Student protesters in Santiago at the University of Chile metro dropped a banner calling for the end of for-profit education as well as standardized testing, well-known to keep down students with less wealth. Students in Revolt Chile stated that such actions would continue, unless actions were taken to mend the broken education of the country.
Around 1500-2000 demonstrators in Thessaloniki took to the streets in solidarity with the Koufontinas hunger strike, demanding the government accept his request to be returned to his old cell at the Korydallos prison in Athens where he will be able to see visitors again.
Over 400 protesters in Berlin marched in solidarity with the Dimitris Koufontinas hunger strike, demanding the acceptance of the former 17N member’s request to return to his old cell in the Korydallos prison where he will once again be able to see his family.
Protesters and antifascists commemorated Annibal Villaroel at his funeral, a young man murdered by police forces in Chile on the 18th of October. Hundreds of anarchists and other socialists attended his funeral in Santiago, chanting insults against the police.
Thousands of protesters in Bucaramanga took to the streets for a 6th consecutive day as part of a general strike in Colombia, demanding the immediate withdrawal of healthcare privatization and opposition to police violence. After police attacked the massive crowd, intense clashes occurred in the city center.
