High schools and university students in Serbia, who have been continuing their school blockade for several weeks, called on Wednesday to be involved in the next general strike on Friday 7 March. The first students organized on January 24 and had a great response from citizens.
As Danas reported on his website, students want the general strike to be a complete boycott of all activities.
They called on fellow citizens to take either holidays, compensatory leave on Friday, or they requested a certificate of incapacity for work, did not use the services of cafes, restaurants, bookmakers, cinemas, theaters, supermarkets and did not go out at night. Instead, they suggest that people spend the day with family, friends or loved ones.
In addition to the general strike, the students announced a big protest to 15 March, which should attract people from all over Serbia to Belgrade. As has become customary, students from other places will come to Belgrade on foot or by bicycles.
Another march and a series of gatherings will take place in Belgrade on 8 March. As these actions will take place on International Women’s Day, women and girls should walk at the head of the march.
Anti -government protests in Serbia caused a collapse of a concrete shelter above the entrance to the railway station in Novi Sad, where 15 people were killed. Much of the Serbs are convinced that the tragedy has contributed to the corruption of government officials, their laxity and insufficient supervision on the construction. The superstructure collapsed only a few months after the reconstruction of the building.
Under the pressure of protests in January, Prime Minister Miloš Vučevič resigned, but this gesture did not calm the protests. Although President Aleksandar Vučič calls on the demonstrators for dialogue, he also claims that extensive anti -government protests, to which university students have joined, are funded by the West and aims to “unleash” the color revolution “and lay the government with various hybrid tactics.
