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**mr.nemo** · 06-28-2010, 07:01 PM

My point is that this particular "worker's" party isn't the characteristic left-leaning group. They just adopted the "worker's" moniker, you know, like China calls itself the "People's Republic of China" or North Korea calls itself "Democratic People's Republic of Korea".

They are clearly a Nationalist party (which would put them more in line with a Fascist group: "The party has then started to emphasize nationalist dimension of its program, mostly effort to overhaul what they see as a favorable treatment of minorities, and in fact has started a radically anti-communist rhetoric"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workers...Czech_Republic)[/url]

Your own source (Wikipedia) states:

The program of the Workers' Party is not easily classifiable. On January 19, 2003, a day after the party was established, it published a press release that it planned to compete mostly with the Czech communist party[9] and as late as in early autumn 2008 the Workers' party program was considerably socialist, when the party's most important program point in the regional elections was an abolition of medical fees paid by Czech patients. The party received less than 1% of votes, but shortly afterwards attracted major media attention for organizing riots in quarters of Litvínov city with a significant Roma population [10][11]. Afterwards, the party has managed to maintain considerable publicity by organizing marches against minorities (homosexuals[12], Roma). So, it is very much a leftist party, that does some (very debatable) right-wing stuff to gain publicity.

06-28-2010, 07:01 PM	#17
mr.nemo Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 446 Senior Member	My point is that this particular "worker's" party isn't the characteristic left-leaning group. They just adopted the "worker's" moniker, you know, like China calls itself the "People's Republic of China" or North Korea calls itself "Democratic People's Republic of Korea". They are clearly a Nationalist party (which would put them more in line with a Fascist group: "The party has then started to emphasize nationalist dimension of its program, mostly effort to overhaul what they see as a favorable treatment of minorities, and in fact has started a radically anti-communist rhetoric" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workers...Czech_Republic)[/url] Your own source (Wikipedia) states: The program of the Workers' Party is not easily classifiable. On January 19, 2003, a day after the party was established, it published a press release that it planned to compete mostly with the Czech communist party[9] and as late as in early autumn 2008 the Workers' party program was considerably socialist, when the party's most important program point in the regional elections was an abolition of medical fees paid by Czech patients. The party received less than 1% of votes, but shortly afterwards attracted major media attention for organizing riots in quarters of Litvínov city with a significant Roma population [10][11]. Afterwards, the party has managed to maintain considerable publicity by organizing marches against minorities (homosexuals[12], Roma). So, it is very much a leftist party, that does some (very debatable) right-wing stuff to gain publicity.
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