The student movement in Serbia makes decisions by direct democracy and debates matters for hours on end, yet everything runs like clockwork. This is how the wave of student blockades at the University of Novi Sad in Serbia began on November 2 last year.

Three months on, however, the demonstrations have ballooned into the biggest protest movement in Serbia in years. Joined by tens of thousands of teachers, lawyers and other workers, the highly organised students have taken over faculty buildings,