Health workers in Santiago went marching in the dozens to the chamber of the National Congress, declaring a 72-hour-strike if the government did not fulfill its promise of higher wages, better working conditions, and a COVID bonus for hospitals. They held signs that said ‘Without resources, there is no health!’ among other slogans.
Protesters in Nigeria destroyed and looted the residences of Gershom Bassey in Calabar, and Teslim Kolawole Folarin’s in Ibadan. Dozens of motorbikes were found in Folarin’s house, and lots of hoarded resources were found in Bassey’s, eagerly taken by deprived residents of their cities.
Dozens of port workers in Valparaiso took to the streets as part of a nationwide strike, demanding the government passage of the ability to withdraw 10% of a person’s pension fund in direct cash for a 3rd time during the COVID-19 pandemic. Demonstrators lit tires and blocked roads, before riot police arrived, using water cannons and tear gas to disperse the strikers.
Dozens of protesters marched in Alexandroupolis in opposition to police repression to universities, which has grappled the nation following a law passed by the Ministry of Education allowing police to re-enter universities for the first time since the fall of the military dictatorship decades ago.
Hundreds of protesters in Athens marched against unjust wars and interventions, decrying the true enemy of Greece as not being any nearby enemies but rather the American imperialist bloc and neocolonialists in the European Union.
