مظاهرة عيد العمال في بازل سلمية إلى حد كبير
Published: Wednesday, May 1st 2024, 13:40
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Around 2500 people demonstrated in Basel on Wednesday under the slogan "Premiums down, wages up" to mark Labor Day. The UBS branch on Marktplatz was sprayed and paint bags were thrown. Otherwise, the demonstration has so far been peaceful, as the cantonal police write on X.
The authorized demonstration started at 11.00 a.m. at Messeplatz. The trade unions led the demonstration. Slogans such as "Prices up? Wages up!" could be read on the banners. There were also a few slogans against the planned Rhine tunnel. The Basel-Stadt May Day Committee is made up of trade unions, parties such as the SP, Greens and Basta, as well as Kurdish groups and sans-papiers collectives.
The rally moved across the Mittlere Brücke in the direction of Barfüsserplatz. Behind it, at a considerable distance, followed the "anti-capitalist block". Several hundred people followed a banner with the inscription "International solidarity - class struggle against war, crisis and climate catastrophe". At times, the demonstrators set off pyros. Several Palestine flags could also be seen in the march.
Festival on Barfüsserplatz
At the market square, a few masked people from this block threw paint bags at the facade of the UBS branch and sprayed the bank's shutters, as a reporter from the Keystone-SDA news agency observed at the scene.
Meanwhile, the front section of the demonstration reached Barfüsserplatz, where the May Day festival began with food stalls and music. In his speech, Lucien Robischon, Co-President of the Basel Trade Union Federation (GBB), addressed the financial burden placed on many people by inflation, health insurance premiums and rents and called for higher wages.
Last year's May Day demonstration in Basel was very different. Back then, the police surrounded the front of the authorized demonstration and detained around 70 people for over two hours.
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