Symbiosis PDX, a communalist Portland-based group, held a rally in support of Rojava on the 8th, condemning Boeing’s sales and leases of their planes to Turkish-backed forces that have ravaged the area of Kurdistan, widely supported by leftists around the world.
Hundreds of students in Patras took to the streets to decry a law passed by the Ministry of Education, which would enable the government of Greece to create a police force in universities for the first time since the fall of the military dictatorship in 1974 after a failed annexation of Cyprus and a student uprising.
French abolitionists clashed with police on New Year’s in the Haut-Rhin province during a noise demo for prisoners, setting fires and launching fireworks against state repression and capitalism.
Dozens of protesters in Manchester marched in opposition to a law debated and later passed in the British House of Commons, threatening to restrict the right to protest in the United Kingdom and also increase police powers and immunity during demonstrations.
About 15 Trump supporters in Philadelphia turned out at an anti-mail in protest, with about 100 counterprotesters arriving at 8 A.M. No clashes occurred, although many confrontations did, with counterprotesters dancing for hours on end to keep the Trump rally occupied.
