Czech Republic
The struggle against crisis: We can only rely on ourselves!
This leaflet by KPK contains also a sketch of balance of power between proletariat and capital in Czech both now and during years before the crisis. It was distributed at unionist demo in May.
The struggle against crisis:
We can only rely on ourselves!
Only a year ago, they wanted us to work Saturdays to satisfy demand – today, we're on forced vacations or sacked right away.
Whenever there's talk of fascism, there's talk of capitalism
The leaflet which was distributed by Kolektivně proti kapitálu (KPK; Collectively Against Capital) at the May Day Festival organized by Antifascist Action in Prague.
Whenever there's talk of fascism,
there's talk of capitalism
June 24th 2008: a strike that gave the workers little and didn't harm the bosses (II. KPK Bulletin)
A brief presentation of a strike led by trade unions in the Czech Republic in 2008.
Class struggle is a part of capitalism. If we compare class struggle to a real state of war, we commit, of course, a certain oversimplification. But it makes all the more evident that contention does not only mean open confrontations of armies on the front line: it also entails terrain recognition, mapping the enemy's weak and strong points, as well as those of one's own army.
Franz Kafka and libertarian socialism
Michael Löwy explores the links between the seminal writer and the anarchist/libertarian socialist movement.
Clearly, the work of Franz Kafka cannot be reduced to a political doctrine of any kind. Kafka did not give speeches but fashioned individuals and situations. In his work, he expressed a Stimmung or sense of feelings and attitudes. The symbolic world of literature cannot be reduced to the discursive world of ideologies.
Class struggle in the automotive industry: Will it step on the gas? - The preface
Preface to the bulletin “Class Struggle In The Automotive Industry: Will It Step On The Gas?” published by Kolektivne proti kapitalu (Collectively Against Capital, KPK) in June 2007
Introduction
Leaflet: Gaining as much as possible from Škoda´s profit!
The leaflet spread in Skoda/Volkswagen factories in three towns in February 2007 by KPK.
GAINING AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE FROM ŠKODA´S PROFIT!
Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924
A short biography of the anarchist-influenced writer whose name spawned an adjective for the absurdities of bureaucratic power.
“Our laws are not generally known; they are kept secret by the small group of nobles who rule us … for the laws were made to the advantage of the nobles from the very beginning, they themselves stand above the laws” (Kafka, The Problem of Our Laws)
Foreign investments in the Czech Republic: Boom or fall? 2004
Article analysing foreign investment and business in the Czech Republic since 1989 and recent changes which are occuring.
Transformation towards private capitalism, which started after 1989, was at the beginning mainly affected by the struggle inside the old-new ruling class for the actual character of this change. Already in 1990 the Czech faction of bourgeoisie led by Vaclav Klaus, who was minister of finance and who later became the prime minister and who is now the present president, got the strongest position.
Migrant workers in the Czech Republic, 2005
An article about the situation of predominantly Slovakian and Ukrainian immigrant workers in the Czech Republic in 2005.
Between Repression and the Mafia
First strike for thirteen years at Skoda, Czech Republic, 2005
30 March: Some 12,000 of the 21,000 employees at Skoda walked off the job for an hour on the 30th of March, putting the company 240 cars under its daily quota of about 2,000.
