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120/1987 (E) 23rd Octobér,1987

The INCONNU Group’s Declaration on the Anniversarv of the Revolution

Members of the Budapest independent art group INCONNU, three of whom are now in London, issued the folloving declaration on October 23rd 1987. The text was read out simultaneously at 6 pm in Budapest in Tibor Philipp’s fiat and in London at the Torriano Meeting House where the commemorations took piacé.

The declaration is as follows:

DECLARATION

(1) The crisis vilieh is affecting all spheres of life and all stratas of Hungárián society can only on the basis of the intellectual inheritance of the 56 revol- ution be solved. A social contract can exist only if it is based on an independent pariiamentary democratic programme. The ruling group which came to power with the aid of Soviet tanks in 1956 opposes political reforms even today; its measures only aim to maintain it9 power.

The party is the reason fór the social crisis. The so-called development programme is created by the same people uho caused the present crisis. Signs of collap se affect the leadership who try, with parliament, to create a centre of power whose control is monopolised. It emphasises the slogan "Glasnost" bút pursues a policy which extends and drags out the crisis. Hungárián society is compelled to be led and plunged intő a national tragedy against its uill.

If we wish to find a solution we must begin with experiences of the 56 revol- ution.

(2) In 1956 the intellectuals rebelled and this enabled the victory of the revolutionary peoples movement which had until then been suppressed.

Today we once again witness the rebellion of intellectuals, bút social initia- tives from below have nőt succeeded in being suppressed during the subsequent three decades of oppression. There are different groups and trends today which offer an alternative programme and which oppose official politics bút they are characterised by their disintergration rather than their collaboration. The opp- osition is in crisis too.

Until now a different way of thinking did nőt produce a different way of acting. The opposition groups observe certain political rules in the creation of which they did nőt work together and which go against their declared ideas. The movement is chiefly an intellectual one and thus works ona theoretical level rather than a practical one. The success of literature in the pást is now over; sam- izdat cannot keep pace with the speed of events.

Opposition groups rely mainly on the pudlishing of books and magazines and are thus vulnerable. A picture of a sort of "invisible" centre of opposition emerged around the samizdat publishers. The appearance of such a phantom movement can be a suitable means fór political and economic manipulations in the hands of the leadership.