Press
Release
Student
Unions and Occupied Universities of Athens
On the
day of the official academic-year opening,
the student movement, the university personnel and the academic
community as a whole declare proudly: this education reform will be
blocked.
Our
decisive struggle has just started! It already counts 96 occupied
departments of Universities and Polytechnics (cc. the occupied
departments are now more than 200) and one big demonstration against
the reform and the governmental policy (7000 demonstrators on
September 1rst , in Athens) .
We
declare our disobedience to the political decisions
of the alliance of PASOK-ND-LAOS (cc. social
democrats-conservatis-extreme right) and the directives of the Troika
(EU, IMF, ECB). We warn them that we are not stepping back unless the
reform is withdrawn and the ones that voted for it leave.
We are
not terrorized by the behated minority of
the 250 members of the parliament who, following the orders of Troika
and the IMF, have brought the youth and the working people at the
edge of the cliff.
We
will continue until the final victory
building our movement on the student assemblies and having the active
support of the academic community as a whole.
We
have no other choice but overthrowing the
reform that abolishes the public and free character of education and
the university itself. Contrary to what they claim, this reform
creates even more problems for higher education than solving the
existing ones. This reform aims at depriving the current degrees of
any value and destroys the employment prospects of university
graduates. This reform deepens the dependency of universities from
the private sector and imposes an unprecedented intensification of
studies. This reform legalises the invasion of the free market in
universities and polytechnics. At the same time, this reform
abolishes students’ rights and establishes an oppressive regime in
universities.
The
society as a whole stands on our side: the
young unemployed who experience the odyssey of precarity, the workers
who daily see their salary being slashed, the primary and high-school
students that experience the closing down of their schools and the
deterioration of their studies as well as every active person who
struggles against this government of terror and brutality.
The
historical moments of June 2011 showed that we can only make them
leave with joined, decisive, direct-democratic struggle.
In the
coming days, we will coordinate our actions with the disobidient
movement of the Syntagma square than is planning a big rally on
Saturday 3 September. Furthermore, we will organize joined actions
with high-school students, secondary and primary school teachers in
order to escalate our just struggle.
Our
next stop is to organize an even larger
education-wide demonstration next Thursday 8/9 and a big
anti-government demonstration at the International Exhibition in
Thessaloniki on September 10. We will not go a single step backwards
from our fair struggle. This unacceptable reform by the minister of
Education Diamantopoulou and the reactionary governmental policy of
PASOK and the Toika can and should be overthrown!
BREAD-EDUCATION-FREEDOM
LET’S GO FOR THE
STRUGGLES OF OUR GENERATION
Law School of
Athens, 1/9/2011
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