Workers protests shake fragile Serbian govt

In the biggest labour action since Slobodan Milosevic’s overthrow three years ago, thousands of workers demonstrated in Belgrade today to demand the dismissal of Serbia’s pro-Western government that toppled the former president.

The protesters, led by a trade union that was close to Milosevic during his ruinous rule in the 1990s, also demanded early parliamentary elections and the stoppage of the government-organised privatisation of state-run enterprises.