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Zdenek Horeni 1930 – 2021: to the last barricade
DR JOHN CALLOW remembers the famous editor of socialist Czechoslovakia’s leading newspaper who remained true to the socialist cause until the very end
In November 1989 Zdenek Horeni chaired a last session of the press commission that stretched on late into the night and appeared before his loyal staff at Rude Pravo to say farewell and to thank all of those who “had not turned their coats for a place in the sun”
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ANN HENDERSON looks at the trailblazers of the Women’s Trade Union League and their successful fight for female factory inspectors — a battle that echoes in today’s workplace campaigns
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ZDENEK HORENI, the former editor of Rude Pravo and leading correspondent for the Morning Star’s sister paper Halo Noviny, died in Prague’s Thomayer Hospital, on Friday February 12 2021, at the age of 91.
His long, rich and adventurous life as a campaigning journalist was shaped by his experiences of growing up under the Nazi occupation, by the February revolution of 1948 and by the struggle to maintain socialism in Czechoslovakia and latterly, the Czech Republic.
Born in the northern town of Frydstejn, on February 9 1930, on the fault line between Masaryk’s young republic and Hitler’s Germany, he witnessed the collapse of Czechoslovakia after the Munich accords of 1938 and the seizure of his hometown as part of the Sudetenland, territories effectively gifted by Western liberal democracy to Nazi Germany as the price of appeasement.
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