Demonstrators in Minsk turned out in the thousands against the Lukashenko regime, engaging in insignificant clashes with police, organized by a coalition of protest groups including a seniors’ advocacy organization. Other minor autonomous actions took place at the same time around Minsk.
Around 300 protesters in Thessaloniki marched to demand the repeal of a law passed by the Ministry of Education in February which enabled police to re-enter universities after their presence was banned with the fall of the military dictatorship in 1974 after a student uprising at the Athens Polytechnic.
Dozens of protesters in Patras gathered at Georgiou Square in solidarity with hunger striker Dimitris Koufontinas, a former member of the revolutionary November 17 militant group that carried out attacks on American, British, and military assets in Greece; Koufontinas entered a hunger strike on 8 January to demand his transfer to the Korydallos prison in Athens.
Nurses in Middletown with Penna Nurses and Delaware Valley DSA went on strike to demand safer conditions, adequate staffing, and improved wages, […]
Hundreds of socialists & anarchists gathered in the Catalan city of Reus to protest against a rally organized by the far-right Vox party, with several confrontations occurring and riot police arriving on the scene. Although counterprotesters were physically blocked from chasing down the fascists, they were successfully forced to disperse.
