Dozens of anarchists in the southwestern Athens suburb of Nikaia clashed with police during a march against police violence, lighting fires and blocking roads after tear gas and stun grenades were deployed against the crowd.
Protesters took to the streets in Santiago on the anniversary of the murder of Communist Revolutionary and singer Victor Jara by the US-backed fascist Pinochet regime. Victor Jara, a militant of the Chilean communist party, was arrested after the US-backed far-right coup against Salvador Allende and brutally tortured until being shot 44 times by regime forces on the 16th.
Hundreds of students gathered at the Propylaea in Athens to protest against the planned reintroduction of police onto college campuses, as they had been banned since the Polytechnic Uprising of 1973. Police kettled the crowd in but did not otherwise assault the demonstrators, as it would further reinforce their point.
Over 100 student protesters marched in Tarragona, freedom for Pablo Hasel, a left-wing Catalan rapper arrested and facing charges of at least 9 months in prison for “supporting terrorism” and criticizing the Spanish monarchy.
Over 100 protesters in the Greek island of Corfu took to the streets against police repression and state authoritarianism after police brutality in Nea Smyrni against a student in a park and the invasion of a student university occupation in Thessaloniki.
