On this day, 23 October 1956, a nationwide revolt in Hungary saw thousands of people organise themselves into workers’ councils and militias, demanding not a transition to capitalism but rather a socialism controlled by the working class itself.
Peter Fryer, a member of the British Communist Party and a journalist for the Party newspaper the Daily Worker wrote in his first dispatch: “After eleven years the incessant mistakes of the Communist leaders, the brutality of the State Security Police, the widespread bureaucracy and mismanagement, the bungling, the arbitrary methods and the lies have led to total collapse. This was no counter-revolution, organised by fascists and reactionaries. It was the upsurge of a whole people, in which rank-and-file Communists took part, against a police dictatorship dressed up as a Socialist society-a police dictatorship backed up by Soviet armed might. And I have no hesitation in placing the blame for these terrible events squarely on the shoulders of those who led the Hungarian Communist Party for eleven years… . They turned what could have been the outstanding example of people’s democracy in Europe into a grisly caricature of Socialism. They reared and trained a secret police which tortured all-Communists as well as non-Communists-who dared to open their mouths against injustices. It was a secret police which in these last few dreadful days turned its guns on the people whose defenders it was supposed to be.”
Fryer’s article went unpublished, and the rebellion was soon crushed by Russian tanks, leaving around 20,000 Hungarians and 3,500 Russians dead.
This is a history of the uprising: https://libcom.org/history/articles/hungary-56https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/2116444291874043/?type=3
“The Pinakes was a bibliographic work written by Callimachus (305–240 BC). It was a listing of the holdings in the great Library of Alexandria. It was probably the world’s first library catalogue, yea, even before the internet and Google, back when people read books and even scrolls. The collection at the Library of Alexandria contained nearly 500,000 scrolls grouped by subject matter and stored in bins. Each bin carried a label with painted tablets hung above the stored papyri. The tablets described the contents of the bin by title, author, etc. The tablets were called pinakes. (Modern Italian retains the hard Greek ‘k’ and the Greek pronunciation of PIN-a-kays. In English, the common plural is 'pinaces’, giving us the pronunciation of PIN-a-seas. That’s ok. If you’re not sure, just point. The singular was pinax. Ah, getting closer!
A pinax, in ancient Greece, was the general word for a small board that might be painted on and serve as a devotional or votive tablet. It could also be used to refer to a terracotta, marble or bronze tablet engraved with devotional figures from Greek mythology and deposited in a sanctuary or in a burial chamber.”
SOME OF THE CLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS RECOVERED BY THE FBI from HOG’S MAR-A-LAGO home and private club included highly sensitive intelligence regarding Iran and China. (OH IT GETS WORST…)
At least one of the documents seized by the FBI describes Iran’s missile program. Other documents described highly sensitive intelligence work aimed at China.
SO we do not know what the HOG had in the classified folders that were empty BUT we know THEY WERE ……..
People aiding US Intelligence efforts could be endangered and collection of methods could be compromised. In addition, other countries or US adversaries could retaliate against the United States for actions it has taken in secret.
“THE EXCEPTIONAL SENSITIVITY OF THESE DOCUMENTS, AND THE RECKLESS EXPOSURE OF INVALUABLE SOURCES AND METHODS OF US INTELLIGENCE CAPABILITIES CONCERNING TTHESE FOREIGN ADVERSARIES, WILL CERTAINLY INFLUENCE THE JUSTICE DEPT’S DETERMINATION OF WHETHER TO CHARGE MR. TRUMP HOG OR OTHERS WITH WILLFUL RETENTION OF NATIONAL DEFENSE INFORMATION UNDER THE ESPIONAGE ACT”
So folks…..PER HOG:
Let’s just hope the have the balls to charge this slimy fucker.
