The Struggle Against the Privatisation of Education in Greece
Titel:
The Struggle Against the Privatisation of Education in Greece
Auteur:
Takis Fotopoulos
Verschenen in:
International journal of inclusive democracy
Paginering:
Jaargang 3 (2007) nr. 2 pagina's 4
Jaar:
2007
Inhoud:
For three months now, higher education in Greece has been at a standstill, as a result of the fierce resistance by students and university staff against the plans of the local political end economic elites to privatise higher education. Students have been occupying most Greek universities all this time, while the vast majority of university teachers (apart from those belonging to the right, together with some from the reformist Left) have been on an indefinite strike in support of student demands. This is all part-and-parcel of a pan-European movement against neoliberal globalisation policies imposed by the European part of the transnational elite. In France, the revolt by the victims of globalization has been spreading for more than a year, as indicated by the campaign against the neoliberal Constitution of the European Union, the November 2005 riots and then the mass strikes and demonstrations last Spring against the French elite’s attempt to introduce the Anglo-American kind of legislation of ‘hire and fire at will’ (or, ‘flexible’ labour relations, as neoliberals euphemistically call it) in their attempt to “solve” the huge youth unemployment problem the country faces. No wonder that some analysts already talk of a new ‘May 68’, when a similar movement was spreading all over the advanced capitalist countries (France, Germany, Britain, the USA and elsewhere) —a movement that marked the beginning of a new era.
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