Prague

[Jim heartfield]

In message <518B8516EDC0D011BE3F00C04FD4EE5A27CC08 at smtp.fair.org>, Seth
Ackerman <SAckerman at FAIR.org> writes
>There seems to be a disconcerting absence of actual Czechs at the Prague
>demonstrations. Does anyone know why that is? Considering what the IMF has
>done to Eastern Europe, why aren't there tens of thousands of Czech union
>members in the streets? Or are there?

Disconcerting absence of proletarians en masse, one might add. Why
should Czechs support a movement that aims at arresting growth, economic
autarky and patronising the third world. Those after all were the
hallmarks of the Stalinism that they only recently rejected.

-- 
James Heartfield

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