The unprecedented hardships of the masses led to a huge revolutionary uprising
The oil workers, the most powerful battalion of the insurrection
that shook the entire Eurasia
Putin, as the gendarme of imperialism in the region, with his fascist black-hundreds seeks to crush the insurrection
In , a mass uprising began.In 6 days, not only it made the law of the huge hike of fuel to be repelled, repelled it made the regime of the oligarchs of the country and the region, and imperialism, to tremble.
In the main cities of this former workers' state, the masses marched on the institutions of the hated regime inherited from the capitalist restoration, which they righteously identified with their sufferings.
The protests began on January 2 with a strike of the oil workers in Zhanaozen, in Mangystau province, where 10 years ago there was a huge workers' strike that lasted more than 7 months, with occupations of plants and the main square of the town, which ended with a fierce crackdown and murder of dozens of workers and hundreds of wounded, known as the Zhanaozen Massacre. Now, like 10 years ago, the workers played a decisive role in the organization and magnitude of the strikes and demonstrations that quickly spread throughout the country in 24 hours in local insurrections, opening an insurrectionary phase that threatened to inaugurate a dualpower and overthrow the regime. By January 3, the general strike had spread to the entire Mangystau region and also to Atyrau. On January 4, the oil workers from Tengizchevroil, Aktobe, Western Kazakhstan and Kyzylorda joined the strike, together with the ArcelorMittal Temirtau miners from the Karaganda region. Between January 4 and 5, the indefinite strike was declared throughout the country. It was a true revolutionary general strike that paralyzed the country with fighting in the streets, confronting the police, storming police stations and arming themselves, splitting the army and attacking the institutions of the hated regime. It was transformed into a national insurrection that had its head in Almaty where it took up arms, attacking the mayor's office, the old National Parliament building, the headquarters of the KNB (former KGB), the headquarters of the ruling party, and the main airport, which after clashes with the murderous police came under the control of the rebellious masses. The masses wanted the fall of the regime.
The increase in fuel prices (liquefied petroleum gas, LPG) that on January 1 doubled its price in Zhanaozen and went from 50 tenge (U$D 0.11) to 120 tenge (U$D 0.28) was the trigger, the spark that ignited the anger due to the hardships suffered by the masses while the oligarchs, who stole all the properties and wealth that belonged to the people with the capitalist restoration, do not stop enriching themselves with the looting of the nation associated with the Russian oligarchs and imperialism. So much so that 162 people account for 55% of the nation's total wealth, and it has five billionaires on the Forbes World's Billionaires List.
Kazakhstan is a country rich in resources. It has 40% of the world's uranium production, which is mainly in the hands of the French business group Areva since 2009 (through the creation of a joint venture with the Kazakh government, Ifastar). Chevron and Exxon extract 1.7 million barrels of oil per day that will supply Europe (it is the 12th largest producer in the world), through Russian ports. It is the 29th world producer of natural gas (22.8 billion m³ per year) and the 18th world exporter (11.5 billion m³ per year). It is the 10th producer of coal, (111.1 million tons). It is the 10th world producer of gold and antimony; 9th world producer of bauxite and zinc; 11th worldproducer of copper; 3rd world producer of chromium; 12th world producer of iron and lead ore; in addition to producing manganese, phosphate, bismuth, sulfur.
In Kazakhstan, as in Syria, in Iran and throughout the Middle East, which is where the largest oil concentration in the world is, there is a powerful proletariat in the oil industry and in related industries such as construction, mining and the steel industry that are developed linked to the exploitation of oil. This is a fact, no matter if the treacherous world social-imperialist left does not like it, as it did not gettired of accusing of barbaric and culturally backward the workers who were the protagonists of the chain of revolutions in the Maghreb and the Middle East, which that left cynically called the “Arab Spring”.
The majority of the population of Kazakhstan are workers. In fact, many cities were founded as a housing for workers who went to work in the oil fields and are true working-class cities. Large mining companies such as Glencore, Rio Tinto, Iluka Resources, Central Asia Metals Plc, Areva S.A, Russian Copper Company, operate in Kazakhstan, and only ArcelorMittal has more than 30 thousand workers (its Temirtau steel plant, in Karaganda, it employs 14,000 and the others work in the mines of iron ore and coal throughout the region).
However, this powerful proletariat that produces such enormous wealth, is left with nothing. Imperialism plunders the nation. The workers, who are the vast majority of the 19 million Kazakh inhabitants, have extremely low living standards, with a minimum wage of less than U$D 100 a month and oil workers earn no more than U$D 500 a month. Half of the population lives in cities and towns far from urban centers, and with almost no access to basic public services.
The powerful proletariat of Kazakhstan, in a decade of tough economic struggles, forged their hatred against the regime and government of Nazarbayev and the puppet Tokayev
The Kassak workers had been fighting under a despotic, bloodthirsty regime, in the style of Pinochet, Franco or Videla, but with the jackal dogs that came from the old Stalinist parties that were left with the companies and properties that belonged to the workers' state at gunpoint, associated to all imperialism, to be managers and front men of its businesses.
In 2011, 2019 and 2020 the industrial workers staged great economic struggles, which were true anti-imperialist struggles, because they know that they are who produce this enormous wealth that is looted by the big imperialist companies and their minor partners of the murderous Kazakh regime. They know that their work produces such enormous riches, and they refuse to do so for starvation wages.
In those harshly repressed struggles, without the right even to have their own unions, with their best fighters killed and persecuted, the working class of Kazakhstan deepened their hatred against the murderous regime and the government of Nazarbayev (who was president for more than 30 years) and his puppet the current president Tokayev.
These are the dire conditions that have shaped the current situation in Kazakhstan, and the temper of its fierce industrial proletariat.
The gendarme of imperialism, Putin intervenes to prevent the revolution from developing and thus safeguard the interests of his imperialist master
As we have stated, a revolutionary general strike that demanded the fall of the dictator, was performed through the whole Kazakhstan. First thing President Tokayev did was an attempt to negotiate: he cancelled the price increase and resigned the heads of the most hated figures of the regime such as Nazarbayev, the prime minister and his entire cabinet, and the head of the Security Committee (intelligence services) Karim Masimov, who was even arrested. But that was not enough, because it was no longer the case of just the price of fuel.
The government was in crisis, and the masses went for everything. An embryo of workers 'militia was beginning to emerge and the danger for the bourgeoisie of the emergence of a dual armed power of the workers' and soldiers' Soviets, that is to say that the workers' republic of Kazakhstan would return, expropriating imperialism. Seeing armed workers speaking the language of revolution in a former Soviet republic freezzes the blood of imperialism and the world bourgeoisie. The reason is the bourgeoisie knows very well what it is about, it still cries that there the workers rolled the heads of the tsar and his offsprings, expropriating a third of the planet. There, under the leadership of the revolutionary Third International and the Bolshevik party, the working class conquered its demands, including its own nation, and set up the USSR, with the victory of the proletarian revolution in 1917. That enormous conquest that was the USSR was it lost at the hands of Stalinism that gave up the former workers' states, and was recycled into a new bourgeoisie that under its boot oppresses the workers with dictatorial regimes and white terror to guarantee the business of imperialism.
The insurrection that was beginning, threatened to sweep away the murderous regime and the government, and to leave no stone on stone of the domination of imperialism and the bourgeoisie in Kazakhstan, with the methods of civil war and the dual power of the masses that began to arm themselves by taking the arsenals from the army.
And that threatenedthe property of all capitalists and imperialism in the region. That is why the imperialist powers quickly condemned the insurrection and sent their fascist dog Putin, the gendarme of imperialism in Eurasia and guardian of the property of transnational corporations in the region, with 2,500 troops, trucks and tanks, and began massacring, leaving hundreds of dead who are still counted on the streets of Kazakhstan, and thousands of political prisoners, to drown in blood the uprising of the workers in this former workers' state and crush the masses by taking all the rebellious provinces.
But the last word has not yet been said ... The sufferings of the workers in Kazakhstan are the same as those of their brothers and sisters in the countries of Eurasia and Russia in particular.
KAZAKHSTAN JOINS THE TRADE ROUTE OF CHINA AND RUSSIA ... IT WILL ALSO JOIN THE ROUTE OF THE SOCIALIST REVOLUTION THAT WILL SWEEP AWAY THE COUNTERVOLUTIONARY BOURGEOIS GOVERNMENTS OF BEIJING AND MOSCOW, WHICH CAME OUT OF THE GUTS OF THE STALINIST GARBAGE.
Nadia Briante and Eva Guerrero
By the editorial committee of "The International Workers’ Organizer" |
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