http://www.marxists.org/history/etol/newspape/isj/1977/no095/100points.htm

HISTORY LESSON CIRCA 1977.

CHARTER 77

FROM THE HISTORIC Friends of Vaclav Havel:

The One Hundred Points is one of the toughest statements yet from the popular opposition in Czechoslovakia. It was written by a member of the Plastic People Underground. The Plastic People are a Czech rock band who have consistently refused to toe the line of official culture and made enormous sacrifices to continue expressing their own views. In the face of official harassment their work has become increasingly social and political in content. It attracted renewed hostility from the authorities when it became clear that the Plastic People had around them a whole range of song writers, musicians and other supporters in the ‘Plastic People Underground.’ Some members of the band were jailed in July and September last year for continuing to sing and perform their music, poems and songs. They were Karel Havelka, Miroslav Skalicky, Frantisek Starek, Ivan Jirous, Vratislav Brabenec, and Pavel Zajicek. Each got sentences ranging from 4 to 18 months. As the February issue of International Socialism was going to press six more members of the Plastic People Underground were due to go on trial in Prague. They are Milan Hlavsa, Jaroslav Vozniak, Josef Janicek, Karel Soukup, Jaroslav Kukal and Jiri Kabes. Translation of the One Hundred Points is by Jan Desivy, © copyright Plastic People Defence Fund.