Romania

Romania: Workers strike at Dacia-Renault

10,000 workers have walked out of the Dacia-Renault car plant for improved wages.

The indefinite strike was launched on Monday in protest at the low level of wages at the plant, which is situated some 68 miles northwest of Bucharest.

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24 Mar 2008 by Alex...

Stetner, David, 1914-2002

David Stetner in 1957

A short biography of Romanian-Jewish anarchist and French resident David Stetner, who founded Yiddish anarchist journal Der Freie Gedank.

Born in 1914 in Budapest, David Stetner passed the great part of his adolescence in the Bukovina. His family was unstable but relatively cultured. His mother was a great fan of German literature. He became interested in anarchist ideas at the age of 17 and started attending secret meetings held in the woods outside the town of Czernovitz.

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4 Jan 2007 by Steven.

Romania after the transition - restructuring and struggle, 2004

Energy workers strike, Romania 2007

Article looking at capitalist restructuring and economic changes in Romania, and the growing militancy of the working class.

Romania after the Transition
Promised Land and Class Struggle

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24 Nov 2006 by Steven.

Strike at Michelin in Zalau, Romania, 2005

Romanian Michelin HQ

Summary of an article about a strike for a 30% wage hike at Michelin in the Romanian newspaper Evenimentul Zilei, February 2005. The English is a little ropey but it is interesting nonetheless.

Thirty per cent more wage! Michelin Workers in Romania on Strike

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24 Nov 2006 by Steven.

Interview with an electronics worker in Romania, 2005

Romanian Selectron plant

Summary of a chat with a young guy who works for Solectron electronics in Timisoara, Romania, Summer 2004

About the international free trade zones in Romania
There used to be six free trade zones in Romania, where foreign investors were supposed to invest in low tax paradises. Today only one zone remains
http://freezone.arad.ro.

About Solectron

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24 Nov 2006 by Steven.
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