A COLLECTION OF STUDENT PROTEST LEAFLETS, POSTERS AND OTHER ITEMS FROM THE LAST MONTHS OF COMMUNIST RULE IN CZECHOSLOVAKIA INCLUDING ITEMS FROM THE OPPOSITION CIVIC FORUM. 1989.

A group of 7 individual items all relating to the public protests during the Czech Velvet Revolution – all from the personal archive of an anonymous student who took part in the protests and activities against the communist government in and around November 1989.

The group of documents consists of:

TWO HAND PAINTED POSTERS OF PROTEST

Prague: n.p., 1989

Each 30 x 21cm, hand painted in blue and red on white paper. The texts translate as “;IF YOU WANT TO BE BETTER TOMORROW, YOU MUST JOIN US TODAY” and “WE ARE THE ONES WHO ARE RIGHT AND WE WILL PERSIST!” The choice of colour is significant being the colours in the Czech flag: during the velvet revolution students began to wear ribbons in blue and red as a passive sign of support for the forces of rebellion.

Both fine condition.

FIVE DIFFERENT CIVIC FORUM INFORMATION SHEETS INCLUDING  “STRIKE CITIZENS!”

N.p. (Prague): Civic Forum, November 1989 – December 1989

Five separate 30 x 21cm 1pp sheets printed offset released by the Civic Forum in the heat of the rebellion fuelling discontent and demanding a clean sweep of the guilty men (and it was almost entirely men) from positions of power after the Velvet Revolution: one of the leaflets is the important call for a general strike issued on 17th November 1989 as a reaction to the news that there was fighting on Narodni Trida.

The leaflets call for the ridding of all Communists from positions of power and note that “the Communist Party must be aware it has lost the trust of the people and has no further role in society, it is not acceptable that half of the government remains as communist officials”(this written in December 89.

PRICE FOR ALL 7 ITEMS AS A GROUP