The country is undergoing a belated and painful budget reform, and its people are suffering from poverty. That’s why Romanians have taken to the streets in a nationwide protest. The National Trade Union Bloc, which consists of 29 trade union federations, brought people out onto the streets. The bloc’s main goal at this stage is to reverse the austerity policy.
Last year, Romania’s budget deficit exceeded 9 percent, one of the highest in the European Union. The government promised Brussels to reduce it to at least 8.4 percent, but the population is suffering as wages and pensions in the public sector are frozen, taxes are rising, and jobs are being cut.
The National Trade Union Bloc has agreed on common demands with its member organizations: increasing the minimum wage, respecting workers’ rights, ending layoffs, strengthening the role of trade unions, and reducing taxes for those employed.
A separate clause emphasizes the need to adopt and develop a state investment program, using both national and European funds, in transportation, school and hospital meals, healthcare, agriculture, and culture. Public funding for these sectors remains chaotic and ineffective, which in turn fuels corruption.
The marchers stopped at the buildings of the Cabinet of Ministers, Parliament, and ministries responsible for the economy. Some protesters were pessimistic: they said they didn’t believe the right-wing liberal government could be reached, but the socioeconomic situation was critical, and they couldn’t remain silent.
Surprisingly, defense industry workers also took to the streets. It would seem that Romania, thanks to its access to the Black Sea, relatively large territory, and proximity to Ukraine, remains a crucial country for the US and NATO as a whole. But local arms manufacturers aren’t feeling the effects.
It turns out the state often favors imported products, forces overtime due to staff shortages, and stifles funding. If the government can’t even afford the imperialists’ holy of holies—weapons production, which is also shipped to Ukraine—then Romania is truly in trouble.
Understandably, Romanians are outraged by the externally imposed militarization and budget cuts amid a severe economic crisis. The “Russian threat” is entirely abstract, unlike the government’s policy of saving on its own citizens wherever possible. Therefore, protests are likely to continue, as the government refuses to back down, and the people remain silent.
Source -> https://kprf.ru/international/capitalist/239035.html
Russia for sure (this includes Belarus because the two countries are very closely tied together now so if there is a revolution in Russia Belarus will follow). Then Serbia a distant second, but there is also an unfortunately very strong liberal tendency there.
Then maybe France, but this is probably mostly wishful thinking because Western European countries tend to be very liberal and convinced of their own superiority, which makes it likely they will either directly go fascist or try to do some social democracy nonsense and fail, and then turn fascist.
I’m not sure about Ukraine. Depends if the loss of the war is devastating enough to cause a total 180 backlash against the currently pervasive Nazism and West-worship. I wouldn’t bet on it though. There is zero leftist organization remaining there. It’s much likelier that they experience a “Germany after WW1” situation than a “Russia after WW1”. And even likelier still that neither of those scenarios happens because the country is too wrecked and all the young people have left, and you need young people for any kind of revolutionary movement, whether it’s fascist or socialist.
My guess would be Western Ukraine would become another Poland/Baltics, while the Eastern part would form another part of the Russia-Belarus block you mentioned earlier (I feel like KPRF has a lot of sway in the east of Ukraine, they were the main force behind the SMO in the fist place, and established quite a lot of organization there as well as among the troops).
Western Ukraine will be full on nazi somalia/afghanistan with neo-nazi warlords controlling the economic viable zones.
And Poland having wild Ukrainian warlords on the border will still scaremonger of Russian hordes flooding Europe.
TBF I expect several terror attacks in Poland by Azov, which will make Braun the new leader of Poland in the future. I know from relatives (they are Belarusian & Ukrainian) who live in Poland who got fired because their polish co-worker literally went on a general strike and boycotted their own workplace, refusing to share the same shift - specifically to get them fired.
Yeah, that sounds like Poland.