struggle must be ended, an amnesty announced and negotiations with delegates of the youth opened.

A government led by Imre Nagy that also includes representatives of the unions and the youth too must be established.

The economic situation of the country must be openly laid before the population.

People who have been wounded in the tragic struggles that have just happened must be given help, as must the families of the victims.

To uphold order, the police and the army must be strengthened by a National Guard, composed of workers and young people.

With the support of the unions, an organisation of young workers must be constructed.

The new regime must immediately enter into negotiations over the withdrawal of Russian troops from Hungarian territory.

Economic:

Construction of Workers’ Councils in all concerns, so that workers’ self-managementNagy, especially, stood for. The popularity and sympathy that Imre Nagy enjoyed with the population (in the aftermath, too) should not be confused with the autonomous demands of wage-workers in Hungary 1956. Even if hindsight says that the working class was just gradually and hesitatingly becoming aware of its class interests, and that their demands still displayed bourgeois or supposedly bourgeois characteristics, there were two parallel developments. One was that of the ruling Communist Party with both its Stalinist and reformist wings and the middle classes who supported this road, and, the other was the political and social coming into being of the working class, and it would be wrong to put them into the same box. For all their differences, Imre Nagy and Jan Kadar were agreed