From 6:30pm Springfield Road/ London Road, Glasgow
Protest organiser and Celtic supporter Luke Ivory ” We are protesting and leafleting at the game to raise awareness of the brutal dictatorship in Kazakhstan, the regime will be looking to get good PR out of this high profile match. Kazakhstan is a police state. It is ruled by one man, Nursultan Nazarbayev, and his close family who have looted the wealth of the country to grow rich and buy international allies. The vast majority of the population live in poverty and those who speak out against the regime or organise mass resistance are harassed, jailed, even killed. Workers’ leaders and their families have been subject to brutal physical attack including rape and murder. Rubber bullets and batons have been used to intimidate strikers, press representatives and human rights observers.Many so-called democratic governments continue to send representatives to conferences hosted by Nazarbayev, send official delegations to Kazakhstan and encourage lucrative business deals, especially for the extraction of oil, gas and precious minerals.
Ex- British prime minister, Tony Blair, has a multi-million pound agency advising the regime on how to make safe business deals and how to avoid social unrest!
Campaign Kazakhstan aims to give maximum support to all activists and workers’ leaders involved in the genuine opposition movements. This means supporting the struggle for basic democratic rights. This means campaigning for free speech, freedom of the media, freedom of public assembly, the right to establish trade unions and political parties independent of the government, to organise in the workplace and the community without interference from the state, to strike and demonstrate. We would urge both teams supporters to take our material and sign the petition to free political activists imprisoned in Nazabayev’s gulags”
Campaign Kazakhstan is supported by
Socialist Party Scotland
Youth Fight for Jobs
Andrey Hunko, MP for DIE LINKE, Germany
Bob Crow, RMT union general secretary, UK
Jeremy Corbyn, MP for Labour Party, Britain
Paul Murphy, Member of European Parliament, Socialist Party
Themis Kotsifakis, General secretary of OLME, greek secondary school teachers’ union
Clare Daly, MP for United Left Alliance, Ireland
Inge Hoeger, MP for DIE LINKE, Germany
Joe Higgins, MP for Socialist Party, Ireland
CGT Pôle emploi Lorraine, France
Haldane Society of Socialist Lawyers, UK
