universities
News and articles about work, policy and workers' and students' struggles in education around the world.
Youths riot in Paris as school students come out in force
Reports from across the country of yesterday's students' day of action against the CPE.
Yesterday was the students day of action. We were giving updates as and when we recieved them, but this remains just a sample of what happened across France:
Today
Reports on the mood of the Parisian universities
Reports and eyewitness accounts of different universities across Paris.
Rough translation of more of an article from Tuesday's Liberation:
Sorbonne University, Paris Monday, 11h00
Over half of universities remain on strike
45 universities shut down in protest at the new CPE employment law.
Rough translation from Liberation:
At this moment, 11 campuses are blocked and 26 other universities "disturbed to varying degrees", according to the figures provided yesterday by the Ministry for National Education. UNEF, the national students union disagrees: it says that 45 of the 84 French universities are currently on strike.
Poitiers becomes opposition HQ before day of action
For the last few days hundreds of student repesentatives have been debating CPE, and how best to oppose it.
Debates began on Saturday morning in a lecture theater at the university of Poitiers (Vienna). This fourth national coordination of the students mobilised against the CPE became a veritable marathon of speeches and votes, continued straight through to 5 o'clock on Sunday morning.
On Tuesday, further student-led demonstrations take place around France.
Meanwhile,
CRS break Sorbonne occupation
After three days of occupation riot police (CRS) evicted the 400 occupiers of the Sorbonne just before 4am.
Teargas canisters were fired in the halls of the building as in the courtyard young students were struck by truncheon blows whilst non-violently resisting the eviction. Outside the complex, police arrested around 25 of a group of 200 supporters who were still milling around.
Many universities now occupied
Rough translation of an article taken from French broadsheet Le Monde, summarising the situation as it stands across France [as of 8pm Friday].
See full map of university strikes here
"UNIVERSITIES ON STRIKE"
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.
Employee sabotage in a New Jersey university
Adam, a university maintenance worker recounts some small-scale collective sabotage and unofficial pay increase.
We get in and out of the buildings very easily without being questioned. We always look like we belong wherever we may be because we wear work gloves and have a truck with the university insignia on it. The university spans across an entire city in New Jersey, so we can go wherever we want without our supervisors thinking anything of it.
Worker-Student Action Committees, France May '68 - Roger Gregoire and Fredy Perlman
An in-depth look at the worker-student action committees of France May '68
Taken from the excellent John Gray site - http://www.geocities.com/~johngray/
Worker-Student Action Committees, France May '68 - Roger Gregoire and Fredy Perlman
