World Popular Resistance Clippings 8/12/2012

Guangxi city riots over police handling of smuggler

Police have clashed with thousands of protesters in the Guangxi city of Dongxing. The protests began after a suspected smuggler was almost killed by police who drove into him whilst he was riding his motorbike. Dongxing is in the far south of Guangxi province, right on the [...]

World Popular Resistance Clippings 5/12/2012

Cops arrest armed ‘AWB men’

Police arrested seven armed men on Tuesday as farmworkers in South Africa’s picturesque wine lands resumed strike action, with tension enveloping the Western Cape region. The men, suspected to be members of the far-right Afrikaner Resistance Movement (AWB), were found with one firearm and 60 rounds of ammunition at a [...]

Protesters clash with police at Golden Dawn launch

 

A rally organized to protest the opening of a local branch of the ultranationalist Golden Dawn party in Agrinio, Western Greece, on Sunday evening ended with riot squads being dispatched from Athens and other parts of the country after a group of protesters clashed with local police in front of the town’s central [...]

Greek anti-fascist protesters ‘tortured by police’ after Golden Dawn clash

Fifteen anti-fascist protesters arrested in Athens during a clash with supporters of the neo-Nazi party Golden Dawn have said they were tortured in the Attica General Police Directorate (GADA) – the Athens equivalent of Scotland Yard – and subjected to what their lawyer describes as an Abu Ghraib-style humiliation. Members of a second group of [...]

Anarchists face felony charges after central Athens clashes

Fifteen people that were arrested in Athens’s central Aghios Panteleimonas district late on Sunday during clashes between self-styled anarchists and supporters of Greece’s neofascist Chrysi Avgi (Golden Dawn) party on Monday faced felony charges. Some of the defendants, believed to be self-styled anarchists, were also charged with disturbing the peace, causing bodily harm to a [...]

Clashes during far-right march

Hundreds of right-wing extremists were pelted with bottles, eggs and firecrackers as they marched through Stockholm.

Three people were injured and at least six people arrested as riot police tried to keep angry counter-demonstrators away from the procession, police in the Swedish capital said.

Parts of the downtown area were sealed off during the protests, [...]

Tunisia: General Strike in Higher Education Institutions

The Tunisian General Federation of Higher Education and Scientific Research announced the commencement of a general strike today, December 1st, in all higher education institutions.

The strike is being conducted in response to the ongoing events at the University of Manouba, where student groups, the Union has called “Salafist” have brought exam week at the [...]

92 Germans held in Polish Independence Day clashes

 

WARSAW — Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk on Saturday condemned activists who clashed with police during Independence Day rallies, describing them as “commandos imported from Germany and other nations”.

Officers in full riot gear, armed with shields and truncheons, used tear gas and water cannons on rival groups of demonstrators, as [...]

Rally to protest acid throwing incident

QUETTA: Pashtoonkhwa Students Organisation (PSO) took out a rally to protest acid throwing on women and non arrest of terrorists involve din the incident so far here Friday.

It started form Science college and reached in front of Press Club after assigning through different roads where it turned into a protest meeting. Leaders and [...]

Czech Republic: 41 detained, 6 injured, CZK 3 million spent on Saturday’s riots

Saturday’s security measures responding to anti-Roma demonstrations in the Šluknov district cost the police CZK 3 million. Czech Interior Minister Jan Kubice, speaking on Czech Television today, said the 14-day presence of special forces units in the region cost another CZK 3.5 million. “The police corps must bear these costs for maintaining order,” he [...]