WORLD WORLDWIDE ITALY News Journal Update - (en) Italy, UNICOBAS: Immediate resignation of Minister Valditara!!! - On the squadrist attack on the Liceo Michelangiolo in Florence (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 Anti-fascist solidarity ---- The Unicobas Scuola expresses full solidarity with

the students of the Liceo Classico Michelangiolo in Florence, attacked on
Saturday 18 February in front of their school by a group of fascists from Student
Action. It appreciates the various positions that have condemned this shameful
act from many quarters and considers very serious the declarations of Minister
Valditara, who, by minimizing the incident, takes the opportunity to condemn
those who deprecated the attack, even going so far as to threaten disciplinary
measures for the Director of another Florentine high school who in an internal
communication reaffirmed the values of anti-fascism.

Unlike what Minister Valditara guiltily and irresponsibly claims, the fascist
presence in schools and in society is a reality, which as such must be denounced,
hindered and rejected.

There are many teachers who daily try to educate the principles of freedom and
anti-fascism in their workplace, often accused of being "anachronistic offshoots
of '68", of "doing politics" (sic!) or of sending "ideological messages one way".
As if in the school of the republic there could and should be alternative
messages to anti-fascism.

There are many occasions in the school which see workers and students committed
to countering the various fascist forms represented by a growing authoritarianism
which is expressed in various ways: militarization of schools, ordinary use of
the disciplinary tool by the managers, complaints for self-management and
occupations, imposition of a traditionalist disciplinary code on employees,
restriction of the right to strike and union viability, discriminatory worship of
a supposed "merit".

Unicobas has always given solicitation and support to these struggles, because
anti-fascism is practiced every day and in all possible ways.

Certainly the fascist aggression in Florence represents a specific and very
serious fact, a sign of growing aggressiveness on the part of an organization
such as Azione Studentesca, linked to the Brothers of Italy, which evidently
today feels legitimized at an institutional level in exercising its violent
practices.

But it is also a very worrying sign of the times we are living in that the letter
in which a Head of the public school, the Leonardo Da Vinci High School in
Florence, Dr. Annalisa Savino, following a squad attack, appeals to the values of
anti-fascism, expressing contents that should be obvious and which instead even
arouse the indignation of Minister Valditara. A reaction that makes evident the
fascist substance of the right in government.

Faced with this shame Unicobas

* calls for the immediate resignation of Minister Valditara

* reiterates its solidarity with the students of the Michelangiolo in Florence
affected by the attack, with the director Savino threatened by the minister, as
well as with the collegiate bodies of the Liceo Michelangiolo who have taken a
clear position on the facts and have announced their willingness to form a civil
party in any proceeding against the attackers, to all those who, school staff,
students and families, strive daily to keep fascism away from school and history.

p. the National Executive of Unicobas

Patricia Nesti
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