Pakistan
Pakistan: Protesting port workers occupied the Karachi port
Protesting port workers of Port Qasim in Karachi walked out and effectively took over the port on 17th of January.
Asia
Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan: EU – stop boosting Nazarbayev’s dictatorship
Protest against ’referendum’ on suspending presidential elections until 2020
China
China: Hit by new toxic milk scare
Chinese authorities have made 96 detentions of people suspected of producing and selling melamine-tainted dairy products
Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan: Regime plans to cancel 2012 presidential elections
Parliament rubberstamps ‘referendum’ to postpone election until 2020
Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan: Clamp down on opposition press continues
‘Voice of the Republic’ newspaper staff harassed and arrested
Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan: New Year fireworks outside cell of Esenbek Ukteshbayev
A thousand protests made worldwide against jailing of trade union and social activist
Pakistan
Pakistan: Punjab governor’s assassination silences another liberal voice
Religious extremism on the rise
Kazakhstan
CWI 10th World Congress: Eastern Europe and the CIS (former Soviet States)
"For nearly a decade, economic collapse, worse in many countries than the depression of the thirties, with its associated crime waves, corruption and social degeneration devastated the region."
Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan: Union and social movement leader, Esenbek Ukteshbaev, sees in New Year behind prison walls
‘Appeal’ hearing a travesty of justice
Malaysia
Malaysia: Political parties gear up for general election
Real socialist alternative needed