The New Anticapitalist Left in Czech Republic
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Thursday March 25, 2010 16:26
by Darren C - League for the Fifth International (pc)
In October 2009 a conference in Prague took important steps to form a new anticapitalist organisation. Several dozens activists met to discuss what should be it's basis and what methods should it use. The conference agreed a programmatic platform and the outlined the proceedings which will lead to the launch of a new organisation.
The conference was called after some rounds of discussions between several revolutionary socialist groups and unorganised activists which started in the summer. The idea of a joint anticapitalist organisation had several important sources. The starting point was that there is desperate need to organise the fight back against the efforts by the ruling class to unload the burden of the economic crisis on the working class.
Full article: http://www.fifthinternational.org/content/new-anticapit...ublic
Website of NAL: http://www.antikapitalista.cz/
The programme of the NAL is online in English: http://www.fifthinternational.org/content/platform-new-...-left
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Jump To Comment: 1The "desperate need to organise the fight back..." is desperate indeed:
"Workers Power is calling for a Labour vote: to keep out the Tories, and to keep the union-backed and union-funded Labour Party on the spot." (Editorial: Time for an anticapitalist alternative. Workers Power 343 – March 2010)
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