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KPK and Mouvement Communiste are going to this year’s Anarchist Bookfair in London, which will take place on Saturday, October 19 2013. Both groups will hold presentations on topics detailed below. For more information on how to get there, please consult this map or visit the Anarchist Bookfair website.
Po slovensky
KPK a Mouvement Communiste sa zúčastnia tohtoročného Anarchistického knižného veľtrhu, ktorý sa koná v Londýne v sobotu, 19. 10. 2013. Obe skupiny výstupia s prezentáciami – detaily nájdete nižšie. Informácie o tom, ako sa na veľtrh dostať, nájdete na stránke veľtrhu, a tiež na tejto mape.
We are pleased to announce the English translation of our pamhplet on the Czechoslovak Velvet Revolution of 1989. In 2009, when it was originally published, we wrote: The demise of the Stalinist monopoly in November 1989 presented a relatively open situation… which the working class did not exploit to establish itself as an independent political force. This pamphlet emphasizes that the “socialist regime” was very successful at demobilizing the proletariat, and adds that the working class was prevented from finding its political, subversive face by the vanguard of the “Velvet Revolution”, the Civic Forum. Under its leadership, the working class became a prisoner of the concept of citizenship – and, defenceless as it was, later a passive victim of the infamous “tightening of belts” in the 1990s. The true symbol of November 1989 was no velvet, but rather a straitjacket knit from the civic tricolor.
Ever since the first days of this government’s term in office it has been clear that it will attack working-class living standards (the coalition parties promised this even before the election). The employees of the public sector were just the first ones in line. According to the government plans workers as a whole are soon to become the victims of cuts and reforms. The results of the beginning of the government offensive were therefore of great importance to all workers. What were they? The defeat of public sector employees has shown once again the impotence of union-led protests. Let’s review this defeat to draw some conclusions. 
A short text analyzing the transport strike which took place on June 16, 2011 in a protest against health and pension reform in Czech and its context.