Aux quatre coins de la planète, des étudiants, des universitaires, des chercheurs, mais aussi des lycéens ou des enseignants, se mobilisent pour s’opposer aux politiques néolibérales et conquérir de nouveaux droits. Et la plupart du temps, nous n’en savons rien ou si peu…
Nous nous proposons donc de tenir sur ce blog une « météo des luttes », organisée sous la forme de textes courts, de « brèves », suivis de liens à consulter ou de documents à télécharger.
Dans ce bulletin météo, nous vous signalons quelques-uns de ces combats, locaux et universels...
All over the world, students, academics, researchers, as well as high school students and teachers are mobilizing to oppose neoliberal policies and conquer new rights. But most of the time, we hear little or no wind of it...
We therefore propose to keep on this blog a “barometer of struggles” organized in the form of news in brief, followed by links to consult or documents to download.
In this weathercast, we signal to you a few of these recent fights, local and universal…
Überall auf der Welt kämpfen Studierende, Lehrende und Forschende, aber auch SchülerInnen oder gar Eltern, gegen neoliberale Politik und für neue Rechte. Davon erfahren wir in der Regel nur wenig…
Auf dieser Seite verzeichnen wir also einen wissenschaftlichen Streikwetterdienst aus kurzen Texten und Meldungen mit Links und Dokumenten zum Herunterladen.
In diesem Bericht stellen wir Euch einige dieser lokalen und allgemeinen Kämpfe vor.
En todas partes del mundo, estudiantes, académicos, investigadores, pero también estudiantes y profesores de secundaria se movilizan para oponerse a las políticas neoliberales y conquistar nuevos derechos. Pero la mayor parte del tiempo, no sabemos nada o muy poco....
Por lo tanto, proponemos mantener en este blog un "barómetro de las luchas", organizado en forma de resúmenes, seguidos de enlaces para consultar o documentos para descargar.
En este reporte meteorológico, señalamos algunas de estas luchas, locales y universales…
In tutto il mondo, studenti, accademici, ricercatori, ma anche studenti delle scuole superiori e insegnanti si stanno mobilitando per contrastare le politiche neoliberali e conquistare nuovi diritti. E il più delle volte non ne sappiamo nulla, o molto poco...
Proponiamo quindi di tenere su questo blog un "meteo delle lotte", organizzato in forma di brevi testi, seguiti da link da consultare o documenti da scaricare.
In questo bollettino meteorologico, diamo notizia di alcune lotte, locali e universali…
Em todo o mundo, estudantes, acadêmicos, pesquisadores, mas também estudantes do ensino médio e professores estão se mobilizando para se opor às políticas neoliberais e conquistar novos direitos. E, na maioria das vezes, não sabemos nada ou tão pouco acerca disso...
Propomos portanto manter neste blog um "clima das lutas", composto por textos curtos, "resumos", seguidos de links para consulta ou documentos para download.
Neste boletim meteorológico, relatamos algumas dessas batalhas, locais e universais…
Monde
La lutte des jeunes pour le climat est devenue mondiale
Alors que dans le bulletin météo de janvier-février, nous annoncions le lancement des jeudis verts des lycéens en Europe et en Australie, le mouvement a très vite pris un caractère mondial comme le montre la planisphère réalisée par Fridays for future.org. Le 15 mars, la grève mondiale des jeunes a réuni près de 1,5 million d’élèves et d’étudiants dans plus de 70 pays.
Afrique
Afrique du Sud
Students clashed with police in Johannesburg’s University of the Witwatersrand (WITS) on February 7. The protests come after the tertiary’s Student Representative Council (SRC) called for a national shutdown of all tertiary campuses, as they demand that homeless fellow students should be provided with adequate accommodation and students who have historical debts be allowed to register at the university.
Partout dans le monde, l'application du néo-libéralisme à l'Enseignement Supérieur et à la Recherche entraîne une multiplication des fraudes. On en trouvera un exemple en Côte d'Ivoire, via le combat du collectif des enseignants-chercheurs et chercheurs de l’Université Félix Houphouët-Boigny d’Abidjan Cocody (Codec). Ce collectif est monté au créneau pour tenter de désamorcer le conflit qui les oppose au président de l'Université. Dans une déclaration faite à la presse, Dr Oumar Yéo et ses camarades démontent la gestion du Pr. Abou Karamoko et lui font des propositions de sortie de crise.
Kenya
Student riots happened in Laikipia University after cultural festival week reduced to one day in Nyahururu. The students were protesting over the shortening of this year’s cultural week from five to one day. “We have been holding a cultural week in every academic year. This year’s event was set to start yesterday (Monday 25 March) up to Friday. But yesterday, we were notified by the university’s administration that we will only hold the event on Friday”, said the student who sought anonymity. Another student said that the university management cited lack of funds for the changes. “Why is the university citing lack of funds for shortening the period of the cultural event yet the money had been factored in the fees?”, posed another student.
Mali
Grève des enseignants : les négociations se poursuivent entre les syndicats et le gouvernement. La grève des huit syndicats de l’éducation signataires du 15 octobre 2016, déclenchée le lundi 11 mars 2019, est prévue pour durer jusqu’au 5 avril prochain. Ce débrayage paralyse les écoles du pays depuis plusieurs mois.
Maroc
Des affrontements ont eu lieu à Rabat lors de la manifestation du 20 février alors que le problème des enseignants contractuels reste sans issue. Libération parle de panne de courant entre le ministère et les syndicats. « Le gouvernement s’attache à recruter par contrat, tout en introduisant 14 amendements au statut des fonctionnaires des académies », y lit-on.
Police clashed with demonstrators in Rabat on Wednesday February 20 during a strike called by labour unions and workers to protest against lacking reforms.
Niger
Comme nous le signalions déjà dans la météo des luttes de janvier-février, les universités sont toujours paralysées par un mois de grève des enseignants qui réclament une amélioration de leurs conditions de vie et de travail.
Ouganda
Kyambogo university student loses hand in protest against new tuition policy. However, students have vowed not to stop until the policy is revised.
Des affrontements entre des étudiants affiliés à l’Union Générale des étudiants de Tunisie (UGET) et la police ont eu lieu le mercredi 10 avril 2019, devant le ministère de l’Enseignement Supérieur ainsi que devant de nombreuses institutions universitaires relevant de l’université de Sousse. Des étudiants, revendiquant l’organisation du concours d’aptitude au professorat de l’enseignement secondaire (CAPES), ont fermé la route et ont lancé des pierres contre les forces de l’ordre, se réfugiant dans les rues avoisinantes par la suite.
Zambie
Zambian education authorities Friday April 5 shut the country’s second largest public university, the Copperbelt University (CBU), following riots. The government said the riots were caused by students who were barred from sitting examinations because they had not made the cut in continuous assessment tests but, in fact, confusion erupted at the Copperbelt University in Kitwe on Monday April 1, after Management told first year students to go back home as government can no longer provide bursaries for them.
Amérique du Nord
Canada
Ontario
Thousands of students across Ontario walked out of their classes Thursday, April 4, and with their teachers and parents Saturday, April 6, to protest the cuts to public education budgets being imposed by the province’s right-wing Progressive Conservative government.
The initiative was organized independently by students themselves, using the #StudentsSayNo hashtag on social media. In the little more than a week since high school student Natalie Moore called for the protest, students from more than 700 schools from all parts of the province signed up to take part. OPSEU First Vice-President / Treasurer Eduardo (Eddy) Almeida said the budget contains deep new cuts to a variety of ministries, including social services and post-secondary education.
"They’re giving corporations billions in tax cuts, but it seemed like every second word out of the Finance Minister’s mouth was debt or deficit," said Almeida. "Even the Ontario Chamber of Commerce has been crying foul about all the financial scare-mongering this government has been doing."
États-Unis
Californie
After Oakland in march, nearly 3,000 teachers and support staff conducted a one-day strike, Thursday April 11, in Sacramento, California. The Sacramento City Teachers Association (SCTA) called the limited walkout after 92 percent of its members voted last month to authorize strike action in the state capital. "I want them to see me fight for what's right. I want my students to know that they're important enough to me that I'll fight for them and I'll say what needs to be said as best I can," said a seventh-grade teacher.
Illinois
After two weeks on the picket line and more than a year at the bargaining table, teaching and graduate assistants at the University of Illinois at Chicago have made a deal that will put more than 1,500 employees back to work, union leaders said Friday. But despite agreeing to terms for a new contract late Thursday, the union continued its strike which began March 19 because the terms of ending the walkout — such as how workers could recoup lost pay — weren’t final, the union said.
Kentucky
More than 60 University of Kentucky students joined a hunger strike by the end of March meant to pressure school leaders to take specific steps to reduce food and housing insecurity among the student body. Research conducted at University of Kentucky in fall 2017 showed that 43 percent of the students who were surveyed had experienced some degree of food insecurity in the past year, while 8 percent indicated they had experienced some form of housing insecurity during that time period, according to a September 2018 workgroup presentation. The protest paid off, and the hunger strikers resumed eating on Tuesday, April 2. With a national spotlight on low-income and vulnerable students, the protest at Kentucky is the latest sign that colleges are being forced to do more to provide for their basic living needs.
Mississippi
Anger is rippling through Mississippi, with educators threatening their first walkout in that Deep Southern state in more than 38 years.
On March 28, the state legislature passed an insulting $1,500 pay raise for teachers and assistant teachers after decades of deep and sustained cuts to public education. The measure, passed near the conclusion of the recent legislative session, was promptly followed by a $2 million boondoggle for a school privatization program.
Pennsylvanie
Strike, voted on Wednesday March 27, averted at Community College of Philadelphia, but bigger funding battle continues. Community colleges typically spend less per student than other public institutions of higher learning, even when accounting for the fact that many four-year schools dedicate money to research.
Amérique du Sud
Colombie
El centro de Bogota es, de nuevo, escenario de un fuerte enfrentamiento entre el Escuadrón Movíl Antidisturbios (Esmad) y algunos estudiantes de la Universidad Distrital, sede Macarena.
Varios estudiantes han afirmado que con la protesta se buscaba mostrar inconformidad por la actuación del gobierno de Duque frente a la reunión con la minga indígena en el Cauca, ya que el presidente se fue sin reunirse con esta comunidad y no estuvo en plaza pública con los indígenas, argumentando problemas de seguridad.
Honduras
Movimientos independientes de estudiantes protestaron en contra de los masivos despidos que se anunciaron para los empleados del Instituto Nacional de Formación Profesional (Infop). Las autoridades del gobierno confirmaron el despido de unos 660 empleados de la institución de formación por problemas de presupuesto.
Alors que le décret qui instaure des droits d’inscription pour les étudiants de licence et de master hors Union européenne vient d’être publié, la contestation se poursuit, avec un élargissement du combat en faveur d'enseignement supérieur public, gratuit et émancipateur pour toutes et tous.
La réforme du lycée est-elle un moyen de supprimer 12 000 postes et va-t-elle, une nouvelle fois, renforcer la sélection à l’université ? L’émission Au combat du MediaTV permet de faire le point.
Par ailleurs la contestation des Stylos rouges se poursuit, à Rennes, Vatan, Amiens... Dans une lettre adressée au ministre de l’Éducation, mais aussi à Emmanuel Macron et Édouard Philippe, les Stylos rouges réclament l’ouverture du dialogue à propos des réformes en cours.
Germany
Fruitful negotiations between public authorities and public service trade unions, including education unions affiliated to Education International, have led to salary increase of 8 % for public workers.
Grèce
Students, police clash in Athens over teacher appointments in the public school system on mid-January 2019. "I’m a full-time teacher but we stand together (with part-time staff) as this law affects (everyone)", Venetia Reppa, a teacher hit in the back by a police stun grenade, told reporters outside parliament. The education ministry is preparing to push through parliament a hiring law which teacher unions say does not sufficiently take prior experience into account. Greece’s public schools have suffered from spending cuts imposed as a condition of bailout agreements to end its debt crisis.
Pologne
Dans le cadre de la rébellion internationale d'enseignants, le lundi 8 avril, plus de 80% des 400.000 enseignants polonais ont rejoint une grève nationale illimitée. Il s'agit de la première grève nationale des enseignants dans le pays depuis 25 ans et l'une des plus grandes grèves en Pologne au cours des dernières décennies.
Océanie
Australie
Tasmanie
Tasmanian teachers begun strike action on April 2, following stoppages in November. The strike reflected pent-up anger over the stagnant wages and destruction of conditions imposed by successive Labor and Liberal state governments. In Hobart, the teachers joined hundreds of public sector workers, including nurses, firefighters and parks and wildlife officers, at a stop-work rally that packed City Hall.
Students clashed with police in Johannesburg’s University of the Witwatersrand (WITS) on February 7. The protests come after the tertiary’s Student Representative Council (SRC) called for a national shutdown of all tertiary campuses, as they demand that homeless fellow students should be provided with adequate accommodation and students who have historical debts be allowed to register at the university.
Suite à la mobilisation massive des étudiants pour le retrait de la candidature du président Bouteflika à un 5ème mandat, la police a tenté d’évacuer des milliers d’entre eux qui protestaient pacifiquement contre la nomination, le mardi 9 avril, d’Abdelkader Bensalah en tant que président de l’Algérie par intérim. Face la répression policière, les étudiants ont promis de marcher tous les jours.
Partout dans le monde, l'application du néo-libéralisme à l'Enseignement Supérieur et à la Recherche entraîne une multiplication des fraudes. On en trouvera un exemple en Côte d'Ivoire, via le combat du collectif des enseignants-chercheurs et chercheurs de l’Université Félix Houphouët-Boigny d’Abidjan Cocody (Codec). Ce collectif est monté au créneau pour tenter de désamorcer le conflit qui les oppose au président de l'Université. Dans une déclaration faite à la presse, Dr Oumar Yéo et ses camarades démontent la gestion du Pr. Abou Karamoko et lui font des propositions de sortie de crise.
Des affrontements ont eu lieu à Rabat lors de la manifestation du 20 février alors que le problème des enseignants contractuels reste sans issue. Libération parle de panne de courant entre le ministère et les syndicats. « Le gouvernement s’attache à recruter par contrat, tout en introduisant 14 amendements au statut des fonctionnaires des académies », y lit-on. 
Comme nous le signalions déjà dans la météo des luttes de janvier-février, les universités sont toujours paralysées par un mois de grève des enseignants qui réclament une amélioration de leurs conditions de vie et de travail.
Ziguinchor : le système éducatif paralysé à 65% par une grève régionale des enseignants et une marche nationale des élèves des Eaux et Forêts.
Des affrontements entre des étudiants affiliés à l’Union Générale des étudiants de Tunisie (UGET) et la police ont eu lieu le mercredi 10 avril 2019, devant le ministère de l’Enseignement Supérieur ainsi que devant de nombreuses institutions universitaires relevant de l’université de Sousse. Des étudiants, revendiquant l’organisation du concours d’aptitude au professorat de l’enseignement secondaire (CAPES), ont fermé la route et ont lancé des pierres contre les forces de l’ordre, se réfugiant dans les rues avoisinantes par la suite.
Zambian education authorities Friday April 5 shut the country’s second largest public university, the Copperbelt University (CBU), following riots. The government said the riots were caused by students who were barred from sitting examinations because they had not made the cut in continuous assessment tests but, in fact, confusion erupted at the Copperbelt University in Kitwe on Monday April 1, after Management told first year students to go back home as government can no longer provide bursaries for them.
Thousands of students across Ontario walked out of their classes Thursday, April 4, and with their teachers and parents Saturday, April 6, to protest the cuts to public education budgets being imposed by the province’s right-wing Progressive Conservative government.
The initiative was organized independently by students themselves, using the #StudentsSayNo hashtag on social media. In the little more than a week since high school student Natalie Moore called for the protest, students from more than 700 schools from all parts of the province signed up to take part.
After Oakland in march, nearly 3,000 teachers and support staff conducted a one-day strike, Thursday April 11, in Sacramento, California. The Sacramento City Teachers Association (SCTA) called the limited walkout after 92 percent of its members voted last month to authorize strike action in the state capital. "I want them to see me fight for what's right. I want my students to know that they're important enough to me that I'll fight for them and I'll say what needs to be said as best I can," said a seventh-grade teacher.
After two weeks on the picket line and more than a year at the bargaining table, teaching and graduate assistants at the University of Illinois at Chicago have made a deal that will put more than 1,500 employees back to work, union leaders said Friday.
More than 60 University of Kentucky students joined a hunger strike by the end of March meant to pressure school leaders to take specific steps to reduce food and housing insecurity among the student body. Research conducted at University of Kentucky in fall 2017 showed that 43 percent of the students who were surveyed had experienced some degree of food insecurity in the past year, while 8 percent indicated they had experienced some form of housing insecurity during that time period, according to a September 2018 workgroup presentation.
Strike, voted on Wednesday March 27, averted at Community College of Philadelphia, but bigger funding battle continues. Community colleges typically spend less per student than other public institutions of higher learning, even when accounting for the fact that many four-year schools dedicate money to research.
El centro de Bogota es, de nuevo, escenario de un fuerte enfrentamiento entre el Escuadrón Movíl Antidisturbios (Esmad) y algunos estudiantes de la Universidad Distrital, sede Macarena.
Movimientos independientes de estudiantes protestaron en contra de los masivos despidos que se anunciaron para los empleados del Instituto Nacional de Formación Profesional (Infop). Las autoridades del gobierno confirmaron el despido de unos 660 empleados de la institución de formación por problemas de presupuesto.
Ils étaient des milliers à battre le pavé dans toute la France. Les enseignants étaient en grève le jeudi 4 avril et manifestaient contre les réformes du ministre Jean-Michel Blanquer.
Students, police clash in Athens over teacher appointments in the public school system on mid-January 2019. "I’m a full-time teacher but we stand together (with part-time staff) as this law affects (everyone)", Venetia Reppa, a teacher hit in the back by a police stun grenade, told reporters outside parliament. The education ministry is preparing to push through parliament a hiring law which teacher unions say does not sufficiently take prior experience into account.
Dans le cadre de la rébellion internationale d'enseignants, le lundi 8 avril, plus de 80% des 400.000 enseignants polonais ont rejoint une grève nationale illimitée. Il s'agit de la première grève nationale des enseignants dans le pays depuis 25 ans et l'une des plus grandes grèves en Pologne au cours des dernières décennies.
Tasmanian teachers begun strike action on April 2, following stoppages in November. The strike reflected pent-up anger over the stagnant wages and destruction of conditions imposed by successive Labor and Liberal state governments. In Hobart, the teachers joined hundreds of public sector workers, including nurses, firefighters and parks and wildlife officers, at a stop-work rally that packed City Hall.