Report on the 8th March in Hamburg, Germany

We the Red Women`s Comittee Hamburg mobilized for the International Women`s Day under the slogan „Proletarian Feminism for Communism!“. Part of the mobilization were posters and flyers, as well as an information event, which addressed and explained the proletarian feminism. In addition, in a central square of the University of Hamburg, a [...]

World Popular Resistance Clippings 2/15/2013

Rail workers on strike in Khashuri

TBILISI, DFWatch–Around 800 rail workers in Khashuri in central Georgia went on strike Wednesday,demanding increased salaries and to restore benefits which they used to have years ago.

There are no staff available on the railway section between Zestaponi further west and Gori closer to Tbilisi, but Georgian Railway [...]

Internationalists gather in Hamburg in Support of the Peoples War in India

On the 24th of November the International Conference in Support of the People`s War in India took place in the city of Hamburg, Germany. Following the joint Call of the International Committee to Support of the People`s War in India and the Hamburg based League against Imperialist Aggression, internationalists form different parts of the [...]

Protesters target Ford headquarters

Ford workers angry about the car maker’s plans to shutter a plant in Belgium broke windows and burned tyres in a demonstration outside the company’s European headquarters in Germany. Cologne city police spokesman Karlo Kreitz said about 100 of the protesters were taken into temporary custody after three officers suffered minor injuries in the fracas. [...]

Leftists Target Head of EU’s Greece Task Force

A group of left-wing extremists in Germany has claimed responsibility for an arson attack aimed at the EU task force leader for Greece. His efforts to implement painful reforms there are unwanted, said the group, which has also threatened further attacks.

As head of the European Union task force that is helping Athens implement tough [...]

Frankfurt anti-capitalist protest turns into riot

At least 15 German police officers were injured, one seriously, during rioting that lasted into Sunday morning, following an anti-capitalist protest in Frankfurt, police said. The rioters broke off from a demonstration against the German and European politics of crisis regulation.

Demonstrators threw paint bombs at the European Central Bank and attacked emergency vehicles on [...]

German police, protesters clash at nuke protest

(AP) BERLIN — Police used water cannons to disperse about 300 protesters hurling rocks and fireworks during an attempt to disrupt a shipment of nuclear waste in northern Germany on Saturday, officials said.

Another 50 activists tried to sabotage the rail tracks that will be used by a train this weekend to transport the nuclear [...]

Syrian Embassy sprayed and attacked in Berlin

BEIJING, Oct. 10 (Xinhuanet) — Syrian protesters stormed three of their country’s diplomatic missions in Germany and Switzerland in what appeared to be a protest against the killing of a Kurdish opposition leader, police said Sunday.

Syria’s embassy in Berlin was stormed late Saturday, and another group of protesters took on the consulate in the [...]

Violence still simmers months after Berlin squat eviction

Police say they are still dealing with violent reprisals even months after they forced the eviction of residents from a controversial leftist squat house in Berlin.

Nine people were arrested during the eviction of the squat in the Friedrichshain district of the capital in February, sparking a spree of violence and vandalism by up to [...]

Berlin elections marred by arson attacks

Berlin – Arsonists set fire to several cars in Berlin over the weekend, police said Sunday, as the German capital held local elections dominated in part by security concerns.

Four luxury cars were set on fire overnight, in several areas of the city where an influx of well-heeled residents has driven up rents in recent [...]