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Poland: Doctoral Students Protests with Anarchist ZSP

EuropeMembers of ZSP in Warsaw are involved in the organization of doctoral students at Wroclaw University. The working conditions of the doctoral students are particularly bad. They are required to do teaching and research and receive a stipend which is even less than minimal wage. And in some of the humanities department, they don't even receive that.
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Poland: Day of Solidarity Actions with FAU in Germany

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On January 11 pickets were held in front of the German Embassy in Warsaw and consulates in Wroclaw, Gdansk, Gliwice and Olsztyn in support of the anarchosyndicalist union FAU. Protests were also seny in or delivered in a couple of other cities.

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Germany: FAU Solidarity, Protests in at least 65 cities in 21 countries within the past 4 weeks

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From January 29-30 (the global day of protest) until today there have been protests in at least 56 cities in 20 countries against a verdict that prohibits workers in Berlin from affiliating themselves with the union of their choice. The bosses at the Kino Babylon Mitte cinema managed to find a court to ban the FAU Berlin workers association from calling itself a union and are now trying to get the FAU Berlin charged with fines or even imprisoned. There is a month-long labor dispute between the FAU shop-floor and the management. Not for forget about the protests from the end of december until the global day of protest at the end of January. Those included another 14 cities in 5 countries.

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Greece: Fascist anti-immigration stunt thwarted by anarchist counter-demo in Athens

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The fascist anti-immigration demo called for Saturday noon at Propylea in Athens was thwarted by a massive counter-demo of anarchists and antifascists.

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Roma Treated Like Garbage in Romania

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Yesterday was Holocaust Remembrance Day. Today is a good day to remember that the discrimination and the attacks upon the Roma people continue unabated in Europe. This week Amnesty International took note of the forced evictions of Roma families in Romania.

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Illegal police surveillance of the Tarnac Ten

EuropeThe Tarnac Ten have been closely surveilled. This isn't a scoop. But there's a problem: the phone taps and videos were made outside of any legal framework. The Tarnac Affair hasn't ceased to resound. And the echoes have caused trouble for a prosecution that has already been amply attacked by the lawyers for the defense. On Wednesday, two new stones were thrown into Judge Thierry Fragnoli's pool.
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Farmers stage "rehearsal of total blockade" in Greece

Farmers have decided to block the "dialogue on farming" inaugurated at the Presidential Mansion in Athens by the government, and intensify their struggle.

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Greece: Alexandros Grigoropoulos Murder Trial Opens

The trial over the assassination of Alexandros Grigoropoulos opened today in Amfissa, with the defense of the assassin cops trying to turn the trial on its head.

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Greece: Mass hunger strike in Grevena prisons

EuropeInmates of Grevena prisons, one of the worst penal establishments in Greece, have gone on mass hunger strike since Monday 11 of January "against the repressive intentions of the government and the breach of basic prisoners rights".

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Polish ZSP Activists in Defense of German FAU

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On December 11, Union of Syndicalists called for a day of protests at the German Embassy and Consulates in Poland against the injunction which forbids the Freie Arbeiterinnen-und Arbeiter Union (FAU) from calling itself and union and essentially carrying out workplace union activity. Protest were held in Warsaw, Wroclaw, Gliwice, Gdansk and Olsztyn.