We note the recent proscription of the so-called ‘Antifa Ost’ at an international level by the Trump Administration and the increased repression taking place worldwide against the radical left, anarchist and anti-fascist movements.
The Hungarian government made antifascism officialy illegal through legislative means. Antifascist activists are under surveillance, demomstrations are banned. The new legislation makes room for limitless repression.
At the 14th of February, there is going to be an international nazi meeting in Budapest. Nazi rock festival, nazi grand meeting, nazi tour, with several thousands of attendees. The antifascist counter demonstration is banned. Several hundred policeman are going to protect the nazi events and in the meantime, hunt for antifascists.
We ask all antifascists, to protest the Hungarian fascist regime at the 14th of February! Show international solidarity before embassys, consulates or any other sorts of Hungarian state-sponsored facilities!
Down with Orbán’s fascist system!
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In September 2025, a Hungarian government decree declared “anti-fascist gathering together” (sic!) to be “terrorist organization.” This means that anti-fascist activity is now prohibited in Hungary. They are not persecuting a specific organization or taking action against specific acts, but rather ordering the persecution of anti-fascism itself.
For now, the decree has resulted in the police banning half a dozen anti-fascist demonstrations. (police.hu assembly decisions.) On January 15, the MEASZ (Hungarian Organization of Resistance Fighters and Anti-Fascists) and the FIR (Fédération Internationale des Résistants) were also banned from holding a Holocaust memorial event, at which a Holocaust survivor, among others, would have given a speech.
The justification refers to “public order,” which they claim is threatened by “supporters of the antifa ideology.” The message is clear: anyone who does not want fascist rule is a threat to public order.
In February 2023, several nazis, mainly foreigners who had come to Budapest for international nazi events, were attacked. The case against those suspected of the attacks was turned into a political trial aimed at criminalizing anti-fascism. A show trial is currently taking place in Budapest. The defendant, Maja T., has been held in solitary confinement for a year and a half and tortured with psychological methods. The presiding judge and the police consider the participation of Maja’s friends and relatives in the trial to be an aggravating circumstance.
Since December, solidarity demonstrations in front of the court have been banned, but fascists are free to demonstrate in the same place. This clearly shows who benefits from the anti-fascism decree: the fascists.
Neo-nazi organizations have been operating openly in hungary since the transition. Although some of their demonstrations are occasionally banned, they still hold dozens of public events every year. Street demonstrations, memorial tours, protests, nazi concerts, martial arts galas…
And accompanying this: there have already been several fatalities as a result of nazi attacks, and the number of people attacked and injured by nazis can be estimated at several hundred or even several thousand.
One of the police prohibitions cites as a negative example that the anti-fascist demonstration against the international nazi meetings in February became the largest event of its kind. The so-called “day of honour” nazi event has been held for almost three decades. It was banned several times in the past, which is why they started organizing a “memorial tour,” which has now become the “sortie tour,” attracting thousands of people. The tour pays tribute to nazi “heroes” and attracts a significant number of foreign participants. All hungarian nazi groups are represented on the tour. The international nazi demonstration in February has been officially banned since 2022, mainly because of the anti-fascist counter-demonstration, which has now been condemned by the police, but it always takes place. They hold a “press conference,” demonstrate at Normafa, stage a flash mob at Heroes’ Square, and in 2025, they organized a nazi rally at the headquarters of the World Federation of Hungarians.
The police is simply carrying out what the government expects of them.
What is the government’s goal? What could be the purpose of a decree banning anti-fascism? To support fascism. The authoritarian regime employs countless elements of fascism. In addition to dismantling the rule of law, suppressing political opposition, controlling the media, and bringing institutions into line, state propaganda also contains explicitly nazi elements. Inciting hatred—against refugees, opponents, and minorities—is the government’s main message. There are more than a few nazi sympathizers among those shaping memory politics. The official position denies the hungarian state’s role in the Holocaust. Poverty is ethnicized and treated as a “gypsy problem.” Social darwinism – “everyone is worth what they have” – is the social policy of fascism. Government officials and leading politicians openly pose with well-known nazis. They have built loyal nazi satellite parties.
The government’s anti-anti-fascism stems from the general political climate. This is how Orbán is trying to score points with trump and set an example for European governments. At the same time, the anti-anti-fascist, i.e., fascist decree also shows that his regime is becoming increasingly uninhibited, especially because he feels his power slipping away as the April elections approach.
In fact, it is irrelevant what motivates the regime. What matters is that the government is attacking anti-fascism and thus strengthening fascism.
“If you want to know what you would have done in the 1930s, during the nazi era, then look at what you are doing now.”
Anti-Fascists in Hungary