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From noon, the meeting of March 9 began on the forecourt of the University of Bordeaux Montaigne, where a day of struggle and solidarity was driven by several committees to fight against student precariousness, and called by dozens of youth organizations, as well as the world of work, politics, and trade unions.
An initiative of solidarity and the fight against student precariousness, under the sign of convergence with the world of work
Throughout the day, 300 hot meals were distributed, as well as a take-out food distribution. In total, more than 400 people gathered on the square during the day with donations from several associations, including the Association of Marauders, or the Association of Algerian Students which distributed 150 free menu coupons for a restaurant in the campus.
In addition to the food distribution, several music groups were invited to liven up the sunny forecourt, with guitar vocals and beat-box, between the various speeches taken throughout the day.
This day of solidarity was built as a unitary date, in the fight against student precariousness: ” The fight which opens against immediate precariousness is urgent, but we must raise our heads to say that we do not want to spend our life in misery and to depend on our solidarity. Various initiatives against precariousness are starting to emerge from numerous associations, unions and charities. Bringing them together in a day of solidarity, action and protest against the living conditions of students and the criminal policy of the Macron government, is all the more necessary. Carried the appeal, signed by many organizations:
Dans la jeunesse, launched by the Onzième Thèse collective, with the committees to fight against student precariousness, but also signed by: the NPA Jeunes, Révolution Permanente Bordeaux, UNEF, Jeunes Insoumis.es, ESR Précaires, Bordeaux Montaigne contre la precariousness, Student solidarity, On est là (Science Po Bordeaux), Collectif Marcel Mauss, Association of Algerian Students of Bordeaux.
On the side of political and associative organizations outside the university, were signatories: AC Gironde, Les Maraudeurs, Bordeaux en Luttes, NPA Federation 33, Du Pain et Des Roses, Espoir Pour tous and SOS Racisme.
Finally, several sectors of the world of work, union or not, were also signatories: CGT Samna (Syndicate of Artists and Musicians of Nouvelle-Aquitaine), CNT Supérieur-Recherche, CGT Blanchisserie Haut Leveque, CGT Syndicate of bicycle couriers of the Gironde, CGT Cheminots, CGT TBM, CGT Éducation Nationale 33, CGT Getrag Ford Transmissions, Angry Restoration, CGT Energy Union 33, Collective of Social Struggles of Haute-Gironde, Collective of AED and AP of Gironde, SUD Territorial Collectivity 33.
Yann Olivier, student in psychology and activist at the Onzième Thèse collective as well as at the NPA – Permanent Revolution, introduced the day at the Micro: ” A first day to fight against student insecurity, which is a very immediate issue, so that we no longer have to choose between starving and paying rent, in a context of crisis that will affect all sectors of the world of work, and youth. While the government is giving billions on a silver platter to the big bosses who are benefiting from the stimulus plan, it is they who are at the origin of all the offensives today against many sectors, with thousands social plans underway, which will plunge hundreds and hundreds of families into misery and precariousness. […] This is why we have invited many workers’ organizations to join us, because today our fight must be at their side, because the massive job cuts of today are our unemployment of tomorrow. »
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This day is the first initiative launched by various committees to fight against precariousness, which have been launched for several weeks in various Bordeaux campuses, as well as in student living spaces, in particular CROUS residences.
Aura, student and resident of Village 6, known in Bordeaux as one of the worst CROUS residences, which locals call ” CockroachLand “, Intervenes and says:” Today we are present to show that we want to put an end to it, that we want this to change: for that, we raise our voices, and we are in the process of self-organization by the students and for the students »
The reality of CockroachLand, it is first of all, as its name suggests, a social reality of misery and precariousness, where cockroaches swarm in the various corners of the residence. 150 € per 9 square meter room, the common areas are unsanitary and the building has not been maintained for years. Many of the residence’s students are foreigners, with the additional pressures that this implies, and above all, affected by an even greater precariousness.
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After the observation of precariousness, place to demands and the battle plan to put an end to it in a lasting way
The initiative of the day of solidarity was the occasion to recall that the fight which must begin against precariousness must be carried out without any confidence in the government and the institutions of the State. Indeed, if the executive announced some measures after the explosion of student distress in the media, these do not remain derisory and do not change the conditions of misery in which young people find themselves. Ads that remain window dressing or especially communication effects, as the attempts to address young people through influencers have shown.
In interventions, the activists of the collective Eleventh Thesis have made several demands: against the isolation caused for several months by the closure of universities and more generally health restrictions, universities must be reopened, but this is conditioned by the need for massive resources in public services, including the hospital and the universities, which have suffered for decades from budget cuts suffocating them.
While thousands of students are forced to work to pay for their studies, in a context where unemployment is increasing and young people often benefit from precarious contracts, making them a real adjustment variable for employers, it is today hui more than ever necessary to claim a student income, up to the minimum wage, paid by a tax on great fortunes. Money there is, but the government prefers to spray billions on big companies as part of the recovery plan, while thousands of young people are starving.
While the selection will hit the young people who are the most precarious today, it is also necessary to continue to demand the repeal of all the laws that have gradually imposed social selection, as well as validation. automatic of the year in this exceptional context, so that students do not have to foot the bill for the crisis.
On the other hand, in connection with the world of work which is now under increasing attack from the employers, with waves of layoffs and setbacks in rights, it is necessary to also claim the ban on layoffs and layoffs. It is in particular with this axis that several sectors of the labor movement were invited to participate in the day of March 9 on the square of the university: ” The world of work is under attack from all sides by a government which, on the one hand, is pursuing austerity in public services by dismantling National Education, Higher Education, hospitals, the transport sectors or even the energy, and on the other hand supports and generalizes the APC, the PES in the private sector, while spraying with billions the bosses who lay off massively and question all the social gains and the labor code. In the same way, neglected by the government, the world of culture, nightlife, restaurants, hotels and even small traders, are today faced with situations of great uncertainty without the prospect of reopening everything. by accumulating debts. »Recalled the call for this day of solidarity and struggle.
In this sense, several sectors intervened at the microphone to bring their solidarity to the students, by recalling the need to ally the sectors, against any corporatism, to fight the criminal policy of Macron and his world, which seek to make us pay for the crisis. for which they are responsible.
In an interview, La Poste employees, activists at Sud PTT and CGT FATP, come back to the reasons that made them come to participate in the meal, in solidarity with the students:
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After the day of solidarity, prospects for organization and actions
This first initiative, which by the number of students and sectors of the labor movement that it has brought together has been a success, is already waiting for a continuation and tomorrow.
A national youth mobilization date has been called by a
inter-youth organizations next Tuesday March 16, whose meeting in Bordeaux is already set for Victory from 12:30 p.m., against precariousness and so that young people are not a sacrificed generation.Beyond this date of demonstration, several initiatives of the committees to fight against precariousness are already underway: at the University of Bordeaux Victoire, the committee for the fight against precariousness has been categorically refused by the management of the ‘UB the opening of a room to organize a solidarity grocery store on the campus itself, and managed by the students themselves. Against this unacceptable refusal, the fight committee calls from this Friday, March 12 to gather in front of the steps of the faculty Place de la Victoire at 1 p.m., where the distribution will be maintained.
Finally, if several fight committees have already emerged on different campuses, in Victoire, Montaigne but also in places of life such as Village 6 alias CockroachLand, others are already called upon to form, on other campuses and other university residences. Because if today the distress turns into rage, the objective of these committees is to transform this rage into an organization: after the observation of precariousness, the students must organize themselves, to no longer have to depend on solidarity and indefinitely wait for non-existent state aid, but to impose, in alliance with the other sectors of the University and the world of work, the end of student precariousness, of social selection, and so that we let’s not be the sacrificed generation.
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