Suzi Weissman

Supporters of the pro-European conservative TISZA party celebrate during the election night on the banks on the river Danube with the Parliament building in the background, in Budapest after the general election in Hungary, on April 12, 2026.(Ferenc Isza / AFP via Getty Images)

Boris Kagarlitsky on Hungary’s election: Right-wing populism’s dead end and the left’s window of opportunity

Boris Kagarlitsky argues that right-wing populists succeeded by absorbing the redistributive language of the left while abandoning any structural challenge to property relations.
Boris Kagarlitsky

Freedom for Boris Kagarlitsky! Solidarity is stronger than repression!

Suzi Weissman — Boris Kagarlitsky, the Marxist critic and thorn in the side of Putin’s regime, is now in their hands, and international solidarity is required.

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