FOURTH WORLD
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Censorship is imposed, travel restrictions tightened, one of the most
outspoken political weeklys,
Politika,
is banned, people identified
with the progressive post-January reforms are dismissed, Soviet troops
are in the country. One could go on. But the unintimidated attitude of
the Czech intelligentsia and particularly of the younger generation of
students and workers gives them hope that this new attempt to destroy the
freedom of a small nation will end as unsuccessfully as the preceding
ones, that the youth of this country will one day have the chance
to
build upon the values created by their predecessors, to resolve the com–
plexities of Czech politics, make full use of the nation's high level of
culture and civilization, of its varied experience, and solve the so-called
Czech question by the abolition of the system of universal manipulation.
But it will take years.
In this post-January period the Czech people have contributed to the
struggle for a humanist socialism, a socialism that will liberate man in
every respect and create the possibility for the development of his full
human potential. The world ought not to forget this, particularly those
forces which call themselves Left Wing - for they should be concerned
with the same aim - so that one of the August slogans may come true:
"We have lost five brothers, but now the whole world is with us."
A.
J.
