Libertarian bloc on student fees demo, Feb 25th
bobby | 20.02.2009 17:33 | Education | Social Struggles | Cambridge | South Coast
Call-out written by anarchist group at Goldsmiths Uni. All social anarchists and (left-)libertarians welcome.
Meet 12pm on the corner of Thornhaugh Street and Russell Square.
Meet 12pm on the corner of Thornhaugh Street and Russell Square.
UNITED LIBERTARIAN BLOCK FEB 25
* SCRAP ALL FEES - FREE EDUCATION FOR ALL
* A LIVING GRANT FOR EVERY STUDENT
* EDUCATION NOT PROFIT
The libertarian block supports these aims wholeheartedly. We believe that now more than ever the barrier between ‘students’ and ‘workers’ is visibly false: we support ourselves by working dead end jobs all summer, bar work in the evenings, working on our weekends, waiting to enter the marketplace with little chance of a graduate job and thousands of pounds of debt. We are workers now and we’ll be workers when we graduate.
Demanding greater funding for education doesn’t mean we have revised our feelings towards a) capitalism or b) the state. Capitalism is a war of all against all, where one person’s success can only come at the cost of another person’s loss. The role of the state is to prevent the losers from remonstrating with the successful. Making a demand of either is pointless unless we recognise we never gain anything as a class without backing this up with action. So we add
*DIRECT ACTION GETS THE GOODS – look to the 27 university occupations that have swept the nation
*CAPITALISM NOT WELCOME ANYWHERE – not just in education
*KEEP ORGANISING OUTSIDE OF THE STATE – it isn’t neutral, we need to build and maintain our own structures, for the resistance today and democratic control tomorrow
We welcome everyone who recognises that capitalism is a daily crisis and that action must be taken
MEET UP 12PM CORNER OF THORNHAUGH ST AND RUSSELL SQUARE LOOK FOR THE RED N BLACK FLAGS
* SCRAP ALL FEES - FREE EDUCATION FOR ALL
* A LIVING GRANT FOR EVERY STUDENT
* EDUCATION NOT PROFIT
The libertarian block supports these aims wholeheartedly. We believe that now more than ever the barrier between ‘students’ and ‘workers’ is visibly false: we support ourselves by working dead end jobs all summer, bar work in the evenings, working on our weekends, waiting to enter the marketplace with little chance of a graduate job and thousands of pounds of debt. We are workers now and we’ll be workers when we graduate.
Demanding greater funding for education doesn’t mean we have revised our feelings towards a) capitalism or b) the state. Capitalism is a war of all against all, where one person’s success can only come at the cost of another person’s loss. The role of the state is to prevent the losers from remonstrating with the successful. Making a demand of either is pointless unless we recognise we never gain anything as a class without backing this up with action. So we add
*DIRECT ACTION GETS THE GOODS – look to the 27 university occupations that have swept the nation
*CAPITALISM NOT WELCOME ANYWHERE – not just in education
*KEEP ORGANISING OUTSIDE OF THE STATE – it isn’t neutral, we need to build and maintain our own structures, for the resistance today and democratic control tomorrow
We welcome everyone who recognises that capitalism is a daily crisis and that action must be taken
MEET UP 12PM CORNER OF THORNHAUGH ST AND RUSSELL SQUARE LOOK FOR THE RED N BLACK FLAGS
bobby