The founders of RDKS from left to right: Nikolay Korol'kov
(Almaty Heavy Machine- Building Factory), Yuri Vin'kov, Yuri Borovitskij
(Kirov Plant) – first chairman of RDKS, from 1990 to 1995.
Madel Ismailov, Chairman of RDKS
Ainur Kurmanov, a member of the Executive Committee of RDKS, First
Secretary of the CC of the Leninist Communist Union of Youth (LKSM), the
Chairman of the Trade Union Committee of "Metallist" factory in Uralsk.
CHRONICLE OF STRUGGLE
11 June. Represenative
of the Alliance of Workers' Unions "Defense" (Russia) made a report on
anti labor repressions in Kazakhstan at the VII International Conferense
in Geneva. The conference was organized by International Liaison
Committee of Workers and Peoples and UCPO – Union des Ñercles pour une
Politique Ouvriere). The Conferense has issued an
appeal to Kazakhstan authorities to stop the persecutions of labor
activists.
Workers' Solidarity Is
Real! A Letter from the Strike Committee of "Metallist"
1 October 1999. Under the red flag unfurled, the workers
of Metallist Factory are going toward the regional governor's office .
But why they are marching along the sidewalk (left and right of the yellow
billboard) rather than down the avenue on the left? Because otherwise
they could and would be arrested for "illegal" demo.
New Arrests of Labor Leaders
in Kazakhstan. On the eve of its Refoundation Conference, the
Labor Movement of Kazakhstan "Solidarity" (RDKS) is coming under
increasing attacks by the repressive apparatus of this Central Asian dictatorship.
SOCIALIST PARTY members (above) picketing the Kazakhstan
Embassy in London. The demonstrators handed in a letter of protest
condemning the brutal treatment of two Committee
for a Workers'
International members - Madel Ismailov and Ionur Kurmanov - by President
Nazurbayev's
Kazakh regime.
Members of the Ukranian group Workers' Resistance picketing
Kazakhstan Embassy in Kiev in solidarity with the striking workers of Metalliat
Factory in Uralsk, Northern Kazakhstan.
11 June. Represenative
of the Alliance of Workers' Unions "Defense" (Russia) made a report on
anti labor repressions in Kazakhstan at the VII International Conferense
in Geneva. The conference was organized by International Liaison
Committee of Workers and Peoples and UCPO – Union des Ñercles pour une
Politique Ouvriere). The Conferense has issued 
