No riots during fascist rally. Unsettling May Day anyway

by Michal Kašpárek on May 1, 2009

FASCISM

The town’s centre was paralysed on May 1 due to a demonstration and a march of the ultranationalist Workers’ Party. However, the meeting of 500 skinheads, nationalists and – let’s face it – fascists was free of riots and street fights (contrary to the May Day of 2007).

There were 1,500 policemen preventing the supporters of Workers’ Party to clash with anti-fascists and Romani people. The police closed the main square, where the meeting took place, for everyone except the fascist. The chairman of the Workers’ Party Tomáš Vandas claimed this had been ordered only to prevent WP from addressing the public.

Three skinheads were arrested for displaying Nazi signs.

Source: Brno.iDnes.cz

Most interesting goals of Workers’ Party

  • Withdrawal from the European Union and NATO (…and you thought that an international isolation was a punishment!)
  • Ban of pornography and interruptions
  • Oppression homosexuals and ethnical minorities
  • Ban of the major political parties and trials of current political leaders
  • Capital punishment for masturbation (...only joking, of course. But these guys want capital punishment back anyway.)

Source: Czech Wikipedia

Read also: Fascists and communists to march on May Day

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Anonymous May 2, 2009 at 10:07 PM

Who hooooooooooooooo!

Let the “Facists and Communists march.” CZ needs “a party,” no? Viva errrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr………….. ??????????????????????????????????????

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