universities
News and articles about work, policy and workers' and students' struggles in education around the world.
Occupation of the Aristotle University Thessaloniki Rector’s Office - against subletting slave-traders
Below is the first announcement of the ongoing (since the 16th of March) Occupation at the Rector’s Office of AUTh, against the subletting working condition in Universities and anywhere the most severe exploitation of immigrants and Greeks is hidden behind contracts on sub-contracts on sub-sub-contracts and so on….At http://www.ergolabies.blogspot.com/ is the occupation’s blog….
BY THE OPEN ASSEMBLY OF THE OCCUPATION OF THE RECTOR’S AT THE ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI
AGAINST WORKER-SUBLETTING COMPANIES, SUBLETTING AGENCIES AND SLAVE-LABOUR CONTRACTS:
NOT HERE, NOT ANYWHERE!
-Out with the rent companies
-Down with the subletting slavery at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Student protests across Europe
As neo-liberal education reforms are planned across Europe, students in the continent have been taking to the streets leading to battles with riot police in several cities.
On Wednesday morning, the day before the general strike over one million workers, students clashed with riot police in Paris after a demonstration over the university reforms. Universities across France have been barricaded and picketed for almost two months in a standoff over these higher education reforms.
Anti-Capitalism at the New School: An analysis and call for action
The following pamphlet was distributed at The New School following the wave of student occupations in NYC and around the world in late '08 and into '09.
"The tradition of the oppressed teaches us that the ‘state of emergency’ in which we live is not the exception but the rule. We must attain to a conception of history that is in keeping with this insight. Then we shall clearly realize that it is our task to bring about a real state of emergency…" – Walter Benjamin
Resistance to job cuts at the University of Salford gathers steam
Around 150 job losses have been forecast by opponents as part of large cuts across the university, along with the slashing of courses and funding.
The job losses and cuts to courses and infrastructure stem from the ‘project headroom’ program currently being pushed through by university management, which aims to claw back £12.5 million for the university budget.
On the unrest in Greece
Commentary on the situation in Greece published by the Anarchist Federation. It was written on the 15th of December, before the extension of the town hall occupations and the occupation of the offices of the General Confederation of Greek Workers on the 17th of December.
The unrest in Greece following the killing of 16 year old Alexandros Grigoropoulos has held the attention of the world and electrified the anarchist movement internationally. In the UK, solidarity actions and demonstrations have taken place in London, Leeds, Brighton, Birmingham, Newcastle, Glasgow and Edinburgh.
Update on New School in Exile occupation
Statement and update from the occupation of the University of Exile in New York, including their demands for funding to be redirected from capital improvements to tuition and study space.
To our comrades and fellow workers around the world
Statement from Students Occupying University in NYC
Statement from the students occupying New School University in NYC
An Open Letter: Come Occupy a Building with Us…Now
Dear Friends,
We are writing to you from the inside of the New School Graduate Faculty Building on 65 5th Ave. We are occupying it. Right now. Literally.
France: demonstrations by school students continue to grow
Demonstrations against the Darcos reforms of the education system are intensifying with more students joining protests and taking more direct action.
Students are angry about reforms to the French secondary examination course, the baccalaureate and also about the planned loss of 25000 teaching posts over the next two years. Today's demonstration (11th Dec.) was called by the school students' union (UNL), the union has called for another day of action next Thursday although it looks as if many students will continue action tomorrow.
Athens Polytechnic occupation publishes communique
A message from the group which has been occupying Athens Polytechnic in response to the death of a 15-year-old at the hands of police has been published on Athens Indymedia.
"On Saturday December 6, 2008, Alexandros Grigoropoulos, a 15-year old comrade, was murdered in cold blood, with a bullet in the chest by a cop in the area of Exarchia.
Tensions rise in Athens as nurses and students fight reforms
Tensions rise in Athens with nurses occupying Health Ministry and students clashing with riot police over unwanted educational reform
Tension rose in Athens on the 4th of December as nurses who are on a 48h national strike occupied the Ministry of Health.
When the Minister appeared pleading to do what he can to help them, the nurses replied "then come with us to occupy the Ministry of Economics".
