[fse-esf] Information - Conference on '56

[Simó Endre]

Information about the International Conference held in Budapest on 27th October 2007 by the title â01EThe values of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 helping the building up of a more just and more human social orderâ01D

 

   In 1956 the hungarian people did not turned the back only to the soviet model of  Socialism, but it has also rejected the return to the capitalism by affirming that â01EWe do not give back the nationalized enterprisesâ01D. The government of Imre Nagy did not denounce the Varsaw Pact with the aim of Hungary joined the NATO, but in order to follow an active policy of neutrality favouring the peaceful co-operation between the peoples â013 has been told at the international conference organized in Budapest on 27th October 2007 by the Hungarian Social Forum and the Foundation of Reform Circles near of the Hungarian Socialist Party (HSP). The aim of the conference was to outline a new social future in which Human and Social Rights could be implemented in Freedom and Democracy.

    At the conference held in the Institute of History of Policy of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Balázs Nagy, one of the dirigents of Petőfi Circle in 56, has told, that  â01E1956 wanted to establish a radically different society both from the distorted, false and lying World proposed by the prophets of the Stalinism and from the old capitalistic system nowadays celebrating his triumphant feastâ01D.

    In his presentation by the title â01EToward democratic Socialismâ01D, the researcher of the Swedish Center of Marxist Studies, Stefan Sjöberg has focused on the building up of a new Economical Democracy starting from the experiences of the Hungarian Workers Councils. He has given voice to his opinion, that â01EA crucial aspect that history has learnt us is that different kinds of  common ownership must be combined with democratic organizational structures, and these were exactly important elements in the demands posed by the freedom fighters in Budapest 1956 and Prague 1968â01D.   

   â01EImre Nagy (the 1956 Prime Minister executed in 1958) has defined the Workers Councils as the institutional safeguard of the Democratic State Power in opposition with the dictatorial regime of an antidemocratic cliqueâ01D â013 was saying the historian József Sipos, President of the Imre Nagy Association and one of the representatives of the HSP Social-political Sector, very critical with the official line of the HSP.

    The philosopher Gáspár Miklós Tamás (TGM) has called the system of the Workers Councils â01Ethe political form of the anticapitalistic workers movementâ01D.  He was adding, that â01Efuture generations will exhumate from common graves the heroes as the Worker Sándor Bali wasâ01D. 

    The most important value of 1956 is to have shown a different way toward a social future  without oppression, subjugation and exploitation â013 the Hungarian Social Forum organizer, Endre Simó was saying. â01EThe future society we want is a society with democratized ownership relations, recognising the diversity of property forms and their equality. In fact, the right to freedom cannot be violated only by denying the private property, but also by the hegemony of the private property over the social oneâ01D â013 Simó told.

    Publicist András Rózsa has emphesized the importance of the Nation States in the defense of the rights of freedom and he has proposed a realy acting civic organisation (TETT) at hungarian national level as weel as a network at european levels.

    Particular attention have been given at the conference to the immediate social steps having to be done: the correction of the social policy orientation in favour of the workers and the socially emarginated people, by the way of increased taxes on the capital incomes. An end has to be put to the situation in which one third of the hungarians are living in poorness, below the social minimum levels. Jobs should be assured to people in need, healthcare should be granted to them, education has to be granted to their children in order to assure the human development of the new generations. The demolishment of the welfare has to be stopped. The loosing of responsibility of the State with the Society has to be finished.

   The social transformation has to be followed with large democratic joining of forces, left has to free itself from the clog of the sectarism â013 during the conference was told.

   The Hungarian Catholic Church Iustitia et Pax Committee also was represented at the conference. Among the participants there were British people and Hungarians living in Voivodine, Transylvania and France.

30 October 2007                                     E.

    






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