The Hungarian Student, 1957 (1. évfolyam, 2-8. szám)

1957 / 7. szám

The Hungarian Student 9 Hungarian Youth's Sixteen Demands Resolved at the Meeting of the Students of the University of Technology, Budapest, October 22, 1956 1. We demand the immediate with­drawal of all Soviet troops from Hun­gary, in accordance with the peace treaty. 2. We demand new secret elections of the leaders of the MDP (Hun­garian Workers' Party) on both the local, the intermediate, and the central levels, proceeding from the local levels upward ; those elected snail urgently convoke a congress of the Party and shall elect a new Cen­tral Committee. 3. The government shall be reor­ganized under the leadership of com­rade Imre Nagy; all the guilty lead­ers of the Stalin-Rakosi era shall forthwith be dismissed. 4. We demand public trial of the case of Mihály Farkas and his as­sociates. Mátyás Rákosi, who is pri­marily responsible for all the crimes of the recent past and for ruining the country, shall be brought home and tried before the court of the peo­ple. 5. We demand general, equal, and secret elections to be held through­out the country, with the participa­tion of several parties, for the pur­pose of electing a new National As­sembly. We demand that the right of the workers to strike be safeguard­ed. 6. We demand that Hungarian- Soviet and Hungarian-Yugoslav po­litical, economic, and intellectual re­lations be re-examined and regulated anew on the basis of full political and and economic equality and non-inter­ference in each other’s internal af­fairs. 7. We demand the reorganization of the entire economic life of Hun­gary. Our economic system—based on a planned economy—shall be reexam­ined by our experts, keeping in mind the resources of the country and the vital interests of the Hungarian peo­ple. 8. Our foreign trade agreements and the actual data on the never­­completed reparations payments shall be published. We demand open and truthful information on the uranium supplies of the country, their exploi­tation, and the concessions given to the Russians. We demand that Hun­gary be enabled to sell uranium ore freely, at the prices of the world market, and for hard currency. 9. We demand the complete revi­sion of the norms applied in industry, as well as the immediate settlement of the wage demands of workers and intellectuals. We demand the fixing of a subsistence wage level for the workers. 10. We demand a reorganization of the system of deliveries on a new basis and the rational use of agri­cultural products. We demand the support of individually-working far­mers on the basis of equality. 11. We demand the re-examination of all former political and economic trials by an independent court of justice and the liberation and rehabi­litation of all those condemned un­justly. We demand the immediate re­patriation of all prisoners of war and civilians who have been carried off to the Soviet Union, including the prisoners sentenced outside the coun­try. 12. We demand full freedom of opinion, of speech, of press, and a free radio, as well as a new daily with wide circulation for the ME­­FESZ (Association of Hungarian University Students). We demand the publication and destruction of the existing cadre material. 13. We urgently demand that the symbol of Stalin’s tyranny and po­litical oppression, the statue of Stalin, be demolished. In its place, a befitting memorial shall be erected in honor of the heroes and martyrs of the 1848-49 fight for freedom. 14. We demand the restoration of the old Hungarian Kossuth coat-of­­arms in place of the present coat-of­­arms, which latter is entirely foreign to the Hungarian people. We demand new uniforms for the Hungarian army, befitting our national tradi­tions. We demand that March 15 be declared a national holiday and holi­day for workers, and that October 6 be declared a national day of re­membrance and school holiday. 15. The youth of the Technical Uni­versities of Budapest declares un­animously and with enthusiasm its solidarity with the workers and the youth of Poland and of Warsaw in connection with the Polish movement for independence. 16. The students of the Technical University of Architecture urgently establish the local organization of MEFESZ, and have resolved to call together a parliment of youth in Budapest for the 27th of this month, with the entire youth of the country participating by means of delega­tions.

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