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Socialism Today issue 155 February 2012
19 January 2012
Once again, a United Nations-sponsored climate change conference has completely failed to address the issue of global warming. The latest attempt pushed any hope of a deal back far too late for meaningful action, writes Pete Dickenson for the latest Socialism Today.
16 December 2011
70 Dead & 500 wounded by riot police in Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan oil workers and their supporters had today planned a peaceful demonstration in Zhanaozen. The authorities, however, are inflicting brutal repression
Arctic Sea Ice loss animation demonstrates drastic climate change through global warming, photo NASA
14 December 2011
No progress at climate conference
When is an agreement not an agreement? When it's an agreement to reach an agreement in the future, writes Pete Mason, East London Socialist Party.
14 December 2011
Kazakhstan - 20 years of authoritarianism!
On 16 December 2011, the Republic of Kazakhstan celebrates 20 years as an independent state, a status it achieved as the Soviet Union collapsed, writes International day of solidarity action with workers' organisations.
30 November 2011
Kazakhstan: Demand Georgii Epshtein's release!
There is new evidence that the Kazakh authorities' charges against Russian Committee for a Workers' International member Georgii Epshtein have been completely fabricated
24 November 2011
Arrested in Kazakhstan - Free Georgii Epshtein!
Georgii Epshtein, a leading member of the Russian CWI, on a visit to Kazakhstan, was arrested by the police in the office of the "Leave People's Homes Alone" campaign in Almaty
2 November 2011
Tony Blair advises Kazakhstan's dictatorial regime
Press reports in the past week have revealed a very close relationship between former Labour prime minister Tony Blair and Nursultan Nazarbayev, the dictatorial ruler of mineral-rich Kazakhstan, writes Ken Douglas.
20 October 2011
Solidarity appeal: Stop Kazakh state brutality
A protest against attacks on trade unionists in Kazakhstan was held outside the Kazakhstan Business Forum in London, this morning
Opposition in Kazakhstan
21 September 2011
Kazakhstan: Dictatorial regime threatens socialist activists
"Kurmanov to be jailed?" is the headline emblazoned on the front page of Vzglyad, a business newspaper in Kazakhstan
16 September 2011
Kazakhstan socialists under threat of imminent arrest
Two leading socialists in Kazakhstan, CWI members Ainur Kurmanov and Esenbek Ukteshbayev, as well as other leaders of the Socialist Movement Kazakhstan (formerly 'Kazakhstan 2012'), face the threat of imminent arrest and imprisonment
10 August 2011
Support the oil workers on strike in Kazakhstan
Also, a trade union lawyer has been sentenced to six years in jail. The intransigent employer refuses negotiations...
3 August 2011
Kazakhstan oil strike: solidarity urgent
'We are not begging - we are demanding our rights!'...
21 July 2011
Kazakhstan - support striking oil workers
Kazakhstan oil workers in the west of the country working for the national oil company KazMunaiGas and some of its subsidiaries and contractors started strike action at the end of May which has been ongoing for over two months...
10 July 2011
Kazakhstan riot police attacked striking oil workers
On Friday, a wave of Kazakhstan "COBRA" riot police entered the town of Zhanaozen, west Kazakhstan, in an attempt to end a permanent demonstration and hunger strike by striking oil and gas workers and their families...
6 July 2011
Kazakhstan: Striking oil workers attempt to break news blockade
Further threats made against strike leaders and supporters: Oil workers' strikes in West Kazakhstan are now into their second month of taking strike action...
4 July 2011
Socialist Party Malaysia facing brutality
Police in Malaysia have arrested around 30 supporters of Socialist Party of Malaysia (PSM) with the charge that they are reviving the 'communism' of the Malaysian Communist Party...
29 June 2011
Western governments more concerned about business deals than human rights in China
Ahead of premier Wen Jiabao's visit to Europe, to cement more trade deals, the Chinese authorities released from jail prominent dissidents Ai Weiwei, the artist, and Hu Jia...
1 June 2011
Glencore - Profiting from global hunger
The Swiss based multibillion dollar mining, energy and food trader Glencore was listed on the London and Hong Kong stock markets on 24 May, writes Vincent Kolo, chinaworker.info.
18 May 2011
5) The chorus of capitalist commentators to the effect that capitalism is on a recovery road to promised 'sunny economic uplands' is bogus...
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