50,000 Expected Protesters in Geneva Strike Fear in the Bourgeoisie
Featured image: Luxury shops in Geneva prepare extra walls to protect themselves from the demonstration on 14th of June. Source: Anadolu Agency.
The French and Swiss governments have coordinated to impose a series of repressive measures, border controls, and a massive police and military deployment for the June 14 anti-G7 demonstration in Geneva. Despite the repressive massive deployment, which includes 4,000 soldiers and 12,000 police officers, 50,000 demonstrators are expected tomorrow.
The massive repressive deployment does not make the bourgeoisie in Geneva feel safe either: reactionary institutions, banks, and luxury stores have installed more security cameras, new protections for the doors and walls of their establishments, etc., in anticipation that the march will unleash its fury against them. For example, more than 2,000 square meters of wooden panels have been installed as extra protection.
The imperialists fear that a struggle like the one that took place in 2003 might erupt, when 100,000 protesters took to the streets, and clashes against the repressive forces erupted:
This year as every year, anti-imperialist, democrat and progressive organizations and individuals will gather in open opposition to the expansion of oppression and exploitation waged on the peoples of the world, be it the genocide carried out against the Palestinian people, or the various wars of aggression, exploitation and crimes committed against the oppressed countries of the world throughout the history of these imperialist powers and the sole hegemonic imperialist superpower, Yankee imperialism.
