Party Lines on Hungary 56

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Michael Pugliese wrote,

>     And what else to call a group that had the origins it did (what kinda
>  Trots would be "tankies" re: the Hungarian revolt in 1956. Sure
>  Dulles at the CIA and Ike egged on the Hungarians, but calling them
fascists
>  puhleeze.
>  That was the line of Herbert Aptheker. To have Marcy and Aptheker together
>  hmm!

    Not true. Vincent Copeland, who wrote the Global Class Struggle
Tendency's line on Hungary within the SWP, took care to repudiate the view
that the Hungarian uprising was fascist. He called it a bourgeois nationalist
revolt, with considerable proletarian support, and harshly criticized the
Hungarian CP for allowing it to fester into a full-blown restorationist
counter-revolution.
    After the GCS (Marcyite) tendency was expelled from (or left, depending
upon whose version you choose to rely) the SWP, Workers World Party and Youth
Against War and Fascism members jeered the SWP for attacking their position
on Hungary at the very time that the SWP was supporting the United Socialist
ticket in New York state, which had as its candidates Otto Nathan and Annette
T. Rubenstein, who did regard the Hungarian revolt as fascist.

Ken Lawrence