Second 'We don't talk to Communists' protest concert to be staged on Sunday

About a dozen Czech rock bands will play for a benefit concert this Sunday for the "We don't talk to Communists" group which is calling for the Communist party to be declared illegal. Writer and former dissident Petr Placak, one of the event's organisers, told journalists on Tuesday that in addition to the concerts, several avant-garde theatre groups would also stage productions. The event will take place in an abandoned former factory in Prague's Karlin district, close to the city centre. A "We don't talk to communists" concert was first performed last year, on November 17, the anniversary of the brutal intervention by communist police against a peaceful students' demonstration in Prague in 1989, which led to the so-called Velvet Revolution.