By coincidence, they were announced when I was giving talks in Mexico’s national university, UNAM, which presents a dramatic contrast – in a poor country, not one of the richest ones. Ten years ago the government proposed tuition. There was a student strike that was so successful that the government backed down, and tuition remains free in a university with quite impressive standards, and hundreds of thousands of students. There surely are alternatives.
Best of luck in your important efforts.
Noam Chomsky'
Via the excellent Newcastle Occupation blog
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I wrote some lyrics for this struggle...you can sing them with the tune to 'The Battle Hymn of the Republic'.
ReplyDelete"education as a privelige
or a bought commodity
is a thing we do disdain
at every increase that we see
when they try to marketise it
we will march to make it free!
the struggle carries on
when your only hope betrays you
to a party you reviled
when the media talk down to you
and treat you like a child
it is time to take some action
and be neither meek nor mild
the struggle carries on
so bring the bookworms in their shyness
to the thronging winter streets
drag the truants to the rally
and the paintbrush to the sheets
we once held in chains by apathy
shall shatter the elites!
the struggle carries on"
work in progress