https://internationalviewpoint.org/ International Viewpoint, the monthly English-language magazine of the Fourth International, is a window to radical alternatives world-wide, carrying reports, analysis and debates from all corners of the globe. Correspondents in over 50 countries report on popular struggles, and the debates that are shaping the left of tomorrow. en SPIP - www.spip.net https://internationalviewpoint.org/local/cache-vignettes/L144xH25/siteon0-da713.png?1745245334 https://internationalviewpoint.org/ 25 144 https://internationalviewpoint.org/Repression-intensifies-against-Kazakh-oil-workers-uprising https://internationalviewpoint.org/Repression-intensifies-against-Kazakh-oil-workers-uprising 2011-12-19T11:47:14Z text/html en Peter Salmon Kazakhstan <p>The Kazakh authorities have responded to the oil workers' revolt with arrests, jailings and police attacks on demonstrations, while company managements have sacked hundreds for striking. Despite the repression, the unprecedented wave of protests, which erupted in the oil-producing province of Mangistau in mid-May, was continuing at the time of writing in late August. At the movement's height in early June, labour movement sources reported that 12-18,000 workers were on strike, demanding pay rises and recognition of independent trade unions.</p> - <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/-IV443-December-2011-" rel="directory">IV443 - December 2011</a> / <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/+-Kazakhstan-+" rel="tag">Kazakhstan</a>