Photos: General strike in Rome

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Around 100,000 people demonstrated in Rome, including a striking number of students. Wage workers, families and pensioners also took part. Firefighters, farmers, but also, for example, striking dock workers gathered between banners from the student organization OSA and the grassroots union USB. With sayings like “Le monde est a nous” (“The world is ours”) they referred to the uprisings, especially among young people in France, that paralyzed the country the week before. There were similar protests in Milan, accompanied by violent riots.

Starting at 8:30 a.m., thousands of people gathered at various starting points throughout the city. The Star March demonstrations finally met at midday in front of the Termini main train station and then continued together through the city center - past the Colosseum and a military camp at the Circus Maximus. At the official end point, the demonstrators spontaneously decided to continue moving through the city without registering. Late in the evening there were clashes between individual groups and the police as they blocked the paths to the tourist areas. After a rally in front of the Ministry of Education, they were no longer able to reach the next destination, Parliament.

The general strike in Italy and the uprisings in France also resonated in Germany. The day after the strike in Rome, more than 100,000 people demonstrated in Germany at the Gen Z protests for social justice, better education, for climate protection and against war.

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