CZECHOSLOVAKIA / USSR
Left reacts to Klaus' takeover of Civic Forum THE LEFT has for some time been irrelevant inside the Czech Civic Forum (CF) and its Slovak equivalent "Public Against Violence". In the past year the majority of the left has left CF to set up more clearly defined organizations. The left inside CF now consists of Left Alternative, a social democratic club around Charter 77 dissident Rudolf Battek, and Obroda, a group to you for a long time. The only civic movement with a right to bear that name ceased to exist a long time ago....Unfortunately, we didn't give that form of social organization enough chances... We ourselves were the first to demonstrate, last spring, against Civic Forum's undemocratic practices.
"Admit, gentlemen, that you all carry partial responsibility for the death of "non-political politics' ', with your taste for the great political game, your longing for power, your intriguing and your reinforcement of your personal positions. Stop trying to persuade us that, whether you say conservative, liberal or whatever, that there exists only one way, yours, the right way.
"Don't you feel that we've already experienced that here? We shit on your path to paradise. We don't
From perestroika to perestrelka?