Hungarian Witch-Hunt Is On Now


From The Hungarian Communist Workers Party

We, the undersigned parties note with deep concern that the Hungarian State Court is now threatening to imprison the entire leadership of the Hungarian Communist Workers’ Party for having committed “libel in a public place.”

Our conviction is that putting political leaders on trial and banning their parties is the work of dictatorships, not democracies. The action of the Hungarian authorities violates all democratic norms.

We strongly condemn the political persecution directed by the judicial authorities against the HCWP, as a part of its anti-communist witch-hunt against Communists in Europe and against all those who fight against mass the privatizations of all hospitals, schools and the cutting down of social expenditures and other forms of the present neo-liberal policy.

We call for international solidarity in defense of the legal and political rights of the HWCP.

We demand an immediate stop of this judicial process against the leaders of the Hungarian Communists!

The International Council and the Editorial Board of NSC has sent a letter of protest to the Hungarian Government in Budapest.

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