Students and Alitalia workers unite
On 15 and 16 November 3,000 delegates, representing 200,000 students from all over Italy, who the day before had taken part in the massive university teachers’ / researchers’ demonstration in Rome, gathered for a “national assembly” at la Sapienza University. They met to debate and agree a manifesto/constitution incorporating a series of demands and proposals opposing the draconian education reform which will mean comprehensive and ruthless cut back in all sectors of the Italian educational system, the encroachment of capitalist business into the higher education system, and a massive...