Maharashtra farmers waving communist flags marched from Nasik to the megacity of Mumbai to protest against Narendra Modi’s new farm law and in solidarity with the farmers converging on Delhi a few days later. Demonstrators then arrived at the Azad Maidan for a mass rally against the law, before dispersing afterward.
Around 45 protesters in Lamia took to the streets in solidarity with the Koufontinas hunger strike, demanding the immediate satisfaction of the Greek revolutionary prisoner’s request to be returned to his old cell at the Korydallos prison in Athens.
Dozens of students in the northwestern Greek city of Ioannina took to the streets during a national mobilization against a bill proposed by Education Minister Niki Kerameos, which would remilitarize university campuses with an elite police squad. Despite a ban on gatherings in place, police did not attack the demonstration.
Thousands of women in Valparaíso took to the streets on International Women’s Day to protest against government incompetence in stopping femicides and to demand safe and legal abortions in all of Chile. Police attacked the demonstration, using tear gas and water cannons to disperse peaceful protesters.
Around 100 students in Rethymno protested against police repression in Greek universities enabled by the passing of a law by the Ministry of Education, which allowed police to re-enter universities for the first extended period since the fall of the military dictatorship in 1974.
