Socialist Alternative Future (Czech Republic)

Socialist Alternative Future
Founded 1990
Newspaper Budoucnost
(The Future)
Ideology Marxism
Socialism
Trotskyism
Political position Far-left
International affiliation Committee for a Workers' International
Colours Red
Website
www.levice.cz
Politics of the Czech Republic
Political parties
Elections

Socialist Alternative Future (Czech: Socialistická alternativa Budoucnost, SAB) is a Trotskyist political party in the Czech Republic, founded in 1990 by students active in the events of the Velvet Revolution. It affiliated to the Committee for a Workers' International in 1994.[1][2]

The party is an activist organisation involved in initiatives such as fare boycott rides on public transport in protest at prices[3] and the No Bases (Ne základnám) campaign against the establishment of a US military base in the Czech Republic, centred on a radar installation.[4][5]

SAB has worked to combat racism against Romani people and directed efforts at winning support for socialist ideas amongst Romanis. The party holds the position that capitalism must be removed in order to overcome the social and economic factors underpinning racism and the problematic coexistence of Romanis and the majority.[6]

References

  1. Trotskyism in the Czech Republic with Emphasis on Development since 2000, Charles University in Prague thesis repository.
  2. Štorkánová, Lucie (2014), Trockismus v České republice s důrazem na vývoj po roce 2000. (Czech)
  3. Protestní jízda načerno vyzněla do ztracena (Czech), iDNES, 31 January 2000.
  4. About the Initiative, No Bases Initiative. Retrieved 6 August 2014
  5. Extrémisté a možné umístění amerického radaru (Czech), Radiožurnál, 2 May 2007.
  6. Romská problematika v agendě Socialistické alternativy Budoucnost (Czech), CEPSR, Volume IV, Part 4, autumn 2002.

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