will not seek membership ot the new party, but will remain in the CF rliamentary group until the next elecns. "There, I will continue to fight for e original programme of Civic Forum as interpret it...That was my electoral omise in the June elections". Vrat'a Votava, editor of Left Alternare's journal Polarita, said; "Perhaps we n finally stop wallowing in the mud of nfusion in Civic Forum, and concenate on building a left movement in this The Campaign for the Rights of Youth (PM) has argued for a reorientation of e left around a set of concrete demands - their charter of youth rights. They orgazed a small demonstration against the onomic policies of the CF government, it do not believe the changes in CF funmentally change the situation for the The Club of Social Democrats inside vic Forum has been formed by five fedal deputies. They reject "the search for a ird way in economics" as "unrealistic d utopian". "We fundamentally reject ly kind of social demagogy, which the on-parliamentary opposition and the ommunists are now practicing. This is a eak on radical economic transformaon". The model of a market economy not aracterized as "social and ecologically iented" is, for the club, "an anachronism Europe" (Rudé Právo, January 16, A coalition of anarchist groups, in an en letter to congress delegates, id "Whatever the differences between u, agree on at least one thing.....Give up e name Civic Forum! It hasn't belonged 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 believe that the hunt for profit... will truly solve any problems... will prove to make anyone truly happy....In history the path backwards doesn't lead anywhere". The Union of Unemployed commented; "With the change of Civic Forum from a movement into a party the mandates of all CF deputies in the Federal Assembly and Czech National Council expire, along with those of all the members of the Czech and federal governments representing CF. We watch with concern the continued breaking of their promise to the original civic forums" (CT January 13, 1991).
Finally, Vladimir Kolmistr, the deputy president of Obroda, said; changed from a movement into a party with very strict, in our opinion sectarian, restrictions on membership. By these restrictions Obroda ceases to be a part of
"This process of change was dominated by essentially anti-democratic and intolerant tendencies. The process has been carried out by undemocratic negotiations, going as far as shouting down and labelling opponents.
"It's interesting that, while seven weeks ago you could hear....that Obroda was a brake on reform, by the time of the CF congress you could hear the same thing about members of the Liberal Club. This means that these undemocratic methods are threatening a larger and larger group
"We, as a club, cannot be members of a party with membership, as the congress characterized the new CF. Given our orientation, and knowing the people who are members of our club, probably no-one will want to be in the new party".
Kolmistr added that elected deputies would stay in the CF deputies clubs, but that in his view they should form their own club with other leftoriented deputies (Rudé Právo, January 16, 1991). *
CZECHOSLOVAKIA / USSR
From
perestroika
to perestrelka?
IN THE FOLLOWING article, Dick Forslund trade-unionist and leader of the Socialist Party, Swedish section of the