We, members of different antifascist left-wing organizations, are united in
our protest against the action, organized by so-called „Young National
Democrats“ on November 10, 2007. This organization, tied to
neo-Nazi National Resistance, is going to march through former Jewish quarter
of Prague on the anniversary of Crystal Night – the pogrom in
1938 when more than 100 Jews were killed and more than
30 thousand were deported into the concentrarion camps in 1938. Most of
them never returned.
However still today the neo-Nazis treat Jews as scapegoats as Hitler did.
They have claimed that Jews are responsible for the Iraq war and occupation and
they try to misuse people´s just opposition to the war. This is a
false claim by the neo-Nazis, which is used in support of their racist
agitation.
We dont agree that such organizations, which build their political programmes
on a similiar foundations as the former Nazi Germany, should be able to
propagate their anti-Semitic, racist and undemocratic view in the central
district of our capital. We dont believe that the choise of a date was
accidental. Neo-Nazis have often used Nazi anniversaries for their
presentation.
The demonstration of Young Natrional Democrats (and National Resistance) was
originally forbidden by authorities. However later, there were some
proposals – after the court decided about the overturn the ban
– to forbid all „extremist actions“ in the future. The
authorities would then have the right to limit the freedom to assemble and
would use their power against the Left and progressive forces. We dont agree
with this at all. We refuse the represions against antifascist (which we saw
more than one´s this year) as well. The Police and authorities arent able to
stop the brown scum!
We call on everybody and all to actively support the action against the
neo-Nazis on November 10. Its our job to stop them.
"They came first for the Communists, and I didn't speak up because
I wasn't a Communist.
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because
I wasn't a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't
a Jew.
Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn't speak up because
I wasn´t a Catholic
Then they came for me, and by that time no one was left to speak up."
pastor Martin Niemoller
This call is supported by:
Young Social Democrats (Mladí sociální demokraté) – http://mladi.cz/
Socialist Workers Organization (Socialistická organizace pracujících) –
http://sop.revoluce.info/
Socialist Solidarity (Socialistická solidarita) – http://socsol.cz/
Revo – revolutionary youth organization [the affiliate of SWO] (Revo
– organizace revoluční mládeže) – http://revo.revoluce.info/
Revolution – independent youth organization (Revolution – nezávislá
organizace mládeže) – http://revo.cz.tc/
