Communist party struggles against child labour: This system is broken!

Communist Party of Turkey released a statement after the Ministry of Labour and Social Security declared 2018 as "the year of fighting against child labour"
Thursday, 04 January 2018 17:49

The Communist Party of Turkey (TKP) continues its campaign, "Child labour must be prohibited", which was launched in 2017. The number of registered and informally employed child workers in Turkey is close to 2 million in total. According to recent regulations in labour law, the employment of children and young workers in certain business sectors is a criminal offense.

On January 3, the TKP declared a statement, including that the Syrian child workers are almost half of this 2 million child labourers in contrast to the official data that shows the total number of child workers as 890 thousand in Turkey. "The person responsible for the 'lemons' of the market stall you are shopping from, bringing the food you ordered to your house by motorcycles without driving licenses, helping your bags at the market, holding your jacket at the hairdresser, collecting waste paper... Child workers are everywhere," the statement continued.

The TKP states that the lack of supervisory controls at workplaces, super exploitation arising from profit-oriented implementations, the government-led Islamic impositions in child education and inhuman market-based practices pave the way for the exploitation of children in the country.  

While they are in need of education for the future, children in Turkey and in the world are forced to work under dangerous conditions for the profits of capitalists. The TKP says that the exploitative child labour is the most serious crime, emphasizing that the struggle against child labour is part of the struggle against anti-worker forces and the capitalist system.

Putting forth that "Child labour is the biggest crime that this order produces before everything else. It is the embodiment of the most terrible, uncontrollable, most overwhelming labour exploitation," the TKP concluded the statement, calling on the people to attend the party’s press release in front of the Istanbul Provincial Directorate of Social Security Institution on January 5.