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/Nazarbayev-regime-murders-strikers https://internationalviewpoint.org/Nazarbayev-regime-murders-strikers 2012-01-12T08:37:44Z text/html en Esenbek Ouktechbaev, Léonid Tereschenkov <p>On Friday December 16, 2011 Kazakh police attacked a gathering of striking oil workers in Zhanaozen (or Janaozen, a town of 100,000 inhabitants on the coast of the Caspian Sea), who have for some months been occupying the town's central square, demanding trade union rights and a wage increase. The pretext for this attack was that the square was to be used for ceremonies marking the twentieth anniversary of Kazakhstan's independence.</p> - <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/-IV444-January-2012-" rel="directory">IV444 - January 2012</a>