Figures released recently by the Trussell Trust reveal that “61,500 people nationwide have received emergency food handouts from The Trussell Trust's UK foodbanks in the last 12 months, 50% more than last year. Most foodbank recipients are not homeless; they are low-income working families who hit crisis, people who have been made redundant or people experiencing benefits delays.” Foodbanks are opening at the rate of one a week!

Nea Manolada, Greece: 20-30 strawberry pickers from Bangladesh got shot by the foremen of their employer when approximately 80 migrant workers gathered to demand six-months' unpaid wages. According to local media four were seriously injured. The employer has been arrested while the foremen are still on the run.

In Greece, where pauperization, mass unemployment and destitution are on the rise, where many look for food in garbage bins while others are driven to suicide unable to secure shelter and welfare, the dissident media annoy and must close. In the country of violent State repression where the police now openly and shamelessly cooperate with the neo-Nazis against the movement. In the country of blatant racism and misinformation through the media, which have become disseminators of government propaganda, all other media that do not comply with the decisions taken without the majority's consent must be closed.

Almost 150.000 Chilean students and protesters took the streets of Santiago in a number of cities on Thursday (April 11), demanding free education. The protest was mostly non-violent until the provocative stance of the police fueled massive reactions and violence erupted. Some threw stones and Molotov cocktails against the riot forces who responded with tear gas and water canons.