Several thousand participate in German left-wing demonstrations

Several thousand people across Germany participated in left-wing protest marches Saturday targeted at a variety of political issues, including nuclear energy and military interventions in Libya and Afghanistan.
The Fukushima nuclear plant disaster in Japan was the theme of a protest against nuclear energy in Berlin that saw around 4,000 participants, according to organisers, though police spoke of only around 1,500. In western Germany's Ruhr area, 200 people demonstrated against war and atomic energy with a march from the town of Duisburg to Dusseldorf.