 In the 1980s, Pučnik could again publish articles in Slovenia, this time in the alternative journal "Nova revija".In 1987, he co-authored the Contributions to the Slovenian National Program, published in the 57th issue of the Nova revija journal.The text was written as the response to the Memorandum of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts of 1986, and set the grounds for a political opposition to the communist regime.