#title Hungary ’56 #subtitle Ideology destroyed, the proletariat armed #author Fifth Estate Collective #SORTauthors Fifth Estate Collective; #date 1979 #source [[https://www.fifthestate.org/archive/296-january-29-1979/hungary-56]] #lang en #pubdate 2018-08-25 #notes Fifth Estate #296, January 29, 1979 [[2-j-fe-296-6-hungary56.jpg]] 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!