Protesters took to the streets in Paris against new quarantine measures, feared to cause the closure of many businesses. Insofar, the Macron administration has refused to provide a stimulus, leading to protests across France. Clashes occurred in other cities, but none had occurred in Paris.
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.
Dozens of protesters gathered in Villavicencio, demanding an immediate end to healthcare privatization and police violence amid a general strike in Colombia. Police attacked the peaceful demonstration with a water cannon, dispersing the crowd which later came back together.
Dozens of protesters took to the streets of El Salvador’s capital against the plan of president Nayib Bukele to adopt Bitcoin as a national currency, as well as other policies such as militarization and alleged violations of the nation’s constitution.
Greek anarchists in the eastern Athens suburb of Zografou dropped a banner at the Athens Polytechnic University in solidarity with the 25-year-old Klodian Rasha, whose murder on the 8th of December in Albania sparked massive riots for days in the capital.
