Politician tells truth shocker!
Magyar madness! It’ll never catch on… Short english language article about first night on hungarian indymedia. Good wikipedia coverage. Despite the inherent humour of people rioting against a politician telling the truth for possibly the first time in recorded history : "…we fucked up. Not a little, a lot. No European country has done something as boneheaded as we have. Evidently, we lied throughout the last year-and-a-half, two years. It was totally clear that what we are saying is not true." Gyurcsány Ferenc, Hungarian PM - the situation in Hungary remains volatile. Not a few commentators are accusing Ferenc of being the source of the leak in order to provoke a crisis that will allow him to crack down and impose neo-liberal "reforms". Despite the prevalence of nationalist and right wing elements in the streetplay, the game is about an attempt to impose an IMF agenda on Hungarians. Lest we forget this is what Milosevic was trying to do in 1990 when the resulting virtual collapse of the Serbian state (when the police sent to attack striking unpaid public workers themselves went on strike because they hadn’t been paid either) led into the nationalist turn and war. Watch this space, this could get messy.
