Protesters commemorated the Beirut explosion that killed hundreds of people in the city and began the anti-government protests. Thousands of demonstrators took part in the march to the Port where the blast occurred, condemning the government for its failure to handle the explosion and its aftermath.
Dozens of workers from the Union of West Attica gathered outside of the Ministry of Labor in Athens, demanding more measures to protect the health of employees at the workplace, as well as more unemployment benefits for the jobless who cannot support themselves during the pandemic.
Dozens of protesters in the Bonilla neighborhood of Antofagasta burned barricades to demand the release of the political prisoners of Chile’s social uprising that began in 2019, also demanding the complete dissolution of the Carabinero national police force.
Protesters in Malmö, Sweden, dropped a banner in solidarity with Dimitris Koufontinas, a former member of the left-wing revolutionary group 17 November, who entered a hunger strike on the 8th of January to demand his transfer to the Korydallos prison in Athens, where he would receive adequate medical care and access to visitors.
Dozens of people gathered in Santiago to coordinate a protest for the release of political prisoners of the 18th of October Uprising, when a fascist identifying with the Popular Socialist Vanguard shot rubber bullets at the demonstrators along the Ahumada, injuring several. When the crowd began to attack him, police stepped in to defend the fascist, stopping the crowd from getting to him. The march then proceeded to the Forest Park in the center of the city and was met with extreme violence by the Carabineros who immediately deployed armored vehicles.
