Labor Party (Romania)

Labor Party Partidul Muncei
Leader	George Diamandy Nicolae L. Lupu
Founded	April 27/May 1, 1917
Dissolved	1921
Split from	National Liberal Party
Merged into	People's League Peasants' Party
Headquarters	Iași, Kingdom of Romania
Newspaper	Tribuna
Ideology	Reformism Agrarian socialism Poporanism Republicanism (minority)
Political position	Left-wing
Colours	Red

The Labor Party (Romanian: Partidul Muncei, modernized Partidul Muncii, PM) was a minor left-wing political group in Romania. Based in the city of Iași, and founded by George Diamandy, in its inception it was a split from the National Liberal Party (PNL). The PM responded to the major social and political crisis sparked by World War I, with the southern regions of Romania having been invaded and occupied by Germany. It notably pushed for urgent land reform, universal suffrage, and labor rights, also wishing to replace the 1866 Constitution with a more democratic one, and advocating class collaboration. Through Diamandy, its roots were planted in the "generous youth" current of 19th-century reformism.

Co-chaired by Nicolae L. Lupu, the PM grouped together disgruntled members of the PNL, old affiliates of homegrown Poporanism, and left-agarianists with republican leanings, inspired by the success of Russian Revolutionary Socialists (or "Esers"). It was perceived as a nuisance by the institutions of the Romanian Kingdom, but largely dismissed as shambolic, and reportedly criticized as "bourgeois" by Russian radicals. Pushed into obscurity by the events of the war, which drove its leaders into exile, the PM divided itself into factions, one of which continued to survive as a separate wing of the anti-PNL People's League. Lupu and his supporters were among those who established the Peasants' Party.

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