#WORLD #WORLDWIDE #GREECE #ANARCHISM #News #Journal #Update - (en) Greece, APO: Land & Freedom - Against the university of class barriers and repression (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 OUR MATCHES WILL PASS OVER THEM ---- The state, in its attempt to subjugate

society and eliminate any trace of resistance, tries to take over every aspect of
our lives and impose itself on every social group. Student movements in Greece
often hide great dynamics because the collective and individual subjects within
the student movement represent and express radical positions and views on social
issues. The Greek state, after the uprising of the Polytechnic, has repeatedly
tried from 1975 until today to restructure the socio-political character of the
public university under the guise of modernization and rationalization. History,
however, has shown that an attack on the educational community meets with the
greatest social resistance. From the squatting movement of 1979 that repealed Law
815/1978, to the squatting movement of '90 -'91 against the Kontogiannopoulos
law, during which the leftist professor Nikos Temponeras was assassinated, to the
student movement of 2006-2007 against framework law and the revision of article
16 of the Constitution, until the occupation of the AUTh rectory in 2021, against
law 4777 Kerameos-Chrysochoidis. The culture of resistance and the communities of
struggle that have been formed over time within the university faculties are a
key element for the wider social and class struggles. in the student movement of
2006-2007 against the framework law and the revision of article 16 of the
Constitution, until the occupation of the AUTh rector's office in 2021, against
law 4777 Kerameos-Chrysochoidis. The culture of resistance and the communities of
struggle that have been formed over time within the university faculties are a
key element for the wider social and class struggles. in the student movement of
2006-2007 against the framework law and the revision of article 16 of the
Constitution, until the occupation of the AUTh rector's office in 2021, against
law 4777 Kerameos-Chrysochoidis. The culture of resistance and the communities of
struggle that have been formed over time within the university faculties are a
key element for the wider social and class struggles.

In its broader anti-insurgency policy, the state presented university asylum as
an asylum of lawlessness. It created a fictitious picture of the situation within
the universities and in this light, the far-right state administration abolished
the university asylum in 2019. The free circulation of ideas within the
university asylum allowed the flourishing of political-ideological currents such
as anarchist / anti-authoritarian ideas. Asylum is not a concession of the state
to the university community, but a conquest of the social struggles of that time.
We defend it primarily for its social character, because as anarchists we
consider that every human being, regardless of identity and status, may have
access to university premises on terms of freedom and equality. The university
asylum has formed in the collective consciousness that the entry of the police
into the university premises belongs to periods of totalitarianism, and that the
only way out of them is the resistance coming from the new generation. The
universities, and especially those of the center, were the core of great social
struggles, and that is exactly why the state wants to have them under its full
control.

In order to achieve the educational restructuring - that is, the implementation
of the passed laws - it is necessary the social demise of the university space.
Law 4777 was passed in February 2021 in the midst of quarantine, after completing
one year with universities closed, and was entitled "Introduction to Higher
Education, Protection of Academic Freedom, Upgrading of the Academic Environment,
including 58" articles. This law has clear repressive characteristics, in order
to create a "sterile" environment within the schools, eliminating the
political-ideological pluralism that currently exists. Collectivities, forms and
occupations that exist and operate within universities, with anarchist, libertarian,

In its implementation, law 4777 transforms the university space into an
environment of surveillance and control. It is planned to install video and audio
recording systems, sensors and motion detectors, alarms, object and substance
detection machines. A Center for the Control and Receipt of Signals and Images
(KELPSE) is created in each HEI, which collects and stores information from the
previous media. All this collection and storage of personal data by the state
removes any sense of privacy and raises a key political issue that as technology
and information science evolve more and more. Who is in control of our personal
data and how can they use it? If the academic environment allows such a situation
to become a reality,

The main axis of the law of Kerameos - Chrysochoidis, and a basic condition for
the full achievement of the educational restructuring itself is the entry of the
university police (OPPI). The university police - like any corps - have the sole
task of safeguarding the interests of the state and capital, and of suppressing
anything that resists them. The entry of a special police corps into the schools
is a one-way street for the state, because only through the policy of preventive
counter-insurrection is the social alienation of the university and the
implementation of the Bologna treaty for "the harmonization of the structure of
the European Higher Education System ", which since its entry into force in 1999
has been the guide for a series of measures taken by the Greek state. In full
harmonization with the neo-liberal restructuring policies, the Greek state, as
part of the capitalist region, is obliged through intergovernmental agreements to
follow the orders of the political and economic power of the West. However, its
failure - due to social resistance - to pursue with the same speed the
restructuring policies that have inspired the European lobbies in all areas of
our social life, have created for the most part stress in the state staffs, hence
the creation of OPPI, to safeguard educational restructuring. The presence of OPPI

The repression within the universities, the evacuations of occupied spaces, the
creation of OPPI, the cameras, the turnstiles, etc. are not an end in themselves.
They are the means by which the "University 2030" - as it has been named - will
be able to become a reality, if the militant resistance within the student
community is bent and annihilated. The "University 2030" is nothing more than a
business based on the neoliberal view that so faithfully and firmly the far-right
state management of New Democracy implements and supports, that every aspect of
economic and social life is private and operates on its own terms. "Free
economy". It is also no coincidence that the "University 2030" is a key part of
the central political line of the bourgeoisie in Greece, since the creation of
new specialized cheap labor is the main condition for the profit of the economic
elite. Undoubtedly, the capitalist system itself and the world economy are in a
transitional period. The violent transition to the 4th Industrial Revolution - as
it has been called by the elites - presupposes an increasing degree of
specialization on the part of the workers in a short period of time, so that
there is no large deficit in the labor market, especially in the sciences.
Institutions should have as their main purpose the uninterrupted production of
profit, knowledge usable, not in society, but in the labor market. There has long
been a tendency for the humanities to undermine and underfund the schools in
which they are taught, since the system at the moment does not need philologists,
sociologists or caregivers, but chemists, biologists and programmers. This is
exactly how human nature itself is alienated. By forcing and suppressing the
human imagination the individual can not become autonomous and evolve, but
remains a slave.

A university like the one in 2030 obviously can not fit them all. A key part of
educational restructuring is the very transformation of the open and public
university into a college by Western standards. The n + n / 2 and the minimal
admission base in the pan-Hellenic ones are a clear attack on the students
belonging to the lower social classes, but also a political expediency that
serves the interests of private education. Students who do not have access to
extracurricular education, such as tutoring and private tutoring, are excluded
from public higher education, while students who are forced to work for a living
- ie more than 70% of the student community - have a specific timetable to
complete their studies, without having the necessary free time. The university of
class barriers and the repression that is being created is nothing more than an
attack on the social base, aiming at exacerbating social inequalities and
degrading the educational level of society, promoting specialization and wage
slavery.

 From our point of view, we believe that students, as struggling subjects, must
constantly keep the resistance alive within the universities. To always organize
and intervene in unmediated and self-organized terms, to sharpen the peaks, when
the dominant narratives are waiting for their grinding. We propose our
participation in the general assemblies of our schools and at the same time we
aim at the creation of anarchist and libertarian structures and assemblies within
them. We believe that the means of struggle that we choose, must be assertive,
but also articulated with our goals. The creation of open assemblies in schools,
squatting and hangouts, but also our presence on the street as anarchist
students, structured horizontally, Solidarity and freedom are those that
collectivize and give substance to our reactions and needs, but also in general
to those of the "below" in the various social fields, of which we are a part. A
part of the oppressed, of the social base that fights for a just and emancipated
world.

At a time when scientific discoveries are opening up a new horizon, people who
are technically overdeveloped but emotionally underdeveloped use these
discoveries to enslave the individual. To perpetuate injustice and prepare the
nuclear millionaire. The new generation must revolt against the state and capital
which can only offer poverty, misery, and war. The great social struggles of the
past, with which the student movements did not reconcile, but chose the path of
conflict and resistance, show us that only in this way can a struggle lead to
victory and open other battlefields. We, as anarchists, remain faithful to our
values and principles and refuse to move to logics of compromise and retreat. We
choose the collective path of organization and struggle in terms of
anti-hierarchy against assignment logics. We have no illusions that someone will
solve our problems, as only we can know our needs and desires. Against the state,
capital, rectory principles, reformism and factorism, we propose the organization
of the anarchist / libertarian / anti-authoritarian space within the
universities, in order to judge everything in the occupied rectory and the
roadblocks. For a world of freedom, equality and solidarity. we propose the
organization of the anarchist / libertarian / anti-authoritarian space within the
universities, in order to judge everything in the occupied rectory and the
roadblocks. For a world of freedom, equality and solidarity. we propose the
organization of the anarchist / libertarian / anti-authoritarian space within the
universities, in order to judge everything in the occupied rectory and the
roadblocks. For a world of freedom, equality and solidarity.

Initiative of Anarchist Students of Athens

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