The National Resistance Movement, that is labelled a neo-Nazi organisation, called on its adherents to take part in the event. Some of the participants wore hoods, others carried black banners and paper shields with the Workers' Party emblem. Several dozens policemen, some on horseback, monitor the event.
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Zimbabwe opposition may accept runoff vote ... City Hall are also on the spot, prepared to dissolve the march if its participants violated law. No incidents have occurred so far. Workers' Party head Tomas Vandas was one of the speakers at the meeting. He sharply criticised the current liberal regime, the centre-right government and its reforms which he called "daylight robbery of working people." He also asked the participants to support the Workers' Party in the autumn regional elections. Representatives of other Czech as well as foreign extremist movements also gave speeches at the rally, including representatives of the Slovak Community and the German Free Nationalists. Apart from capitalism and liberalism, they criticised Zionism which, they said, influenced the ruling regime in the Czech Republic and in Germany. The Young Social Democrats met at the same place, outside the church on Jiri z Podebrady square in Prague 3, this morning at the event dubbed "More toys for deprived nationalists." They said they wanted to show right-wing extremists that it would be better "to play with something less ugly than baseball bats." They left piles of toys on the square that extremists removed before their rally.
(Ceske Noviny)
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