Strike in Campobasso, 'lower the weapons, raise the wages'

"Lower your guns, raise your wages." It is the banner that opened the demonstration promoted by Cobas, Usb and student movements in Campobasso this morning on the day of the general strike: a few hundred students took part in the procession that crossed the streets of the centre.

"Our protest - remarked the local exponents of the Collettivo dal Basso - is against the war economy, high cost of living, youth precariousness and repression of dissent. Continuous cuts to public health and transport to support the costs necessary to feed the war sector - they added - cause a consequent increase in the cost of living. The bosses get richer and the infrastructures collapse, piece by piece, on the heads of those who have to learn to live on a salary eaten up by inflation".

There was no shortage of references to the world of school. "The education system is abandoned and young people are left with only the crumbs of what the State continues to call the future."