The feminist Manifa Łódź collective in the Polish city of Łódź protested against police brutality during the Strajk Kobiet, or National Strike, prompted after the ruling conservative party banned abortions in most cases. The demonstration took place in front of the local police station, with protesters dispersing before police arrived.
Over 800 workers from the Chinese-backed mining company PT VDNI at Sultra in the southwest Indonesian province of Sulawesi went on strike demanding a fair wage and better working conditions. A number of buses and heavy vehicles were all burnt down. The PT Virtue Dragon Nickel Industry corporation both smelted and mined nickel, and other demands aside from a pay raise were a demand for 36+-month contracts.
Protests in Belarus are now held just as much by women as men, due to the brutal detention of women in Minsk, being tossed into unmarked vans by their hair and beaten en route to jail. Demonstrations are still concentrated in Minsk, but remain active nationwide.
Around 250 protesters in Zurich marched on International Women’s Day, against patriarchal violence and domination as well as in solidarity with the struggles of women worldwide against femicides and oppression.
Protesters in Glasgow gathered and dropped a banner in solidarity with the hunger strike of Dimitris Koufontinas, a former member of the 17N revolutionary group demanding his transfer to the Korydallos prison in Athens which would give him better medical care and the ability to see visitors.
