Families of the victims of the Beirut port bombing gathered in front of the Palace of Justice, placing and burning barricades to demand convictions for the lack of responsibility which led to the deaths of 158 people and the injuries of over 7000.
Thousands of protesters in Athens marched in solidarity with the Koufontinas hunger strike on International Women’s Day, demanding the immediate state acceptance of the former 17 November member’s demands to be returned to his old cell at the Korydallos prison in Athens.
Riot police attacked hundreds of anti-government protesters in Port-au-Prince demonstrating against the imperialist-backed mandate of President Jovenel Moise, seen by the public as a murderous dictator. Law enforcement & government-paid street gangs fired tear gas and terrorized participants in the attempted rally held in the middle of Haiti’s capital.
Hundreds of protesters in Vilafranca took to the streets to demand the release of Pablo Hasel, a left-wing Catalan rapper imprisoned and facing charges for insulting the Spanish monarchy. Demonstrators graffitied the local police station and threw flares to throw off police from being able to make arrests.
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.
