Education, as a social good, has for decades been the target of a series
of restructurings aimed at its complete state control on the one hand
and its profitable exploitation by Capital on the other. ---- The
State's targeting is twofold. First, universities are not simply
adapting to the needs of business interests, but should themselves be
transformed into businesses that will operate according to the laws of
the markets. In the "rationalized" university, education should simply
be a tool for economic "development", which will constitute a vestibule
of the labor market, producing the specialized executives it needs. At
the same time, the institution of the university itself should be at the
behest of the State and Capital, with the work and research it produces
not serving the needs of society or even vaguely "science", but the
interests exclusively of themselves. Thus, laboratories and researchers
must dedicate resources and forces to produce the research work of
private companies and state institutions. Especially in our time when
science and its application to technology have an upgraded role, it is
necessary to put them at the service of state planning and repression,
with the complex of war industries having been integrated into the
research plans of universities, both on a practical level and
institutionally.
In this context, special mention should be made of the cooperation of
Greek universities with the state of Israel, which is part of the
broader effort to strengthen the relationship between the Greek state
and the Israeli one, in the name of geostrategic plans and the "national
interest". Thus, from the National University of Athens, the Aristotle
University of Thessaloniki and the National Technical University of
Thessaloniki, to the University of Patras, the National Academy of
Sciences and the University of Thessaloniki, a series of institutions
have from time to time collaborated or participated in research programs
jointly with Israeli universities and institutions, as well as with war
industries such as Intracom. The second main aspect of the educational
restructuring aims at the complete political sterilization of the
university, with it completely stripping itself of the social
characteristics that it had incorporated over time. More specifically,
the university asylum, through its social character, has become both a
field of political activism and expression for broader social groups
that have found fertile ground within it, and a base for struggles that
have targeted the very world of the State and capitalism. Through its
abolition and the attempt to delegitimize it, the State wants to achieve
a more comprehensive blow to the movements, thus wanting to intercept
any prospect of overthrowing the established order of things. The new
disciplinary measures that have been announced and voted on are also
moving in this direction, which essentially criminalize political
activity and collectivization within the faculties, threatening even
with permanent expulsion those who fall into this "misdemeanor".
For our part, as anarchists, students, we must make our goal clear. We
defend education primarily as a social good, a good that should be born,
developed and returned to society itself. Amid the establishment of the
first private universities and the escalation of repression to
unprecedented proportions, our struggle should not aim at a mere state
or private university, nor at some union demands, but rather fight for a
new type of education that can only exist within a new type of society:
a libertarian education in a libertarian society. Through our
intervention in schools and student associations, we can propose the
unmediated struggle and define its scope, against the bureaucratic logic
of the dominant forces of the left, connecting it with broader social
parts, so that it opens a path for broader demands that include the
whole of everyday life and the natural world. Setting the goals of a
student movement that will be truly unguarded, dangerous, and revolutionary.
NEITHER STATE, NEITHER PRIVATE - FORWARD FOR A FREE EDUCATION
NEITHER DISCIPLINARY, NEITHER EXPULSIONS - SCHOOLS SHOULD BECOME FOCUSES
OF STRUGGLE
Initiative of Anarchist Students of Athens
https://landandfreedom.gr/el/agones/2087-athina-kalesma-stin-panekpaideftiki-poreia-stis-23-10-protovoulia-anarxikon-foititon-trion-athinas
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of restructurings aimed at its complete state control on the one hand
and its profitable exploitation by Capital on the other. ---- The
State's targeting is twofold. First, universities are not simply
adapting to the needs of business interests, but should themselves be
transformed into businesses that will operate according to the laws of
the markets. In the "rationalized" university, education should simply
be a tool for economic "development", which will constitute a vestibule
of the labor market, producing the specialized executives it needs. At
the same time, the institution of the university itself should be at the
behest of the State and Capital, with the work and research it produces
not serving the needs of society or even vaguely "science", but the
interests exclusively of themselves. Thus, laboratories and researchers
must dedicate resources and forces to produce the research work of
private companies and state institutions. Especially in our time when
science and its application to technology have an upgraded role, it is
necessary to put them at the service of state planning and repression,
with the complex of war industries having been integrated into the
research plans of universities, both on a practical level and
institutionally.
In this context, special mention should be made of the cooperation of
Greek universities with the state of Israel, which is part of the
broader effort to strengthen the relationship between the Greek state
and the Israeli one, in the name of geostrategic plans and the "national
interest". Thus, from the National University of Athens, the Aristotle
University of Thessaloniki and the National Technical University of
Thessaloniki, to the University of Patras, the National Academy of
Sciences and the University of Thessaloniki, a series of institutions
have from time to time collaborated or participated in research programs
jointly with Israeli universities and institutions, as well as with war
industries such as Intracom. The second main aspect of the educational
restructuring aims at the complete political sterilization of the
university, with it completely stripping itself of the social
characteristics that it had incorporated over time. More specifically,
the university asylum, through its social character, has become both a
field of political activism and expression for broader social groups
that have found fertile ground within it, and a base for struggles that
have targeted the very world of the State and capitalism. Through its
abolition and the attempt to delegitimize it, the State wants to achieve
a more comprehensive blow to the movements, thus wanting to intercept
any prospect of overthrowing the established order of things. The new
disciplinary measures that have been announced and voted on are also
moving in this direction, which essentially criminalize political
activity and collectivization within the faculties, threatening even
with permanent expulsion those who fall into this "misdemeanor".
For our part, as anarchists, students, we must make our goal clear. We
defend education primarily as a social good, a good that should be born,
developed and returned to society itself. Amid the establishment of the
first private universities and the escalation of repression to
unprecedented proportions, our struggle should not aim at a mere state
or private university, nor at some union demands, but rather fight for a
new type of education that can only exist within a new type of society:
a libertarian education in a libertarian society. Through our
intervention in schools and student associations, we can propose the
unmediated struggle and define its scope, against the bureaucratic logic
of the dominant forces of the left, connecting it with broader social
parts, so that it opens a path for broader demands that include the
whole of everyday life and the natural world. Setting the goals of a
student movement that will be truly unguarded, dangerous, and revolutionary.
NEITHER STATE, NEITHER PRIVATE - FORWARD FOR A FREE EDUCATION
NEITHER DISCIPLINARY, NEITHER EXPULSIONS - SCHOOLS SHOULD BECOME FOCUSES
OF STRUGGLE
Initiative of Anarchist Students of Athens
https://landandfreedom.gr/el/agones/2087-athina-kalesma-stin-panekpaideftiki-poreia-stis-23-10-protovoulia-anarxikon-foititon-trion-athinas
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