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Why did Italian cities fill with students and workers on Friday?
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On Friday, the union Usb called a general strike, and marches set off in more than 50 cities, from Palermo to Milan, with the same demands in each.
Palermo and Milan
Turin's organisers claimed 50000 people, a figure no other report in the coverage matches.
50,000
A Genoa student asked that the 14 billion destined for military spending go to schools instead, and students in several cities made the same point.
14bn
A union representative, Stefano Catanzariti, put the demand to the Cosenza crowd: We want the government and Europe to look at families, at what we are suffering every day with rising fuel, energy and grocery prices.
“We want the government and Europe to look at families, at what we are suffering every day with rising fuel, energy and grocery prices.”
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- ANSA.itStrike in Trieste, 4,500 people at the protest march
- ANSA.itGeneral strike in La Spezia, Canaletto port gate blocked
- AdnkronosTurin, manure bins overturned in front of the town hall before the general strike march: the video
- ANSA.itGenoa strike: students, stop war funding
- ANSA.itStrike in Cosenza, protesters reach the motorway junction
- AdnkronosMilan marches, the protest unites generations “culture disarms”