The paper analyzes establishing of the weekly newspaper „Tribuna“ (The Tribune), which had been edited by „Czech bureau of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia“ since the beginning of 1969. In the intricate social and political situation between the Warsaw Pact occupation (August 1968) and inception of so called „Normalization“ régime (April 1969) the newspaper had played the role of the sole official platform of the anti-reformatory fraction within the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia.