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08/02/2012: General strike on 7 February opposes “mediaeval labour conditions!"
08/02/2012: No trust in Arab League and imperialist powers
08/02/2012: A big protest rally in freezing temperatures greeted the Kazakhstan
president as he attended a meeting to strengthen relations with the
German government and big business.
05/02/2012: 74 killed in horrific scenes
04/02/2012: Joe Higgins argues in Cork, 26 January, to resist the household tax:
"Yes, we have a choice!"
03/02/2012: A strike corresponding to the level of anger over austerity programme
03/02/2012: The capitalist classes of Europe are all adopting the same policy of
attempting to make the working class pay for the capitalist economic
crisis.
02/02/2012: A socialist view on recent showdown between government and people
01/02/2012: The repression will not stop the movement!
01/02/2012: CWI – a socialist analysis
31/01/2012: Frequently asked questions
31/01/2012: Urgent solidarity needed
31/01/2012: The lessons of the first waves of revolutionary movements
31/01/2012: Worldwide solidarity campaign means the Kazakhstan regime can no longer
deny 16 December massacre
31/01/2012: Interview with two Tunisian socialists, one year after the fall of Ben
Ali
30/01/2012: Fight Against Corporate Politics
30/01/2012: Bryan Koulouris explains how the USA is being transformed by the occupy
movements which have arisen in anger at the growing inequality between
the 1% and the 99% in the United States
30/01/2012: Once again, a United Nations-sponsored climate change conference has
completely failed to address the issue of global warming.
29/01/2012: December’s industrial action against austerity just the beginning of the
fight-back!
29/01/2012: Whole continent on the verge of major social convulsions and political
shocks
28/01/2012: The illusory appearance of a peculiar isolation from the international
picture of stagnation, recession and economic crisis is fragile - a new
period of turbulent class conflict lays ahead
27/01/2012: CWI’s Zhang Shujie speaks out at hearing in Sweden’s parliament
26/01/2012: Euro-zone crisis deepens
26/01/2012: Masses in Cairo and other cities demand end to military rule
26/01/2012: LSD legislator from Hong Kong to speak in support of young socialist
Zhang Shujie, forced to flee China
25/01/2012: Contradictions and new struggles define situation in region
25/01/2012: 3 year old child killed in fatal repression
25/01/2012: Release Vadim Kuramshin and all those arrested – End harassment of
opposition activists!
25/01/2012: 16 December underlined the need for the workers’ movement to link
economic demands to the struggle to bring down the regime
24/01/2012: Key Battle for the Labour and Occupy Movements
22/01/2012: As world economy worsens, inter-imperialist relations intensify
21/01/2012: How socialists and the local community fought back against racism and
the BNP
20/01/2012: Scottish National Party’s version of indepdendence a nightmare for
workers
18/01/2012: As economic crisis worsens, new class conflicts loom
17/01/2012: Struggle forces Jonathan back a bit, but could have won far more with a
more resolute leadership - We Condemn Repression by Police and Army
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|  28/12/2011, Picket in New York protests against the Kazakh mission to the UN
Socialist Alternative (CWI supporters in the US)
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|  22/12/2011, Russian press describe torture of detained oil workers & police reign of
terror
CWI Reporters in Russia & Kazakhstan
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|  18/12/2011, 18/12 22:05 LATEST UPDATE - WORKERS BEING TORTURED!
CWI Reporters Russia & Kazakhstan
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|  16/12/2011, LATEST UPDATE 17:54 GMT Breaking News: Peaceful protesters & supporters
of striking oil workers fired upon
Socialistworld.net
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|  01/12/2011, Solidarity needed! Demand Odisha government immediately releases Abhay
Sahoo
Socialistworld.net
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|  25/11/2011, Socialist Movement of Kazakhstan demands enquiry.
By CWI Reporters
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|  24/11/2011, Protest this travesty of justice – Demand Georgii Epshtein’s immediate
release!
CWI Reporters, Kazakhstan
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|  24/11/2011, Urgent support needed
Socialistworld.net
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|  23/11/2011, Ten thousand signatures collected on oil-workers’ petition
Socialistworld.net
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|  18/11/2011, Paul Murphy MEP supports struggle for an independent students’ union
Socialistworld.net
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|  10/11/2011, Activists face “harassment, humiliating body searches, being shackled”
CWI Reporters
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|  09/11/2011, Breaking News: 7 detainees to be "released" tomorrow, followed by Paul
Murphy MEP on Friday
CWI Reporters
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|  08/11/2011, Israeli authorities delay deportation, continue imprisonment
CWI Reporters
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|  07/11/2011, Demand the immediate release of all the detainees now!
CWI Reporters
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|  04/11/2011, Flotillas blocked and activists detained – Send protests urgently!
CWI Reporters
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Further articles on 'Solidarity campaigns':- 27/10/2011: Kazakhstan: Armed attack on journalists covering oil workers’ dispute
Socialist Resistance (CWI Kazakhstan) Reporters - 26/10/2011: USA: Urgent #OccupySeattle solidarity appeal
Jordan Martinez, Socialist Alternative (CWI supporters US) - 20/10/2011: India: Suzuki workers occupy factory
Socialistworld.net - 11/10/2011: Sweden: Kazakhstan workers’ leaders in Stockholm
From report by Arne Johansson in Offensiv, weekly paper of
Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna (CWI in Sweden) - 03/10/2011: Germany: Hospital workers’ strike enters fourth week
Sascha Stanicic, SAV (CWI in Germany) - 01/10/2011: Russia: Police detain campaigners for equal rights for women and LGBT
community
CWI Reporters, Moscow - 30/09/2011: Kazakhstan: MEPs condemn repression of opposition activists
CWI Reporters - 29/09/2011: Britain: Solidarity protest at Kazakh embassy
Socialistworld.net - 12/09/2011: Germany: Solidarity appeal
Anna Shadrova, SAV, Sozialistische Alternative (CWI in Germany), Berlin - 09/09/2011: Kazakhstan: Another oil worker jailed for 15 days without trial
CWI reporters - 29/08/2011: Poland: Solidarity picket in defense of oppressed oil workers in
Kazakhstan
CWI reporter, Poland - 24/08/2011: Sweden: Local miners’ union donates to Kazakhstan oil workers’ struggle
Jonas Brännberg, Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna, CWI Sweden - 18/08/2011: Ireland: Report from Protest in Solidarity with Kazakh Oil Strikers
Paul Murphy, MEP, Socialist
Party (CWI Ireland) - 15/08/2011: Kazakhstan: ‘Evidence’ fabricated against opposition leaders Ainur
Kurmanov and Esenbek Ukteshbaev
CWI reporters, Kazakhstan - 10/08/2011: Kazakhstan: Oil workers strike in West Kazakhstan now in third month
CWI Kazakhstan - 20/07/2011: Malaysia: Frightened government continues to hold the ‘EO6’
Socialistworld.net - 03/07/2011: Malaysia: Detained opposition activists brutally treated, six re-arrested
By CWI supporters, Malaysia - 27/06/2011: India: “It’s war out there!”
Appeal to CWI sections, trade unions and trade unionists - 15/06/2011: Kazakhstan: Authorities take revenge against striker’s wives and female
workers
CWI reporter, Kazakhstan - 12/06/2011: Kazakhstan: War of nerves as authorities prepare to use force
CWI reporters, Kazakhstan - 10/06/2011: South Africa - solidarity needed: 1,400 Rustenburg mine workers still
sacked
By Liv Shange, Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM), South African
affiliate of the CWI - 06/06/2011: Kazakhstan: Oil workers demonstration broken up
CWI reporters, Kazakhstan - 02/06/2011: Kazakhstan: Workers strike solid
CWI reporters, Kazakhstan - 01/06/2011: Kazakhstan: Solidarity needed for striking oil workers
CWI reporters Kazakhstan - 27/05/2011: Kazakhstan: More blood on the hands of Kazakhstan’s banks
CWI reporters, Kazakhstan - 13/05/2011: Israel: Haifa Chemical workers strike to end division between workers
and increase wages
Interview with Shay Galy, union representative of “Power to the Workers”
and member of Socialist Struggle Movement (CWI Israel) - 11/05/2011: Sweden: Hunger strike protest by 50 Iranian political refugees
Kristofer Lundberg, Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna (CWI Sweden) - 05/05/2011: Germany: Berlin hospital workers on strike
Sascha Stanicic, SAV (CWI Germany)
reports from the picket line - 02/05/2011: Kazakhstan: May Day marked by attacks on CWI activists and supporters
CWI - 03/04/2011: Kazakhstan: Esenbek Ukteshbayev met with flowers and solidarity
Socialist Resistance (Kazakhstan) reporters - 31/03/2011: Kazakhstan: Embassy protests over jailing of opposition activist
Aron Amm (CWI Germany) and CWI reporters, Stockholm - 26/03/2011: Kazakhstan: Police harass opposition protesters
For solidarity - new police repression - 23/03/2011: Kazakhstan: Presidential election farce
CWI reporters, Kazakhstan - 23/03/2011: Solidarity needed: Brazil welcomes Obama with the arrest of 13 political
prisoners
CWI - 18/03/2011: Kazakhstan: Free Esenbek Ukteshbayev!
Socialistworld.net - 15/03/2011: Kazakhstan - solidarity needed: Hundreds of opposition activists march
in Astana
CWI - 21/02/2011: Greece: Mass hunger strike approaches 30 days
Appeal from ‘Hunger Strike 300’ campaign, Athens - 29/01/2011: US: Prisoner activist facing violent retaliation
Socialist Alternative (CWI
USA) reporters - 21/01/2011: Portugal: Court hearing of trade union leaders postponed
Francisco d’Oleira Raposo, Executive Comission of Lisbon Council
Workers’ Union (personal capacity) and member of Socialismo
Revolucionário (CWI in Portugal) - 19/01/2011: Portugal: Trade unionists attacked and arrested
CWI reporters, Portugal - 14/01/2011: Kazakhstan: Clamp down on opposition press continues
CWI Reporters, Moscow
2010: - 30/12/2010: Kazakhstan: Union and social movement leader, Esenbek Ukteshbaev, sees
in New Year behind prison walls
CWI Reporters, Alma-Aty, Kazakhstan - 20/12/2010: Kazakhstan: ‘Kazakhstan 2012’ opposition leader jailed
CWI Reporters, Moscow - 09/12/2010: Ireland: School student victimised for protesting cuts and fees
Eddie McCabe, Socialist Party (CWI Ireland) - 10/11/2010: China: State repression against leftist trade unionist
Shi Chuan, chinaworker.info - 05/10/2010: Germany: 100,000 resist police brutality
Sascha Stanicic and Wolfram Klein, reporting from Stuttgart - 05/10/2010: Scotland: Defend Tommy and Gail Sheridan
Socialist Party (CWI
Scotland) - 23/09/2010: Italy: Solidarity letter from Joe Higgins to Fincantieri’s workers
Joe Higgins, MEP, Socialist Party (CWI Ireland) - 22/09/2010: Kazakhstan: Appeal for solidarity with prisoners’ protest
CWI reporters, Kazakhstan - 21/09/2010: Scotland: Solidarity leader facing massive legal battle
Philip Stott, Socialist Party Scotland (CWI Scotland) - 18/09/2010: Pakistan flood crisis: Solidarity still needed
CWI - 14/09/2010: Kazakhstan: Oil workers sued by bosses for “material losses” due to
“illegal” strike
Tanja Niemeier (part of recent Joe Higgins MEP delegation to Kazakhstan) - 13/09/2010: Kazakhstan: Oil workers fight ‘unfair dismissal’
Socialistworld.net - 10/09/2010: Belarus: Clampdown in Minsk
Rob Jones, CWI - 29/08/2010: Kazakhstan: Urgent protests needed
Sotsialisticheskoe Soprotivleniye (CWI Kazakhstan) - 25/08/2010: Britain: Protest against brutal attack on Russian activists continue
John Sharpe, Socialist Party (CWI in England and Wales) - 25/08/2010: Pakistan: Thousands of telecom workers on indefinite strike
CWI - 25/08/2010: Russia: “We will not relent in our struggle”!
Igor Yasin, CWI, Moscow - 23/08/2010: Pakistan: Emergency demands massive response
CWI - 19/08/2010: Solidarity: Protests in Austria, Belgium and Ireland
Socialistworld.net - 19/08/2010: Pakistan: Workers’ solidarity urgently needed
CWI - 11/08/2010: Russia: Call for international protests against the multi-national Vinci
Construction company
Rob Jones, CWI, Moscow - 11/08/2010: Solidarity: Protests in Sweden following brutal attack on CWI members
Stefan Berg, Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna (CWI in Sweden) - 10/08/2010: Hong Kong: International solidarity with our comrades in Russia
Chinaworker.info and Socialist Action - 08/08/2010: Solidarity needed - Russia: Socialists brutally attacked after
environment protest
CWI, Moscow, 8 August 2010 - 14/07/2010: NGERIA: UNPROVOKED AUTHORITIES-SPONSORED ATTACK ON DSM OAU BRANCH
Segun Sango, General Secretary, Democratic Socialist Movement (CWI in
Nigeria) - 10/07/2010: Turkey: 119 UPS workers sacked - solidarity needed!
Interview with Erol S, sacked UPS worker - 17/06/2010: Venezuela: Solidarity appeal for struggling Mitsubishi workers
Johan Rivas, Socialismo Revolucionario (CWI in Venezuela) - 28/05/2010: Solidarity: Support Torsten Sting and other dismissed workers!
René Henze, Rostock (SAV - CWI in Germany) - 21/05/2010: India: Police assault in Orissa condemned
- 13/05/2010: Kazakhstan: “Thanks comrades for support!”
Socialistworld.net - 11/05/2010: Solidarity needed: Daimler workers in Berlin threatened with expulsion
from IG Metall union
CWI - 09/05/2010: Kazakhstan : Ainur Kurmanov’s jailing appeal rejected
Socialistworld.net - 05/05/2010: ++ Stop Press ++: Kazakhstan
- 05/05/2010: Kazakhstan: Persecuted activists speak out
Interviews by Peter Taaffe, Secretary Socialist Party (England and
Wales) and International Sercretariat of the CWI - 05/05/2010: Kazakhstan: State repression of activists intensifies
News is reaching socialistworld.net of further arrests and harassment of
fighters in the labour movement in Kazakhstan. One is Esen Ukteshbaev
and the other is Vadim Kuramskin. Both were interviewed by Peter Taaffe,
Secretary of the Socialist Party, England and Wales on his recent visit
to Kazakhstan (see accompanying
article and previous
reports). - 28/04/2010: Kazakhstan: Ainur Kurmanov jailed for the ‘crime’ of reporting
opposition social movements
Socialistworld.net - 23/04/2010: Taiwan: Reinstate illegally dismissed workers at YFO
chinaworker.info, Friday, 23
April 2010. - 21/04/2010: Tamil Refugees:Protest against vile ill-treatment of refugees in
Indonesia
Statement by Tamil Solidarity campaign - 19/04/2010: Turkey: End the persecution of Tekel workers - solidarity with Okan Duman
Joe Higgins, MEP - 08/04/2010: Nigeria: Ajegunle Police Killings - socialists and others escape arrest
and criminal charges
Democratic Socialist Movement (CWI in Nigeria) reporters - 07/04/2010: Nigeria: Ajegunle Police Killings Update - Police Arrest Dagga Tolar and
two others today
PRESS STATEMENT– Segun Sango, General Secretary DSM (CWI in Nigeria) - 07/04/2010: Nigeria: Mindless police killings in Ajegunle
By Peluola Adewale, Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM – CWI in Nigeria) - 18/03/2010: Chile: Solidarity letter with Chilean Dockers
Socialistworld.net - 18/03/2010: Kazakhstan: Joe Higgins MEP sends solidarity message to the striking oil
workers
Socialistworld.net - 17/03/2010: Chile: Earthquake
Socialismo Revolucionario (CWI in Chile) - 16/03/2010: Solidarity needed - Kazakhastan: 10,000 oil workers on strike in
Zhanaozen city
- 11/03/2010: Solidarity needed - Hong Kong: Long Hair arrested
chinaworker.info - 09/03/2010: Solidarity needed - Kazakhstan: Three members of Socialist Resistance
(CWI) beaten and arrested
Comradely, EC Socialist Resistance, Kazakhstan - 06/03/2010: International Solidarity: Grant asylum to refugees held in Indonesia
CWI supporters - 02/03/2010: Costa Rica: Government launches assault against port workers’ union
Victor León, CWI member, Costa Rica - 02/03/2010: Ireland: Joe Higgins MEP interviewed at protest in solidarity with Green
Isle workers
Video Interview with Joe Higgins, MEP - 23/02/2010: Kosova: Joe Higgins MEP/ CWI call for end to politically-motivated trial
against Albin Kurti
socialistworld.net - 17/02/2010: Germany: Solidarity needed - IG Metall union threatens combative left
activists with explusion
CWI reporters
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