The protests began on 10 July in Kanmen in the coastal province of Zhejiang. Hundreds of workers — reportedly angered by a beating meted out to a colleague — attacked a police station for three successive nights.

Source: libcom.org

Over 154 people were arrested in Chile last Wednesday. Public school teachers and students in Santiago, Calama, Valparaiso and Coquimbo are on strike over a new education law.

Source: wsws.org

See also: Battaglia Comunista 7

Over 200 workers were arrested in Peru on July 9 as a result of a national strike to protest the high cost of living and against government repression.

Source: wsws.org

Workers at the 42 oilfields in the Campos basin have begun a five-day strike. At the heart of the dispute is a workers’ demand that a day spent travelling from oil platforms to the mainland should be counted as work. The basin, off the coast of the state of Sao Paulo, accounts for 80% of Petrobras’ daily production of 1.8 million barrels of oil.

Source: BBC News

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