Prominent members of the Socialist Movement of Kazakhstan include Ainur Kurmanov and Esenbek Ukteshbayev, leaders of the independent Kazakhstani trade union Zhanartu who are currently living in exile.

The Committee for a Workers' International announced on 23 May 2002 that it had established a section in Kazakhstan, following a conference held by its Kazakhstani members in neighbouring Russia earlier that month.

Takhir Narimanovich Mukhamedzyanov, the leader of the Socialist Movement of Kazakhstan, was found dead in his home under suspicious circumstances on 5 June 2012.

After the police opened fire and killed over 14 demonstrators in Zhanaozen, the Socialist Movement of Kazakhstan accused the Nur Otan government of Nursultan Nazarbayev of conducting a massacre.

[5] The Socialist Movement of Kazakhstan supported workers' strikes during the 2022 Kazakhstani protests which initially began due to an overnight doubling of fuel prices.