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15/02/2017: Time to build the class struggle on the streets
14/02/2017: Escalate the resistance toward shutdowns on March 8 and May 1!
14/02/2017: The struggle continues!
13/02/2017: TUSC council elections candidates put forward 100% anti-austerity programme
09/02/2017: Corruption, nepotism, and other crimes of ruling party exposed
08/02/2017: What approach should socialists take?
07/02/2017: Security workers demand wages and arrest of colleagues’ killers
06/02/2017: Joint declaration of the CWI’s IEC and Izquierda Revolucionaria’s IEC
06/02/2017: Space opening up to left of Socialist Party
04/02/2017: What position should the left take?
03/02/2017: New movements for change will need to arm themselves with the lessons of the Syrian tragedy
01/02/2017: Counter terrorism and hate with solidarity
31/01/2017: Over 200 participate in Sao Paolo CWI continental gathering
31/01/2017: Between oppression and struggle
31/01/2017: Battles of Indigenous peoples, youth, workers will test Liberal government
30/01/2017: Defend immigrant communities
29/01/2017: War, hunger, hated Tsarist regime: class tensions reach breaking point
28/01/2017: Xu and his family are victims of China’s deepening police crackdown
28/01/2017: Imperialism’s 15-year adventure a bloody catastrophe for millions
27/01/2017: Establishment deeply divided as mass resistance explodes
26/01/2017: For unified struggle for women’s rights and against capitalism
26/01/2017: Support the right to assemble and protest - release those arrested immediately!
25/01/2017: Reports from mass women's marches against Trump
25/01/2017: Follows mass strike of garment workers in December
24/01/2017: Public sector strike and soldiers’ mutiny expose reality behind “economic growth”
24/01/2017: Island risks being pawn in his game
23/01/2017: Photo gallery selection of CWI actions during weekend of mass protests
23/01/2017: Socialist council member speaks
21/01/2017: Outbursts raise fears of confrontation
20/01/2017: 1917revolution.org brings rich lessons of 100 years ago to wide audience
20/01/2017: Citizens forced to register with police at all times
20/01/2017: CWI organizes protests as millions prepare to fight Trump’s agenda
20/01/2017: 6 CWI members expelled in undemocratic attack
17/01/2017: Build a socialist alternative to the ‘Orange’ versus ‘Green’ headcount
17/01/2017: Debate within leadership touches on fundamental issues for future of party
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20/01/2017, Citizens forced to register with police at all times Andrei Prigor from Campaign Kazakhstan |
19/12/2016, Letters to embassies worldwide demanding end to dictatorshi socialistworld.net |
10/11/2016, No to land privatisation - Release Max Bokayev and Talgat Ayanov! Andrei Prigor from Campaign Kazakhstan website |
27/05/2016, Soldarity actions take place internationally against Nazarbayev regime Campaign Kazakhstan |
23/05/2016, Nazarbayev regime faces mounting opposition Clare Doyle, CWI |
20/05/2016, ‘Illegal’ protests planned for Saturday 21 May socialistworld.net |
12/05/2016, Phoney elections have not brought stability Sergei Skobelev, CWI Russia |
16/03/2016, Basic rights must be respected CWI reporters |
18/12/2015, Book launch in London remembers the dead and injured and all political
prisoners in Kazakhstan. Campaign Kazakhstan |
13/11/2015, Letter from Campaign Kazakhstan secretary Socialistworld.net |
01/10/2015, Copper giant denies suffering of its workers and victimisation of their
representatives See article and video on www.campaignkazakhstan.org |
28/04/2015, Workers need to build mass opposition Elizabeth Clarke, CWI |
18/12/2014, Struggle to free political prisoners continues Socialistworld.net |
20/10/2014, Workers pay the price for crony capitalism Mike Whale, Secretary of Campaign Kazakhstan (first published in
October 2014 issue of Socialism
Today) |
02/07/2014, Joe HIggins, Socialist Party (CWI) TD raises Vadim’s case in Irish
parliament socialistworld.net |
13/01/2014, European business connives at suppression of democratic rights. Rob Jones, CWI, Moscow |
Further articles on 'Kazakhstan':2012: - 19/12/2012: Kazakhstan: From Bishkek to Belfast, protests mark anniversary of
Zhanaozen massacre
Campaign Kazakhstan Reporters - 14/12/2012: Kazakhstan: Socialist activists, Georgie Epshtien and Arman Ozhaubayev,
arrested
Campaign Kazakhstan Reporters - 10/12/2012: Kazakhstan: Vadim Kuramshin, prisoners’ rights campaigner, jailed for 12
years
From Campaign Kazakhstan - 02/11/2012: Kazakhstan: MEP denied visa as human rights situation worsens
Statement from GUE/NGL (United European Left) - 31/10/2012: Kazakhstan: Vadim Kuramshin facing arrest and new trial
Campaign Kazakhstan Reporters - 29/10/2012: Kazakhstan: Paul Murphy MEP-led delegation obstructed
Socialistworld.net - 18/10/2012: Kazakstan: Protest at Austria and Kazakhstan football match
Socialistworld.net - 09/10/2012: Campaign Kazakhstan event in London: Free all political prisoners!
Socialistworld.net - 12/09/2012: Kazakhstan: Socialists in Sweden protest at Malmo football match
Socialistworld.net - 28/08/2012: Kazakhstan: The freeing of Vadim Kuramshin
Statement by Ainur Kurmanov, Socialist Movement, 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
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