there are different initiatives, and websites, for organizing the Romanian Social Forum. at present there exists no public information on the internet about the so-called forum organized in Bucharest. on the website  http://www.forumulsocialroman.ro, you can read the open letter by Peter Damo, on behalf of the Romanian Social Forum Organizing Committee, against the mascarade in Bucharest:

>> ABOUT THE MASQUERADE SELF-ENTITLED ‘ROMANIAN SOCIAL FORUM’ ORGANIZED BY CRSG

The Romanian Social Forum Coordinating Committee have information according to which another so-called ‘Romanian Social Forum’, which is non-existent in the ESF process, is about to be hosted between 5th and 7th of May at Hotel Caro in Bucharest.

This time, the ‘organizers’ unmask themselves openly revealing the intention of the neo-liberal structures of power to pose as RSF organizers and steal the RSF. The location – a three star hotel, property of the much controversial businessman and Trade Union leader Liviu Luca, and a well-known luxury meeting place of oligarchic bosses and VIPs (see www.carohotel.ro) – is a first indicator of the total incompatibility with the WSF and ESF spirit and principles.

The ‘RSF organizers’ are high officials of the neo-liberal political and governmental structures that operate through an undercover NGO called Romanian Center of Global Studies – CRSG. The very name, the declared objectives of this structure, and particularly the founding members, the members, and their contacts constitute the main element of incompatibility and ‘absurdity’ of the ‘social’ event devised. Amongst the important members of this foundation are the following:

- Daniel Daianu – former Minister of Finance, World Bank associate employee, National Liberal Party VIP, Honorary President of the CRSG;
- Teodor Melescanu – former Minister of Foreign Affairs, presently National Liberal Party VIP, member of the Honorary Council of the CRSG;
- Ambassador Sergiu Celac – former Minister of Foreign Affairs, and formerly personal interpreter of Dictator Ceausescu (!), member of the Honorary Council of the CRSG;
- Andrzej Karkoszka – Political Counselor of the Director of the DCAF, Deputy Minister of Defense of Poland;
- Elena Zamfirescu – former State Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs;
- Oana Popa – Counselor at the Romanian Embassy in Croatia, former Director of the Fulbright Commission in Bucharest;
- Dorina Nastase – former official attaché at the NATO Headquarters in Brussels in the mid 90s, niece of Ambassador Sergiu Celac, and main hidden organizer of the event having the back up of the Foreign Secret Service (SIE);
- State Secretaries, Ambassadors and counselors;

For more appalling details one can visit www.crsg.ro , where anyone having a minimum culture and education would realize that this foundation has absolutely nothing to do with the social field, being nothing more than a self-entitled elite structure with political velleity. The contacts the CRSG have with military structures such as the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London are totally against the spirit of the WSF and ESF, once more proving the lack of compatibility between the CRSG and the field of Social Fora – as the latter are peaceful structures. The line of these political organizers of this third parallel RSF having its base in Bucharest goes beyond infatuated ignorance, being in fact a strategy of action in force typical of the Mutant Capitalism. By this they attempt to create artificial social partners ‘from above’ and a faked dialogue with them.

It is easy to explain the presence amongst the ‘organizers’ of some former ministers and big guns knowing that the Romanian Government have recently been criticized by EU Reporters for not having a real dialogue with real social actors. This is the reason why the political authorities are desperately seeking to fulfil these requirements in order to avoid the amending of the undergoing EU joining process. Most regretfully they are proceeding upside down attempting to falsely create such social partners – just like they used to do in the eve of the working visits of Dictator Ceausescu when artificial flowers and pines were planted, and scourged grass was painted green only to comply with the directives and to show an idyllic non-existent reality.

The fatal mistake these neo-liberal oligarchic elements are making is that they do not take into account that such social partners already exist. The presence of Ambassadors and officials belonging to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in this operation leads us inevitably to the hypothesis of a possible implication of the Foreign Secret Service (SIE) in the creation of a masked ‘Romanian Social Forum’. These is necessary for the Secret Services and for the Mutant Capitalist structures in order to hold a gripping control over the Romanian Social Forum and its contacts with the ESF enlargement towards East. This is also another prove that the Ceausist-political police mentality has not disappeared.

These structures have never been implied in the Romanian Social Forum process, or in the European Social Forum. The mere fact that they invited some Trade Union leaders, who fell into the trap of the myth of the ‘big names’ and into the trap of their own lack of information, will not give them the credibility they expect. On the contrary, the idyllic scene in which the political and government structures sit at the same table with Trade Unions leaders setting up a so-called ‘Romanian Social Forum’ – that already exists for long ago, it is active and recognized as such in the frame of the ESF – is in fact the image of a nightmare-like incompatibility next to the absurd. Such an image may just put into an extremely unfavourable limelight the Trade Unions – as defenders of workers rights – as well as the national interest regarding the European integration.

The RSF Coordinating Committee appreciates that the previous attempts of expropriation of the RSF conducted by the nostalgic Ceausist group of Cretu Constantin and by the non-existent group ‘ATTAC Romania’ can not be viewed separately from the emergence of the masquerade at the luxury Caro Hotel in Bucharest. The fact that the individuals in the capital who posed as ‘organizers’ of the previous ‘RSF’s have taken no position whatsoever regarding the emergence of the third ‘RSF’ in Bucharest (an attitude which is completely unusual in comparison with the aggressive attacks they used to perform against the real existing RSF) is the final proof that they have been but the puppets maneuvered (directly or in blind style) by the neo-liberal masters and by the Secret Services who now gave them the order to back off. The distructive role of the first actors having ended in a pathetic failure, their masters themselves enter the stage in despair, unmasking themselves. (see www.crsg.ro)

The Romanian Social Forum Coordinating Committee firmly rejects this diversion set up by the foremost neo-liberal Mutant Capitalist high officials and backed up by the Secret Services as a most anti-social, anti-democratic and dangerous assault on the social movements in Romania. We shall resolutely continue the development of the real Romanian Social Forum according to the WSF Charter of Principles, according to the ESF spirit and within its frame, and according to the RSF Charter.