(en) http://fel-chile.org: Press Comundacao UCHILE - A TRUE POT DEMOCACIA (ca, pt)

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The government program that would end the neoliberal model has ended up becoming a large 
backdrop for reforms that favor corporate and elite interests that now have hijacked 
politics in our country. A tax reform held by the richest is not a good sign. Neither is 
an educational reform inclined to satisfy conservatives and privileges. ---- The year 2014 
has shown up to the challenges we face: without an organized social force that is 
mobilized by the provision of social and labor rights, to eradicate the market as a 
regulative principle of our society and for the dignity and sovereignty of our own lives, 
this country will continue its neoliberal and anti path. ---- The struggle for a more just 
and egalitarian country, where democracy is not enclosed in the kitchen of one of the 
affluent provided a link between politics and society, requires, first, strengthening 
demands conquered by the social movements in the long and tedious social reconstruction, 
dismantled completely excluded during the dictatorship and democratic governments, and on 
the other hand, active participation, and sharp social forces in politics.

In this task, the student and social movement has an active engagement with Chile and its 
people. Do not allow the demands raised and defended by hundreds of thousands used to 
reform regulating the excesses of the current model, as we seek to change the 
individualistic and competitive logic by a collective and cooperative. Therefore, we also 
seek to make educational institutions, reflections of the new society for which we mobilize.

As social and political organizations we have found this year in the streets, defending 
what seems fair; in colleges and assemblies, encouraging participation and discussion of 
our colleagues; in programmatic discussion, highlighting the importance of advancing the 
repeal of the DFL-2 prevents the tri-stratified participation and the need for a new 
national system of education whose pillar is public education; and political discussion, 
strengthening the autonomy of the movement without falling into intransigence and building 
channels for dialogue with other organizations in the social world. We look at this 
further find ourselves in the future.

We build a summons, organized and determined not to take a step back in the fight for a 
public, free and quality education, also within our university collective will. We must 
build a truly public University of Chile, democratic, free and serving the needs of our 
people. Where teaching, research and extension are not serving the market, where there are 
no unfair working conditions or studies, and finally, where collaboration and solidarity 
imposed on competition.

New times require efforts to overcome differences, to face the future with unity. The 
conquest of true democracy for the Chilean people will only be possible with a broad 
social alliance that confronts neoliberalism. We put our energy, enthusiasm and 
willingness to move towards that task. We also invite all organizations at the University 
of Chile to join this process of collective discussion and development.

We are those who believe that politics should not be done back to society. Only we can 
expand struggling democracy.

Signatories:

Libertarian Students Front - Independent Left - National Student Union

University of Chile.
September 2014.