Turkey: clashes in Adana tonight

From Occupied Taksim (reversed order to fit chronological sequence):

Clashes broke out in Adana between the protestors who are determined to commemorate the martyrs of the resistance and the police.

Police attacked the crowd with water cannons, tear gas and rubber bullets. The protestors do not knuckle under the vulgar and brutal police attacks.

23.25 Protestors re-build the broken barricades after police attacked and failed to disperse the crowd.

23.30 The police water cannons the houses in Adana. People of Adana out on the streets on the 7th day of Ali Ismail's murder.

00.10 The police is forced out of the Akkapi Quarter, Adana by the people.

Andalusia: union leader arrested

Diego Cañamero, leader of the militant Andalusian Workers Union (SAT) was arrested yesterday after he rejected to pay homage to bourgeois injustice by not going to court to declare on the workers struggle for the collectivization of Las Turquillas ranch, owned by the Spanish military. 

Plain clothes policemen arrested him at the Worker Center of El Coronil, where he and dozens of supporters were awaiting the announced arrest.

The demand of collectivization of farmlands in Andalusia is a popular struggle that comes from old, as most of the land belongs to aristocrats who were assigned it by the Medieval dictatorships. The workers want to collectivize the right of use of those lands (property means nothing) in order to tackle the massive chronic unemployment, which reaches 40% in many districts. 

In the words of Cañamero himself:

We do not want the property of the land, we want its use. 

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It can't be that the lands public or private are kept aside from a people that does not know anymore what to do with unemployment. We want to demonstrate that, in the hands of cooperatives, the ranch will have another use, oriented to the creation of jobs and to extract productivity from the land and not just from EU subsidies.

Source: Borroka Garaia Da![es]

Italy: workers force police to retreat in healthcare strike march in Milan

Yesterday health workers across Lombardia went on strike, with protests in the streets of Milan that resulted in scuffles with the police. 

The moments of tension came as police attempted to curtail the right to demonstration violently, impeding the marchers access to the regional government building. However workers and patients (recently evicted from a popular occupation at Milan's State University) drew their own batons and forced the police forces to withdraw, reaching their desired endpoint for the march. 

The trigger of the protests was the firing of 244 workers at San Rafaele Hospital, however the shadow of further cuts and redundancies looms over the public healthcare in all Italy.

Source: Struggles in Italy.