(en) Suisse, Organisation socialiste libertaire (OSL) - REBELLION - Push forward the student struggles Let our struggles converge (fr)

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http://www.rebellion-osl.ch/images/pdf/2014-03-25-etudiant2.pdf ----For several months, 
built a small cycle control youth, Switzerland and more strongly in Switzerland 
romande.Citons mobilization on study in the canton of Vaud scholarships, and the Valais, 
Neuch?tel experiences around ACAP, the Freiburg university against the law. There is 
still, in Geneva, the event on Erasmus and on the situation of foreign students es / eras. 
Not to mention the fight on taxes in HES. Other significant experiments are conducted in 
German Switzerland, particularly in Zurich or Basel as well as attempts to mobilize the 
EPF about tax increases studies. ---- This cycle of struggle has new features compared to 
the last experience student mobilization in Switzerland, the 2009 agreements against 
Bologna. The latter was marked by the great difficulty in moving the university to the 
public space and the difficult construction of the balance of power. This mobilization has 
remained very limited.

struggles today, although limited face strong offensive against higher education and study 
conditions, demonstrate a willingness to act with independence vis-?-vis organizations 
official, consultation and supervision of students are largely conquered by social democracy.

Convergence of struggles

In recent events, inter-cantonal cooperation between various organizations and 
collectives, political, social and trade union, began to build. It is the manifestation of 
scholarships in Lausanne, but also that of Fribourg on 25 March 2014. Resacte We also have 
the network. A new experiment is under way following the mobilization meeting Thursday, 
March 20, 2014 known by collectives several cantons.

Unity of action begins on specific topics. Consider building a common platform struggles 
of youth, as quickly as possible. It is a necessity imposed on us by violence and 
coherence at national and European level policies we face. The general level of 
confrontation remains low despite an encouraging boost. It is urgent to break the 
supervision of official student organizations policy. It seems necessary to discuss stable 
forms of coordination and joint action. We must make a goal. This type of construction 
does not all need to generate a stabilized form of organization but can upholster of 
convergeances, federations control and goal.

Limitations and needs

The student struggles face their limitations are not exclusive. There is the difficulty of 
mobilizing implies for each process control some voluntarism on the part of organizations 
and activists involved es. There is also the determination of power, which implies, for 
the back, even a few steps, we deploy a level of control that is not impossible to 
achieve, but that is not done yet.

However, as shown, for example, union experience SOUTH Student-es and Precarious, building 
self-managing organizations base, breaking the VSS is possible. We can handle even modest 
power in the field of direct mass action and union independence. There is a political, 
social and trade union to conquer space. This space fills a need. The existence of 
independent wrestling organizations can effectively stimulate the mobilization process, to 
monitor and support the defense, including individual, of Students in the conflicts that 
arise in institutions training, social policy and scholarship, and their employers. 
Indeed, we can not forget the student-employee share most of us majority requirement. 
Organization, mobilization and struggle must converge in the construction of a power-cons 
student.

Acceleration aust?ritaires and authoritarian policies.

The victory of the initiative of the UDC, 9 February 2014, sets a general acceleration 
aust?ritaires and authoritarian policies. The privileged classes develop expropriation of 
wage labor and the working classes, with a distribution more unequal wealth. Attacks 
against the democratic and human rights and cross multiply qualitative thresholds. We come 
to the construction of a systematic policy of discrimination type conditioner archaic 
dominations (eg. Women, discrimination of people and race.). The bourgeoisie and the Swiss 
employers fought this initiative purely formal manner. They now include and use it as 
leverage to tighten their domination. In this regard, see the Rebellion "Equality is the 
price of the struggle" reproduced in this issue.

This also has implications in students. The attack on the tripling of study fees for 
foreign students are / eras in the EPF is particularly emblematic in this regard. Driven 
by social democracy in alliance with the UDC, it deepens the creation of two student 
conditions based on passport and license. We also see the introduction of quotas for 
foreign / eras in universities.

Objectives and direction of our struggle

Attacks and policies have a great consistency at European level. The speed with which they 
translate local nationally in academic institutions, and progress requires a response to 
match the determination of centers of power system, all in a time of accelerating this 
process. The components of these attacks reinforce each other, are consistent with each 
other, are of a general policy that we could summarize schematically as follows:

1. Degradation and precarious conditions of study, the increased costs, reduced 
scholarships and still hold most student loans. It is the building and strengthening of 
the policy of "human capital", a "wage credit", where everyone is forced-e-e-e to become 
an illusory auto-entrepreneur/euse in a gradient market qualification and sale of labor 
power. This is a very serious violation of the public service, and direct wage, which 
tends to build a relationship of subordination increasingly deep capitalist exploitation, 
the condition of a labor market politically constructed devices command . We can and must 
think he draws a continuity between this subordination, and the one found in internships, 
in precarious forms and under-employed, and later employed in forms more stabilized.

2. Policy construction of a European labor market, with its working conditions, status, 
salary deeply degraded based on the mass proletarianization of workers / Artists 
intellectual-le-s, "Destitute es" es Flexibilised and precarious-es. The
proletarianization of intellectual es strengthens digitally and socially the world of 
work. It sets a new wage. This involves the rise of the precarious status and weakened, 
accumulated internships, work assigned, forms of employment discontinuous 
sub-salarisations and deprotection. This involves a period of longer and longer in 
employment after graduation to find a stable job.
We are seeing the accumulation of a mass of wage-es-es hit by a precarious long. Passing 
through periods of unemployment becomes a structural element of career paths. The 
important feminization of mass intellectuality reference to the condition of women 
undergoing traditional rulers and entering the labor market as "precarious among 
precarious." The type of integration of women into the labor market involves the 
reactivation of archaic rulers to better hasten the general insecurity.

3. Policies based on agreements Bolgone with the commodification of knowledge, 
managerialisation and "empowerment" of the university aims to make higher education in the 
immediacy of capitalist valorization education and expanded reproduction power. We face an 
attack against what were central elements of mass and relative democratization of 
education, in the previous historical period. It is also about winning hegemony for 
utilitarian and fragmented approach to training, with the construction of course closely 
professionalizing (eg. Masters with specialized training) immediately responsive, 
sometimes local, organization of work and have dominion over the qualifications and 
professionalit?s. In fact, there where a company liquidation skills and strong 
certifications, those that develop a balance of power in the labor market, and in favor of 
a system of limited powers that weakens and precarious.

4. Policies of discrimination, competition between "foreign / eras" and "natives", with 
different rights, restriction of access to social security, the right to move freely and 
naturally attacks to family reunification.

5 Very pronounced against human rights, democratic and trade union attacks: restriction of 
the opportunity to inform, display, access to students and precarious attacks on 
bargaining rights, restriction of. strike, suppression of protests and fighting in public 
space in general. Attempts to bring disciplinary action against "harm to the university 
level," Freiburg is particularly emblematic. The command is not exercised in the wage, it 
unfolds fully in the pre-wage, university, institution, which marks a stage of life at 
work, that of training. Today this policy of restricting democratic spaces is accompanied 
by attacks against the forms of classical bourgeois representation in universities, with 
the concentration of decision-making power in the directions. This is the full passage 
from classical university to university business. It is coupled with the presence of 
increasing the thrust of firmesdans decision. It is to break all the superfluous elements 
of the chain of decisions to ensure the most immediate possible to the needs of the labor 
market responsiveness. In sum, the liquidation of what was once called culture.

What we need

The only realistic to conduct policy, is the development of independent and 
self-management-based organizations, to fight, to build a power-cons capable of carrying 
the battle to where the attack against us is conducted. We are far, however trying to 
trace some elements of such a possible.
Such organizations must be able to respond to these policies with claims reflect the 
wishes and aspirations of the greater number. Claim and, facing the type of capitalism 
that we face is to take a position of great radicalism. We must also be able to provide a 
fulcrum for ?tudiant-es/travailleurs-euses much in the conflicts that oppose their 
employers face to what's playing in places of training. That nobody is left without 
support, e-deprived face of forces that affect, often very strong.

But all we need to have a debate and wear alternative proposals, offensive offer 
opportunities that enable advanced, even partial, over our struggles. It should work in 
this direction around free education, coupled with the demand for a social wage for youth. 
It responds dramatically to the process of casualization and flexibility, the 
discontinuous nature of traditional direct wages and injunctions training throughout life. 
Training, as well as unemployment, illness, etc.., Is a stage of life and the employee 
shall be compensated and protected in the same way. The Students are workers / Artists in 
training. We must bring a claim to equal status for all and all students are 
European-do-s, from the most favorable already living conditions. This is what will allow 
genuine freedom of movement guaranteed and protected. Finally, the claim of culture and 
intellectual construction, that of a critical emancipatory Free University, involves 
sufficient public funding, public service status based on social utility, a strategy of 
socialization and appropriation social teaching and, in fact, the whole school.

Audacity

Here's what could be the basis of a platform struggles of youth in Switzerland, based on 
independence from separate power on self-management, and direct mass action. We need to 
work in this direction by integrating all the political, social and union organizations 
who want to participate, considering the collective tied in the common work of 
emancipation. Convergence will in the struggles, the need to break with the framing of 
social liberalism devices. Have the audacity to build a path together to raise the 
struggles, resistance towards common goals and potential.

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