Czech+Communist+Youth+Movement+banning,+YCLB

London District Young Communist League

 * http://www.ycl.org.uk/**


 * 08-Feb-2006 17:27**

Dear Comrades,

The Czech Communist Youth Movement (KSM) is to be banned by the government of the Czech Republic. The justification for this anti-democratic act is a) that the KSM's goals "interfere" with those of Czech political parties; and b) that the KSM refuses to renounce its commitment to revolutionary socialism. In the tradition of the Spanish Inquisition, the KSM must recant their heresy or be damned

This move follows the outlawing of the Communist Party in Lithuania, the banning of the Hammer and Sickle and Red Star symbols in Hungary. It is part of a braoder campaign in the Czech Republic and across Europe to equate Communism with Nazism, despite the fact that the Nazis were only defeated thanks to the enormous sacrifices of the Soviet people.

The KSM is a fraternal organisation of the YCL and our Czech counterpart. It is the youth section of the KSCM (Czech Communist Party), which has 120,000 members and holds 20% of seats in the Czech parliament. We cannot stand by while our Czech comrades are criminalised for their beliefs.

To this end, London Young Communist League will hold a protest demonstration outside the Czech Embassy on St Valentine's Day, Tuesday 14th February 2006, from 4:00pm until 5:30pm. The address of the embassy is:

26 Kensington Palace Gardens London W8 4QY

The nearest Tube stations are High Street Kensington and Notting Hill Gate. Please be there if you can. My telephone number is 07748 688 447.


 * For more information, follow these links:

http://www.mltoday.com/Pages/CPs/KSM-SolidarityReq.html

http://www.indymedia.ie/article/73599

http://ottawa.indymedia.ca/en/2006/02/2082.shtml**

Yours in comradeship,

YCL London Branch Chair
 * James Tweedie

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