Until this week students gazing out of the windows of Lluís Vives secondary school in the centre of Valencia, eastern Spain, had little more than a concrete basket ball court to distract them.
That was until a demonstration held by students and parents against education cuts was violently broken up by police, triggering days of protests across the city, and transforming the school into a symbol of a country where the pain of austerity is becoming a feature of every day life.
“There are schools where there is no money to pay the electricity bills, and the students can’t study,” says Marta, a 14-year-old student standing outside the school, alongside hundreds of other young Valencians in protest against the violence.
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