22 August 2018

Huge anti-government demos in Romania

A series of mass rallies in Bucharest and in other cities by Romanians - those living in the country and those returning from abroad - have taken place against widespread government corruption.

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8 February 2017

Romania: mass protests against corruption go on

Mass protests - which forced the ruling Social Democrats in Romania to drop their executive order decriminalising some official corruption - have continued

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8 January 2014

Unite all workers to end bosses' race to the bottom

Much of the right-wing media whipped up hostility and alarm in the run up to the 1 January end of restrictions on entry to Britain for people from Romania and Bulgaria

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22 February 2012

Romania: Protest movement topples the government

In the middle of January, several countrywide protests stopped Romanian president Basescu's draconian healthcare 'reform' from being enacted, writes Victor Cosmin, Romania.

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26 May 2010

Romania: Mass protests against EU/IMF deal

ON 19 May, tens of thousands of workers and pensioners demonstrated in Romania's capital, Bucharest, against the slaughter of wages, jobs and public services demanded by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and European Union, as a condition for further loans to the Romanian government, writes Per Olsson, Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna (CWI, Sweden).

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