A-Infos (en) Greece, liberta salonica AF: Universal demonstration: Thursday 8/4, 13:00, statue of Venizelos

Below is the anti-educational law of repression and class exclusion ---- The 
state comes to sow the chaos of neoliberalism in higher education through the 
organized program of repression, the escalation of class exclusion and 
consequently the premium of private initiative. The new education bill not only 
degrades free education, but also targets - and first of all - the students in 
our class. It attacks students who work, so that they can maintain their studies 
and with the new study limits they risk being expelled. The new bases established 
for the admission to the universities will turn the entrance to the universities 
into a road race for the candidates, where will prevail the largest wallet that 
will pay the best tuition or private university with the "best parchments" to 
enter the labor market, especially now that university degrees have been equated 
with those of colleges. The current educational restructuring seeks universities 
with few places for the few and elite elites favored by the Mitsotakis 
government. As it is understood, even more intensive studies will aim, not at 
educating the youth, but at the faster production of labor that will feed the 
labor market. Without any socialization, scientific or ideological ferment 
between students, since the only thing they will think about is that they will 
finish their studies, so that they do not delete.

In all this dystopian anti-educational context that emerges, the ND is doing 
everything possible to convince us that the restoration of dictatorial policies 
is not a worrying assessment of the future, but the reality of today. The 
establishment of a police force inside the universities, the surveillance of the 
interior and exterior of the universities with cameras and the criminalization of 
the militant mobilizations and practices of the students through disciplinary 
measures indicate the authoritarian stupidity of the the front of struggling 
students standing on the embankment of state and capital plans. After all, their 
tactics towards the competitive movement are well known.

If there was anyone in this country who, after repeated images of police violence 
not only in demonstrations and rallies, but even in squares, parks and public 
places against people who dare to walk, doubted what the entrance would mean. 
police at the universities, the rector of the Aristotle University of 
Thessaloniki, Nikos Papaioannou, took care to show us:

On the morning of Monday 22/2, the Associations of Physics, Electrical-Mechanical 
and Political Science Students, with decisions of their general assemblies, 
proceeded to occupy the rector's office of the Aristotle University of 
Thessaloniki against the recently passed anti-educational law of Kerameos. By 
order of the Rector of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Nikos 
Papaioannou, strong police forces invaded the university campus, in order to 
suppress the occupation of the Rector's Office and to arrest the struggling 
students. The cops surrounded the occupied deanery and cut off every road 
crossing to the area, they used uncontrolled violence, throwing chemicals and 
stun the assembled students, university professors, their solidarity, even 
reporters, the job of which deliberately harassed. The uniformed bastards did not 
even hesitate to torture a protester, throwing tear gas in front of him, while he 
was immobilized and dragging his head on the road. Police eventually made 31 
arrests. The detainees were taken to GADTH, where the ruined rector of AUTh 
pointed out to the cops what he considered "responsible" for the occupation.

On the same day, a first reflexive response was given against the state 
repression and as a sign of solidarity with the 31 arrested, with two parallel 
marches in the city center and outside GADTH. The students were not intimidated 
by Papaioannou's hafidist practices and continued the occupation in the rectory 
of AUTh. Within a few days the occupation was supported by more than 11 student 
associations and was framed by hundreds of students every day.

But the cops did not back down. A few days later, MAT cages and machines circled 
the wider area of the rectory, again attempting to evacuate the occupation. They 
managed to fail in a rather humiliating way for themselves, as although they had 
surrounded the building from all sides, apprehending those who dared to approach, 
at least 300 students managed to approach the occupation and thus guarantee that 
its plans Chrysochoidis and his cops will remain on paper. Then EL.AS. claimed in 
a statement that the strongest police forces were not there to evacuate the rectory,

Their vengeful rage was immediately expressed, with a monument of totalitarianism 
and violence: On 11/3 and while the decision of the student associations to stop 
occupying the rectory on the same day was known, cops invaded the AUTh campus and 
evacuated the rectory building. Shortly after 06:00, hooded security guards 
stormed the AUTh Rector's Office and after tying the 120 students who were in the 
squatting on their knees with a tire wrap, they selected (by what criteria?) 33 
of them and brought them. 16 of the 33 arrests turned into arrests. The other 
students were chased from MAT to STH, with sticks and tear gas, while students 
were also beaten in the Library of AUTh. The campus was blocked by MAT squads and 
hooded security guards, who forbade even the professors of AUTh to enter, while 
Egnatia was excluded from 4 cages. At the same time helicopters were flying in 
the city skies completing the image of dystopia.

But again, these would mean that you have to spend for these processes. The 
blatant repression, violence and impunity of the cops, now designated by the 
government as the sole regulators of social issues, led to massive marches of 
students, which only in 2006 and 2007 our city had seen. With more than 7,000 
students on the streets and clashes that lasted and were supported by hundreds of 
protesters, the only fact is that the government now realizes that the bet was 
not to pass the Kerameos law. The bet is to be able to implement it. And they 
have not won this bet yet.

We will not sit idly by. Our answers against the anti-social and anti-labor 
measures of the government that intensify state and capitalist totalitarianism 
must be given collectively and en masse on the streets of the struggle. To every 
question posed to the state and its government, cops are always the answer. Cops 
in our squares and neighborhoods, cops in our social spaces, soon cops in 
schools. Somewhere here is the point where we have to say "the cube was thrown". 
We participate in the mass struggle of students and employees on campus against 
the educational bill. In today 's gloomy conditions it is extremely important. We 
must stand firm in the plans of the state and capital that lead to the 
annihilation of the base in every social field. We demand free and equally 
accessible education for all and everyone. We can not tolerate another dose of 
junta. We know the critical state of health, but we are at the point where the 
state becomes immediately more dangerous than the pandemic. It's time to take to 
the streets again.

DOWN anti-EDUCATIONAL PREFECTURE KERAMEOS

NOR step back against state SUPPRESSION

NONE PROSECUTING TO 47 SYLLIFTHENTES 2 BUSINESS EVACUATION OF OCCUPATION OF 
PRYTANEIAS AUTH

ALL AND ALL IN PANEKPAIDEFTIKI demonstrations:
FIFTH 08.04, 13.00 FIGURIN VENIZELOU

support the block of student associations, we strengthen the relentless class 
struggle of students.

Anarchist Federation (Thessaloniki Region)

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