Wed 18, July 2007 @ 12:27

Remembering 1956 - Revolutionary History Vol 9 No 3, a review (PR3)

1956 was a watershed in the history of the international left. Opening with Khrushchev’s secret speech and closing with the Hungarian revolution, the events of that year provoked a crisis which shook Stalinism to its foundations.

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Sun 22, October 2006 @ 20:19

Hungary: capitalism triumphs

Trotskyist International No. 23, January-June 1998

In 1989 the Hungarian Socialist Workers Party voted to dissolve itself and relinquish its monopoly of power. Eight years and two governments later many of the old Stalinist bureaucrats at that conference are at the helm of state as the country reintroduces capitalism. Keith Harvey maps out the country’s tortured journey back into the hands of imperialism

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Thu 05, October 2006 @ 18:00

The Hungarian Revolution 1956 - part 2

IN THE PERIOD from 23 October to the first announced withdrawal of Soviet troops the Hungarian working class had shown enormous strengths and a capacity for revol­utionary struggle. Its councils and militia controlled the major industrial centres. It’s fighting spirit and its efforts at fraternisation had undermined the morale of the Soviet troops. Yet the mobilis­ations of the Hungarian working class were not without their fatal weaknesses.

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Thu 05, October 2006 @ 17:58

The Hungarian Revolution 1956 - Part 1

IN OCTOBER and November of 1956 the workers and students of Hungary took up arms against two successive waves of Soviet military intervention. They toppled a hated Stalinist government. They created workers' and revolutionary councils that became the real power in every factory and mine and most localities. Only after at least 20,000 had been killed and after the aerial bombardment of its major proletarian strongholds was the Hungarian revolution eventually drowned in blood.

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