Kazakhstan

Attempt to silence tireless fighter for workers and poor will not succeed!

A message of solidarity & thanks to international supporters

Urgent solidarity action needed

Leader of Socialist Resistance Kazakhstan, Ainur Kurmanov, again under threat!

Struggle for nationalisation of coach factory continues

“The government privatised us, now let them nationalise us. We are going to the end!”

Solidarity action at 10 oil fields – Messages of support needed!

Leave people their homes!

CWI member assaulted by police and arrested

Protests urgently needed!

Please send protests!

Judge rejects state prosecutor’s demands

Urgent messages of protest needed!

Send protests against state repression!

Urgent international support needed!

Corporation connives with local authorities in forcible evictions

Residents resist brutal police repression

Mass resistance stops homes demolition

Alma-Ata authorities feel pressure of worldwide protests

Police and bulldozers repelled by shanty town residents

Activists arrested – Solidarity needed urgently!

Workers and youth discuss alternative to Nazabayev regime

Karaganda union activists persecuted for fighting on behalf of unpaid workers

Вот уже полтора года в заключении находятся лидер Рабочего Движения Казахстана «Солидарность» Сакен Жунусов и его сын член ЦК Молодой Гвардии Казахстана Рустем Жунусов.

The struggle to defend the jobs and living standards of the workers at the Irtyishskii Foundry in Glubokii, near Ust-Kamenogorsk, in East Kazakhstan, has been stepped up and workers are appealing for support.

A peaceful protest by several hundred women in Kentau City, southern Kazakhstan, fighting on social issues and against police repression, was brutally attacked and broken up by police, and many of the protesters were arrested. […]

On the 20 February, Saken Zhanusov and Rustem Zhanusov were sentenced to 3 years in Kazakhstan’s notorious prisons. Their comrade Ramil Mingazov, for reasons of health, was ordered to pay a large fine.

Towards the end of December 2002, CWI comrades in the CIS heard that the case of well known worker activists in Karaganda, Kazakhstan facing serious court charges (see previous reports) is coming to a conclusion. […]

Mass privatisations started in 1994 and it took them four years to privatise allmost all main industries, oil and gas. More than 300 mines were taken over by transnational corporations from the West, more than […]

In the Central Asia republics, national and local power as remained in the hands of the former party elite, and with the exception of Kyrgizia, the president is the former communist party [former ruling party] […]

At a special court hearing last Friday, a criminal court judge in Karaganda, Kazakhstan, suddenly decided that there were "no legal grounds" for holding workers’ leader, Saken Zhanusev, on remand (i.e. in prison) until his […]

Four activists from the Karaganda Confederation of Free Trade Unions in Kazakhstan are currently under arrest and are facing serious charges. This is a continuation of the type of repression doled out to worker activists […]

There has been a big stepping up of repression against the Workers Movement of Kazakhstan, a major working-class organisation. Criminal charges have been lodged against four members of its executive Saken and Ramil Dzhunosov, Ramil […]

A CONFERENCE of CWI members in Kazakhstan earlier this month was a great success. 20 comrades attended from Karaganda, Zhambul, Pavlodar, Uralsk and Almata. Visitors from Russia and from the CWI also attended.