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As the people of Pakistan face one of the gravest natural disasters in history, grassroots activists, trade unionists, socialists and young people are taking matters into their own hands.

Huge emergency demonstrations were called in many different towns and cities across the world in response to the attack on the Gaza flotilla. An international day of protest has been called for Saturday 5 June. Revolution supporters sent in these reports of the previous wave of demonstrations...

Students across Europe are uniting to stop the savage attacks in education coming about through the "Bologna process" – an agreement by Europe's bosses to create a market in education. Kady Tait went to Vienna to join the protests.

Two weeks on from the magnitude 7.0 quake which killed up to 200,000 people, over a million Haitians are still without access to housing, water or basic healthcare facilities. Kady from Leeds, UK reports

A new section of Revolution has been founded in Nepal.

A mass, direct action movement has broken out in Austria against planned attacks on the university education system.

It all started when The Fine Art Academy was occupied by a small number of students who were protesting at plans by the Austrian education ministry to introduce a three-tier degree system. Students were furious that many of them would be unable to access the higher ‘masters’ qualification and that their choice over what subjects to focus on would be dictated from above.

John from London asked Roman from REVOLUTION Austria to report from inside the occupation

Big protest against the capitalist crisis in Stockholm

On September 15, the Swedish parliament opened again after a long summer break. In the mean time, 2,500 people gathered in Stockholm to protest the government’s right-wing policies. The main slogan was: ”We won’t pay for the capitalist crisis”. The protest against the right-wing coalition government is a yearly event since 2007.

Also available in Swedish. Denna rapport finns också på svenska.
http://revolutionsweden.wordpress.com/2009/09/16/bilder-fran-gardagens-d...

On wednesday, sections of REVOLUTION in Austria, Germany and Sweden will organise protests against the murdering of 14 year old Florian by the austrian police.

In Vienna, Austria:
Wednesday, 12.8.2009
17:30, Europaplatz

In Krems, Austria:
Wednesday, 12.8.
16.00 Uhr, Merkur Markt in Krems

In Berlin, Germany:
Wednesday, 12.8.
12.00 Uhr, Österreichische Botschaft (Austrian embassy), Tiergartenstraße/Höhe Stauffenbergstraße 1

In Stockholm, Sweden:
Kl. 17.30 Sergels torg, ingången till t-centralens t-bana

Information on the murder of Florian:

The REVOLUTION Global Gathering 2009 takes place on 6 - 9 August 2009 in Berlin.

Over 250,000 school students, university students and trainees took to the streets on June 17. The students were demonstrating against cuts in education and also against the increasing involvement of private enterprise in the school system. The protests took place in more than 70 cities all over the country.

This demonstration was the highlight of a nationwide ‘week of protest’ organised from 15-19 June. REVOLUTION Germany was active in Freiburg, Stuttgart, Nürnberg, Frankfurt. Kassel, Jena, Eberswalde, Hamburg and Berlin.