We Are Workers Not Slaves: The Story of the GAMA Struggle

This is a very useful document on a key moment in the history of the Socialist Party during the 2000s. Many thanks to Orla Drohan for donating this to the Archive – of which this is just one of a number of documents which have appeared this year.

While self-explanatory, the pamphlet notes:

In 2005 a group of Turkish workers made history in Ireland when they took on their employer, Turkish owned multinational construction giant GAMA. Assisted by the Socialist Party, whose members first exposed the scandalous wages and conditions being paid by GAMA to its Turkish workers, they engaged in a bitter and hard fought battle which eventually brought GAMA to heel.

It continues:

Revelations during the course of this struggle about the systematic theft of these workers’ wages by GAMA, and about the complicity of the Irish state and political establishment in, for years, turning a blind eye to what was happening, rocked Irish society at the time and will have lasting repercussions.

The pamphlet is divided into twelve chapters and four Appendices including a Transcript of Joe Higgins speech to the Dáil on 8th of February 2005. A crucial insight into a significant event in Irish left political history.

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