Worldwide,
student struggles multiply
On 10 November, more than fifty thousand students Englis-se-s-es were gathered in the streets of London to protest against rising costs of enrollment and budget cuts. They then invaded the headquarters of the Conservative Party, and released the following statement: " We oppose any budget cut and the commodification of education. We occupy the roof of the Conservative party headquarters in order to demonstrate our opposition to the conservative system which is to attack the poor and help the rich. This is only the beginning. "
November 11, it is the students of Manchester who have peacefully occupied a portion of their premises to fight against the privatization of universities.
Thursday, November 25, of students continued their sit-ins and sit-ins in several British universities, in London, Oxford and Cardiff, in the aftermath a day of mobilization. Indeed, on Wednesday, the students organized their second major day of protest against rising fees. Some 10 000 students demonstrated at several sites in London and 3000 in other university cities in the country
incidents erupted in several cities across the country; police, contrary to 10 November, this time was very large and determined to fight and prevent actions to keep students. The Education Minister, Michael Gove told the BBC that he kept the project reform of university fees, regretting that "Anarchists and extremist members of the Socialist Workers Party trying to divert the student movement to create chaos." Nick Clegg himself has "greatly regretted" of betraying a promise (in election campaigns, he promised to reduce the registration fee), but said that he had learned not moved beyond measure against student demonstrations. These statements are simply outrageous: the first openly trying divide the actors and actresses of the social struggle, when the second displayed a cynicism that reflects the contempt of the bourgeoisie against the working classes.
The ESF wishes to denounce police violence and strategies to criminalize the social movement by the power . Violence does not reside in a few broken windows or damage to street furniture, signs of anger among students, but in Anti-social policies pursued by the British government. Let us not be intimidated, build solidarity for the struggle against repression!
In addition, we remind that the movements students are built right now around the world: early November, 40,000 Irish students marched in the streets Dublin against the commodification of higher education, and have faced the brutality of the Irish police.
On 16 November, in Sofia, Bulgaria, 3,000 students demonstrated for a free university and free for all and all.
On 15 November a procession of students has invaded and occupied the University of Pisa in Italy. In the same country, November 17, hundreds of demonstrations took place throughout the territory to protest against the anti-social. Students were present es during this day of mobilization. Let us add also that Thursday, November 24, thousands students of Italian-ne-s demonstrated in the streets of major Italian cities, and held several attractions like the Tower of Pisa and the Colosseum in Rome. A banner was deployed from the tower of Pisa. University buildings were occupied in several other cities. Students Italian-ne-s struggle against the Gelmini reform, which provides for the merger of small establishments, the entry of big business in the Boards and the establishment of a university based on merit! It should be stressed that the clashes occurred in Florence, where several students were wounded and maimed in Because of police violence. The student struggle in Italy is just beginning.
Still Nov. 17, but this time in Regensburg in Germany, 10,000 people marched to protest against budget cuts imposed on public universities.
It is not about to make a comprehensive account of the social struggles taking place students everywhere. We should also mention the American students at Berkeley multiplying shares in common with the personal against the rising costs of enrollment. Same in Quebec, where students are struggling to the same claims. The Algerian comrades are also fighting against the introduction of LMD on their campuses.
The Student Federation of Trade Unions would recall that the social struggles that come here and there all aim to end the policies dictated by the bourgeoisie internationally. Higher registration fees and other measures affecting higher education are intended to prevent access to the popular classes in higher education. These austerity measures that affect the students are part of broader European and international attack against all working people. Thus, the students must build solidarity within the unit étudiant-e/travailleur-euse to enable the development of interprofessional struggles.
As such, the ESF would like to reaffirm once again its support and solidarity to all and all comrades in struggle . English and Italian comrades of course, but all and all actors / actresses social struggles fighting for a free and public university. She says she will relay the information on the French campus, and will require the image of what is already November 18 in Paris, the establishment of solidarity actions.
Against social selection and higher registration fees!
For a university free, critical and popular!
Solidarity with our comrades, unit étudiant-es/travailleur-euse-s!
Supporting charged Tours
THIRST FOR UTOPIA RESF and 37 were published in February 2010 a press release entitled "whalers." This text was expressed suspicions about the use of rosters of national education (ie basis-students) for police to organize the hunt for undocumented families. He compared these practices to some used by the police under the Vichy regime.
Hortefeux complained and 4 militants of these two associations are prosecuted for "public defamation against a public authority." They spend on trial Dec. 3 in Courthouse Towers.
The purpose of these actions is twofold:
-firstly prevent any criticism of the government expelling tens of Thousands of people whose only crime is to not have papers. The policy of successive governments towards the foreign-es is to give employers a workforce exploitable at will because the undocumented have little means to defend themselves. This policy also aims to create an enemy within (Roma, Maghreb, African ...) to try to divide and distract the working classes of their true enemy: capitalism.
-secondly criminalize of activists whose only crime was to dare to struggle to try to dissuade any person to conduct any dispute whatsoever.
The ESF requires the dropping of charges against four defendants Tours , and any and all charged-es of social struggles. The ESF calls rally on December 3 at 9am before the Courthouse Towers. The ESF claims the abandonment of all FILING (Base-students EDVIGE, Cristina ...). FSE continue to fight for the legalization of any and all undocumented.
ACQUITTED FOR 4 ACCUSED OF TOURS
REPRESSION AGAINST THE SOLIDARITY IS OUR WEAPON
