#otd 23rd October 1956, an uprising in Hungary broke out. Twelve days of street fighting ended with the arrival of Soviet tanks, but the workers councils continued for two months. libcom.org/library/hungar…
Hungary '56 was the first outbreak of workers councils in the USSR. The official communist parties lined up behind the tanks, and their members left in droves. Peter Fryer, a correspondent for the Daily Worker, resigned so he could publish this account. libcom.org/library/hungar…
This outbreak of workers councils, without any communist party to lead them (because the Communist Party was the state and employer) profoundly influenced people like CLR James and Grace Lee Boggs, who wrote Facing Reality in response. libcom.org/library/facing…
Despite the reverberations that Hungary '56 had around the world, some American leftists still line up behind the tanks.
