Italy: Students take part in mobilisation against US base

Students were among the tens of thousands of people who took to the streets of Vicenza, Italy, yesterday to protest the planned expansion of a US military base, a divisive issue for Italy’s center-left government.

Swirling the red flag of the Refoundation Communist party, the rainbow flag of the pacifist movement, and the environmentalists’ green standard, the marchers set out in mid-afternoon to encircle the small city of some 100,000 people as police helicopters hovered close overhead.

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