Hungarian Labor Party

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Magyar Munkáspárt
Hungarian Workers' Party
Gennady Zyuganov
Party leader Gyula Thürmer
Emergence Hungarian Socialist Workers Party October 31, 1956
founding December 17, 1989
Place of foundation Budapest
Headquarters Munkácsy Mihály u. 51 / a
1046 Budapest
Youth organization Baloldali front
newspaper A Szabadság
Alignment Communism
Marxism-Leninism
Colours) red
Országgyűlés
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Counties
0/419
International connections Initiative of communist and workers 'parties in Europe
International meeting of communist and workers' parties
Website munkaspart.hu

The Hungarian Workers' Party ( Hungarian Magyar Munkáspárt ) is a Hungarian communist political party . Founded in 1989 as the successor to the Hungarian Socialist Workers Party under the same name, the party was last called the Hungarian Communist Workers Party until 2013 . The party chairman is Gyula Thürmer .

History and naming

The party emerged on December 17, 1989, from parts of the old Unity Party of János Kádár - the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party - unwilling to reform , whose name it took over, while the majority of the party was transformed into the social democratically oriented Hungarian Socialist Party .

From 1993 to 2005 it was called the Workers' Party ( Munkáspárt ). A major split occurred in 1993 when hardliners formed a new party under the old name of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party .

In November 2005, the Labor Party gave itself its current name, the Hungarian Communist Labor Party , after a wing of the Hungarian Labor Party split off in 2006 under the leadership of János Fratanolo.

The party has so far never won seats in the Hungarian parliament . At the municipal level, the party provided a mayor, two deputy mayors and five municipal representatives (as of 2009).

The party resigned on May 1, 2009 from the EU party European Left , of which it was a founding member.

On May 11, 2013, the party had to remove the designation as communist from its name, as a law made public use of names associated with "the authoritarian regimes of the 20th century" a criminal offense. This also includes terms such as liberation , Marxism , socialism or communism . The party has had its current name since then.

The party publishes the weekly newspaper A Szabadság (German Die Freiheit ).

Election results

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Communism in Hungary today, Budapest Newspaper, January 14, 2008, accessed on January 5, 2012
  2. ^ Full text: Resolution of the Central Committee of the Hungarian Communist Workers Party. In: RedGlobe. April 28, 2009. Retrieved May 10, 2009 .
  3. Hungarian CWP, New name of the Hungarian CWP. In: solidnet.org. May 14, 2013, archived from the original on September 24, 2015 ; accessed on December 3, 2013 .

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