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|  20/06/2011, Resistance to coalition government’s cuts
Toby Dite, Prague
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| 19/09/2003, On Saturday 13 September 15 to 20,000 Trade Union members demonstrated
in Prague. The protest was against an austerity package proposed by the
government. These reforms were renamed by trade unionists as "deforms”
as they carried a coffin to Premier Vladimir Spidla adorned with slogans
saying “Government manifesto” and “Spidla’s election promises”. Czech
Railway workers blocked the Governments’ office with a railway buffer.
The board attached to it read “The gift of the railwaymen’s union to the
government of Premier Vladimir Spidla”.
Vasek Votruba, Socialisticka alternativa Budoucnost (Socialist
alternative the Future), Prague. |
| 04/02/2003, Prague - The independent federation of tram drivers (FRT) organised a
one day strike on February 4 over wage claims. The main demand is that
tram drivers wages would be equalized with the wages of other transport
workers, like bus drivers in Prague. Picket lines were attacked by
scabs, security guards hired by management and the police force. 10 tram
drivers were injured in the clashes.
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| 24/08/2002, At least one quarter of the Czech Republic was flooded last week after
flash floods. 14 people died because of the disaster (some of them did
not leave flooded houses, and one died when a boat was bombed by the
authorities as a ‘safety preventative measure’). The fire fighters and
other emergency workers did a huge amount of work – they really are
heroes. Immediately after the floods started, they came from all over
the country to help. The police mostly controlled areas to stop looting.
Vasek Votruba, Prague, 22 August 2002 |
| 19/06/2002, Results from last week’s parliamentary elections in the Czech Republic
show that the social democrats (CSSD) won with 30.4%, followed by the
communist party (KSCM) (18.8%), which is the highest vote for the KSCM
since the collapse of Stalinism in 1989.
Vasek Votruba, Prague, 17 June 2002 |
| 01/01/2001, In the Czech Republic, political competition has made television into an
unscrupulous battleground for ambitious bureaucrats, reflecting a
government led by rival parties, the rightist ODS and the leftist CSSD,
who each want so badly to govern that they have forged an unlikely
"opposition agreement."
CWI statement |
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