Students at the Vaal University of Technology (VUT) began protests after the National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS) refused to give out the December allowances given to all students of South Africa. Demonstrators then proceeded to block the university’s entrances with burning barricades, before being attacked by police, leading to several arrests.
Hundreds of Catalan antifascists in the city of Vic clashed with members of the far-right Spanish ultranationalist Vox Party, which attempted to hold a rally in the city. Demonstrators placed barricades and successfully chased off the members of the party attempting to hold the rally, pushing the far-right out of the city.
Dozens of protesters in Antofagasta took to the streets, burning barricades and blocking roads in support of prisoners of the 18th of October uprising in Chile, demanding their immediate release and a general pardon for all demonstration-related convictions.
Police in Athens assaulted hundreds of protesters who gathered in solidarity with the Koufontinas hunger strike, including the former 17 November member’s son, who was arrested during a police advance as a water cannon volley slammed into the frontline of the demonstration.
About 50 demonstrators at Capitol Hill in Seattle gathered to protest against Thanksgiving, smashing up a Starbucks and spray-painting slogans on the […]
