A-Infos (en) Greece, APO, Land & freedom - Athens - Call for a pan-education march on 23/10 at 18:30 at Propylaea | Anarchist Students' Initiative of Athens (ca, de, fr, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

Education, as a social good, has for decades been the target of a series 
of restructurings aimed at its complete state control on the one hand 
and its profitable exploitation by Capital on the other. ---- The 
State's targeting is twofold. First, universities are not simply 
adapting to the needs of business interests, but should themselves be 
transformed into businesses that will operate according to the laws of 
the markets. In the "rationalized" university, education should simply 
be a tool for economic "development", which will constitute a vestibule 
of the labor market, producing the specialized executives it needs. At 
the same time, the institution of the university itself should be at the 
behest of the State and Capital, with the work and research it produces 
not serving the needs of society or even vaguely "science", but the 
interests exclusively of themselves. Thus, laboratories and researchers 
must dedicate resources and forces to produce the research work of 
private companies and state institutions. Especially in our time when 
science and its application to technology have an upgraded role, it is 
necessary to put them at the service of state planning and repression, 
with the complex of war industries having been integrated into the 
research plans of universities, both on a practical level and 
institutionally.
In this context, special mention should be made of the cooperation of 
Greek universities with the state of Israel, which is part of the 
broader effort to strengthen the relationship between the Greek state 
and the Israeli one, in the name of geostrategic plans and the "national 
interest". Thus, from the National University of Athens, the Aristotle 
University of Thessaloniki and the National Technical University of 
Thessaloniki, to the University of Patras, the National Academy of 
Sciences and the University of Thessaloniki, a series of institutions 
have from time to time collaborated or participated in research programs 
jointly with Israeli universities and institutions, as well as with war 
industries such as Intracom. The second main aspect of the educational 
restructuring aims at the complete political sterilization of the 
university, with it completely stripping itself of the social 
characteristics that it had incorporated over time. More specifically, 
the university asylum, through its social character, has become both a 
field of political activism and expression for broader social groups 
that have found fertile ground within it, and a base for struggles that 
have targeted the very world of the State and capitalism. Through its 
abolition and the attempt to delegitimize it, the State wants to achieve 
a more comprehensive blow to the movements, thus wanting to intercept 
any prospect of overthrowing the established order of things. The new 
disciplinary measures that have been announced and voted on are also 
moving in this direction, which essentially criminalize political 
activity and collectivization within the faculties, threatening even 
with permanent expulsion those who fall into this "misdemeanor".
For our part, as anarchists, students, we must make our goal clear. We 
defend education primarily as a social good, a good that should be born, 
developed and returned to society itself. Amid the establishment of the 
first private universities and the escalation of repression to 
unprecedented proportions, our struggle should not aim at a mere state 
or private university, nor at some union demands, but rather fight for a 
new type of education that can only exist within a new type of society: 
a libertarian education in a libertarian society. Through our 
intervention in schools and student associations, we can propose the 
unmediated struggle and define its scope, against the bureaucratic logic 
of the dominant forces of the left, connecting it with broader social 
parts, so that it opens a path for broader demands that include the 
whole of everyday life and the natural world. Setting the goals of a 
student movement that will be truly unguarded, dangerous, and revolutionary.

NEITHER STATE, NEITHER PRIVATE - FORWARD FOR A FREE EDUCATION

NEITHER DISCIPLINARY, NEITHER EXPULSIONS - SCHOOLS SHOULD BECOME FOCUSES 
OF STRUGGLE

Initiative of Anarchist Students of Athens

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