The start of this school year was marked by the worsening of material and human conditions in the schools of Basic and Secondary Education, as a result of cuts in funding for education that come from year to year, one brand of right-wing governments and their policies. These funding cuts are an attack on our right to study and translate the growing lack of material conditions and in several schools with stops works, lack of heating in classrooms, equipment can not be used result of high costs maintenance. This lack of investment in public schools is also reflected in the absence of employees, which means that in more and more schools services or are operating in a few hours or are privatized, examples of which are numerous cafeterias in northern schools the south of the country.
At the same time, hundreds students are forced to drop out of school because they can not afford the education often costs; and many others who have to work in order to pay for their studies.
For all these reasons, students of primary and secondary school took to the streets on November 5 in several municipalities in the district of Lisbon, Porto, Coimbra, Santarém, Aveiro, Leiria, Evora, Setubal, Braga and Algarve, claiming a change of policies and your right to a public school, free and quality.
The Portuguese Communist Youth, this solidarity with the students and with their fair CLAIMS and welcomes all those who took to the streets on November 5, reaffirming that is the strengthening and intensification of the struggle of the students who will pave the way for resolving their problems and the effectiveness of their right to public school, free and quality.
