A-Infos (en) Greece, Statement of OAE (Press Office), On the university students occupations

Federally coiled students affixing their direct action and not their 
subjugation in various centres and experts will have the essential syndicalist 
 reflexives to side quickly with every class mobilisation of educational, 
labour, economical or environmental concerns. The occupations of universities 
after the decisions of the student associations   are continued against the 
revision of Article 16 of the Greek Constitution  which in theory ensures the 
public free education and also against the law-draft that imports more the 
various enterprises in the universities and intensifies the studies.
We had (as OAE) pointed out that the students’ struggle in order to solidify 
victories it should obtain a class and not a corporate character. This 
orientation can be achieved by the class fermentation of the students, the 
upgrade of the demands, with the class constitution of the struggle jointly 
with the workers, unemployed and pensioners. This class orientation of the 
struggle has not been achieved yet despite the good preconditions had the 
victorious start of the whole struggle during last year. Under the 
responsibility of the corporate and party students’ and academics’ associations 
we have a going back of the struggle in the known “wooden” reason of the 
Left-museum by which the Left conceives the students as sheeps and itself as 
the shepherd of the absolute truth.

There existed time to upgrade the demands, comprehended by the students that 
their struggle is common with this of the school teachers and the high school 
students. But, the party and corporate unions and associations had serious 
interests not to seek a class struggle that would put in the centre the 
exploited and oppressed because they would lose the control of them, they would 
be passed on the margin and this was the last the Left wanted because its 
existence is mostly based in the universities.

Thus the students’ struggle, with the indirect sabotage from the interior, 
progressively looses its mass character and various demands are floating such 
as... “possible Greek degrees”. Beyond the demands, the lack of a sufficient 
safeguard of the collective students’ decisions creates the impression in the 
society that the student struggle has not aims, that every small unknown 
minority can impose its “opinion” on the lot of struggled students even by 
violence. We saw this lack of safeguard of decisions and the corporate 
dimension of the struggle in its most tragic form during the last educational 
year which began with a big strike of primary school teachers, it continued 
afterwards with the occupations of high school students and now we have the 
mobilisations in university students and professors.

We believe that the situation will become very simple if we adopt the 
revolutionary syndicalism. If the revolutionary syndicalism is adopted as a 
method of action then we will have joint mobilisations of primary school 
teachers, high scholl and univeristy students, professors and parents who agree 
with the struggle. If the revolutionary syndicalism is adopted we will have as 
a basic demand the equalisation of the wages of all workers and then the 
struggle will take a character of a popular uprising. Moreover, we must not 
forget that the revolutionary syndicalism is based on the rank n’ file 
organisation, the discipline in the collective decisions and approves the 
violence only for aiming at the safeguard of the struggle from government owned 
and dominating interventions.

Today we realise that the one after the other the struggles lost from because 
of the multiple split in the interior of the exploited and not by the force of 
the capitalist State and government. All those who today speak for the 
supremacy of capitalism, government and State are deceit us. We should realise 
that the authoritarian of all colours use this argumentation in order to 
disorientate the popular classes from the party and corporate syndicalism 
responsibilities in the defeat of the struggles.

The poor univeristy students who later will become workers and no bosses, 
should draw conclusions. The student movement should change orientation, take a 
class character, organising his forces from under to above. It should realised 
by the students that they are not the centre of the world because they had the 
economic comfort, or enjoyed or had big faculties to pass in the third degree 
education. We believe the students must not be privileged against those social 
layers who did not have this opportunity and this should become conscience of 
the big part of students in order to escape from the corporate struggles.

OAE proposes a federal coiling of all revolutionary syndicalist forces of 
students to be formed immediately, regardless of ideological positions. We have 
to fight with class demands and revolutionary means in the student communities 
and this can become with long-lasting work of revolutionary syndicalist forces 
in the universities. The federally coiled students affixing their direct action 
and not their subjugation in various centres and experts will have the 
essential syndicalist reflexives to side quickly with every class mobilisation 
of educational, labour, economical or environmental concerns.

Thus it will exist a bidirectional relation between the student struggle with 
the workers, unemployed, pensioners and only then we will live collective 
victories of the classes suffering exploitation and oppression.

Forward in the class struggle!

Federation of Anarchist of Greece (Press Office)

March 2007
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