February 2nd, 2012

Demonstration by “anti-fascists” greeted by counter protests as controversial theater director takes post in Budapest

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The Hungarian Federation of Resistance Fighters and Antifascists (MEASZ) held a demonstration on Wednesday in front of the Uj Szinhaz theatre building in Budapest, with about two hundred people attending.

The organisation protested the appointment of Gyorgy Dorner as the theatre’s new director as of February 1.

Police apprehended several radicals who disrupted the demonstration. Police officers lined up to create a barrier between demonstrators and radical counter-demonstrators, who numbered about one hundred. Andrassy Boulevard has been closed off to traffic near the Opera House.

Vilmos Hanti, the demonstration’s organiser, said “every democrat and anti-fascist must stick together to prevent the radical right swamping the country.”

Csaba Horvath, the leader of the Socialist group of Budapest’s municipal council, said it was in vain to hope for a long time that the city “would hear the message and turn back from the road to darkness”.

Hungarian conductor Adam Fischer appealed to lawmakers of the European People’s Party on Wednesday to draw attention to criticism over Dorner’s appointment. Fischer asked the conservative EPP lawmakers to “urge [Hungary's governing party] Fidesz to follow a zero tolerance policy towards the radical right.”

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    Glad to see so many folks these days taking interest in the arts.

  6. spectator says:
    February 4, 2012 at 9:24 pm

    I just keep wondering, just what exactly is the opposite of “anti fascists”?

    (In my reading “counter” of something supposed to be the opposite of it. Am I right? Thank you!)

    So, based of the above, can we establish the fact, that “fascists and antifascists” demonstrated there?

    Just to be exact, you know..

    Brave New World – as it called, isn’t it?