Basque Country: Nazi French hooligans attack us

Nazi followers of the Lyon football team made attacks in Donostia (San Sebastian) prior to the match with the local team Real Sociedad. Notably they attempted to cause harm at Urka Mendi tavern and broke some city infrastructure. Police then appeared in great numbers and escorted them to the field (instead of arresting and charging them, as would be logical, punishing them at least without football). 

Some of the French Nazis

Instead, in a fight at the Londres Hotel, in which a French citizen was injured, the aggressors (presumably locals) were arrested.

Sources: Berria[eu] (incl. video; also: photo gallery), Noticias de Navarra[es].

Fascist USA: Washington denies visa to Maradona

The most famous and skilled football player in many decades, Diego Armando Maradona, has been denied tourist visa by the USA, which, in their fascist mad spiral, consider his sympathies for Hugo Chávez or Fidel Castro enough reason to act that way. 

Source: Webguerrillero[es].

Brazil: football championship besieged by very angry protesters

Brazil just smashed Spain 3-0 inside the walls of the stadium but many Brazilians did not care at all. They were not there to celebrate nor cheer their national team but to fight against the waste of public resources in football instead of spending them in social programs. 

While the players kicked the pointless ball around the field, thousands of protesters and police forces fought a fierce battle. The tear gas unavoidably reached Maracaná Stadium, affecting part of the public. 

The demonstration began cheerfully at Plaza Saens Penha, some two kilometers away from the stadium, under applause of the neighbors. They chanted "Maracanós" (i.e. Maraca-us) and accused Governor Sérgio Cabral (PMDB) of being a dictator. 

However just hundreds of meters away from Maracaná, the clashes began as some protesters apparently attacked the police line. The 18,000 police and military personnel deployed responded with tear gas, rubber bullets and it seems that also live fire. 

A group of protesters attempted to assault the building of the Brazilian Football Confederation (CFB). 

Seven people were injured: five civilians and two police agents.

Source: Webguerrillero[es].

Brazil: popular protests continue in Sao Paulo, Rio and other cities

The Brazilian social protests threaten the World Cup. Yesterday police attacked with rubber bullets and tear gas some 3000 demonstrators (right) who tried to reach the Maracaná stadium when an international match between the selections of Mexico and Italy was taking place. 

On Saturday similar incidents took place at a match between Brazil and Japan. Police charged brutally as well, resulting in 33 injured and some 20 people arrested. 

The public expenditure waste in the World Cup has become a contentious issue as the cost of life climbs up and public investment is diverted from social needs to the show.

Hundreds of thousands march in Sao Paulo

As mentioned before, some 20,000 people marched on Thursday evening through the streets of Sao Paulo, faced with the most brutal police repression. The trigger is the rise of 7% in bus tariffs, what is not trivial when transport may be 26% of any worker's expenditure and its quality is extremely low (obsolete and packed buses). Sao Paulo particularly has been developed as a business for corrupt transport companies. 

The demand of many protesters is now free public transport, as the woman at the right puts it: if you do not pay for education and hospital, why would you pay PUBLIC transport?

All public services in Brazil are low quality but it is particularly annoying when you have to pay lots for it. 

Yesterday there were more protests in the largest city of the Southern Hemisphere reaching the overwhelming figure of hundreds of thousands:

As of now, I have no reports on possible repression. However previous protests were almost literally massacred, with hundreds injured, including a journalist who will most likely lose his left eye. 

Solidarity protests also took place in Argentina, where protesters marched to the Brazilian Embassy in Buenos Aires. 

Sources: Occupied Taksim, Webguerrillero[es] (link 1, link 2).