Author from Kazakhstan wrote a poem about Sibel Balaç

Comrades from Kazakhstan sent us this message presenting a poem dedicated to the revolutionary political prisoner Sibel Balaç. Below we present the text of the poem written in English.

The hearts of heroes are on fire!

The hearts of the heroes are burning with fire
From the desire to fight.
Our fists and bright red flags are flying in the sky.
The Turkish folk will see the light.

Brave rebels will overthrow government rats.
Our enemies will lose the war.
Fighting is power, not paper in banks.
Someday the regime will fall.

Sibel and Gökhan fight everyone
Who tortures and murders in blood.
Victory will bring the rays of the sun.
And freedom will burn in the heart.

Guldana Kyzyl-Muratova

#AtkSibeliTahliyeEtmeli

Source: https://socialism.kz/index.php?newsid=216

14 Questions about Grup Yorum

Dear readers, with the publication of this article, we will try to answer some of the most important questions about the revolutionary music band Grup Yorum. Over the years, we have published various articles, about the band, but until now, none of them, have explained some important aspects of Grup Yorum’s work. We hope that this article will provide the necessary information to those who want to learn more about Grup Yorum. Of course, we are aware that there is much more to be written on this subject, but let’s set the basis for future more in-depth pieces on this topic.

Grup Yorum – Birsen

The musicians from the revolutionary music band Grup Yorum, have dedicated their latest song to the revolutionary Birsen Kars, who martyred on 6 February 2022. The lyrics, the music as well as the performance of the song were created by the European collective of the music band. You can read a translation of the lyrics below, as well as listen to it from the link to the band’s official YouTube channel.

Grup Yorum – All the peoples of the world are brothers

Dear readers, we want to start a new tradition. On the eve of every New Year, we will present to you a song of Grup Yorum, with which we will greet the upcoming year of struggle. We suppose that this tradition will be a good way to start the new year. For the first song, we have chosen the song titled All the peoples of the world are brothers(in Turkish Dünya Halkları Kardeştir), as we believe that this song is full with the spirit of internationalism, which is needed by the people’s of the world in their struggles against imperialism and fascism’s attacks.

Grup Yorum – Come on, let’s go, (let´s get moving!)

Prologue: Elder Sister Helin, we love you so much! We will became members of Grup Yorum too!

-Hello everyone, I greet with all my heart, all who hear my voice, I am Ibrahim Gökçek.

-I believe that those dark days will pass, to make this possible, I do the right thing, one day we will hold concerts in those squares again.

Police attacked people gathered for a concert by a leftist revolutionary music band in Istanbul

On August 9, people who gathered to attend the concert of the leftist revolutionary music band Grup Yorum were attacked by the police. Preparations for the concert, entitled “Independent Turkey”, have been going on for the past few months.

A SONG OF MEMORY FOR HELIN AND IBRAHIM

Your hearts beat with the melody of progress,
your hearts beat with the rhythm of the fight.
Hope and trust are the words that shape you,
in your comrades, in your people, in victory.
You run – along the river, against the current -you run –
knowing that you will reach your goal.
And every step you take is followed by the masses hungry for justice.

Grup Yorum is against fascism and imperialism!

During Grup Yorum concert in Moscow, one of the musicians Ali, playing a saz, made a speech against imperialism and fascism, after which the song against American aggression was performed. Here is the Russian translation of this fervent speech.

Grup Yorum concert in Moscow

On February 21 the Turkish revolutionary music group Grup Yorum, waging an irreconcilable struggle against Turkish fascism and world imperialism since 1985, gave its first concert in Moscow.

For the collective of Grup Yorum this concert was very important and significant, as they performed their fighting songs in the hero city of Moscow, the capital of the destroyed but not annihilated Soviet Union. For them Soviet Union is an example that they follow in their struggle.

Three-day cultural festival organized by People`s Front took place in London

In a period during which imperialism and fascism are attacking from all sides. In which every action for the interest of people’s progress is suffocated with darkness. In a period during which even the conduct of legal demonstrations and the use of basic human rights and democratic freedoms are restricted by demagogues for terrorism. At a time when workers, civil servants, university and high school students, progressive intellectuals, and all the people who do not accept capitalist darkness are being subjected to repression and crushing, members and supporters of the People’s Front – Turkey, organized a three-day cultural festival in London, in order to show the unity and power of the revolutionaries and their friends