: The Class Struggle of Private-Sector Teachers
A Class Voice Rising from the Ankara Barricades: "Education Is Not a Market Commodity — Minimum Wage Is a Right!"
NATO 3.0 — Collapsing Hegemony, Rising Barbarism: An Anatomy of the Ankara War Council
Ahead of the Ankara Summit — The Liquidation of the Welfare State, the Political Economy of Militarism, and the Bill Charged to the Working Class
Journalism Is Not a Crime!
The Voice of the Street, the Mirror of the Future: Why Is Journalism Everyone's Fight?
The Invasion of the Academic Mind and the Liquidation of Truth: Why Is Tuna Tuğcu Not Merely an "Isolated Case"?
Capital's Appetite for Data, Bureaucratic Violence, and the Historical Necessity of Scientific Partisanship
Peaceful Protest Is a Human Right!
Freedom on Paper, the Barricade on the Street: Our Right to Peaceful Protest, the Punishment Regime, and the Aesthetics of Resistance
Looking to the July Summit While the Country Is Ablaze: NATO Means Hunger at Home and Handcuffs in the Street!
Empty Baskets in the Shadow of Gun Barrels: Whose Pocket Does the NATO Budget Come Out Of?
From Plazas to Technoparks, a Digital Union: A Class Barricade Against Algorithmic Exploitation
Network-Type Organizing Scenarios and a Strategic Action Guide Against Flexible Exploitation in Turkey's IT and Plaza Sector
Coding the Labor of the Future Together: The BilişimSen Manifesto of Collective Mind and Participatory Unionism
A Proposal for the Charter and Structure of the Founding Period
From the Mind in the Machine to the Podium of Freedom: A Call to the 20th Karaburun Science Congress
The Karaburun Science Congress is a living oasis of free and disobedient science in an age when neoliberalism commercializes universities and tames thought with corporate funds.
The End of the Gilded Illusion: Immaterial Labor in the Age of Artificial Intelligence and an Organizing Guide for the IT Worker in Turkey
Breaking the Chains of the Digital Proletariat and an Organizing Guide for Turkey's IT Sector
On the Threshold of Bilişim-Sen: Looking to the Future Through the Mirror of History
From Turnstiles to Squares: A History of IT Labor and the Class Struggle of White-Collar Workers in Turkey
May 2026
Bilişim-Sen Founding Congress Call: The Human of the Future Takes Ownership of Their Future
As IT professionals shaping the world of tomorrow, we are coming together at the Bilişim-Sen Founding Congress on June 14 to take ownership of our rights and our future.
The Digital Commons and Direct Democracy Action Guide: Blockchain, Web3, and the Future of People's Assemblies
A Smart-Contract-Based Direct Democracy Model for Green Energy, Food Distribution, and Knowledge Sharing
Digital Commons in the Age of Algorithmic Enclosure: Artificial Intelligence and the Liberation of Knowledge Labor
An Organizing Guide for the Digital Proletariat Against Platform Capitalism
Capital, the State, and the Customer-ized Academy: The Bilgi University Resistance and the Attacks on the Nests of Enlightenment
In the Light of the Bilgi University Resistance, the Commodification of Education and the Academy Beyond the Barricade
From the Dawn of Tomorrow to the Human Being of the Future: A Call to the Socialist Bloc for Organization and a New Culture of Democracy
Beyond the Illusion of the Ballot Box—A Call for a New Culture of Democracy and Grassroots Organization in Every Sphere of Life
From the Garden to the Barricades: The Epistemology of Comradeship and the Sublimity of Solidarity, from Epicurus to Marx
The Breaking of Mechanical Fatalism: Epicurus's Clinamen Against Democritus's Determinism
The Digital Guillotine: Meta's "4 AM" Operation and the AI Order Where Workers Are Liquidated With Their Own Data
Rejecting fragmentation against the '4 AM' guillotine
The Exposure of an Attempt to Design Politics Using International Rights Instruments, and a Call for the United Struggle of the Forces of Labor
The Legal Defectiveness of the "Absolute Nullity" Ruling in Light of the ECHR and Universal Human Rights Norms, and a Manifesto of United Democracy Against Fascism
The Weekly System Crash: Monday Syndrome
Capitalist Alienation, Genuine Love of Work, and the Organized Solution
A Class Algorithm Against Technofeudalism: The Global Struggle of IT Workers
Concrete Gains Around the World, Rights Awareness, and the Future of Organized Power
The Invisible Violence of the Plazas: Traumatic Labor and Moderation Work in the Digital Age
"Mental Assembly Lines," Precarity, and the Rebirth of the Collective Working Class in Turkey's White-Collar Ecosystem
The Bloody Alliance, NATO's Record, and Turkey
An Intellectual Resistance Against NATO's Digital Mandate and Its Order of Lawlessness
Breaking Frozen Time: Totems, Taboos, and the Dialectical End of Learned Helplessness
A Dialectical Leap at the Edge of the Cosmos: Reason, Science, and the Human of the Future
The Labor Architecture of the Digital Age: The Problems of IT Workers and the Organic Intellectual Perspective
From Mental Taylorism to the Digital Commons: Seeing the Truth Behind the Pixels and Re-Coding Reality in the Service of the Class
The Source Code of Class: The Great Integration of Intellectuals and Laborers
From the Soviet Experience to Digital Plazas: A Roadmap on Breaking the White-Collar Illusion and the Task of the Organic Intellectual
The Algorithm of Justice: Organized Information Work and Digital Resistance
A Digital Defense Guide from Exposure to Action for Information Workers
A Revolutionary Approach Against the Corporatist Tendency: The Will of the Class in Chambers and Unions
The Corporatist Trap and the Marxist Distinction
From the Grip of Corporatism to Proletarian Oversight: Dual Power in IT
Subordinating Technical Reason to Proletarian Politics and the Revolutionary Function of Professional Chambers in Socialist Construction
Dual Power in IT: A Guide to Cooperation Between the Union and the Professional Chamber
Two Torches in the Digital Dark: Seek Your Dignity in the Chamber, Your Rights in the Union!
Login to the Future: Getting Promoted from "Compulsory Work" to "Endless Curiosity"
A Manifesto for Intellectual Development and Liberation of the Mind
From May 6th to the Future: Full Independence, Scientific Freedom, Organized Labor
Building Homo Commonans in the Shadow of the Three Saplings
