The neoliberal policies aimed at making education a business and a tool to perpetuate domination are focuses of young people who meet in Pretoria
PRETORIA, South Africa, December 15 .- With neoliberalism growing inequality, and therefore every day more universities robs young people around the world. That is the certainty of youth gathered at the XVII World Festival of Youth and Students, who demanded a fair and public education, and reported to the World Trade Organization to try to make this human right into a business.
During the third day of discussions taking place in the Tshwane International Convention Center, the eyes of the young progressive movement were focused on the lack of access to education for the poorer classes in many countries, and the defense of those education systems of nations like Cuba, have joined the wave of neo-liberal logic of the commodification of basic rights such as education.
Among those who raised their voices to condemn the privatization of education in the day devoted to America, was the English Pilasters Marion, Union of Young Communists in his country. The 25 year old student explained that the adaptation of the English educational system as a whole to the neoliberal model, it serves the dictates of international financial institutions such as IMF and WTO, which are dominated by economic and financial oligarchy imperialist countries, in order to impose dominant class interests, attacking the working class.
"The General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS), promoted by the WTO, seeks to ensure tightly the introduction of private capital in all public services. This agreement, now awaiting approval, is a dramatic twist in the politics of privatization and gentrification of education as not only ensures the privatization of education, but also prevents exhaustively public support for this ", said the student in French Studies and Social Sciences.
In his view, education has not ceased to be mediated by privileges and inequalities are increasing every day, to the extent that neoliberalism advances, and that affects the ability to access the educational system, as its use, value, and said that some of the population is not in school and are marginalized.
regretted that many universities as part of the capitalist policy of using education in order to keep the "order now and domination of one class over another, not interested in training young people critically.
Karaliokis Greek Petros, Militant Front of Students ensures that the capitalists want to turn the university into a field "very successful" for the reproduction of their profits. So keep the monopoly privatization and want to maintain control over the investigation.
Karaliokis urged the youth to break with the false argument that the relationship between capitalism and education is based on the needs of people, because for this system are intended to universalize education is only more business to increase its profits.
Only when human beings have the power to organize production in order to satisfy their needs, education will be popular, said the militant Greek, and warned that the current global economic crisis is a favorable environment for the youth movement to stop being defensive and counterattack. Today
conditions exist to make all the knowledge produced by mankind in the hands of the people and youth. The only obstacle is the power of monopolies and private ownership of the means of production, he said.
Following the paradigm
addition to referring to specific cases in their countries, most young people highlighted the example the Government of Cuba has never been added to the fever of the commodification of education.
The Cuban delegate Carlos Rangel spoke of the socialist experience of the island, which guarantees free and universal education at all levels, and highlighted the ALBA as a mechanism of integration, has articulated literacy initiatives in several countries.
"Literacy is inherent in a progressive and revolutionary process gives the opportunity for people to reach secondary and higher education. It is an opportunity that should give all governments to their people, "he said.
Meanwhile, Marion English Pilasters highlighted how Cuba, despite their limited material resources, is a world leader in the fight against illiteracy, and has the unanimous recognition of the UN and UNESCO.
For this young surprisingly, Cuba has devoted much of their income to education, guaranteeing the public, universal and free education of this right.
In the same vein, Yordanys Charchaval, president of the Latin American and Caribbean Continental Organization of Students (OCLAE), noted that the triumph of the Revolution there were only three universities in Cuba, and today nearly 70 centers higher education, completely free and all social sectors.
Charchaval advocated a new American university, and exemplified some steps have been taken in this regard as the Latin American School of Medicine (ELAM), born in Cuba a decade ago under the inspiration of Fidel. This initiative was extended to Venezuela.
also referred to the International School of Physical Education and Sport, Spain, where young people form different countries in the world, and the Federal University of Latin American Integration (UNILA), located in the triple border between Argentina Brazil and Paraguay.
OCLAE The president said the university should go beyond their walls and reach the poorest sectors, and highlighted how Venezuela has increased the number of graduates from this level of education during the Chavez government.
On the homeland of Bolívar, she said Marion is a legend, it halted the neoliberal educational reform that was cooked according to recipe Machiavellian IMF, and in 2009 prompted another that has had for the first time in U.S. history with a real participation of the Venezuelan people, and strengthens the role of the state as responsible for ensuring free and compulsory studies.
also highlighted the progress of the Civic Revolution of Ecuador, which recently passed a law on higher education demarketising supply both public and private careers, and the conditions a national development plan is the result of planning .
Puerto Rico: not stop us
Between April and June this year, Puerto Rican students took to the streets and campuses of the University of Rio Piedras to protest against the increase tuition prices. On Wednesday, these young people were on the second day of a new protest because the government wants to increase the fee to enter higher education.
"neo-liberal attacks against the University has focused on subtracting resources to the education system, through budget cuts, increases in tuition fees and reduced benefits to university employees, with the aim of reduce the number of students who enroll at the institution, "says Frederick Cortes Diaz, a Puerto Rican delegates.
protagonist also earlier demonstrations, Frederick explains that with these steps the government seeks to "justify the dismissal of thousands of teachers and nonteaching employees to testify to the University as a project and thus privatize unprofitable. "
Young said the strike began on December 14 "will extend the time needed to stop the destruction of public education system by the state and its cronies foreign investors and bondholders at the service of American imperialism. Will not stop us. Or gas, batons and bullets, not stop us. "
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