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Women's Activism in Romania–An Overview

Maria Bucur — 2024-03-09T09:46:56Z

Romania, today the largest Balkan country, has undergone profound changes in gender norms and relations since its founding as a state in 1864. Until 1932 most women were second-class citizens, and suffrage for the entire female population came with the communist takeover after 1944.

- IV590 - March 2024 / Women, Romania

The Roma struggle from protests to political liberation

Sebijan Fejzula — 2022-08-09T07:42:00Z

“At the same time, we do not fight this battle alone, rather, alongside other racialized communities in the fight against racism, an institutional matter that involves collectively questioning specific power relations.”

- IV571 - August 2022 / Italy, Europe, Czech Republic, Anti-racism and Islamophobia, Racism and Islamophobia, Romania

First as tragedy, then as farce? AUR and the long shadow of fascism in Romania

Raul Carstocea — 2021-01-15T13:28:21Z

“Yet if the story of the defeat of fascism and of the central role played by socialism in its demise teaches us any lesson, it is that we surely have to keep trying.”

- IV552 - January 2021 / Far Right, Romania

Eastern Europe: revisiting the ambiguous revolutions of 1989

Catherine Samary — 2019-11-27T20:29:10Z

The year 1989 saw a profound upheaval in the geopolitical order established after the Second World War symbolised by the fall of the Berlin wall on 9 November 1989. This essay examines the effects, implications and context in Eastern Europe.

- IV538 - November 2019 / Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia, Eastern Europe, Ex-Yugoslavia, Romania

Strike at Electrolux in Romania: “The boss's strategy is to starve us!”

2019-04-01T14:27:42Z

Since 4 March, the 460 workers of the Swedish giant Electrolux's subsidiary in Satu Mare, in northwestern Romania, have been on strike. As working conditions deteriorate with unbearable rates of work or temperature variations of 30 degrees in the factory, the strikers are demanding a gross increase of 650 Lei (137 euros), or nearly 40% of their salary for many of them.

- News from around the world / Romania

Romania's protests - from social justice to class politics

Ovidiu Tichindeleanu — 2017-04-02T07:52:22Z

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” [1]. An undertow of the same interpretation looked at the protests as a democratic revival of the struggles against communist totalitarianism from 1989.

- IV507 - April 2017 / Romania

The Gypsies' Tortuous Journey

Philippe Alcoy — 2016-08-11T12:27:14Z

The New York Times reports that France has become one of the most hostile European countries for the Roma. In 2013, there were 19,000 forced removals of Roma people; 13,500 in 2014, and an average of 150 each week in 2015.

- IV499 - August 2016 / France, Hungary, Racism and Islamophobia, Romania

The Roma Business 160 years since the end of Roma slavery in Romania

LeftEast — 2016-04-09T07:49:27Z

On 20 February Romania celebrated 160 years since the official abolition of Roma slavery. In a typical Romanian way the event was, of course, surrounded by scandals and controversy. They are revealing insofar as they function as a symptom for the way Romanian society functions and for the very status of the Roma population.

- IV495 - April 2016 / Romania