June 19, 2009
Today marks ten years since the English government signed with the Bologna Declaration signed, giving the official starting gun to the European Space for Higher Education. The fight against Bologna in the course does not arise now goes back to the struggles against Bricall Report (1999) and Lou (2001). These texts were already as regards the European Higher Education Area (EHEA) and were released a few years later that came to light agreements (GATT and GATS) of the World Trade Organization (WTO) to liberalize public services such as education and health. After ten years constant demonstrations against the precepts, the rules and the interests that give life to the reform and calling for public debate on a topic of vital importance such as university education, to be social spaces where it develops social reproduction, with the significance that this looks like, the responses from government institutions remain the same: first exercise the imposition and when strong resistance is practicing the other side of the same coin: the repression of the student movement (arrests of students, complaints, expulsions, criminalization of student assemblies, complaints, pressure ... more than 100 outstanding students trials for defending a university free from critical and commercial logic)
Today, continuing the dynamics of working behind the company. All kinds of official documents, such as the new status of IDPs, the actual operation of the grades, how to really affect the implementation of the / students beginning or they will have to adapt to the new plan, how to translate them into practical effect, how will indeed the new system of grants-continue coming out, coming to the university community, once they have taken all the relevant decisions, unilaterally, without dialogue option or joint construction. Thus a Again, this highlights the prevailing authoritarianism and lack of democracy that is in the university, but is a constant in all public policies are implemented. We say loud and clear that all the information and open public debate in the streets and in society in general have been the result of work / students and teachers with activities such as debates, lectures at colleges, in local neighborhood demonstrations, written, referenda, TV programs where the authorities were afraid to go, the symbolic use of space to open society. But ever since those government agencies.
Acts as no access to the interview with the state assembly pdi-country, by the Minister, derived from Marius Rubiralta secretary, is an example of the lack of political will to want to resolve the conflict. It is a sign of disrespect to the directly affected groups and strata, as is the assembly.
This type of attitude is not new. Is repeated and increasingly evident that thousands of students demanding the suspension of proceedings and are classified as minority. In this sense, the failure to recognize the student assemblies as a grassroots movement and student representation and no community-based university, is a clear example of abuse of power, authoritarianism and enforcement. Assemblies, the boycott and picketing are our law, the media discourse, the clubs and the lack of alternatives to capitalist democracy is yours. Those teachers, politicians and members who at the time said they were against the LOU now are those who order evictions and police charges.
denounce once again, that the various mechanisms used as the call for referendums, vote no campaigns, participation in meetings or in the cloisters have shown that the law only recognized when it is on the side of power and interests. But is not recognized when through the same mechanism is evident that most of the university community and society calls for suspension of proceedings. Dynamics of this kind are typical of authoritarian, undemocratic and dictatorial regimes.
Participation in the referendum for example in UB was 18% while elections for rector of the university was 5.42%. More than 15,000 students at the universities of Barcelona called for the cessation of the Bologna process. Who is the minority?
After the protests and demonstrations of 13N, 20N, 12M, 18M, 26M, 28 th and 9 My, has not considered the voice of the people who have been heard over the years. The social debate we have strengthened us and won us, but due to the prevailing despotism these democratic self-styled authorities, there is no alternative but to move forward in the fight.
If peaceful protest and want to create an open social debate is a crime, we are guilty, and yes, we are about anti when we reaffirm that we will not rest, in which repeat until you clarify who will be closer to Europe and under what conditions, until they stop the LOU and the rapidly changing and unstructured that surrounds us, until there is a real participatory process until the misinformation longer constitutes a beneficial and necessary element until the expulsions, records and complaints disappear from conflict university. Today, here in the Ministry of Education, advised the political and academic authorities that next year we will fight to defend a free knowledge, critical, not subject to business logic, denounce precariousness, both inside and outside the university, which involves all the restructuring.
Because we are not stupid and we know the interests behind the so-called European convergence, recidivists. Repression does not cut off our wings. Barcelona is starting a campaign antirepresiva, 58 i +, which aims to expose the methods used by the government: if the taxation does not fit, enter the repression. Bologna is imposed truncheon! We have the arguments and solidarity of society. You have an equipment pamphlet of media opinion makers and the mercenaries that you make the task defamatory. Let's see who wins the game ...
Against Capital Europe and the commodification of our lives! Not to Bologna! No to the LOU! No to the royal decrees!
against repression, direct action! Against Bologna and a step back!
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