Today's Topics:
1. Coordenação Anarquista Brasileira (CAB): MAY 15: PEOPLE IN
THE FIGHT AGAINST EDUCATION AND AGAINST REFORM OF
THE PENSION
(pt) [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
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The advance of neoliberalism linked to US imperialism in Latin America operates a violent
conjuncture of our riches, environmental devastation, withdrawal of rights won by the
popular struggle and extreme precariousness of the life of our people. In Brazil,
Bolsonaro's neoliberal and far-right government has staged this process with overwhelming
speed. And in this grave situation education, science and culture are in the sights of the
powerful. ---- An Elites and Government Project to Destroy Education ---- It should not be
forgotten, however, that this project of dismantling education did not begin yesterday.
The federal government, states and municipalities in successive governments have operated
measures that precarious and increasingly make more and more public education and quality
for our people. In this course, the set of attacks we face is enormous. Measures such as
lack of investment and budget cuts, closure of schools, weakening of labor relations and
persecution of education workers, curricular reforms and authoritarian and ideological
projects such as the School without a Party.
The School without Party conceals behind its mask an ideological project that aims to end
critical education and autonomy, to censor and persecute educators, and to promote
historical revisionism to defend the version of the powerful. The Higher Education Reform
guidelines and the new BNCC set out the possibility for us to expand cultural repertoires
and restrict access to key disciplines for the formation of critical thinking. In a clear
logic of flexibility of contents to the minimum for the formation of cheap labor to the
market. The fight against and defamation of the discussion of gender and sexuality is the
attempt to moralize teaching by religious interests, denying diversity and contributing to
the maintenance of sexist and homophobic violence. The massification of distance learning
also goes along with this logic, seeking to reach the maximum of students in an
inexpensive and disqualified way, besides emptying the sense of the teacher and the
collective of the classroom. It also includes the expansion of investment in private
education companiesprivatization , the militarization of education schools and bets on
home teaching, among other measures.
The federal education system, for example, has suffered budget losses through
contingencies since 2014, even during Dilma Rousseff's PT government, which ironically
adopted the motto "Educating Country." Michel Temer advanced with the dismantling,
reducing the budget from 2017. With the limits imposed by PEC 95/2016, which establishes
the so-called spending ceiling and freezes for 20 years investments in areas such as
health, social assistance and education, the access to the most basic rights is already
unfeasible.
The Bolsonaro government, which has education as one of its main enemies, recently
announced the blocking of many millions of reais from the already reduced budget of
education, which reachesfrom primarytohigher education. Along with this, comes an attack
on university autonomy, academic freedom, the organization of workers and education
workers and students. Cuts of scholarships and funds for research, creating an image of
the teacher as an "enemy" and persecution of public servants, threats to close courses
that "do not produce" and a crusade against the humanities.
The government has declared war on public educational institutions, and so much disqualify
them with Fake News, other forms of lies. They seek to persuade the population to support
their perverse project of precariousness in order to privatize education, also ending with
the spaces of criticism and resistance.
These measures have continuity in what has been done in previous governments, but are
articulated in an ideological political project of extreme right along with more
neoliberal blackmail
There is no doubt that a great challenge of this misrule to sustain itself is the theft of
our retirement with the approval of the Pension Reform. No wonder, the government has said
in all letters and without shame in the face that the "blocking" of education budget can
be reversed if the reform is approved. The upstairs corja, an elite of proprietary
capitalists, bankers, judges, militia and politicians, wants to deepen the capture of the
public budget through public debt and reforms, cutting into the flesh of the people to
maintain that binge.
Defending education and social security in the streets
If the attacks are many, our resistance is also great, with the youth that resisted the
occupations, the workers and workers who built so many strikes, demonstrations, pickets.
Now it's time to harden this fight. It is necessary to defend day-care centers, public
schools and universities, because in the education of the people does not move, the
education of the people is not sold. Education consists of practices of freedom. It
broadens our consciousness, gives us the sense of collectivity and solidarity. That's what
the top guys are fighting against.
The student is on the front line and already points the way. Large mobilizations and
assemblies are taking place across the country. We also have the challenge of mobilizing
trade unionism, breaking old bureaucracies and reformist formulas. It is not with the
undersigned for deputies nor with acts bureaucratised and harmless to the government that
wins this fight. IT'S WITH PEOPLE ON THE STREET!
It is the moment to break with the discouragement that does not construct alternatives to
our exploration. The precariousness of schools and the teaching career produces a feeling
of isolation and weakening, unable to counteract the attacks and cuts senses. However,
each colleague must be a point of support and strength to resist, broadening the debate
and building membership from the places of insertion, strengthening from the grassroots
the popular struggle and mobilization.
It is with a clenched fist, building unity in school and academic communities, in favor of
Public Education, scientific production and the autonomy of teaching institutions, which
creates the motor to drive the confrontation with the policies of dismantling Education.
On May 15, the organizations of the Brazilian Anarchist Coordination (CAB) add to the
struggle of the students and workers and education workers throughout the country. All the
people on the street defending public and popular education and defending our retirement.
The education strike shows the way forward for June 14, by GREVE GENERAL against the
Pension Reform.
FOR A PUBLIC, POPULAR AND DEMOCRATIC EDUCATION!
FOR A GENERAL STRIKE FROM THE BASE, IN DEFENSE OF EDUCATION AND AGAINST THE END OF RETIREMENT!
https://anarquismo.noblogs.org/?p=1089
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