tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-243675294290376991.post7630016149906754370..comments2024-03-26T02:17:40.309-07:00Comments on reclaim UC: US and Europe / Strategic and Tactical DifferencesUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-243675294290376991.post-4682234765373852302010-12-21T02:54:32.340-08:002010-12-21T02:54:32.340-08:00From London to Athens, students are fighting the l...From London to Athens, students are fighting the liberal order is meant to impose on us.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Across Europe, the student movements grow and multiply. In England, the events of 10 November and investment Conservative party headquarters by the demonstrators have helped focus attention on the situation in the country where the government recently passed a law leading to a significant increase registration fee. In Italy, for several weeks, occupations and demonstrations multiplied. In Greece, the students also marched. In the case of Italy and Greece, a new reform of universities is being questioned, each with elements that do not fail to recall memories for students French-es: entry people from outside the boards, autonomy of universities or merger of institutions.<br /><br />It is no coincidence: these destructive policies of higher education respond to consultations between the governments whose liberal policies are embodied in the Bologna process and merely apply the GATS who theorized that all public service should be commodified.<br /><br />These student protests taking place in Greece, Italy, the United Kingdom but also in Ireland, Germany and Bulgaria do not fail to address directly the symbols of economic power that requires everyone in the service of policy its interests. In London, the Conservative party headquarters or the royal car that was attacked. In Rome, demonstrators tried to enter parliament while at the Milan Stock Exchange was flooded with cries of "Give us back our money."<br /><br />For the Student Federation SOUTH, while today unfolds a European day of action, these movements are a reminder that governments of both right and left are only conducting a concerted policy to the precarious peoples, privatizing public services, and inflate the profits of capitalists. We will work to converge all of these movements to Dijon, from 5 to 7 May 2011 at the G8 universities.Syndicat SUD étudianthttp://www.sud-etudiant.org/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-243675294290376991.post-4975071413064935962010-12-21T02:48:05.991-08:002010-12-21T02:48:05.991-08:00Any informations from Europe (France and Italy) he...Any informations from Europe (France and Italy) here<br /><br />http://nanterre.over-blog.com/<br /><br />and<br /><br />http://www.sud-etudiant.org/Syndicat SUD étudianthttp://www.sud-etudiant.org/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-243675294290376991.post-81974648283788133502010-12-17T12:46:10.089-08:002010-12-17T12:46:10.089-08:00i agree: the pigs won't give up their guns. wh...i agree: the pigs won't give up their guns. what about a campaign to abolish UCPD? that way, you could make a liberal appeal to the "fiscal responsibility" side of things... what is UCPD's operating budget?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-243675294290376991.post-30163792844365237092010-12-16T12:53:48.597-08:002010-12-16T12:53:48.597-08:00Yeah, this is exactly what I've been thinking ...Yeah, this is exactly what I've been thinking over the past few weeks. . .Except that I also think, in the end, the closing paragraph probably has it backwards: we won't gain new tactical possibilities -- that is, mass antagonism on a European/Latin American/Caribbean etc. scale -- through a campaign to get cops off campus or disarm UCPD, if only because such campaigns will be entirely unsuccessful unless they are accompanied by mass antagonism on a scale as large as or larger than that seen in Europe currently -- you can't change property law or the character of policing except through social upheaval. The police aren't going to go away or put down their guns easily. This doesn't mean, however, that I don't support a campaign against UC pigs. I do. But I think those new "tactical possibilities" will have to come first.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com