Thousands of protesters in the city of Pasto took to the streets for a 2nd consecutive day as part of a general strike in opposition to the Tributary Reform, which would place taxes on basic goods and services in Colombia. Intense clashes between police and protesters occurred, with the military deployed and Molotov cocktails thrown.
Hundreds of students at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki resisted a police crackdown on the rectorate’s occupation and marched against state repression, broadcasted many times following the previous invasion of the university in which dozens of arrests occurred.
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.
125 protesters marched in Portland during the new Sunday protests organized by the mother of Patrick Kimmons, a black man killed in 2018. Organizers of the demonstration called for a reopening of the case on the police killing of Kimmons, who allegedly was armed and facing away from law enforcement.
Dozens of workers from the Union of West Attica gathered outside of the Ministry of Labor in Athens, demanding more measures to protect the health of employees at the workplace, as well as more unemployment benefits for the jobless who cannot support themselves during the pandemic.
