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The article studies the birth and backdrop of an important teachers’ movement born in Hungary in 2016, in a relatively late reaction to the implementation from 2010 onwards of a new political system. Under an increasingly authoritarian regime, the educational field was subjected to rapid and badly prepared reforms, hand and hand with a radical recentralisation of the administration of education along with measures which called into question teachers’ autonomy. Despite intimidation, the new movement resulted in the largest strike by teachers in decades and the creation of a forum for coordination which designed, with the help of experts, an alternative educational policy project. The participants of this coordination wished to enter into dialogue with the Ministry but their efforts fell on deaf ears. If the government preferred to accuse these organisations as being bankrolled by the Hungarian multibillionaire György Soros, considered to be public enemy N° 1, the teachers attempted to resist the new required practices, for example, a single set of textbooks. The pedagogical field, characterised since the collapse of communism by the plurality of players and stances, may once again become a monolithic sphere…