While
the coalition government of the “Five Star Movement” and the
far-right “Lega Nord” intensifies the anti-people policies, reducing
social spending in education (4 billion euros) and allocating 200
million euros to install security cameras (!) in schools, the Italian
youth has no other option but to resist and organize its struggle.
Last week, more than 100,000 students took to the streets in more
than 50 cities across Italy, in order to demonstrate against the
governmental policy on Education.
On
the forefront of this struggle was the Front of Communist Youth
(Fronte della Gioventu Comunista, FGC), the youth wing of the
Communist Party, Italy (Partito Comunista). In Rome, Milan, Turin,
Venice, Naples, Florence, Cagliari and dozens of other cities,
students gave a militant response to the education policy of the
government, shouting slogans against the policy which aims to satisfy
the interests of the capitalists and the EU.
In
a statement regarding the mobilizations, Alessandro Fiorucci, head of
the School Department of the FGC, pointed out:
“Students across Italy reject the government. The change announced by Salvini and Maio is a huge mockery. On the school, the yellow-green manoeuvre provides 4 billion cuts and the new maturity is in perfect continuity with the past government of the Democratic Party. Behind the slogans of government is the concrete reality of continuous collapses in schools and millions of students in danger, but Salvini prefers to increase the repression with cameras and police checks. They try to divide us with racist propaganda to cover their political responsibilities, but we know that there is no change of direction with the past. Today the street full of students is clear: this government is an enemy of the youth”.
“Students across Italy reject the government. The change announced by Salvini and Maio is a huge mockery. On the school, the yellow-green manoeuvre provides 4 billion cuts and the new maturity is in perfect continuity with the past government of the Democratic Party. Behind the slogans of government is the concrete reality of continuous collapses in schools and millions of students in danger, but Salvini prefers to increase the repression with cameras and police checks. They try to divide us with racist propaganda to cover their political responsibilities, but we know that there is no change of direction with the past. Today the street full of students is clear: this government is an enemy of the youth”.
Solidarity and support from KNE
Regarding
the mass mobilizations of the students in Italy and the pioneering
role of the FGC, the International Relations department of the
Communist Youth of Greece (KNE) “welcomes the fair struggle of
Italy's students” and “sends comradely regards to the Front of
the Communist Youth which leads the organization, as well as in the
content and slogans of the mobilizations”.
“Like
in Greece – points out the message of KNE- the youth of Italy
fights against the anti-educational policy of the
governments-EU-capital which crashes its rights to education, thus
putting more class barriers and obstacles to the education and life
of the young people from working class families”.
KNE
underlines the pioneering role of the FGC in the struggle of the
Italian youth and expresses the “solidarity and support from all
members and friends of KNE”.
