Osa Collective, schools a powder keg, tomorrow in the square

"The occupations and mobilizations prove it: Valditara rejected by the students! || 16 we arrive at the Ministry of Education!". The cry comes from the Osa collective which is planning a pre-concentration in Piazza dell'Esquilino for tomorrow in Rome at 8.30am. And then also demonstrations in other cities.

"In recent weeks, schools in Rome and throughout the country have transformed into a real powder keg ready to explode. The wave of occupations, assemblies and strikes that is sweeping through Roman institutions demonstrates an extraordinary activation and widespread ferment among students, determined not to passively accept the constant degradation of the structures and the continuous emptying of the right to study", explains the Alternative Student Opposition (Osa).

"While the classrooms are falling apart due to the lack of funds and resources, the response of the institutions is limited to a repressive crackdown, transforming public schools into an increasingly militarized model, aimed at eliminating debate and suffocating any form of dissent. The school increasingly takes the form of a barracks, where those who show dissent are repressed and war is given as the only future prospect.

Faced with this situation, the students choose the path of mobilization. The very high participation in the protest actions of recent days, which have seen multiple institutions take the lead, take to the streets or occupy, marks a turning point. Following the example of the great social mobilizations across France and Europe, student youth claims a central role in determining their own future.

On October 16th the protest will converge in the student strike, bringing the strength of this mobilization directly under the headquarters of the Ministry of Education, a mobilization that already relaunches the general strike of October 30th alongside the workers", conclude the students.