Hi,
I have a friend in Hungary who is interested in finding any Hungarian anarchist groups.
Does anyone know of any, or is involved in any?
Thanks
Dec 25 2005 20:47
Dec 28 2005 15:30
Not anarchist as such, but they seem to be in the right direction
Dec 29 2005 07:50
anarcom.lapja.hu - hungarian anarchist-communist group.
Dec 29 2005 09:10
Funny enough I'm just reading 'In the Name of the Working Class' by Sandor Kopacsi which is an insiders story of the '56 rising. I would certainly recommend it to others. He makes an assertion towards the end that hundreds of ordinary Soviet conscripts were executed after the campaign... they had seen too much and could not return to Russia armed with stories. I wonder if, since the fall of the Berlin Wall, these sort of details have been investigated... I presume they have but I've no idea where to look.
Dec 30 2005 05:20
i'd reccommend the above group. they're very good.
Jan 3 2006 01:31
Thanks for all of them, he's checked them out, and from what I can see is very impressed with them and the overall anarchist ideology.
Thanks anyway.
Jan 4 2006 15:06
Hey everyone, I'm the one who distortedviews was talking about. (I only had time to register now)
Divisive Cottonwood wrote:
Funny enough I'm just reading 'In the Name of the Working Class' by Sandor Kopacsi which is an insiders story of the '56 rising. I would certainly recommend it to others. He makes an assertion towards the end that hundreds of ordinary Soviet conscripts were executed after the campaign... they had seen too much and could not return to Russia armed with stories. I wonder if, since the fall of the Berlin Wall, these sort of details have been investigated... I presume they have but I've no idea where to look.
The official story of the revolution is entirely dominant here. They called it a counter-revolution in the stalinist era, and now it's presented as a revolution similar to 1989 (they explain the UN's indifference towards the event by saying that they were afraid of a nuclear war 
). They never say anything about the councils, nor the evidently proletarian actions during the revolution. To the people here there's only the 
and that equals stalinism.
There are basically no reliable sources either (in printing and in hungarian), I never heard of this guy you're talking about. The only truth-telling analysis I've seen is Bill Lomax' Hungary 1956, such books were printed in the 1989 period, and I have heard about a one-hour documentary, but I didn't see that either. So it's quite impossible to get any documents or any such from that time, because of the long time of reaction ever since.
Jan 5 2006 00:35
geza, welcome to the boards.
We have some material on Hungary '56 in the libcom library. http://libcom.org/library/hungary-1956
I'll look out for the Bill Lomax book you mentioned.
Jan 5 2006 12:05
What happened to the image page?
Jan 5 2006 20:54
BB wrote:
What happened to the image page?
er, it died during an upgrade. Will be back soon though!
Jan 6 2006 13:45
John. wrote:
BB wrote:
What happened to the image page?er, it died during an upgrade. Will be back soon though!
8)
Jan 6 2006 20:46
Well whaddya know - it's back, and bigger and better than ever before. Well about 30 pics anyway:
Jan 6 2006 21:51
Yeah, I'm starving
Jan 9 2006 09:05
Belated welcome to the boards, geza. I never met a Hungarian I didn't like, and I've met a few. 8)
(I also know some filthy words in Hungarian, but I don't know how to spell them. 
).
Jan 9 2006 10:40
John. wrote:
Well whaddya know - it's back, and bigger and better than ever before. Well about 30 pics anyway:
looking good, if you haven't yet, try the fullscreen slideshow. 8)
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Here are a couple of contacts on the Anarchist Yellow Pages site:
http://ayp.subvert.info/org.php?city=Budapest&state=&country=Hungary