Kazhstan - July 4th, 2018
In the Russia of Putin, the gendarme of imperialism and murderous of the Syrian masses ...
Huge strike of the oil workers against the government of Nazarbaev,
assasin of workers and partner of Putin
Despite the fact that the Nazarbaev government represses the workers' protests, the oil workers of the west of the country stood up to fight against the very low salaries, the bad security conditions and the dismissals. On May 22, almost 1,000 workers of the company "LLP. Oil Services Company" in the oil fields of Kalamkas, Zhetybai and the city of Aktau. On May 7, for the same reasons also in the camp of Kalamkas, dozens of workers of the "Kazpromlogistic" company that has the contracts for the maintenance of the pipelines were on strike. It is that, in the face of the anti-workers attacks of the Kazakh bourgeoisie, guarantor of the imperialist transnationals such as Glencore, in recent years workers' strikes have become frequent not only in the oil industry, but also in the mining industry all over Kazakhstan. In November and December of 2017, hundreds of workers at the copper and coal mines in the center of the country went on strike. In January of the same 2017, hundreds of workers of the "Oil Construction Company" held a two-week strike to protest against the closure of a trade union. The workers fight and face a government that has executed massacres like in the oil city of Zhanaozen, where it killed 16 workers on December 16 and 17, 2011. Emerged from the former Stalinist bureaucracy that restored capitalism in the USSR, Nursultan Nazarbaev is a bourgeois of the oil and mining businesses. It governs the country with an iron fist since 1990 and in 2015 it was "re-elected" with 98% of the votes, through an electoral farce similar to the one carried out last March by his partner Putin, who was lent by Astana as headquarters of the counterrevolutionary conference to continue massacring the Syrian masses.
