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|country = Kazakhstan
|name = Socialist Resistance of Kazakhstan
|native_name = Социалистическое Сопротивление Казахстана
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|newspaper = Солидарность<br>(''Solidarity'')
|ideology = [[Trotskyism]]<br>[[Socialism]]<br>[[Marxism]]
|position = [[Far-left]]
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'''Socialist Resistance of Kazakhstan''' ({{lang-ru|Социалистическое Сопротивление Казахстана}}, ''Socialističeskoe Soprotivlenie Kazahstana'') is a [[Trotskyist]] political organisation in [[Kazakhstan]] affiliated to the [[Committee for a Workers' International]].

==History==
Socialist Resistance of Kazakhstan was established by Kazakh members of the Committee for a Workers International in 2002, during a conference held in neighbouring Russia. From its inception it came under attack by authorities, with one member detained en route to the conference establishing the organisation, and others reporting being attacked as they gathered for the conference.<ref>[http://www.socialistworld.net/mob/doc/231 Kazakhstan - CWI section established]. ''Committee for a Worker's International'', 23 May 2002. accessed online 5 March 2012</ref>

Prominent members of Socialist Resistance of Kazakhstan include [[Ainur Kurmanov]] and [[Esenbek Ukteshbayev]], leaders of the independent Kazakh trade union '[[Zhanartu]]', currently in exile. Along with other members of Socialist Resistance Kazakhstan, both have been subject to arbitrary imprisonment and attempts on their lives when within Kazakhstan.

In June 2012, Takhir Narimanovich Mukhamedzyanov, leader of Socialist Resistance Kazakhstan, was found dead in his home under suspicious circumstances, after receiving a range of death threats from state-affiliated interests.<ref>[http://www.socialistworld.net/doc/5802 Leader of Socialist Movement Kazakhstan found dead], ''Committee for a Worker's International'', 6 June 2012. accessed online 9 July 2012</ref>

Socialist Resistance Kazakhstan was instrumental in the 'ONJ' ('Leave The Peoples Homes Alone') campaign - an anti-eviction movement, and in '[[Kazakhstan 2012]]', a campaign for democratic electoral reform.

Socialist Resistance Kazakhstan supported the strike and demonstration by Kazakh oil workers in December 2011 in Zhanaozen, and accuse the government and Nursultan Nazarbayev's [[Nur Otan|National Democratic Party]] of initiating a massacre.<ref>Ainur Kurmanov, "[http://themoscownews.com/international/20120301/189504769.html The day Zhanaozen died]" ''The Moscow News'' 1 March 2012.</ref>

==Policies==
Socialist Resistance of Kazakhstan campaigns for democratic socialism, an end to authoritarianism, and calls for the nationalisation of the economy under the control of workers.

==Campaign Kazakhstan==
The CWI is currently running an international appeal called 'Campaign Kazakhstan', to draw attention to the political and economic situation in Kazakhstan and to campaign for the release of Vadim Kuramshin, human rights activist and legal counsel for striking oil workers in west Kazakhstan, and in support of Ainur Kurmanov and Esenbek Ukteshbayev, trade union leaders targeted by the state and currently in hiding overseas.<ref>[http://campaignkazakhstan.org/ Campaign Kazakhstan website] - accessed online 5 March 2012</ref>

The campaign has previously worked on protesting outside Kazakh embassies around Europe for the release of Natalya Sokolova, also legal counsel for striking oil workers, and Bolat Atabayev, imprisoned Kazakh theatre director. Both prisoners were later released in response to these campaigns.

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
*[http://socialismkz.info/ Socialist Movement of Kazakhstan]
*[http://www.socialistworld.net/view/50 Committee for a Worker's International - Kazakhstan]
*[http://www.socialismkz.info/ Socialist and Labour movement blog]
{{Kazakhstani political parties}}
{{CWI}}
[[Category:Committee for a Workers' International]]
[[Category:Political parties in Kazakhstan]]
[[Category:Political parties established in 2002]]
[[Category:Communist parties in Kazakhstan]]
[[Category:2002 establishments in Kazakhstan]]