Claim of responsibility for the attack on the Hungarian ambassador’s vehicle outside the Hungarian embassy
The trial of Maja T., a non-binary activist, begins in Budapest on March 6. It is a trial that takes place in the shadow of the
fascism-antifascism conflict in Hungary going on for over a century.
The waves of the Russian Revolution of 1917, which swept through almost all of Europe, manifested themselves in Hungary with the creation of the socialist council democracy that overthrew the bourgeois regime in 1919.
It took the intervention of foreign powers to suppress the revolution and hand over power to the reactionary General Horthy, who established an authoritarian regime. World War II found Hungary siding with the fascist axis powers.
The looming defeat of fascism led the Horthy regime to secret negotiations with the Western Allies. Germany anticipated this development by occupying Hungary in 1944 and establishing a purely Nazi regime of the Crossed Arrows party.
The Red Army’s lightning advance in January 1945 encircled Budapest, trapping thousands of German SS and Hungarian Crossed Arrows men. When they attempted to escape in February, they were surrounded and annihilated, in a Hungarian Meligalas 2 like incident.
The fall of “established socialism” allowed the reconstituted Nazis to claim the “Day of Honor”, on the anniversary of the mass extermination of German and Hungarian Nazis, with their presence on the streets and fascist fanfare.
At the 2023 Nazi fiesta, in a coordinated action that appears to be the work of a multinational anti-fascist strike force, many Nazis were attacked in various parts of Budapest, with nine of them being seriously injured and the far-right Orban government launching repressive operations against anti-fascists. An operation that reflects the blatantly anti-immigrant, misogynistic and homophobic policies of the Hungarian state.
Hungary is just one of the examples of modern states in a world that is constantly changing. It is not an exception, but a prefiguration of the direction in which global domination is heading. After the end of the short fairy tale of globalization, of the “global village” that would constitute a capital “that has no borders”, the world seems to be entering, through a series of successive crises, a new phase of restoring closed up national borders – fortresses, of hyper-intensive armaments, militarism, intolerance, racism. This process presupposes and favors the shift of the political spectrum ever more “to the right”.
Almost all of the major powers today are either ruled by authoritarian regimes or by governments suffocating under the weight of the rising far right, implementing neoliberal, racist, anti-immigration policies. The image of one of the most economically and politically powerful people in the world greeting the crowds with a Hitler salute horribly encapsulates an aspect of the current era.
But like every era, this one has more than one face. The global anti-fascist, anti-state, anti-capitalist resistances are still present. Authority does not act alone and is shielding up by their fear of the internal enemy. Our own action, as a contribution to the international mosaic of resistances, is also an internationalist signal of struggle towards all the forces of radical anti-fascism. The huge mobilizations for the state crime of Tempi, where all sorts of fascists either did not dare to appear or were beaten where they made the mistake of showing their faces, are another hopeful message that nothing is fated to happen, that history can be written by the world of struggle.
To these pages of history belong the anti-fascists from Germany, Italy, Albania, and Syria who were targeted by Orban’s far-right government and remain hostages in Germany, Italy, and France.
Maja T. was extradited from Germany in a fast-track procedure. In a preliminary hearing in a Hungarian court in February, it defended its anti-fascist campaign and non-binary identity.
On the morning of March 4, anti-fascists awaited the arrival of the Hungarian ambassador’s black Mercedes outside the Hungarian embassy, at the intersection of Vas. Konstantinou and Amyntas street. Our hammers that shattered the windows of the embassy vehicle send a message of solidarity to Maja T. and all persecuted anti-fascists.
FOR MILITARY ANTIFASCISM
FREEDOM TO MAJA T.
SOLIDARITY TO THE 2 ANTIFASCISTS WHO ARE PROSECUTED FOR THE ATTACKS ON THE OFFICES OF GOLDEN DAWN
HONOR FOREVER TO THE ANARCHIST ARMED REVOLUTIONARY KYRIAKOS XYMITIRIS
—–
https://athens.indymedia.org/post/1634443/
Translated by Act for freedom now1
Note: photo not associated with action.