Soma workers from Uyar, in the district of Manisa, began a march to Ankara after they were unpaid for their work, starting on the 12th of October. They arrived at the outskirts of the city, and were attacked by police units who arrested 2 of their leaders, Kamil Kartal and Başaran Aksu.
Bikers in Santiago went through the downtown of the city, in honor of Americo Vespucio, a biker murdered by police earlier during the uprising. He died during the reflaring of the October Rebellion, alongside the 44 who had already been murdered.
Dozens of protesters took to the streets of Larissa in solidarity with the Koufontinas hunger strike, marching to the city’s ancient theater and dropping banners demanding the immediate satisfaction of the hunger striker’s request to be returned to the Korydallos prison in Athens.
Dozens of students in the northwestern Greek city of Ioannina took to the streets during a national mobilization against a bill proposed by Education Minister Niki Kerameos, which would remilitarize university campuses with an elite police squad. Despite a ban on gatherings in place, police did not attack the demonstration.
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.
