 latest news
25/05/2013: The one day protest general strike held on 21 May was a significant step
forward for the working class in Sri Lanka.
24/05/2013: Neo-liberalism and police violence have created social time-bomb
24/05/2013: Interview on Militant, the Labour Party and the struggle of the
socialist led council 1983-87 in Liverpool
24/05/2013: The Tories are thrashing around in ever-deeper water on the issue of
Europe.
23/05/2013: MEP demands immediate release of Housing Campaigners - solidarity still
needed
23/05/2013: Statement on Woolwich killing
23/05/2013: In the «most developped country for women in the Arab world», the
struggle for women rights remains more relevant than ever
23/05/2013: After Lafontaine’s proposal to get rid of the Euro – what should the
left say?
22/05/2013: Protests needed via embassies
22/05/2013: How Ireland is used as a tax haven by multinational corporations while
the government is preparing to steal the property tax from people’s
wages, social welfare and pensions
22/05/2013: Union-agreed rates could bring Amazon workers 9000 euros more a year
21/05/2013: Anti-racist campaign needed against corrupt ruling elites and capitalism
21/05/2013: An expressway to attacks on democratic rights! For democratic mass
working peoples’ defence committees!
20/05/2013: This year’s G8 summit will be held in County Fermanagh, Northern
Ireland, on 17th – 18th June. This gathering brings together the heads
of government of eight of the world’s largest capitalist economies to
discuss how they can further the interests of those they represent – the
super-rich, big business and the bankers.
19/05/2013: Increasing concerns and contradictions
18/05/2013: Workers and Socialist Party calls for one-day-general strike
18/05/2013: Iran’s June 14 presidential election takes place against the background
of deep divisions in society and the regime.
17/05/2013: Australia’s federal environment minister Tony Burke gave the go ahead to
Toro’s $270 million uranium mining project in the Wiluna region of
Western Australia.
15/05/2013: Working class unity needed to defend rights and living standards
14/05/2013: We shouldn’t let either of the major parties tell us that ‘tough
decisions’ or ‘hard cuts’ are required.
13/05/2013: Bus workers take strike action over savage wage cuts and attacks on
conditions
12/05/2013: 15 DSM members arrested at May Day rallies
12/05/2013: How can a state be realised?
11/05/2013: The latest events that have happened in Italian politics mark a new
phase of development in the crisis in the third European industrial
power.
11/05/2013: On 8 May the PKK has begun to withdraw from Turkey. Millions are hoping
now for an end to oppression and for democratic rights.
10/05/2013: Ruling Barisan Nasional’s widespread fraud enrages opposition supporters
and young people
10/05/2013: On 2 May the neo-fascist Golden Dawn attempted to distribute food in
Syntagma square in Athens to people holding proof of Greek nationality.
10/05/2013: Time for a new mass workers’ party
09/05/2013: New clashes on the horizon
08/05/2013: Big landlords, capitalists and influential families are calling the shots
08/05/2013: The United Socialist Party’s May Day demonstration passed successfully
through a number of populous areas of Colombo, ending at Grand Pass
Junction.
07/05/2013: Union representatives declare a “half success” with a pay rise of 9.8
percent – but important issues are unresolved
06/05/2013: ’Get a job!’ is the constant refrain of privileged Tory ministers and
vicious right-wing tabloids. A million unemployed young people are the
subject of a relentless campaign of smears and lies.
05/05/2013: Great event remembers the ’47’ struggle
05/05/2013: Christine Thomas’ book outlines how inequalities and discrimination
against women have not disappeared and women’s struggles must be bound
up with wider class struggle to be successful. Read the complete book
online here.
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| 23/05/2013, MEP demands immediate release of Housing Campaigners - solidarity still
needed Campaign Kazakhstan
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| 18/04/2013, Paul Murphy speaks out as European Parliament debates Human Rights Recorded message from Socialist Party MEP, Paul Murphy, carried on Campaign
Kazakhstan web-site
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| 15/02/2013, Appeal against 12-year prison sentence socialistworld.net
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| 11/02/2013, Protest to embassies and KazakhMys bosses Campaign Kazakhstan
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| 18/01/2013, Attacks continue against his legal team – Urgent protests needed! socialistworld.net
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| 19/12/2012, Justice for oil workers and their families! Campaign Kazakhstan Reporters
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| 14/12/2012, Protest against despotic regime’s crack-down! Campaign Kazakhstan Reporters
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| 10/12/2012, All pretense of a fair trial dropped – Protest Now! From Campaign Kazakhstan
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| 02/11/2012, For a second time this year, Irish GUE/NGL MEP Paul Murphy has been
denied a visa to travel to Kazakhstan, where he was meant to head a
delegation of the European United Left/Nordic Green Left group in the
European Parliament. Statement from GUE/NGL (United European Left)
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| 31/10/2012, Travesty of justice as Appeal Court revokes earlier court decision to
release Vadim Campaign Kazakhstan Reporters
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| 29/10/2012, Vienna protests publicised in Kazakhstan Socialistworld.net
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| 18/10/2012, Campaign Kazakhstan banner denounces attacks against oil workers Socialistworld.net
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| 09/10/2012, Great event in London on 2 October raises the demand for freedom for
Aron Atabek and imprisoned Zhanaozen strikers Socialistworld.net
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| 12/09/2012, Banner unfurled during Kazakhstan vs Sweden qualifying match Socialistworld.net
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| 28/08/2012, Result of massive international campaign of solidarity Statement by Ainur Kurmanov, Socialist Movement, Kazakhstan
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Further articles on 'Kazakhstan':- 28/08/2012: Kazakhstan: Vadim Kuramshin has been freed!
socialistworld.net - 22/08/2012: Kazakhstan: Vadim Kuramshin faces 14 years in special detention!
Latest from reporters in Kazakhstan - 18/08/2012: Kazakhstan: Paul Murphy MEP addresses Kazkahstan workers’ movement
Socialistworld.net - 14/08/2012: Kazakhstan: Farce of a trial resumed for Vadim Kuramshin
CWI - 01/08/2012: Kazakhstan: Vadim Kuramshin’s case resumes
Campaign Kazakhstan - 26/07/2012: Kazakhstan: Vadim Kuramshin, human rights’ activist, starts hunger strike
Socialistworld.net - 26/07/2012: Kazakhstan: Zhanaozen workers strike demanding release of comrades from
prison
Socialist Movement Kazakhstan reporters - 18/07/2012: Kazakhstan: Vadim Kuramshin threatens hunger strike protest
Campaign Kazakhstan Reporters - 13/07/2012: Kazakhstan: Bloody, corrupt regime carries out massive repression
against workers
Ben Robinson, Socialist Party
(CWI England and Wales) - 23/06/2012: Kazakhstan: Serious deterioration of human rights
Paul Murphy, MEP, Socialist
Party (CWI Ireland) - 13/06/2012: Kazakhstan/Britain:President of Zhanartu trade union federation speaks
in London
Socialistworld.net - 06/06/2012: Kazakhstan: Leader of Socialist Movement Kazakhstan found dead
Statement by Zhanartu union and Socialist Movement Kazakhstan - 05/06/2012: Kazakhstan: Scores of oil workers jailed for between three and seven
years
Report from Campaign Kazakhstan - 30/05/2012: Kazakhstan: Free Vadim Kuramshin!
Campaign Kazakhstan reporters - 28/05/2012: Kazakhstan: Trial judge dismisses jury for Vadim Kuramshin case
Campaign Kazakhstan
Reporters - 18/05/2012: Kazakhstan: Activists released
CWI - 15/05/2012: Kazakhstan: MEP speaks out against repression
Paul Murphy, MEP, Socialist Party (CWI Ireland) - 11/05/2012: Kazakhstan: Miners’ strike ends in victory for workers
Campaing Kazakhstan - 04/05/2012: Kazakhstan: Trial of Vadim Kuramshim resumes
CWI - 29/04/2012: Kazakhstan: Three activists jailed for 15 days
Sarah Zhakupova, Kazakhstan Socialist Movement - 23/04/2012: Kazakhstan: Opposing continued repression and torture of workers
Paul Murphy, MEP, Socialist Party (CWI Ireland) - 18/04/2012: Kazakhstan: "Stalinist-style show-trial of oil workers continues"
Andrei Tsukanov for Campaign
Kazakhstan - 14/04/2012: Kazakhstan: Court case against Vadim Kuramshin starts on 17th April
Campaign Kazakhstan - 13/04/2012: Kazakhstan solidarity: Ballad of Zhanaozen
A song for Campaign Kazakhstan - 12/04/2012: Kazakhstan: MEP denied visa as regime seeks to cover up oil worker
massacre
Press statement of GUE/NGL - 09/04/2012: UPDATE - Kazakhstan: Socialist activist arrested - AND RELEASED
CWI reporters, Almaty - 05/04/2012: Kazakhstan: Detained opposition activists face new charges of “terrorism”
CWI - 26/03/2012: Kazakhstan: 100 day anniversary of the Zhanaozen massacre
Socialistworld.net - 23/03/2012: Kazakhstan: Protest lobby held at Kazakh embassy in London
Socialistworld.net - 17/03/2012: Kazakhstan: Nazarbayev regime dealt a blow by European Parliament
resolution
CWI Reporters - 15/03/2012: Kazakhstan: European Parliament forced to recognise increased repression
Press release from Campaign
Kazakhstan - 12/03/2012: Kazakhstan: Natalia Sokolova, striking oil-workers’ lawyer, released
from jail
Statement by Socialist Movement Kazakhstan - 17/02/2012: European Parliament: Right wing supporters of dictatorships in Sri Lanka
and Kazakhstan defeated
Socialistworld.net - 15/02/2012: Kazakhstan: Press conference in Moscow
Socialistworld.net - 14/02/2012: Kazakhstan: Threat to Zhanartu leaders widely condemned
Socialistworld.net - 13/02/2012: Kazakhstan: Workers’ leaders under threat of abduction or arrest
Statement from Esenbek Ukteshbaev, President of the Kazakhstan Trade
Union, ’Zhanartu’ (’Renaissance’), and vice-president of ’Zhanartu’,
Ainur Kurmanov - 08/02/2012: Kazakhstan: Nazarbayev in Berlin
SAV reporters (CWI Germany) - 31/01/2012: Kazakhstan: Free Vadim Kuramshin!
campaignkazakhstan.org - 31/01/2012: Kazakhstan: ‘Labour Start’ editor makes outrageous claims against oil
workers and CWI
Rob Jones, CWI - 25/01/2012: Kazakhstan: New wave of arrests against opposition
CWI Reporters - 25/01/2012: Kazakhstan: After the Zhanaozen clampdown
Interview with Ainur Kurmanov, CWI Kazakhstan - 10/01/2012: Kazakhstan: In defence of the oil workers
Rob Jones, CWI Moscow - 09/01/2012: Kazakhstan: Curfew and state of emergency extended in Zhanaozen
Campaign Kazakhstan
reporters
2011: - 26/12/2011: Sweden: Miners’ union supports Kazakh oil workers
Jonas Brännberg and Arne Johansson, CWI Sweden - 22/12/2011: Kazakhstan: "Oil is slavery; there is no democracy!"
CWI Reporters in Russia & Kazakhstan - 21/12/2011: Kazakhstan: Graphic footage of massacre
Socialistworld.net - 21/12/2011: Hong Kong: Protest against Kazakhstan massacre
Socialist Action (CWI in Hong Kong) reporters - 21/12/2011: Kazakhstan: Protests in Germany
Campaign Kazakhstan activists, Germany - 18/12/2011: Kazakhstan: We are not rioters – the government must resign
CWI Reporters Russia & Kazakhstan - 18/12/2011: Kazakhstan: Paul Murphy demands Nazarbayev resign
Paul Murphy MEP, Socialist Party (CWI Ireland) sends video message to
workers in Zhanaozen - 17/12/2011: Kazakhstan: Bloody attack has not defeated striking workers
CWI reporters, Russia and Kazakhstan - 17/12/2011: Kazakhstan: More international solidarity protests
Socialistworld.net & CWI Reporters - 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
Comradely, EC Socialist Resistance, Kazakhstan
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