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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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|  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.
SAV reporters (CWI Germany)
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|  31/01/2012, Urgent solidarity needed
campaignkazakhstan.org
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|  31/01/2012, Worldwide solidarity campaign means the Kazakhstan regime can no longer
deny 16 December massacre
Rob Jones, CWI
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|  25/01/2012, Release Vadim Kuramshin and all those arrested – End harassment of
opposition activists!
CWI Reporters
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|  25/01/2012, 16 December underlined the need for the workers’ movement to link
economic demands to the struggle to bring down the regime
Interview with Ainur Kurmanov, CWI Kazakhstan
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| 10/01/2012, Union bureaucracy and ’left’ groups attack CWI’s solidarity with strikers
Rob Jones, CWI Moscow |
|  26/12/2011, "A victory for workers anywhere is a victory for the workers everywhere!"
Jonas Brännberg and Arne Johansson, CWI Sweden
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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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|  21/12/2011, New video shows riot police shooting unarmed protesters in Zhanaozen
Socialistworld.net
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|  21/12/2011, More international solidarity and support
Socialist Action (CWI in Hong Kong) reporters
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|  21/12/2011, Campaign Kazakhstan demonstrates in Berlin and Cologne
Campaign Kazakhstan activists, Germany
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|  18/12/2011, 18/12 22:05 LATEST UPDATE - WORKERS BEING TORTURED!
CWI Reporters Russia & Kazakhstan
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|  18/12/2011, "European union must break off talks with Kazakhstan!"
Paul Murphy MEP, Socialist Party (CWI Ireland) sends video message to
workers in Zhanaozen
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|  17/12/2011, UPDATE @ 22:30 GMT - Only united and extensive workers’ action can end
this dictatorial regime
CWI reporters, Russia and Kazakhstan
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|  17/12/2011, Protests in Dublin, Moscow and Aachen
Socialistworld.net & CWI Reporters
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Further articles on 'Kazakhstan':- 16/12/2011: Urgent Solidarity: Reported 70 Dead & 500 wounded by riot police in
Kazakhstan
Socialistworld.net - 16/12/2011: Kazakhstan: Solidarity protests held at Kazakh embassies
Socialistworld.net & CWI Reporters - 16/12/2011: Kazakhstan: Campaign Kazakhstan press release
Socialistworld.net - 05/12/2011: Kazakhstan: Georgii Epshtein freed after ten days jailing
CWI Reporters, Almaty, Kazakhstan - 25/11/2011: Charges against Georgii Epshtein completely falsified
By CWI Reporters - 24/11/2011: Kazakstan: Judge takes 5 minutes to deprive CWI supporter of 10 days
liberty
CWI Reporters, Kazakhstan - 24/11/2011: Kazakhstan: Free Georgii Epshtein!
Socialistworld.net - 23/11/2011: Kazakhstan: Solidarity vital as discontent grows
Socialistworld.net - 17/11/2011: Kazakhstan: Regime concedes “negotiations” with striking oil workers
CWI Reporters, CIS - 09/11/2011: Kazakhstan: Opposition activist Ainur Kurmanov addresses Socialist Party
rally in London
CWI Reporters - 27/10/2011: Kazakhstan: Armed attack on journalists covering oil workers’ dispute
Socialist Resistance (CWI Kazakhstan) Reporters - 20/10/2011: Britain: Protesters target ‘Kazakhstan Business Forum’ London event
Socialist Party (CWI England
and Wales) Reporters - 10/10/2011: Kazakhstan: Solidarity protest at football match in Brussels
PSL/LSP (CWI in Belgium) reporters - 08/10/2011: Kazakhstan: Socialist MEP "Persona non-grata"
Video of Paul Murphy, Socialist Party (CWI in Ireland) MEP - 05/10/2011: Kazakhstan: Kazakh oil workers heard in European Parliament
Geert Cool, LSP/PSL (CWI in Belgium) - 01/10/2011: Kazakhstan: "Kazakh strikers turn to OSCE"
themoscownews.com - 30/09/2011: Kazakhstan: MEPs condemn repression of opposition activists
CWI Reporters - 29/09/2011: Britain: Solidarity protest at Kazakh embassy
Socialistworld.net - 28/09/2011: Kazakhstan: Venezuelan oil workers’ support striking Kazakh oil workers
and condemn repression
CWI Reporters - 26/09/2011: Kazakhstan: Venezuelan union leader supports Kazakh opposition activists
CWI Reporters - 16/09/2011: Kazakhstan: “Kurmanov to be jailed?”
CWI reporters - 09/09/2011: Kazakhstan: Another oil worker jailed for 15 days without trial
CWI reporters - 07/09/2011: Germany: Esso protest in solidarity with striking Kazakh oil workers
René Kiesel, SAV (CWI Germany),
Berlin - 03/09/2011: Kazakhstan: Terror continues against oil workers
CWI reporters, Moscow - 31/08/2011: Sweden: Kazakhstan solidarity action
By Offensiv 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 - 02/08/2011: Kazakhstan: “We are not begging - we are demanding our rights!”
by Paul Murphy, MEP and Tanja Niemeier - 21/07/2011: Kazakhstan: Socialist Party MEP visits oil strikers
Socialistworld.net - 08/07/2011: Kazakhstan: Riot police attack striking oil workers
CWI reporters, Moscow - 06/07/2011: Kazakhstan: Sting cancels concert in support of striking oil workers
Socialistworld.net reporters - 01/07/2011: Kazakhstan: Striking oil workers attempt to break news blockade
CWI reporters, Moscow - 22/06/2011: Kazakhstan: London embassy protest
Socialist Party reporters (CWI England and Wales), London - 21/06/2011: Kazakhstan: Life of workers’ leader, Esenbek Ukteshbayev, in danger
CWI reporters, Kazakhstan - 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 - 07/06/2011: Kazakhstan: Oil and gas strikers force release of comrades from police
detention
CWI members Kazakhstan - 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 - 12/05/2011: Kazakhstan: Successful opposition activists’ conference
CWI reporters - 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 - 18/03/2011: Kazakhstan: Free Esenbek Ukteshbayev!
Socialistworld.net - 15/03/2011: Kazakhstan - solidarity needed: Hundreds of opposition activists march
in Astana
CWI - 11/03/2011: Kazakhstan: April Presidential ‘election’ announced
Socialist Resistance (CWI in Kazakhstan) reporters - 19/01/2011: Kazakhstan: EU - stop boosting Nazarbayev’s dictatorship
Joe Higgins, MEP, Socialist Party (CWI Ireland) - 15/01/2011: Kazakhstan: Regime plans to cancel 2012 presidential elections
CWI Reporters, Kazakhstan - 14/01/2011: Kazakhstan: Clamp down on opposition press continues
CWI Reporters, Moscow - 12/01/2011: Kazakhstan: New Year fireworks outside cell of Esenbek Ukteshbayev
CWI Reporters, Moscow and Almaty
2010: - 31/12/2010: CWI 10th World Congress: Eastern Europe and the CIS (former Soviet
States)
Document No. 6, CWI World Congress - 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 - 19/12/2010: OSCE Summit: Hypocrisy of world “leaders”
Joe Higgins, MEP, Socialist Party (CWI Ireland) - 03/11/2010: Kazakhstan: Oil (or human rights)?
Socialistworld.net - 28/10/2010: Kazakhstan: Ainur Kurmanov attacks human rights abuses
Ainur Kurmanov speaking in European Parliament’s Subcommittee - 28/10/2010: Kazakhstan: Nazarbayev’s state visit to Brussels spoilt
Rob Jones, (CWI Russia) and Aimur Kurmanov (Socialist Resistance, (CWI)
Kazakhstan) in Brussels this week - 25/10/2010: Kazakhstan: Joe Higgins condemns the totalitarian dictatorship
Joe Higgins, MEP Socialist
Party (CWI Ireland) - 22/10/2010: Kazakhstan: 8000 oil-workers reply to police frame-up with strike
Socialist Resistance (CWI in Kazakhstan) reporters - 21/10/2010: Kazakhstan: “OSCE Summit should be cancelled”…
Socialistworld.net - 11/10/2010: Kazakhstan: Wave of terror against opposition activists
CWI Reporters, Moscow - 07/10/2010: Kazakhstan: Vadim Khuramshin released from police custody without charge
CWI Reporters, Moscow - 06/10/2010: Kazakhstan: Human rights’ activist, Vadim Karamshim, arrested while
protesting prison regime brutality
CWI Reporters, Moscow - 01/10/2010: Kazakhstan: Cracks appear in prison regime
CWI reporters, Moscow - 25/09/2010: Moscow News: "In Kazakh jails, T is for torture"
Moscow News, 23/09/2010 - 22/09/2010: Kazakhstan: Appeal for solidarity with prisoners’ protest
CWI reporters, Kazakhstan - 18/09/2010: Kazakhstan: Media coverage of visit by Joe Higgins, Socialist MEP
CWI - 17/09/2010: Kazakhstan: Breaches of human rights
Video of GUE/NGL press conference - 15/09/2010: Kazakhstan: Joe Higgins on human rights violations
Joe Higgins, MEP Socialist Party (CWI Ireland) - 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 - 08/09/2010: Kazakhstan: Police prevent human rights defender meeting Joe Higgins, MEP
Press Statement September 8, 2010, European United Left /Nordic Green
Left (GUE/NGL) Delegation to Kazakhstan (current chair of the OSCE) -
August 30 to September 6. - 08/09/2010: Kazakhstan: Visiting socialist MEP meets workers in struggle &
opposition activists
Tanja Niemeier, member of Joe Higgins MEP’s visiting delegation to
Kazakhstan - 07/09/2010: Kazakhstan: Vadim Kuramshin freed from prison
Rob Jones, member of Joe Higgins MEP’s visiting delegation to Kazakhstan - 29/08/2010: Kazakhstan: Urgent protests needed
Sotsialisticheskoe Soprotivleniye (CWI Kazakhstan) - 07/07/2010: Kazakhstan: The fight goes on
Elizabeth Clarke, CWI - 03/06/2010: Kazakhstan: Mass prison hunger strike against brutal regime
Sotsialisticheskoye soprotivleniye Kazakhstan (CWI) Reporters, Kazakhstan - 13/05/2010: Kazakhstan: “Thanks comrades for support!”
Socialistworld.net - 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 - 27/04/2010: Kazakhstan: “Release Ainur Kurmanov - Stop the repression of socialist
and worker activists!”
Socialistworld.net - 27/04/2010: Kazakhstan: Socialist activist Ainur Kurmanov jailed for 14 days on
trumped-up charges
CWI reporters, Moscow - 01/04/2010: Kazakhstan: “Change the politicians or they will change you!”
Report of visit by Peter Taaffe, CWI, and Rob Jones, CWI Russia - 26/03/2010: Kazakhstan:Farcical trial of socialist Ainur Kurmanov
CWI reporters, Almaty, Kazakhstan - 18/03/2010: Kazakhstan: Joe Higgins MEP sends solidarity message to the striking oil
workers
Socialistworld.net - 16/03/2010: Solidarity needed - Kazakhastan: 10,000 oil workers on strike in
Zhanaozen city
- 09/03/2010: Solidarity needed - Kazakhstan: Three members of Socialist Resistance
(CWI) beaten and arrested
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