Thousands of protesters in Nantes marched against a reformation of the unemployment insurance system, recent mass layoffs in both the public and private sector, as well as job insecurity in France. Several trade unions called for the day of the demonstration, as well as many smaller organizations and groups.
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Thousands of protesters in Paris marched against reform of unemployment insurance, mass layoffs in the public sector, and job insecurity in France. Many massive trade unions participated in the demonstration, as did smaller organizations, demanding an immediate change in policy passed by neoliberal president Emmanuel Macron.
Thousands of students in Thessaloniki marched to decry a law passed by the Ministry of Education in Greece which allowed law enforcement to re-enter universities and created a new university police force for campus enforcement for the first time since the fall of the military junta.
Hundreds of protesters in Athens marched against unjust wars and interventions, decrying the true enemy of Greece as not being any nearby enemies but rather the American imperialist bloc and neocolonialists in the European Union.
Hundreds of protesters in Thessaloniki marched against imperialism, demanding that the government exit from NATO and the EU. Demonstrators held banners with insignias of Greece's communist party, KKE, and the splinter group KKE (M-L).
Hundreds of protesters in Athens marched to decry a law recently passed by the Ministry of Education in Greece, which would allow for the creation of a national police force to enter universities for the first time since the fall of the military junta in 1974.
Over 10000 protesters in Berlin gathered in Neukölln, demanding an immediate reversal to the overturning of a court ruling abolishing the Mietendeckel, a rent cap set to stop high prices and gentrification in the city. Police assaulted several demonstrators but were overpowered by the crowd and forced to retreat in due time.
Hundreds of protesters in Paris marched in opposition to authoritarianism and the far-right, decrying the rise of Islamophobia in France and increased police powers to carry out surveillance against political and religious minorities in the country, including leftist movements.
Around 1000 students in Athens marched in opposition to a law passed by the Greek Ministry of Education, which would create an independent police force within universities after a decades-long ban on such a law following a massacre of student protesters by the military junta in 1973.
Around 200 students in Patras marched against a law passed by the Ministry of Education in Greece, which would allow for the creation of a university police force for the first time since the banning of police from campuses after the fall of the military junta in 1974.
Around 3000 students in Thessaloniki marched in opposition to a law passed by the Ministry of Education, which would allow police to enter universities and would allow for the creation of a university police force that would exist for the first time since the fall of the military junta in Greece in 1974.
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.
Around 1500 protesters returned to the streets of the Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg district of Berlin, demonstrating against the eviction of the Meuterei cooperative, one of the last affordable bars in the city and a place of leftist organization in the FH-KB area of Berlin.
Around 2000 protesters in the Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg district of Berlin marched against the eviction of the Meuteri cooperative, one of the last affordable bars in the city and a place of leftist organization in the FH-KB area of Berlin. Police attacked the demonstration near the end of the march's course, making several brutal arrests and attacking random people.
Around 1500 protesters in Stuttgart marched in solidarity with anarchist and communist political prisoners in Germany, highlighting the case of a student called Lina in her 20s who has been detained for months by the German government for her activist background.