1988. december (307-326. szám) / HU_BFL_XIV_47_2
í <<CH<9NMUAN 91 11 7^ ®|MÍ Editor: György Krassó » 24/D Little Russell Street * London, WC1A 2HN * Tel. 01-430 2126 (írom abroad 441-430 2126) 321/1988 (E) 21st December, 1988 Social Democrats Youth Circle is Formed The Secretary of State Rezső Nyers, who récéntly said in a lecture in the Kossuth Club that he had been taken intő the United Party leadership as a sort of "tokén social democrat", made an interesting statement on the Hungárián Television pro- gramme "The Week" on December 18th. He said that "many of the traditions of the Social Democrat Party had been lost after the unión (of parties) such as an in- clination to debate which is in the spirit of political pluralism and a genuine economic and foreign policy." The party, he added, must be United and must en- deavour to synthesise communist and social democrat traditions. However nőt everyone believes in the transformation of the Hungárián Socialist Workers Party. A fev old social democrats, Dr András Révész, Tibor Baranyai, Sándor Bácskai and Imre Takács, formed a temporary executive committee on November 28th and issued an announeement in which they refuse to acknovledge the unión of the two parties which they say "was violent and contradicted the administrative rules of the party". They intend to re-form the Social Democrat Party which was founded 98 years ago, bút they operate as a movement until the law of association is passed. Of all the groups which call themselves social democrats the most significant is the Social Democrats Youth Circle which was established on November 30th in the Tech- nical University. Their founding declaration is as followss "The aim of the initiative is to establish independent youth forums which rally all those who see contemporary European social democrat altematives which success- fully amalgamate liberal and socialist principles as the means to emerge from the present socio-economic crisis. Accordingly the Circle strives to define and establish a foreign policy programme, the basic principles of which are freedom, truth, solidarity, peace and the defense of the environment. Social democracy primarily means parliamentary democracy, party pluralism and the creation of a constitutional state and a welfare state in the European sense. All this infers the establishment of a markét economy, a radical reform of ownership rights and the liquidation of bureaucratic restrictions on the economy. Our aim is to form a Scandinavian-type solidary society. The Circle will try to create a Hungary in which there is political pluralism, where forms of property are equal and only efficiency decides which becomes dominant, in which the national self-esteem and Europeanness of the citizens assumes an organic form and in which the natioi* state looks after the interests of those Hungarians living outside its borders, taking steps to reduce divisiveness in Europe and to maintain Europesin peace. In order to promote its objectives the Circle will found local, expert and problem orientated groups and will organise intellectual and political debates and forums and will issue publications. The Circle wants to take on a social and political role so as to establish co-operation between segregating social stratas, worker and peasant youth, students and intellectuals. It struggles to create legal equality and equal opportunity, it speaks fór those who have been pushed to the fringes of society. The Circle wants to co-operate with the independent Hungárián youth organisations." The organisers include the economist Mihály Gulyás, the histórián Miklós Heiszler, Iván Csaba a university student in the Young Democrats Alliance’s economic group and several members of the YDA’s workers group. Subscribers can use or quote the Hungárián October newsletters in totál or in detail as long as the source is acknowledged.
