The Communist Party of Workers of Spain expresses its support and solidarity with the workers' and popular mobilizations that are taking place in Kazakhstan and condemns the murders, arrests, and attacks of all kinds that the police and military forces of the Kazakh Government are carrying out against protesters.

The strikes and mobilizations that have been taking place since January 2 are aimed at improving the living and working conditions of the Kazakh people, whose government has handed over a large part of the country's wealth to monopolies that benefit greatly from the absence of trade-union and political rights of the country's working class.

We also denounce the intervention of foreign powers in the country, aimed both at repressing the protests and at trying to take advantage of them to aggravate the inter-imperialist confrontation.

For all this, we demand:

• An immediate end to hostilities against the people and the withdrawal of troops from the cities
• The release of all political prisoners and detainees
• The recovery of the right to create unions, political parties, carry out strikes and meetings
• The legalization of the activities of the Communist Party of Kazakhstan and the Socialist Movement of Kazakhstan.

Let us not allow block politics to cancel the class struggle.

Central Committee Press Office

January 7, 2022