Their main demands are to abolish the antisocial and drastic reforms on health, welfare, pensions and other sensitive areas that the government is pushing. Organisers are also asking the government to end the destruction of public services and the preparation of their privatization.

The demonstration in Prague will be the culmination of a week of national protests across the country under the slogan “STOP GOVERNMENT”. Train tickets for Prague on Saturday are already sold out and trade unions have prepared special buses to transport  participants from all parts of the country.

PSI and EPSU support the struggle of the Czech people against blind austerity measures and asks affiliates to send messages of solidarity to Pisarova.Terezie@cmkos.cz

Please send copies of your messages to epsu@epsu.org and communications@world-psi.org.