Bucharest – The Barricade

Protests, strikes, and occupations in Romania — Is this a major change already?

Boyan Stanislavski
Labour
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Too early to say definitely, but one thing is absolutely certain: The class balance of forces in Romanian society have shifted. The last three decades were a time of a brutal ideological offensive of neoliberalism...

Romanian government threatens unions after protest in the Bucharest metro

Vladimir Mitev
Interviews
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Romanian Prime Minister Florin Cîţu is seeking to sanction protesters who blocked the Bucharest metro on Friday, an action Cîţu described as "illegal". The Prime Minister said he would be looking for the culprits to...

Over 100 people protested before the Polish embassy in Bucharest

Maria Cernat
Gender issues
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More than 100 people, most of them Poles, protested before the embassy of their country in Bucharest on Friday evening, 30 October. At that time, Warsaw saw more than 100,000 people demonstrating against the Constitutional...

“We are the Apocalypse, we are the end of Patriarchy”

The Barricade
Gender issues
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On 8th March 2020 there was a feminist protest (Feminist Liturgy) next to the People's Salvation Cathedral in Bucharest, which is a major initiative and investment of the Romanian orthodox church and is yet to...