WE PAY THE CRISIS IS NOT!
event October 17 - photo Flavia Fasano
"We will not pay for the crisis! " This slogan, which features demonstrations of the movement, I think best represents the full political nature of this season's struggles. The counter was the element of Gelmini trigger for the protest and its withdrawal is the main objective. The movement, however, expresses an ability to "read the phase" which calls into question not only Berlusconi but the entire neo-liberal hegemony of the season on the designs of social reform.
A movement of the whole school, from students to teachers to parents, where the communication policy is primarily within the movement itself, between different actors and different generations that make it up. A radically non-violent movement that in his "there is no" sets - us in the first place - an issue of political reform that part on the ability social construction, the critique of representation as a separate form of politics.
It is no coincidence that the protests in schools, universities, public research institutions are widespread forms of taking a broad and generalized movement that not only regressive opposed to the wishes of the Berlusconi government, but also adds discussion, the overall passiveness and conformism.
And today, at a stage where the production of knowledge has become a central issue of development and contradictions of the capitalist, this movement puts on a great reading, go to the root, to understand the links between the government's handling of the crisis and the cuts to public education ("we will not pay for the crisis on his part"), including job cuts and cuts to the quality of knowledge and quality of the future ("not tagliateci the future ' ), including the impoverishment of educational processes and reducing the practicability of democratic spaces, including recession and repression.
The expansive nature of this movement seems to be based, therefore, the capacity for an overall response to the attack system (from elementary to research institutions) carried out by this government: the ultimate challenge to the social function of education and public research.
The impression is that you are setting a broader process that unites generations around the idea that the public good of knowledge is guaranteed to all and everyone. Parents, school and university students, graduate students, researchers precarious, technical and administrative workers, teachers of all levels are now united in the fight against the government's aim to dispose of the structure of public education by going to affect the basic principles of our Constitution Republic.
It 's a movement that is born in schools and universities but it speaks to society as a whole, occupying not only the streets, but the city. The world is shaken by the crisis in financial markets and a capitalist mode of production that proves not to be compatible with human development and the aspiration to a democratic society where economic development and social welfare move in unison. The Berlusconi government instead to pursue a serious policy to support demand, increasing by one hand, the purchasing power of households and other spaces expanding access to knowledge, a vital resource to produce a quality development of contemporary societies, meets the crisis in a regressive way, showing her full face reactionary.
The banking system falters and the government runs to the rescue by providing resources responsible for the crisis of rivers from their families. You do not cut the arms, they stop the projects as unnecessary and damaging the TAV or bridge over the Straits of Messina, but it reduces social spending and public education research and massacre. If the Government's proposal goes through, about 85 thousand to 45 thousand workers and technical teachers and school administrators will be sent home. With the cut of 1,500 million euro at the universities to which you add the block of material assumptions, tens of thousands of casual research would have to leave the country or even worse, fall back on other job prospects, while 57 thousand temporary workers in the public sector six months from now it will not renew contracts despite having completed the requirements for the stabilization provided for in the last two budget laws.
And then the wicked option offered to schools and universities, land-cut in public funding, to become de facto foundations giving to individuals the ability to manage resources and public facilities, heavily influencing the formation and research in our country. Not to mention the emptying of full-time, instead of being extended to those realities, particularly the south, where it has never really been applied, is reduced or at least meaningless, while the re-entry the "single master" and vote in the duct will be seeking a model of hierarchical and authoritarian school.
This is the company that offers the right . Where the school is reduced to conformity and fitness of research precarious, slave to the whims of a volatile market. The other aspect of the government's handling of the recession is repressive authoritarianism: the army in the city at 5 in the threat of police conduct in universities. This movement, however, is too large and the threat of force is not able to stop him.
On the one hand, we have a government that offers us classism, police state, institutional racism, including through the establishment of separate classes for migrant citizens, the other a full articulation of social bares the King, showing all the democratic vitality, anger but also the joy of a company wishing to investment in knowledge as a common good.
We must do movement, for its growth and its victory. We must work to effectively settle the fight for knowledge as a common good with the fight against inflation. There are two aspects of the same coin, he understood the movement he can understand the majority of the country. The outlet's political movement and its victory, that the withdrawal of the decree Gelmini. A political solution that we have to work, both inside the movement is spreading as much as possible the mobilization against high prices. At the conference we had gambled on the possibility to create a warm autumn. Now the temperature has already risen a lot, 'our job to find the links between social problems and widespread fighting between the government and fighting against the Confindustria our duty to work to broaden the movement. "The crisis we will not pay" must become our watchword, since the mobilization of 25.
Rome, October 24, 2008
