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To: <LABOR-L@YORKU.CA>
Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2000 4:11 PM
Subject: Roumania: Nazis threaten to take Power on Pseudo-anticapitalist Ticket
> Roumania: Nazis threaten to take Power on Pseudo-anticapitalist Ticket
>
> The Roumanian fascists have become powerful by courting workers and
> pretending to oppose the policies of the IMF. In reality their programme is
> dictatorship and death.
>
> The PRM (Greater Roumania Party) , which preaches violent hatred against the
> Jewish and Hungarian minorities, has called for putting Roma people into
> "concentration camps", and is committed to a "dictatorship of the law" , has
> come second in the first round of presidential elections and in legislative
> elections.
>
> From only 4.5% at the last elections in 1996, the fascists have increased
> their vote to a shocking 28.8%, according to figures published by AFP on 28
> November. There will now be a run-off for the presidency between fascist
> leader Tudor and former president Ion Iliescu on 10 December 2000.
>
> Those in the international labour movement who thought it was a good idea to
> support the trade union leader Miron Cosma, even after he became
> vice-president of the fascist PRM, rather than supporting opposition to him
> within the miners union, may now see their treachery paid off in the blood of
> Black people, Jews, Hungarians and other minorities, the destruction of the
> Roumanian trade unions, and the establishment of a political landmark for
> neo-nazis around the world.
>
> Lisa Taylor
> 30 November 2000
>
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