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our machines and could create a whole factory. Then we began to
create a textile workshop. Within one month we had one and we
began to make T-shirts. At the moment, on the one hand we are
gaining something from our labour, on the other we are expanding
the factory and seeking to build it up with new work colleagues
and alternative methods of production.

Relations in the workplace and our working conditions

All of us are like comrades with our work colleagues and if
anyone has a problem we struggle to solve it as being our problem
too.

We have our production discipline, but in the sense of our
political development sitting down and conversing to resolve po-
litical questions takes precedence over production.

Decisions related to the workplace and production

We created a council. The Kazova Council. (Translator’s note:
the work meclis can be “parliament” or “council”) Every week in
an orderly fashion we held discussions and took common deci-
sions. For example, one of our friends comes to work late and we
ensure that we criticise it together and seek to remove the defects.

We tie our decisions of what actions to take part in to a joint dis-
cussion of our work routine.

Kazova is continuing to come up with firsts. The resistance
we have experienced and are continuing to experience we seek to
teach to others who are struggling and resisting.

We are seeing in our country new resistance added to its his-
tory of resistance. We confront those who have been unable to

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