Ainur Kurmanov is today a leader of the Socialist Movement of Kazakhstan. Previously chair of Talmas (“Tireless”), a public association for the support of workers’social initiative, and militant of Socialist Resistance (CWI section).
The first round of the local elections took place against a backdrop of widespread creeping fascism in France and comes after a brutal offensive by the far right, during which the traditional ‘Republican’ right has decisively broken from much of its historical framework and values.