Solidarity with KSM

international | anti-capitalism | other press Tuesday December 27, 2005 23:41 by Seán MacRuadhán - IRSM sp at rsym dot org 392 Falls Road

The Republican Socialist Youth Movement have issused their solidarity towards the Czech Communist Union of Youth.

Solidarity with the Czech Communist Union of Youth

The RSYM stand in solidarity with the youth communist movement of the Czech Republic as it comes under attack from the Czech government.

The Interior Ministry of the Czech Republic has threatened to ban the Communist Union of Youth (Komunisticky svaz mladeze, KSM). This is the progression of recent anti-communist movements in Bohemia and Moravia which have attempted to outlaw communist parties and even the word communist itself. The KSM is being coerced into rejecting the theories of Marx and Engels or be punished. As Czechs have long valued their sturdy independence against despotism and religion, this new inquisition is absurd.

Other draconian laws include making it a crime to defend or deny alledged communist crimes have been passed by the House of Deputies of the Parliament. The recurring theme in the Czech anticommunist movement is to equate communists - the liberators of Prague - to the Nazis!

We encourage everyone to write and express their disgust with the Czech Interior Ministry and solidarity with the KSM:

Ministerstvo vnitra (Ministry of Interior)
oddeleni volebni a sdruzovani,
namesti Hrdinu 3,
140 21 Praha 4
Czech Republic

Fax: ++420 974 816 872
e-mail: stiznosti@mvcr.cz
benesova@mvcr.cz
krivova@mvcr.cz

Embassy of Czech Republic in Ireland
57, Northumberland Road, Ballsbridge
DUBLIN 4
Ireland

Phone: +00 35 31/ 668 11 35
Fax: +00 35 31/668 16 60


www.rsym.org