Social war: Zimbabwe in flames
Zimbabwean students are under attack from Mugabe’s regime.
The Zimbabwe National Students Union (Zinasu) yesterday claimed elements from the dreaded Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) had bombed the New Complex 4 Dining Hall.
Zinasu said a huge and frightening ball of fire engulfed the building destroying property worth trillions of Zimbabwean dollars after a suspected petrol bomb was thrown into the building at around 2200 hours Tuesday night.
Students had to vacate campus residence fearing for their safety. “The act is a ‘direct attack on the students’ right to learn,” a student at the university said.
“Students constitute the largest reservoir of human rights defenders in Zimbabwe, hence a prime target of bombing by the brutal and despotic regime of Robert Mugabe.”
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Infoshop: Youth and student uprisings across Chile
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Greetings international comrades. This past March 29th marked the anniversary when militant youth of the Leftist Revolutionary Movement (MIR), Eduardo and Rafael Vergara, were assassinated by police during the Pinochet dictatorship in 1985. The date is known as the Day of the Youth Combatant. The day marks the memory of not only youth combatants of the former military dictatorship, but also the combatants of today. We awoke after protests and militant street battles from this past March 29th to find the city in an odd state of tranquility. The capitalist press claims that Thursday’s conflicts are already over, but we believe that the discontent is everywhere. From militant youth and survivors of the dictatorship, to students and debtors, we are everywhere. The Chilean government recently further privatized the transportation system in a plan known as Transantiago. Working class areas of the city are not left with insufficient numbers of buses, and even worse, many areas do not even have access to buses.
Purdue Alliance of Libertarian Socialists protest Colin Powell
Comments (1)On 22 February 2007 eight members of the Purdue Alliance of Libertarian Socialists protested a speech given by Colin Powell. This is a brief video documentary of that protest.
Riot cops evict 50 students in France
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Some 50 students occupying the presidential administration offices at Rennes II University were evicted by the CRS. There do not appear to have been any arrests.
The students are protesting against a raft of measures dsigned to ‘reform’ the university system. Students see the loss of bursaries, academic independance and the loss of what self-determination that they have.
Libcom: Students protest at sixth form college
From: Libcom.org
Over fifty Sixth Form students at Riverside College, Runcorn, Cheshire reacted against the removal of I.T. facilities from the college and the atmosphere of secrecy in which the ill-disguised asset strip was carried out.
With just weeks before AS and A-Level examinations, computers from the former Runcorn Sixth Form building were to be removed, apparently to be installed next door in the former Halton College building.
The two colleges were forced into an amalgamation by the local Labour run authority last summer against the wishes of staff, pupils, parents and the local community in general.
This comes against a background of enforced school closures and amalgamations in Halton (Runcorn and Widnes) over the last six years and, much like those amalgamations, the new Riverside College has been less than successful.
Students circulated a petition against the removal of the I.T. equipment on Thursday 1 March when the news first broke, without any previous communication or consultation with either students or staff.
The following morning – when the computers were due to be taken away – a spontaneous protest took place by a small number of students in the I.T suite from which the equipment was being removed.
The protest quickly escalated with more and more students joining and a barricade was constructed out of chairs.
Senior members of staff were called to defuse the situation and attempted to answer questions about the controversial decision – openly admitting that there had been a breakdown in communication – but did not satisfactorily answer queries.
Instead, students agreed to continue discussions at a later date between senior members of staff and individual tutor groups.
Yale students protest war
From: Yale Daily News
Attempting to reinvigorate a previously subdued antiwar movement on campus, a coalition of student leaders from Yale and the University of New Haven declared Saturday afternoon that “our generation’s battle” is to oppose the war in Iraq.
The kickoff rally, sponsored by the new group Yale Opposes the War, came during an afternoon of 24 simultaneous statewide antiwar gatherings. The events were designed to “add to the ammunition” of resistance to the Iraq war, as Connecticut Sen. Chris Dodd described it in a live conference call at the event.
Greece: Communique from Educational March
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An educational march organised by all the occupied university departments of Greece took place in Athens on the 22nd of February, the same moment that the parliament was discussing the educational reforms that will demolish the public education. We were part of this demonstration and we were together with all of the students who decided to clash with the repression forces of the state which formed a “red zone” in the city centre of Athens and especially around the parliament protecting the ones who decide for our lives but without us.
March 20 Student Day of Action Against the War
A Call to Action: Anti-war Action Blog
The war in Iraq is entering its fifth year. Despite the fact that the overwhelming majority of citizens want the war to end, despite the fact that U.S. forces are being defeated by the Iraqi resistance, Bush recently announced plans to send 21,500 more troops to Iraq. These troops are being committed to fight and die in an unjust war based on lies and greed. Four years is four years too many. The Iraqi people want the foreign occupiers out. They know the U.S. government is not a “liberator,” but whose presence means only continued violence, death, and destruction.
We, students and young people here in the U.S., support the right of the Iraqi people to self-determination. We refuse to accept this new strategy to “expand the military,” and reject any means the government may use to make these new troops materialize – whether through the implementation of a draft or the continued use of manipulative and deceptive recruitment techniques. We refuse to be subtle in our outcry against this war, we refuse to do nothing and be silent while people are killed in our name for profit for the rich and we refuse to be sent overseas in a war for oil.
This past November, 100 students from twenty different college campuses came together at a Students for a Democratic Society meeting in Ft.Benning, GA and unanimously decided that March 20th be declared a national day of student and youth resistance against the war! SDS is calling on all students and youth to get out in the streets, get involved and get organized against this war! We, the students and youth of this country, are taking an active stand against US imperialism and fighting for a better world. We reject this war of greed and profit, and are walking out of our classes and taking to the streets in protest!
FIGHT THE WAR MACHINE – GET ORGANIZED, GET INVOLVED, AND GET IN THE STREETS!
Italy: Students take part in mobilisation against US base
Students were among the tens of thousands of people who took to the streets of Vicenza, Italy, yesterday to protest the planned expansion of a US military base, a divisive issue for Italy’s center-left government.
Swirling the red flag of the Refoundation Communist party, the rainbow flag of the pacifist movement, and the environmentalists’ green standard, the marchers set out in mid-afternoon to encircle the small city of some 100,000 people as police helicopters hovered close overhead.
Student riot in Pakistan
From: Monsters and Critics
Islamabad – A riot broke out at a university in southern Pakistan on Saturday as students protested the death of a colleague injured few days ago in a brawl, a news report said.
More than 200 youths stormed the Sindh Agriculture University in the district of Hyderabad and besieged the building where a seminar was taking place, the Geo news channel reported.
The mob turned violent and set fire to 15 government vehicles including that of a federal minister who was presiding over the discussion. The office of the university’s vice-chancellor and a workshop were also gutted.
Police were able to disperse the unruly demonstrators after two hours through the use of tear gas and firing in the air.
