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Students and staff at the University of Florence in Italy have just won a major victory in their battle to get their institution to take a stance in the ongoing genocide in Gaza.
After a motion was taken to the academic senate demanding action – during which the students continued chanting for the entire five and a half hour meeting, three and a half hours of which were taken up in discussing the motion – management finally agreed to the students demands, agreeing to issue a statement condemning the genocide, and to set up a working group to create a commission to evaluate all current agreements with institutions complicit in the genocide.
That means pension funds, research agreements, arms firms – everything.
As students celebrated by marching through university buildings, this can provide a huge inspiration to all student mobilisations fighting for similar demands – not just in Italy, but across the world.
