Italy: the “future of young people” at the heart of the CGIL’s big national demonstration on November 27th

For the first time in union history, young people and precarious workers were at the center of a national demonstration.  Other first, young people were leading the two processions that went through the capital and converged on the enormous Piazza San Giovanni in Laterano.  The CGIL didn’t take part in the usual figure controversy, simply stating the day before that over 2,100 buses and special trains were going to take the participants from all over Italy to Rome.
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emonstration. Other first, young people were leading the two processions that went through the capital and converged on the enormous Piazza San Giovanni in Laterano. The CGIL didn’t take part in the usual figure controversy, simply stating the day before that over 2,100 buses and special trains were going to take the participants from all over Italy to Rome.

Fight precariousness. The presence of students (who sit in the ancient monuments in key Italian cities against the university reform), o

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