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Mouvement Communiste’s analysis of the Hungary ’56 workers’ uprising. Stresses the importance of the collective actions taken by workers at the point of production and critically examines the demands and programmes that they put forward.
Worry Forms Over Important Dunaferr Steelworks
Worrying developments are gathering over Dunaújváros’ Dunaferr steel works, the most important employer and economic player of the city and surrounding areas. After production had slowed down, ISD Dunaferr Ltd. delayed employee salaries and terminated the collective agreement. In the latest turn, trade union leaders have been fired and barred from the premises.
The steelworks, in operation since 1954 (first as Stalin Steelworks), currently employs around 4,500 people. Before the factory construction during the communist era, Dunapentele was only a small village by the Danube that was later renamed Stalin City, then Dunaújváros. The city and its surroundings largely hinge on the steelworks, as estimations put the total number of those depending (sub-contractors, employees’ families, etc.) on the factory one way or another, to around 25,000.