https://internationalviewpoint.org/ International Viewpoint, the monthly English-language magazine of the Fourth International, is a window to radical alternatives world-wide, carrying reports, analysis and debates from all corners of the globe. Correspondents in over 50 countries report on popular struggles, and the debates that are shaping the left of tomorrow. en SPIP - www.spip.net https://internationalviewpoint.org/local/cache-vignettes/L144xH25/siteon0-da713.png?1745245334 https://internationalviewpoint.org/ 25 144 https://internationalviewpoint.org/Romania-s-protests-from-social-justice-to-class-politics https://internationalviewpoint.org/Romania-s-protests-from-social-justice-to-class-politics 2017-04-02T07:52:22Z text/html en Ovidiu Tichindeleanu Romania <p>Romania was swept at the beginning of February 2017 with the “largest protests since the fall of communism”. The protests were widely covered in the Western press, which generally took the liberal line that the protests represented the Romanian people's struggle for “democracy” against the widespread “local corruption”, prompted by the scandalous attempt of the current government to “decriminalize corruption”<span class="spip_note_ref"> [<a href="#nb1" class="spip_note" rel="appendix" title="See: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-r..., or: http://time.com/4660860/romania" id="nh1">1</a>]</span>. An undertow of the same interpretation looked at the protests as a democratic revival of the struggles against communist totalitarianism from 1989.</p> - <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/-IV507-April-2017-" rel="directory">IV507 - April 2017</a> / <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/+-Romania-+" rel="tag">Romania</a>