The Osnabrück decree, which came into force on May 1, has one central goal: making Germany fit for war again, despite its crimes in two world wars, by preparing for war against Russia.
Several thousand steelworkers demonstrated in front of the main Thyssenkrupp plant in the north of Duisburg. IG Metall brought them there from all Thyssenkrupp sites in North Rhine-Westphalia and from Hüttenwerke Krupp Mannesmann in the south of Duisburg.
French police are systematically crushing attempted student occupations and threatening opposition politicians with bogus terrorism charges for statements of solidarity with Gaza.
The unions called the rallies in order to block any mobilisation of the working class and to bolster illusions in the deeply discredited Labour Party, which agrees with austerity and with New Zealand’s integration into US imperialist wars.
Led by young workers and Middle Eastern families, more than 100 people rallied and marched through Surfers Paradise on Saturday to denounce the intensifying Israeli genocide in Gaza and the Australian Labor government’s support for it.