Tens of thousands of people have taken to the streets of Rome for rival demonstrations over migration policy, as a far-right proposal seeking hardline migration measures is set to advance to discussion in parliament. https://t.co/FHP8Jc01TG
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Thousands joined anti-racism demonstrations across the UK after days of anti-immigration unrest.
Large crowds gathered in Belfast and Glasgow to reject racism and far-right mobilisation following riots that targeted ethnic minorities, homes and businesses.
#OtD 13 Jun 1973 thousands of mostly migrant workers at the Broadmeadows Ford plant in Australia walked off the job, smashed up their factory, fought off police attacks, and forced their union to endorse their stoppage https://t.co/dwgdslTPgh
#OtD 13 Jun 1919 200,000 attended in Berlin the funeral procession for martryed revolutionaries Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht, who were murdered during the German Revolution by the proto-fascist Freikorps militia https://t.co/eowIFWocbc
The radlib 'anarchists' should always rally separately to the rest of the left. March separately, strike separately, go home and post on Instagram separately.
Up to 1,000 people joined an anti-racism rally in Melbourne’s Moonee Ponds last night, even after a One Nation fundraising event was moved to a different part of the city.
https://t.co/uSUV5FqBmg
#OtD 11 Jun 1972 women in Tokyo, Japan, marched in protest against a eugenics amendment bill going through parliament. Thousands of people, mostly women and girls, and many of them disabled, were forcibly sterilised under the programme https://t.co/tVOjtRYVXn
From the Age today:
Omar Hassan, a Victorian Socialist candidate and rally organiser, said protesters had
"watched with horror as this far-right, racist party has gained support and prominence", but would now be "taking our chance to mobilise strongly and let the world know that a party bought and paid for by Gina Rinehart, which votes against wage rises, supports devastating wars overseas and bigotry at home, is not welcome in Melbourne".
"If Hanson and Joyce are too cowardly to show up tonight, then we will claim that as a victory against racism and the billionaires.”
They did not show up in Moonee Ponds that’s for sure
#OtD 11 Jun 1968 police killed two striking workers at the Peugeot factory in Sochaux, France, after most May 68 strikes ended. In Flins, 12 children fleeing police jumped into the Seine, where they were beaten with truncheons, killing Gilles Tautin https://t.co/C1NQW1CamF
“The left’s job is to inspire that kind of organic development, not to recruit people into its own activities.” Where’s that argument ever gotten anyone? ffs this article is an absolute joke
Marxist Left Review is wrong on the anti-Hanson protests of the 1990s. A movement that can be declared victorious while the politics it was fighting are being institutionalised by the government is not a movement that won, argues Lisbeth Latham. https://t.co/tvLxg78bB0
Pauline Hanson’s WA visit backfires as protestors swarm demanding she head back to QLD.
“They’re echoing boos right now which may mean Senator Hanson has just arrived” 🤣
“Holding signs saying ‘Racism won’t pay the Rent’”🔥 #auspol