Romania - Working Class Take Lesson From Teachers’ General Strike

Extracts

• “Romanian public supported the strike, with many blaming the strike on the handling of the government. International solidarity was forthcoming from education unions in other countries as well”
• “The lack of a political expression for the mounting discontent of the working class, which is ever piling up under the domestic and worldwide economic crises, coupled with example of large strike waves in Britain, and above all in France, have all served to push workers in Romania towards increasing militancy on the industrial front” #militancy #strikes #class-struggle #workers
• “granted the 25 percent pay rise to teaching staff, but not to the 80,000 auxiliary and non-teaching staff that accompanied them” #pay
• “forming new, radical, militant unions. But this would be a mistake, as it would separate the most radical layers of workers from the mass of the workers, just as the working class is beginning to move.” #mass-movements #protest-methods #organising
• “Instead, we must pose the need for a fighting leadership, and clear out all those bureaucratic elements that lack confidence in the power of the workers.” #bureaucracy #class-struggle