Hungary ’56

Ideology destroyed, the proletariat armed

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Fifth Estate # 296, January 29, 1979

photo shows armed insurgents burning Communist Party literature, Hungary, 1956
Thirteen years ago the Hungarian people, led by the Budapest working class, launched an attack on the ruling police state. In the process, the despotism of the state was briefly eliminated and councils of workers emerged, signaling a dramatic break with the old life and posed a genuine alternative for the future. This spark of revolution was crushed only by the intervention of Russian tanks and after weeks of heroic resistance. Those moments in 1956 exist not as memories of defeat, but as a beacon for what is possible.

DEATH TO THE STATE! DEATH TO ITS HANDMAIDENS OF CAPITALISM AND SOCIALISM. FOR A FUTURE OF FREEDOM!

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