From the 19 – 23 of May 2025 took place the international Online-Conference “Capitalist Transformations in Eastern and Central Europe” in the Romanian town of Cluj. On the first day there was a content section on the topic of anarchism in Eastern Europe. Participants from Romania, Poland, the Czech Republic and Germany gave short presentations on various thematic aspects. Ondřej Slačálek spoke about “Do different temporalities mean different experiences?” Adrian Tătăran demonstrated in his lecture “Transnational Anarchism and Anticapitalist Modernity: Jewish Anarchist Migration from Romania to the United States in the Early 20th Century” the need, especially in the anarchist movement, to think beyond national borders. In his lecture, he presented the life stories of anarchists from Romania. Many of them came from Jewish families and settled in Western Europe or the USA, where they often continued to work for anarchist beliefs and ideas and maintained contact with Romania.

Piotr Laskowski reported in “Both capitalisms equally oppress the working masses”. Polish-language anarchist journal Walka on the Soviet economy in the 1920s”on the clear-sighted anarchist magazine Walka from Poland. He highlighted the similarities between private and state capitalist systems, which had been highlighted in the newspaper, and recalled the Bolsheviks‘ suppression of the Kronstadt Uprising. Martin Veith reported on the anarchist and anarcho-syndicalist movement in Romania until shortly before the First World War. He examined the two different anarcho-syndicalist strategies and currents. While one operated within the social democratic-dominated trade union umbrella organization, the other attempted to build its own independent unions and structures.

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