A-Infos (en) France, Alternative Libertaire AL #283 - Youth: Coordinate, yes but how ? (fr, it, pt) [machine translation]

Faced with the selection and the other elitist measures closing even more the higher 
education to the popular classes, the end of the academic year is marked by an 
acceleration of the mobilization in several facs. ---- Despite the period of exams, high 
school and high school students continue to coordinate between institutions such as Paris 
or Rennes, distributing leaflets, organizing high school AG, filter dams, blocks. Support 
from students is always helpful in dealing with the difficulties of organizing, as long as 
it does not replace it. Many high school students will have no assignments when Parcoursup 
starts giving the results on May 22, the date of mobilization of the public service. ---- 
A student mobilization that is growing ! ---- Almost all the universities in Paris are now 
mobilized and coordinated among themselves. In response, facs were closed 
administratively, and the police expelled, wounded and arrested students, as in Nanterre 
and Tolbiac, the director having let her in. The " free commune of Tolbiac   " (Paris-I) 
which voted for the occupation until the withdrawal of the ORE law allowed to gather in AG 
nearly 800 students, organizing workshops to make live this open university. In 
Saint-Denis (Paris-VIII), in addition to the occupation of an amphitheater to house exiles 
for three months, 1,000 people voted to block the college until April 20. And the Sorbonne 
was occupied by 400 people following the AG interfac, for the first time since 2006 !

It is in Toulouse that the movement was massified the earlier, because it is in the 
continuity of a fight against the merger of the University Jean-Jaurès (Mirail) with other 
facs Toulouse. The project was expected to result in degraded working conditions, job cuts 
for staff, higher tuition fees for students, increasingly opaque boards of directors, 
increased private interest, and valorization of "   excellence  " sectors and laboratories 
To the detriment of what does not meet the needs of the market economy. The strike was 
initiated from December by staff, supported by unions such as CGT Ferc-Sup, Sud Educ and 
FSU, and was joined by students. Several boards of directors have been invaded and the 
movement has begun to assert its opposition to both merger and selection. The AGs then 
began to grow and the mobilization hardened in early 2018. In early March, the GA 
student-staff voted the blocking of the Mirail campus, and the following MAs were massive, 
sometimes culminating at 2,000 people, and renewing the lock at each GA. The continuation 
or not of the blocking must be voted at the next GA, after the holidays. The threat of 
police intervention is in everyone's head. The local bourgeois media did everything to 
discredit the blockage and occupation of Mirail. This is why the mobilized have fought 
their way by invading the premises ofLa Dépêche du Midi to impose the publication of a 
non-modifiable press release.

For a democratic student coordination
In Lyon, as in Grenoble, while the students against the selection and the student unions 
struggling to get the mobilization started, the field work began to bear fruit, with 1400 
students in Grenoble voting blocking buildings. This burst later comes also from the 
desire to fight against the repression and disgust following the media coverage of the 
fascist attack at the university of Montpellier. The extreme right reveals its true role 
in attacking the social movement, as in Strasbourg, Paris or Lille. The best answer to 
fafs, beyond the self-defense of our mobilizations, is to continue to expand our movement, 
to be ever more numerous and determined.

Faced with the repression, other sectors in struggle support us, as in Marseille, where 
the CGT port union says it will respond with a strike to any police or fascist aggression 
against the occupation of Saint Charles University !

Mobilization is struggling to coordinate nationally. Although the National Coordination of 
Struggle (CNL) or the National Student Coordination (CNE) have set dates for national 
mobilization, they are not free from reproach. The CNL operates without mandates, so 
without democratic control over the decisions that are made there. The CNE, it was 
initially controlled by activists of the UNEF who, instead of respecting the mandates of 
their AG, acted according to the instructions of their union, including being mandated by 
phantom AG, gathering only a handful of students whose goal is to give more voice to UNEF 
during the coordination. By increasing the difference of voice between small and large AG, 
these maneuvers have less weight. For us, libertarian communists,

As partial and holidays approached, in mid-April, nearly half of the schools were blocked, 
with massive AGs like in Rennes-II on April 16 with 4,000 students, of which more than 
3,000 voted renewal of the block until April 30th. In faculties where highly-attended GAs 
are held, preventing the holding of examinations is possible. Convergence with staff and 
teachers is therefore important for students to get their year. The challenge is also to 
include students who have just entered the mobilization so that the occupations are alive, 
and that the actions outside the facs are widely followed, in order to support the 
railwaymen, teachers, hospital staff, employees on strike at Carrefour, in the air sector, 
or at the Post Office. The only way to win is to converge the mobilizations. It is a 
movement of magnitude that we need, a general strike and renewable that is not to invoke 
but to build methodically. The youth must be at the rendezvous, continue to organize 
ourselves self-management, convince more and more people to mobilize and go to meet the 
workers in struggle !

Youth Commission

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