The Hungarian Workers’ Party will enter the race for European parliamentary elections next year, deputy chairman Attila Vajnai told MTI on Wednesday.
The party will seek co-operation with Marxist, humanist and green organisations standing to the left of the government, he said.
The Workers’ Party have for years lobbied against a ban on symbols of tyranny, including the red five-point star, but they will not use it in their campaign, Vajnai said.
At the 2006 elections in Hungary, the Workers’ Party received 556 votes and did not gain entry into parliament.
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Some idiots never know when there time is well and truly over !!
I love how this is tagged as “extremism.” Rather than confront any of the actual positions of the Munkaspart, there is this constant fixation on the red star which obfuscates any thoughtful discussion of the merits of a Left critique of the free-market policies that have gotten Hungary in so much trouble. Granted, the Munkaspart is in many ways a joke, but critique decidedly to the Left of MSZP needs to find a political expression in Hungarian politics.
As if the shock therapy, IMF/World Bank-sponsored austerity measures advanced by more “moderate” parties (even one cynically parading as “socialist”) haven’t been themselves quite “extreme.”
And as if a small dose of “marxist, humanist, and green” policies wouldn’t do Hungary some good. Its interesting that because of the lack of a truly leftist party, the right-of-center opposition parties have totally recuperated the language of anti-globalization movements into their rhetoric. These sorts of cynical attempts by closet free-marketeers playing at public anger at the ravaged welfare state should not be allowed to succeed.
“Some idiots never know when there time is well and truly over !!” — One’s spelling is usually at least partly indicative of intelligence. But you are quite right: as the intricacies of the global financial crisis shows, the writing is on the wall for the end of neoliberalism as we know it.
Janos
I usually say that people who try to pick faults with spelling or grammar are mere attention seekers with nothing to contribute,though in this case I will forgive you,as some of your comment made sense.
As for spelling,I am typing (not my best skill) fast on the internet,not writing my thesis !