Anti-fascists block Nazi march in Prague

[Devrim]

From our comrades in Prague:

just a brief info about that demo:

so whats happened? neonazists (new official organisation "young national democrats") called a demonstration in the old jewish town in the center of prague for the 10. 11. officially against war in iraq "lead by jewish" but in fact to celebrate "crystal night".

nazi demo was banned - and all of their attempts to organise legally demo in other parts of prague were banned too.

so the day itself saw more than 2 000 people (politicians and writers, actors etc including) who came at the demo called by "jewish liberal union" and around 1 500 people (with international support) who came at the demo called by "antifascist action". there were around 300 nazists (with international support) but most of them didn´t manage to get into the center of the town: they were harrased by police (repeatedly searched, moved at police stations and kept there). just 20 nazists came to the enter into the jewish town and when the antifa demo came and cross police line they were beaten very very badly. 100 neonazis finally get to the one square at the center but because antifa people tried to get there they dispersed according police order and police help them to get safely at trains and buses.

around 400 people were arrested, 40 of them were antifascists.

obviously nazists blamed police for unlegal repression and they have a reason for it (police and authorities behaved totally according to the political
demand and their action was a chicanery (well there were found weapons as explosive, sticks, knifes and axes brought by some nazists but others were just at the wrong place in the wrong time).

so the most interesting fact is the emergency of "official antifascism": after the news about nazists plan was publicised an unprecedented "antifascist boom"
followed. while at the past antifascism was left just to the anarchists (while to the police was left to repress them and help nazis) now politicans of all colours from president to deputies of socdem to conservative party to local politicians to celebrities became antifascists (just trade unions were missing). (well they don´t take a risk while defend jewish people; if a romanies would be at stake politicians would be obviously more distatnt.) even a judge of
constitutional court urged people to come and defended right of the people to face neonazists even violently.

now we are westernized modern democracy. smile

... plus update: just today there was a demo called by nazists which reffered to the anniversary of "velvet revolution" to lay to rest freedom of speech (which "was killed last saturday"). 100 nazists came, "antifascist action" decided not to organise a counter demo.

Devrim

[Red October]

that fat bonehead got fucked up pretty badly. props to whoever did the bashing.

does anyone know how prevalent neonazis are in the Czech Republic?

[Devrim]

Originally posted by Red October@November 17, 2007 08:46 pm
that fat bonehead got fucked up pretty badly. props to whoever did the bashing.

does anyone know how prevalent neonazis are in the Czech Republic?

I worked there for nine months, and never saw one. In the time that I was there they held one demonstration where there was fighting with anarchists.

Devrim

[Red October]

So would you say the that the revolutionary left (communist, anarchists, etc) are more prevalent there than the fascists?

[Devrim]

Originally posted by Red October@November 17, 2007 09:07 pm
So would you say the that the revolutionary left (communist, anarchists, etc) are more prevalent there than the fascists?

I don't think that most of the left is revolutionary. Anyway, it is very difficult to say. The left outside of the Communist Party is tiny.

Devrim

[Comrade Rage]

Originally posted by Hamster+November 12, 2007 07:48 am--> (Hamster @ November 12, 2007 07:48 am)

An archist

@November 12, 2007 11:52 am
anybody know what the interviewed bonehead said?

That they don't celebrate anything - just walking and sightseeing... [/b]

He was lying!

As most of my comrades probably know that November 9, 2007 was the 69th anniversary of Kristallnacht.

[jaffe]

I was one day in Prague and I counted a few, ncluding a guy who was selling icecream with a '100% white' tattoo on his arm.