October 16, 2006
Dear Comrades,
The Communist
Youth Union (KSM) in the Czech Republic has been
officially dissolved by the state power on October 12,
2006.
On October 16,
2006 the KSM has received a letter from the Ministry of
Interior of the Czech Republic that announces that the
Ministry of Interior finally dissolved the KSM. It
happened in spite of a large campaign against the danger
of illegalization of the organization of young
communists in the Czech Republic.
Thousands of
citizens of the Czech Republic signed a petition against
the endeavour of the Ministry of Interior to make the
KSM illegal. The protest against the illegalization of
the KSM was in the Czech Republic expressed for example
by organization of former antifascist fighters, student
organizations, political parties and civic associations.
A great resistance was provoked by the endeavour of the
Ministry of Interior to make the KSM illegal abroad.
Hundreds of significant youth and student organizations,
trade unions and political parties together with
thousands of people protested at the Ministry of
Interior and embassies of the Czech Republic in their
countries. The solidarity with the KSM was expressed by
a large number of members of parliaments, famous
intellectuals and personalities like Nobel Prize winner
Dario Fo, leader of zapatistas Marcos or singer Bono Vox
from U2. Demonstrations in support of the KSM were
organized in front of embassies of the Czech Republic in
many countries of the world. World Federation of
Democratic Youth initiated an International day of
solidarity with the KSM on February 27, 2006.
The Ministry
of Interior originally impugned the status of the KSM as
a civic association under pretext that the goals of
KSMīs activity interfered with an area restricted to
activities of political parties. The Ministry of
Interior further stated that behaviour of the KSM was
illegal because it was based on theoretical basis in
Marx, Engels and Lenin and on proclaimed necessity of
socialist revolution.
Nevertheless,
the Ministry of Interior did not use any of those
arguments for the dissolution of the KSM. The only
reason that has led officially to the dissolution of the
KSM is that the KSM reflects in its Program necessity of
replacing of the private ownership of means of
production with collective ownership of means of
production.
The KSM in
spite of its official dissolution by the state power is
going to carry on the struggle for the rights of
majority of young people - students, young workers and
unemployed and for socialism! The KSM is going to
challenge the decision of the Ministry of Interior in
court.
The
illegalization of the KSM was committed in the
atmosphere of militant anticommunist witch-hunt, various
anticommunist campaigns and attacks and new calls for
the criminalization of the Communist Party of Bohemia
and Moravia (KSCM). The decision of the Ministry of
Interior was realized only one week before local and
Senate elections in which the KSCM participates.
Dear comrades
and friends,
It is necessary to stand up
internationally against this illegalization and
criminalization of the communist movement in the Czech
Republic. We ask you therefore to express your
solidarity with the KSM and to protest against this
unprecedented move of the Ministry of Interior of the
Czech Republic at the embassies of the Czech Republic in
your countries. Their addresses are on the following
internet page:
http://www.mzv.cz/wwwo/mzv/default.asp?ido=7904&idj=2&amb=1&ikony=False&trid=2&prsl=False&pocc1=
We ask you
simultaneously to inform us about your activities on our
e-mail:
international@ksm.cz
or on fax: ++420 222 897 449.
You may also
sign following petitions:
http://4ksm.kke.gr (initiated by the Communist
Party of Greece),
http://wfdy-ksm.kne.gr (initiated by the World
Federation of Democratic Youth).
We ask you for
publishing this information about antidemocratic act of
the Czech state power in the media in your countries.
We ask you
also for any other kind of solidarity.
With your
international support it is possible and it is vital to
defeat all the anticommunist and antidemocratic
attacks!
Long live
international solidarity!
International
Department
Communist
Youth Union (KSM)
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