The police of Barcelona attempted to carry out evictions in the neighborhood of Raval and were met by hundreds of protesters who rioted and successfully pushed out the police from the area. The police were forced to flee from an angry mob of hundreds of civilians, who would successfully have trapped them in a corner otherwise.
Thousands of protesters in Athens returned to the streets to demand the repealing of a law passed by the Ministry of Education which would allow police to re-enter universities for the first extended period following the student uprising and subsequent fall of the military dictatorship in Greece after 1974.
Hundreds of protesters gathered in Montevideo gathered to demand increased funding for public education for better working conditions and salaries for professors. The demonstration came as the ruling liberal National Party made budget cuts to education, as part of a wider neoliberal campaign to privatize elements of the public sector.
Hundreds in Athens marched to demand the end to the overfunding of police, to whom the government has been giving money instead of the long-overwhelmed healthcare system which is nearly at full capacity of ICU beds.
Thousands of protesters took to the streets across the Netherlands against a curfew set for 9:00 P.M., many a mix of migrants & poor people as well as adherents to QAnon-style conspiracy theories that believe that COVID-19 is a deep-state conspiracy. Police lost control of several cities, including Eindhoven, the Hague, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, and many others.
