{"id":20323,"date":"2022-01-13T14:33:35","date_gmt":"2022-01-13T14:33:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/?p=20323"},"modified":"2022-01-13T14:42:01","modified_gmt":"2022-01-13T14:42:01","slug":"solidarity-with-the-uprising-in-kazakhstan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/2022\/01\/13\/solidarity-with-the-uprising-in-kazakhstan\/","title":{"rendered":"Solidarity with the uprising in Kazakhstan"},"content":{"rendered":"

We are republishing this international solidarity statement with the protests in Kazakhstan. It was written by socialist TD Paul Murphy of Ireland. It is followed by a list of internationalist of signatories in support.<\/strong><\/p>\n

SOLIDARITY WITH THE THE UPRISING IN KAZAKHSTAN<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\nWe, socialists, trade unionists, human rights activists, anti-war activists and organisations have watched the uprising in Kazakhstan since 2 January with a sense of deep solidarity for the working people. The striking oil workers, miners and protesters have faced incredible repression. The full force of the police and army have been unleashed against them, instructed to \u2018shoot to kill without warning\u2019. Over 160 protesters have been killed so far and more than 8,000 have been arrested.
\nWe reject the propaganda of the dictatorship that this uprising is a product of \u201cIslamic radicals\u201d or the intervention of US imperialism. There is no evidence of that whatsoever. It is the usual resort of an unpopular regime \u2013 to blame \u2018outside\u2019 agitators.<\/p>\n

Instead, the trigger of the protests was the rise in fuel prices. This was the straw that broke the camel\u2019s back, in a country where immense oil wealth exists side by side with terrible poverty and exploitation. It is also the result of the crushing weight of a brutal dictatorship on people\u2019s backs. This regime has liquidated all opposition parties, imprisoned and tortured trade union and human rights activists, and was responsible for a massacre of striking oil workers in Zhanaozen ten years ago.<\/p>\n

The position of all the major capitalist powers is clear. Putin stands full square behind the regime. The Russian-led Collective Security Treaty Organisation (CSTO) has sent 3,000 troops to Kazakhstan to intimidate protesters. Chinese President Xi Jinping also announced his support for the Kazakhstan government and claimed the unrest was the deliberate result of \u201coutside forces.\u201d<\/p>\n

The US administration has called for \u201crestraint by both the authorities and protestors\u201d. The EU has similarly called on protesters to \u201cavoid any incitement to violence\u201d and called on authorities \u201cto respect the fundamental right to peaceful protest and proportionality in the use of force when defending its legitimate security interests\u201d!<\/p>\n

Unsurprisingly, they all prioritise \u2018stability\u2019 for their oil companies who are benefiting from the exploitation of the natural resources and Kazakh workers.
\nIn response to the class solidarity of the capitalist regimes, we respond with working class solidarity and commit to raise the following demands in our trade unions, parliaments and organisations:<\/p>\n

\u2022 Solidarity with those rising up against the dictatorship in Kazakhstan<\/strong>
\n\u2022 End the repression of the protests<\/strong>
\n\u2022 Release all the detained protesters and political prisoners<\/strong>
\n\u2022 No to Russian and CSTO intervention \u2013 withdraw the troops now<\/strong>
\n\u2022 No to the hypocrisy of the EU and US who equate the revolt of the masses with the brutal violence of the regime<\/strong>
\n\u2022 Down with the dictatorship<\/strong>
\n\u2022 Support the call from oil workers for nationalization of the oil wealth and major industries under workers\u2019 control<\/strong>
\n\u2022 Support the building of an independent trade union movement and socialist movement in Kazakhstan<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Albania<\/strong>
\nRedi Muci
\nAotearoa \/ New Zealand<\/strong>
\nInternational Socialist Organisation
\nJoe Carolan, Unite Union, Senior Organiser
\nArgentina<\/strong>
\nChristian Castillo, por la Direcci\u00f3n Nacional del Partido de los Trabajadores Socialistas (PTS)
\nNicol\u00e1s del Ca\u00f1o, Diputado Nacional por la Provincia de Buenos Aires por el Frente de Izquierda y de los Trabajadores \u2013 Unidad, dirigente del Partido de los Trabajadores Socialistas (PTS)
\nMyriam Bregman, Diputada Nacional por la Ciudad de Buenos Aires por el Frente de Izquierda y de los Trabajadores \u2013 Unidad, PTS, Abogada del CEPRODH \u2013 Centro de Profesionales por los Derechos Humanos
\nAlejandro Vilca, Diputado Nacional por la Provincia de Jujuy por el Frente de Izquierda y de los Trabajadores \u2013 Unidad, dirigente del Partido de los Trabajadores Socialistas (PTS)
\nRa\u00fal Godoy, ex Diputado provincial de Neuqu\u00e9n por el Frente de Izquierda. Dirigente del PTS, ex Secretario General de SOECN (Sindicato de Obreros Ceramistas), obrero de la f\u00e1brica ex\u2013Zanon recuperada por sus trabajadores
\nEduardo Ayala, trabajador de Madygraf (ex Gr\u00e1fica Donneley recuperada por sus trabajadores), PTS
\nClaudio Dellecarbonara, dirigente por la minor\u00eda de Asociaci\u00f3n Gremial de Trabajadores del Subte y Premetro (AGTSYP) y referente de l\u00ednea B de Subterr\u00e1neos Buenos Aires. Diputado Provincial (Buenos Aires) electo por el Frente de Izquierda y de los Trabajadores Unidad, PTS
\nAustralia<\/strong>
\nCaitlin Doyle-Markwick, Solidarity (IST), Media Entertainment and Arts Alliance
\nMiroslav Sandev, Solidarity \/ Teacher\u2019s Federation
\nLuke Alexander, NTEU
\nDani Cotton, National Tertiary Education Union, Branch Committee, University of Sydney
\nSusan Price
\nMick Armstrong, Socialist Alternative, National Executive
\nAustria<\/strong>
\nChristian Zeller, Netzwerk \u00d6kosozialismus, Global Ecosocialist Network, Professor of Economic Geography, University of Salzburg
\nManfred Ecker, Gewerkschaft der Privatangestellten GPA, Member
\nDavid Heuser, Linkswende
\nHeidi Specht, Arbeiter*innenstandpunkt
\nKarin Wilfingseder, GPA (Trade Union), Shop Steward
\nBelgium<\/strong>
\nDaniel Tanuro, Gauche anticapitaliste, Ecosocialist author
\nJean Vogel, Marcel Liebman Insitute, President
\nEric Toussaint, Fourth International, international activist & historian
\nFreddy Mathieu, FGTB, Ancien Secr\u00e9taire R\u00e9gional
\nSAP \u2013 Antikapitalisten \/ Gauche anticapitaliste
\nBrazil
\nMarcello Pablito, diretor de base do Sindicato dos Trabalhadores da USP e dirigente do MRT
\nFernanda Peluci, diretora do Sindicato dos Metrovi\u00e1rios de SP e militante do Movimento Nossa Classe
\nMarie Castaneda: coordenadora do CACS Marielle Franco da UFRN (Ci\u00eancias Sociais) e militante da Juventude Fa\u00edsca \u2013 Anticapitalista e Revolucion\u00e1ria
\nBritain \/ England and Wales<\/strong>
\nSimon Hannah, Lambeth UNISON, Joint Branch Secretary
\nFiona Lali, Marxist Student Federation (MSF)
\nAnne Alexander, Middle East Solidarity magazine, Co-editor
\nLabour Representation Committee (LRC)
\nNeil Faulkner, , Archaeologist, historian and writer
\nKazakh Solidarity Campaign
\nJohn McInally, Public & Commercial Services Union, Former Vice-President
\nSocialist Appeal
\nWorkers Power
\nUkraine Solidarity Campaign
\nAlex Callinicos, Emeritus Professor of European Studies, King\u2019s College London
\nAndy Richards, UNISON, Brighton and Hove Branch Chair
\nDonny Gluckstein, SWP, Educational Institute of Scotland, EIS Council
\nGareth Jenkins, SWP
\nJon Woods, Portsmouth City UNISON, Chair
\nGilbert Achcar, UCU, Professor
\nMichael Tucker
\nIan Parker, Unite
\nAndrew Kilmister, Oxford Brookes University UCU (Universities and Colleges Union), Branch Secretary
\nRowan Fortune, Anti*Capitalist Resistance, EC Member
\nPenny Foskett, SWP. NEU
\nCampbell McGregor, Scottish Socialist Party \/ UNISON
\nTony Foley, NEU, England
\nACR, Anti*Capitalist Resistance, England and Wales
\nAlan Thornett, UNITE
\nNigel Smyth
\nManthos Tavoularis, Docker, trade unionist, UNITE
\nCosta Rica<\/strong>
\nPaola Zeled\u00f3n, editora de La Izquierda Diario Costa Rica.
\nFernanda Quir\u00f3s, dirigente de Pan y Rosas Costa Rica
\nEsteban Fern\u00e1ndez, dirigente de OSR, profesor de filosof\u00eda UCR.
\nCuba<\/strong>
\nFrank Garc\u00eda Hern\u00e1ndez, Comunistas Cuba blog, member of the Editorial Board
\nCyprus<\/strong>
\nAthina Kariati, NEDA \u2013 New Internationalist Left
\nNew Internationalist Left, NEDA
\nDenmark<\/strong>
\nS\u00f8ren Sondergaard, Red-Green Alliance, Memmber of Danish Parliament, spokesperson on European Affairs
\nLene Junker, Internationale Socialister
\nDominican Republic
\nMovimiento Socialista de Trabajadoras y Trabajadores, MST
\nFrance<\/strong>
\nChristian Mahieux, International Labour Network of Solidarity and Struggles
\nMalewski Jan, Inprecor (r\u00e9vue), r\u00e9dacteur
\nPenelope Duggan, International Viewpoint, Editor
\nMichael L\u00f6wy
\nNouveau Parti Anticapitaliste \/ New Anticapitalist Party
\nGermany<\/strong>
\nYaak Pabst, , Redaktion marx21-Magazin
\nMichael Findeisen, Fellow
\nJoachim Ladwig, Verdi
\nDaniel Behruzi, ver.di TU Darmstadt (Trade Union), Shop Stewards Speaker
\nAlexander Keim, LiK\/ die Linke\/Verdi
\nInternationale Sozialistische Organisation (ISO)
\nDr. Winfried Wolf, Lunapark21 \u2013 Zeitschrift zur Kritik der globalen \u00d6konomie, responsable in the editorial board of LP21-Magazine
\nAron Amm, Lernen im Kampf
\nMartin Suchanek, Gruppe ArbeiterInnenmacht, Germany section of League for the Fifth International, Editor of journal \u201cRevolution\u00e4rer Marxismus\u201d
\nWilhelm Schulz, Gruppe ArbeiterInnenmacht, German Section of the League for the Fifth International
\nJaqueline K. Singh, REVOLUTION \u2013 international communist youth organisation Germany
\nMatthias Fritz, former TU converer (VK-Leiter) IG Metall Mahle
\nOskar Fischer, Soziologe, Revolution\u00e4re Internationalistische Organisation
\nStefan Schneider, Politologe, Revolution\u00e4re Internationalistische Organisation
\nCharlotte Ruga, Hebamme, Revolution\u00e4re Internationalistische Organisation
\nTabea Winter, Studentin, Revolution\u00e4re Internationalistische Organisation
\nThies Gleiss, Die Linke, Member of National Party Executive
\nGreece<\/strong>
\nPanos Garganas, Sosialistiko Ergatiko Komma (SEK), Editor Workers Solidarity weekly
\nEditorial Team of Elaliberta.gr, www.elaliberta.gr, Athens
\nSerafeim Rizos, Chania city\/Union of Teachers-Chania, councilor Chania\/member of board of Teachers Union Chania
\nThanasis Diavolakis, Peiraus city\/Teachers Federation of private schools, councilor Peiraus city\/member of board of OIELE
\nKaterina Thoidou, Nikaia-Renti city, councillor
\nMaria Styllou, Sosialismos apo ta kato Review, Editor
\nThanasis Kampagiannis, Athens Bar Association Board, Elected councillor (personal capacity)
\nANTARSYA, Front of the anticapitalist Left
\nXekinima \u2013 Internationalist Socialist Organization
\nNAR, New Left Current
\nTassos Anastassiadis, member of General Council of POESY (Federation of Greek journalists)
\nTPT (Fourth International Programmatic Tendency, Greek Section of 4th International)
\nPetros Constantinou, Athens city\/KEERFA-Movement United Against Racism and Fascist Threat, councillor Athens city\/coordinator of KEERFA
\nAphrodite Fragkou, Marousi city, councillor
\nDimitris Zotos, Lawyers Association of Athens, Civil action Golden Dawn trial
\nIndia<\/strong>
\nRohini Hensman, Internationalism from Below, Writer, researcher and activist
\nSushovan Dhar, Vice-President, Progressive Plantation Workers Union (PPWU)
\nInternational
\nInternational Marxist Tendency International
\nRevolutionary Communist International Tendency (www.thecommunists.net)
\nPierre Rousset, international activist
\nIran<\/strong>
\nMorad Shirin, Shahrokh Zamani Action Campaign, International Organiser
\nMaziar Razi, Iranian Revolutionary Marxists\u2019 Tendency, Spokesperson
\nIreland<\/strong>
\nBr\u00edd Smith, People Before Profit, TD (Member of Parliament)
\nPaul Murphy, People Before Profit, TD (Member of Parliament)
\nGino Kenny, People Before Profit, TD (Member of Parliament)
\nRichard Boyd Barrett, People Before Profit, TD (Member of Parliament)
\nGerry Carroll, People Before Profit, MLA (Member of the Legislative Assembly)
\nMick Barry, Solidarity and Socialist Party, TD (Member of Parliament)
\nPeople Before Profit
\nSocialist Democracy
\nGoretti Horgan, People Before Profit
\nJess Spear, RISE, National Organiser
\nJohn Molyneux, People Before Profit, Unite The Union., Editor, Irish Marxist Review.
\nAilbhe Smyth, Le Cheile: Diversity Not Division, Member
\nEddie Conlon, Teachers Union of Ireland, Member\/Former National Hon Secretary
\nEmilio Maira, People Before Profit
\nMemet Uluda\u011f, Unite the Union, Union Rep
\nShaun Harkin, People Before Profit, People Before Profit Cllr Derry City and Strabane District Council
\nMark Price
\nItaly<\/strong>
\nGiacomo Turci, La Voce delle Lotte, editor
\nScilla Di Pietro, Il Pane e le Rose feminist current, spokesperson
\nMary Rizzo, Le Voci della Libert\u00e0, Activist \/ Translator
\nJapan<\/strong>
\nTsutomu Teramoto, Japan Revolutionary Communist League (JRCL)
\nJRCL (Japan Revolutionary Communist League)
\nM\u00e9xico<\/strong>
\nJose Manuel Aguilar Mora, Universidad Aut\u00f3noma de la Ciudad de M\u00e9xico & Member of La Liga De Unidad Socialista (LUS), Professor-Researcher, Partido Revolucionario de los Trabajadores
\nEdgard S\u00e1nchez, Partido Revolucionario de los Trabajadores
\nNigeria<\/strong>
\nSalako Kayode, Revolutionary socialist movement, Spokesperson
\nDimeji Macaulay, Revolutionary Socialist Movement, National Organiser
\nRevolutionary Socialist Movement
\nPoland<\/strong>
\nAndrzej \u017bebrowski, Pracownicza Demokracja (Workers Democracy)
\nAgnieszka Kaleta
\nMicha\u0142 Wysocki, Pracownicza Demokracja (Workers\u2019 Democracy), worker
\nFilip Ilkowski Associate Professor, Polish Teachers Union at the University of Warsaw, Member of the Presidium of the Council for Higher Education and Science of the Polish Teachers Union
\nPortugal<\/strong>
\nSemear o futura
\nRussia<\/strong>
\nDaria, IST Russia,
\nSemyon, Trotskyist
\nSocialist Tendency (IST)
\nDenis Zagladkin, Socialist Tendency
\nSwitzerland<\/strong>
\nHannah, Bewegung f\u00fcr den Sozialismus
\nScotland<\/strong>
\nPaul Inglis, Radical Independence Campaign, Glasgow City Branch Unison, Clydeside IWW, Partick Living Rent, Member
\nConnor Beaton, Republican Socialist Platform, Secretary
\nAllan Armstrong, Republican Socialist Platform, Educational Institute of Scotland (life member)
\nFrances Curran, Former member of parliament and member of Socialist for Independence
\nPete Cannell, Scot.E3 (Employment, Energy and Environment), Secretary
\nBob Goupillot, Radical Independence Campaign Edinburgh, (Personal Capacity)
\nEcosocialist.scot (organisation), ecosocialist.scot
\nSouth Africa<\/strong>
\nMametlwe Sebei, President, General Industries Workers Union of South Africa
\nSouth Korea<\/strong>
\nWorkers\u2019 Solidarity
\nSpanish State<\/strong>
\nAnticapitalistas
\nDavid Karvala, Social movement activist and member of Marx21.net, Catalunya
\nCarlos de Pablo Torrecilla, UGT de Catalunya , Secretari de Pol\u00edtica Institucional, Catalunya
\nGerardo Pisarello, Unidas Podemos-En Com\u00fa Podem, member of the Spanish Congress, and First Secretary of the Bureau of the Congress
\nMiguel Urb\u00e1n Crespo, Anticapitalistas, Member of the European Parliament
\nMarx21.net
\nSantiago Lupe, portavoz de la Corriente Revolucionaria de Trabajadores y Trabajadoras \u2013 CRT, historiador
\nLuc\u00eda Nistal, doctora en Teor\u00eda Literaria Universidad Aut\u00f3noma de Madrid (UAM), impulsora de Refer\u00e9ndum UAM y portavoz de CRT
\nJuan Carrique, abogado laboralista, miembro de la Asociaci\u00f3n Libre de Abogadas y Abogados, afiliado a CGT
\nJosefina L. Mart\u00ednez, periodista, historiadora, escritora, editora revista Contrapunto
\nAsier Ubico, presidente del Comit\u00e9 de Empresa de Telepizza por CGT \u2013 Zaragoza
\nJuan Carlos Arias Sanz, delegado por UGT de la Consejer\u00eda de Pol\u00edticas Sociales y Familia de la Comunidad de Madrid
\nCynthia Lub, doctora en Historia, escritora, editora de Esquerra Diari.cat y afiliada a CGT Lleure
\nMaria Dantas, ERC, social movement activist in Catalunya, Member of the Congress of Deputies
\nCorriente Revolucionaria de Trabajadoras y Trabajadores (CRT, miembro de la FT-CI) (Estado Espa\u00f1ol)
\nSwitzerland<\/strong>
\nManuel Sepulveda, Mouvement pour le Socialisme, Militant actif
\nSt\u00e9fanie Prezioso, Ensemble \u00e0 Gauche, Member of Parliament
\nJean BATOU, Ensemble \u00e0 Gauche, Member of parliament (Geneva)
\nPhilipp Schmid, Movement for Socialism, teacher and union activist
\nChristian Zeller, Network Ecosocialism and Global Ecosocialist Network, Professor of Economic Geography
\nSweden<\/strong>
\nJonas Br\u00e4nnberg, R\u00e4ttvisepartiet Socialisterna \u2013 International Socialist Alternative, Member of Lule\u00e5 City council
\nSyria<\/strong>
\nJackal, Revolutionary Left Movement
\nTaiwan<\/strong>
\n\u9ec3\u6893\u8c6a, International Socialist Forward
\nFang, International Socialist Forward
\nNicholas Soo, International Socialist Forward
\nTurkey<\/strong>
\nSosyalist Demokrasi i\u00e7in Yeniyol, Turkish section of IV. International
\nEcehan Balta, Sosyalist Alternatif
\nNihat Boyraz, Sosyalist Alternatif
\nSosyalist Alternatif
\nUSA<\/strong>
\nAndrew Berman, Veterans for Peace, Peace and Solidarity Activist
\nBrandon Madsen, Democratic Socialists of America \/ AFGE 2157
\nReform & Revolution, Caucus of Democratic Socialists of America
\nDan La Botz, New Politics, Co-Editor
\nTyron Moore, Washington Federation of State Employees, Organizer
\nPhil Gasper, New Politics, Co-editor
\nRichard Burton, Montgomery County Education Association (ID purposes only), UniServ Director\/Organizer
\nTempest Collective
\nE. Reed, Boston Revolutionary Socialists, Coordinating Committee Member
\nDavid McNally, Editor in Chief, Spectre Journal, Professor of History, University of Houston
\nSteve Leigh, Seattle Revolutionary Socialists (*for identification purposes only)
\nJoel Geier
\nSherry Wolf, Tempest Collective, author, Sexuality and Socialism
\nSocialist Resurgence
\nCharles Post, Tempest Collective, the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), member of editorial board of Spectre: A Marxist Journal
\nZachary Levenson, Editor, Spectre, Assistant Professor of Sociology, UNC Greensboro
\nAshley Smith, Tempest Collective, Democratic Socialists of America*, National Writers Union* (*for identification purposes only)
\nVenezuela<\/strong>
\nAngel \u00c1rias, dirigente de la LTS, trabajador estatal
\nSuhey Ochoa, Pan y Rosas, trabajadora de Apps
\nZimbabwe<\/strong>
\nTafadzwa A Choto, ISO \u2013 Zimbabwe, Member
\nAsia<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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