No, just got back. I never was an apologist or supporter of the soviet state. I don't equate the Internationale with that state. It is a fairly well circulated story that the Polish shipyard workers were singing the Internationale, when they burned down Party headquarters in the early days of Solidarnosc. This song and its poetic predecessor, have been adopted by many leftists, socialists, workers organizations, unions, syndicates, guilds all over the world...as an anthem that defines their troubles and goals...It doesn't belong to the stalinists or the trotskyists or the maoists or the fabians or the leninists or any one else that thinks they have any "formula", it belongs to working men an women that want to sing a song of hope, that by struggling together we can overcome whatever tyrant stands in our path. My message was meant to convey a new sense of vitality, in the labor movement. I hope that is the case in your work to organize educators, best wishes. Solidarity. PS. I don't know much about Czechoslovakia, but I do find it troubling that neighbor yugoslavia, once as close to being a shining example of what a "socialist" society could be, is now a war ravaged entanglement of pre-world war prejudices and hatred. My loyalty lies not with any economic system, but with building small "d" democracy, everywhere.