publish this article appeared last issue of independent Greek "Paideia"
Although final approval on December 22 last year, the bill Gelmini reform of the university and despite the arrival of winter break class, with a series of examinations, the movement Italian university students did not stop. After the explosion of anger with the fighting in Piazza del Popolo in Rome on 14 December after blockades and demonstrations in conjunction with the final vote on the Senate reform paralyzed, for the umpteenth time, whole cities, the movement is back to be felt. A high point of the mobilization has been touched with the metalworkers' strike of 28 January. The union has called FIOM a day off work in opposition to the agreements relating to the establishments and Pomigliano Mirafiori Fiat signed between management and other unions. Extension of working time, intensification of the rhythms, the abolition of the right to strike, the expulsion of non-corporate trade unions: the juice of the attack that led to the working class Fiat. Between students and workers has produced a weld erosion of existing rights and the conquest of new spaces of democracy.
The meeting was not limited to students walking on the side of which block the production workers. In some cases, academics have sought to go beyond the old slogan sessantottesco "workers and students joined in the fight. " For example, in the university town of Pavia, near Milan, a procession of high school students and faculty of the historic university occupied a building of several thousand square meters belonging to the university. The university, having scarcity of funds and the well-known tendency to give a hand to friends speculators, let him have been abandoned for five years and admitted candidly that it had plans to do so. I had many projects but very interesting and university students: a college for students and young precarious otherwise be forced to pay rent of € 500 in black for a copypoint photocopied handouts and textbooks at cost; a library where you can have texts at a discounted price; permanent study rooms to meet the inadequate offer by the University, a table at popular prices, and sustainable food (km 0, biological, etc.). a center for ' where self-organizing conferences and seminars organized by students and create critical knowledge; branches of legal assistance for rent and work contracts, a service specifically for foreign students (residence permits, language courses, etc..) laboratories, salt exhibition, movie in which promote free access to culture.
Employment student of Pavia is ideally recalls the historical experience workers' mutual aid societies were born in mid-nineteenth century. The mutualism is indeed identified as the phase ricompositiva that allows the construction of the dynamics of social conflict. The intention behind these reflections is the reunification of subjects, yet share the same misery, are isolated and divided by the policies or contractual mock the allocation of merit scholarships. Autonomy, mutualism and self are the three key concepts on which wind through the analysis of existing and proposed change. The idea implemented by the students is to create self-organization to meet basic needs by providing autonomy in the welfare state, always most affected by economic crisis, plans for austerity cuts. If rights are mirages for students and temporary workers, then they must build them yourself, as did the workers who founded the first mutual hundred and fifty years ago. Speaking of mutualism and look for ways to apply it is certainly not a novelty, are in fact found in previous illustrious company workers' mutual aid or fate in the nineteenth century, closer to us, in many occupations as dwellings made by the hands of students and precarious, as the student "anomaly" in Palermo or the "Point Break" in Rome. However, it was time that was not done as a path between organic theory and practice from the identification of practices that bring the practical application of the same.
The rector of the university sent police to evacuate the building. The military success of the operation was guaranteed by the immense deployment of security forces, the political was immediately removed from the initiative of two students who climbed on the roof of attracting the immediate attention of citizens and the media each other, but not that of the rector that while all this was done was left well hidden in the halls of the rectory. After two days and a night on the roof past the two boys decided to get off in exchange for a commitment by the Chancellor to submit the draft of the Area of \u200b\u200bMutual Aid to the Management Board of the University. Students promise new jobs, as has happened in Naples. In Naples, the University rector Eastern made clear by the police on the premises of a university canteen abandoned because of cuts in ministerial and occupied by students and renamed "Laboratory Zero81. The eviction took aftermath of the police and charged with firing of tear gas early in the study halls of the University. The day after the eviction, the former canteen of Naples has been reoccupied.
on the reform front, meanwhile, began disputes to the committees in the various universities have the task to rewrite the statutes, conform to the dictates of the new law. Has begun the implementation stage of the project weblog Gelmini, but from Pisa to Bologna, Turin in Macerata, the students burst into rooms where they meet the fees statute to prevent the flow of work. The stated aim is to block the implementation phase of the new law, forcing the ministry to the University Commissioner all Italian universities. Waiting for the fall of the Berlusconi government ...
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