The train trip from Brussels lasted two hours, with a change at Liege. On most days, Welkenraedt was a sign post you blinked past on the way to attractions in Germany: Cologne, Monschau, the only Wal-Mart for 100 miles. On this Memorial Day, it was a place to stop.
European wave of teachers’ strikes over pay, funding and workload in Germany, Romania, Hungary, Northern Cyprus, and Finland; continuing Iranian cost-of-living protests by pensioners, rail and petrochemical workers face state repression including executions; autoworkers at Tenneco in South Africa continue their indefinite strike for pay parity and the reinstatement of 87 sacked strikers