Greek vegan anarchists in Athens gathered on New Year’s Eve to protest against speciesism and brutality on animals, by the form of mass confinement and murder for meat and other products. Demonstrators marched to Kato Patisia and Agios Nikolaos, dropping leaflets and shouting slogans in front of butchers and fishmongers. Before dispersing, a banner was dropped in the Cyprus park of Patision, after which the march ended.
Hundreds of protesters took to the streets of Sudan after the removal of government subsidies for fuel and petrol, which would raise the prices for consumers by more than 200%. Demonstrators set tires on fire and set up roadblocks across the country, demanding a reversing of the repeal.
Leftists in Bern dropped a banner at the Greek Embassy in Switzerland in solidarity with Dimitris Koufontinas, a former member of the November 17 revolutionary group who entered a hunger strike on the 8th of January to demand his transfer to the Korydallos prison in Athens which would give better medical treatment of his conditions and the ability to see visitors.
Hundreds of protesters in Ahvaz, an Arab city in Iran, took to the streets in the midst of a water shortage in Khuzestan province. Police killed at least 4 demonstrators but were chased off by the large crowd.
Anarchists gathered at the NATO facility in Thessaloniki to protest in solidarity with the hunger strike of Dimitris Koufontinas, a former member of the 17N revolutionary group; he demands a transfer to the Korydallos prison in Athens where he would receive access to quality medical care and the ability to see visitors.
