Over 150 thousand students have mobilized today in more than 80 squares throughout the country, against the budget law and to request greater investments in the right to education and a structural change in the public education system. Student representatives say this and explain: «Today we are in the square because we want to bring our needs and our proposals to the center. Politics must listen to us. For the umpteenth time we have returned to school and all the structural deficiencies of our educational system have shown themselves – declares Luca Redolfi, coordinator of the Student Union – unsafe schools, crowded and insufficient transport, notional teaching, the right to study denied, are only some of the reasons why female students and students have mobilized across the country today. A total reform of the world of education is necessary, which is capable of renewing teaching and imagining a new model of inclusive school capable of transforming society “.
Milan, Turin, Rome and Naples are just some of the big cities where the mobilizations took place; marches, principals, protest actions and assemblies will be the forms of mobilization implemented by the students, all with a single goal: «It is necessary to change education to change the system and there is no more time: we are the future that is rebelling», they conclude.
University students are also in the square. Lorenzo Morandi of LINK University Coordination adds: “After the pandemic we would have expected a significant response from the government to the needs of students and instead in the budget law there is not even one euro for us. We want to raise the no tax area for university fees of at least 30,000 Isee, towards free education; we want concessions and real support measures on rents and transport, funds to expand and redevelop university spaces. “The students also emphasize the need of a general change of course, starting with the rethinking of the latest Budget law: “This Budget law is yet another demonstration that the government has no interest in responding to the needs of the population. For our generation there are not even crumbs. Against the attacks on income and work that this government is carrying out, we want a future free from precariousness and unconditional welfare tools. born that allow us young people to truly emancipate themselves “continues Arianna Petrosino of the Network of Knowledge. In some cities, the police stations have banned demonstrations at the last minute or imposed changes in the route and methods, but this has not stopped the students: “Today’s mobilization is also a response to the attempted repressive force made by the Ministry of the Interior with the directive of 10 November: we are not willing to let our protest be invisible ”, continues Manuel Masucci, of the Knowledge Network.