students
Archive of articles on student struggles around the world.
On Schoolwork and the Struggle Against It - Harry Cleaver
“On Schoolwork and the Struggle Against It” is an article about the organisation of and resistance to the contemporary capitalist university by Harry Cleaver, a relatively well known autonomist Marxist and professor of economics at the University of Texas in Austin.
He wrote the essay as part of a response to the critique of his book Reading Capital Politically in the article “From operaismo to ‘autonomist Marxism’” in the 2002 edition of the British communist journal Aufheben.
Harry Cleaver has a website containing a large number of his interesting articles at:
1968 : - a chronology of events in France and internationally
A short chronology of the events which swept France in May and June 1968. Starting as a student revolt, the events culminated in mass workplace occupations and a general strike of 10 million workers.
Followed by a short international chronology.
Sussex students occupy business centre against privatisation
Today, 11th May at 8am 50 students from the University of Sussex occupied a business centre on the University campus.
The slogan of the protest is "Free Education Not Business Incubation".
The students are protesting against the increasing involvement of private enterprise in universities. They call for a fully state funded higher education system without tuition fees and accessible to all by means of a grant students can live on.
Strike wave hits US universities
Janitors at the University of Miami have been on hunger strike for more than two weeks, and were joined by seven students from the university last Monday.
The hunger strike is over anti-union practices by their employer UNICCO, the University's cleaning contractor.
2005: The Movement of secondary school students in France
Very Brief Notes on the
Movement of Secondary School Students, France 2005
from http://www.endangeredphoenix.com/
We emphasise that these are just notes, very incomplete and not much of an analysis. Watch this space for further developments
France: Hundreds of thousands fight attacks on young workers
France has been hit with a wave of strikes, protests, marches and university occupations in recent days as workers, students and young people fight a new legal state assault on employment rights, reports Jef Costello for libcom.org news.
Sussex students occupy library
Since 9:30 this evening, approximately 100 students have occupied the University of Sussex library to protest falling standards.
Below is the occupiers 'learn-in' manifesto and a few words by one of the participants. Please circulate this as widely as possible.
Portugal: Pupils and workers oppose school closure
Students, teachers and school employees have been protesting against the closure of D. João de Castro Secondary School in Lisbon.
The self-organised students of the D. João de Castro Secondary School locked the gates of the school today - not for the first time - and gathered outside shouting slogans and chanting against the closure of the school ordered by the Ministry (supposedly to be merged with the Fonseca Benevides Secondary School).
Throwing away the ladder: the universities in the crisis - George Caffentzis
George Caffentzis' article on the development of class struggle in American universities since 1960.
Throwing Away The Ladder: The Universities In The Crisis
George Caffentzis
