Hungary: masses express hatred for Orbán, but does Magyar have the answers they seek? In 2022, Viktor Orbán’s Fidesz party was re-elected for the fourth time in a row, with the highest vote share won by any Hungarian party since 1989. At the time, Orbán remarked that “we won a victory so big that you can see it from the moon, and you can certainly see it from Brussels”. Four years later, and after 16 years in government, Fidesz has been ousted from power, shedding 80 seats since the previous election.
The Marxist press is back in Hungary with the first issue of ‘Fáklya’ (Torch)! In recent decades, there has rarely been a printed Marxist paper in Hungary. This is why it is a tremendous achievement that supporters of the IMT could present the first issue of their newspaper, Fáklya, in early November, to a packed room in Budapest.
Landmark meeting of the International Marxist Tendency in Hungary Thursday 1 June saw the first public meeting of the Hungarian group of the IMT, Fáklya (Torch) at the Gólya Co-operative Centre in Budapest with 30 in attendance. This is an important breakthrough for the forces of Marxism in Hungary, the first of many to come.
