Over 300 bikers sat-in El Parrón, demonstrating against a lack of regulations against drivers when driving near bikers, dozens of whom have been killed in recent weeks. Protesters joined the national bikers’ strike going on to pressure the government to change its measures and attitude towards the situation.
Hundreds of Slovanian anarchists & autonomists took to the streets of Ljubljana after the eviction of the Rog autonomous factory, demanding that the state halt eviction of squats as well as of civilian homes during the pandemic. Police deployed tear gas against the demonstration and arrested several protesters, forcing the rest to disperse.
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.
Dozens of protesters marched in Santiago to demand that the government halt pension cuts as well as pay them out to elderly people who are also houseless, who have been widely excluded from receiving social benefits. Demonstrators also attacked the state policy of handing out the job of pensions to life insurance companies, which are widely viewed in Chile as negligent.
Demonstrations across Indonesia continue to rock the country as Parliament refuses to revoke the Omnibus Law, a much-criticized bill that passes neoliberal reforms including deregulation and cutting workers’ rights. Over 800 arrests were made up to the 11th of October, although protests continue across the country.
