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REQUEST FOR SOLIDARITY WITH KSM
Dear comrades and friends,
We
are writing to inform you of the latest attack of state
power – the Home Office of the Czech Republic – against
the Communist Union of Youth (Komunisticky svaz mladeze,
KSM) - a member organization of the World Federation of
Democratic Youth (WFDY) - and against the communist
movement in general in the Czech Republic.
The Ministry of Interior has sent a
warning and precept, in which it:
impugns the status of the KSM as a
civic association under pretext that the goals of KSM´s
activity interfere with an area restricted to activities
of political parties that is, according to the
interpretation of the Home Office of the Czech Republic,
excluded from the intervention of civic associations.
Nevertheless the KSM does not differ in this area from
the field of action of other youth political
organizations in the Czech Republic like Young
Conservatives, Young Social Democrats, Young Christian
Democrats, etc. Thus it is obvious that this attack
against the KSM is politically motivated. It is an
obvious attempt to restrain our freedom of association.
tries to coerce the KSM into renouncing its political
program, communist identity, goals, and theoretical
basis in Marx, Engels and Lenin, that is Marxism as a
whole.
On this
ground the Home Office of the Czech Republic threatens
to make the KSM illegal by December 31, 2005. If that
happened it would without any doubt set a precedent
whereby the same argument could be used against other
civic associations. But the Home Office of the Czech
Republic also aims to attack the parliamentary Communist
Party of Bohemia and Moravia (KSCM).
This attack
against the KSM is just the climax of a long-run
anticommunist campaign that has increased in intensity
this year. Among its manifestations was for example a
petition titled “Let´s abolish the communists,” an
endeavour of senators Mejstrik and Stetina to pass a law
that would criminalize communist ideas, movement and the
word “communist” as such. This bill simultaneously put
communism and its ideas on one level with fascism and
its crimes. (This text has been already passed in the
Senate of the Parliament of the Czech Republic and now
it shall be discussed in the House of Deputies of the
Parliament of the Czech Republic.) Also a so-called
humanitarian organization People in Need – Czech
Republic has been involved in this anticommunist
campaign. This organization has begun to organize a
strongly anticommunist campaign within the public
education system in elementary schools and secondary
schools. In recent days the House of Deputies of the
Parliament of the Czech Republic has also passed a new
Penal Code according which it is a criminal act to
approve of and/or deny Nazi and so-called communist
crimes.
It is
necessary to emphasize that the attack against the KSM
is an attack against the whole communist movement in the
Czech Republic, and therefore also against the Communist
Party of Bohemia and Moravia, which the state power has
not so far dared to attack directly; it does so
indirectly by attacking the Communist Union of Youth.
The closeness between the Communist Party of Bohemia and
Moravia, which is today one of the strongest
parliamentary political parties in the Czech Republic
and one of the strongest communist parties in Europe,
and the Communist Union of Youth has been shown also
with the attendance of the president of the Communist
Party of Bohemia and Moravia Vojtech Filip at the recent
Seventh Congress of the KSM, when he expressed his wish
that the ideas of the KSM find a rousing response
throughout the young people and that “people who have
passed through the ranks of the KSM provide new blood
for the KSCM.”
Dear
comrades, friends,
We believe
that it is necessary to stand up internationally against
this attempt to criminalize the communist movement in
the Czech Republic. We ask you therefore to express your
solidarity with the KSM and to send protests against
this unprecedented move of the Home Office of the Czech
Republic to the following address:
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
We ask you
simultaneously to send copies of your protests on our
e-mail:
international@ksm.cz or on fax: ++420 222 897
426.
Thanks
for your solidarity.
Milan
Krajča, Chairman of the KSM
Prague, Czech Republic
January 2006
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