Deliveroo and UberEats workers went on strike in Rome for better working conditions in a wildcat action. This happened after the moderate national union UGL failed to negotiate for better pay. Negotiations failed with the employers’ association, called AssoDelivery, leading to the strike happening.
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 protesters in St. Paul marched on the Minnesota State Capitol demanding justice for George Floyd and all stolen lives, including Dolal Idd, a Somali-American killed by police less than a mile away from where Floyd was suffocated by officer Derek Chauvin, facing charges of murder.
Anarchists in Thessaloniki gathered to protest in solidarity with Dimitris Koufontinas, a former member of the 17 November revolutionary group who went on hunger strike starting on the 8th of January, demanding his transfer to the Korydallos prison in Athens which would allow him to see visitors and receive adequate medical treatment. A heavy police buildup arrived at the demonstration, detaining 7 participants without clause of arrest, later releasing them.
Thousands of protesters took to the streets across the Netherlands against a curfew set for 9:00 P.M., many a mix of migrants & poor people as well as adherents to QAnon-style conspiracy theories that believe that COVID-19 is a deep-state conspiracy. Police lost control of several cities, including Eindhoven, the Hague, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, and many others.
