The FBU leader speaks to Ben Chacko about cuts, collapsing Starmerism and confronting the far right
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The FBU leader speaks to Ben Chacko about cuts, collapsing Starmerism and confronting the far right
![Birtek-sen members and supporters gather outside the trial in solidarity and to demand Mehmet Turkmen’s release, May 12, 2026 [Pic: Arif Bektas]](https://msd11.gn.apc.org/sites/default/files/styles/desktop/public/2026-05/Image%20from%20iOS.jpg.webp?itok=Ib4Az5aX)
Mehmet Turkmen, president of Birtek-Sen, has been cleared of criminal charges after speaking out against the high rate of workplace injuries and deaths in Gaziantep’s textile and carpet industry. OZLEM TEMENA reports
FRED BAYER says the cuts to the congress cycle could be disastrous for the Scottish trade union movement
Over 100,000 people are expected on Brussels’s streets today. Ben Chacko speaks to Belgian Workers Party’s PETER MERTENS on wage and pensions attacks that have united the fightback
Trade unionists and peace activists march across the country commemorating the centenary of 1926 General Strike
![FBU president Ian Murray [Pic: Mark Thomas / FBU]](https://msd11.gn.apc.org/sites/default/files/styles/desktop/public/IMG_6323.jpg.webp?itok=MY4U6IBT)
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