Hundreds of students gathered at Korai Square in front of the Propylaea in Athens, protesting against a bill proposed by the Minister of Education that would return police to university campuses for the first time since the fall of the military dictatorship in 1974. Police kettled the crowd, preventing a march from occurring, but did not arrest any protesters.
Hundreds of protesters took to the streets of Barranquilla, as part of a general strike stretching for a 4th day in opposition to new tax hikes on basic goods and services as well as the privatization of healthcare. Police attacked the peaceful demonstration with water cannons, dispersing the crowd through the city center and injuring several people.
Thousands of students took to the streets of Montevideo on the Student Martyrs’ Day in Uruguay, commemorated every year since 1968, in which dentistry student and left-wing activist Líber Arce died of his injuries after being shot by a police officer.
Hundreds of bikers gathered at the Brasil neighborhood of Santiago to demand the resignation of Chilean president Sebastian Piñera, blockading the area […]
Thousands of communists and protesters gathered in the Sindri neighborhood of Bandwan in West Bengal, demanding the scrapping of the 3 anti-farmer laws passed by the right-wing BJP government and to ensure fair & corruption free job recruitment for the youths of Bengal.
