Iranians placed and burned barricades on the Chabahar-Rusk transit route to prevent the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps to reach demonstrators in Sistan & Balochistan who took to the streets after the massacre of 37 fuel traders by security forces at the border with Pakistan.
40 anarchists gathered in Athens in solidarity with D. Koufontina, a member of the revolutionary anti-American November 17 group who was given 5 life sentences to bolster relations with the United States. Demonstrators demanded the release of the political prisoner on hunger strike, in anticipation of further events to occur.
Union workers went on strike at a Hunts Point Market, demanding a $1 per hour wage increase. Police assaulted those on the picket line, arresting several for no apparent reason, as they were later released without a trial.
Dozens of protesters were attacked by police in Patras during a demonstration in solidarity with Dimitris Koufontina, an incarcerated former member of the November 17 revolutionary group. He entered a hunger strike on January 8th demanding a transfer to a lower-security Athenian prison, with pan-Hellenic protests organized across the country to support his demands.
Thousands of farmers attempted to march to the Indian capital as part of their occupy protest against new laws passed by the […]
