CGT presents number 13 of the publication The gap on “The university before the LOSU. Vanishing point, invent another way out”.
The gap is a monthly economic and socio-labour publication of the Confederal Training Secretariat whose objective is to capture the different realities and problems of the working class. This June, we want to talk on “The university before the LOSU. Vanishing point, invent another way out”. For this we publish a text prepared by the CGT Training and Studies Office.
The university is going through a process of profound changes, framed in an economic-social context of growing commodification, attack and deterioration of the public and the common. The university sector has traditionally been a hotbed of great student struggles, which unfortunately have not had their counterpart in the organization and mobilization of workers. Despite the honorable exceptions caused by the struggles against the Bologna Plan in 2008 and against the cuts from 2011the university drags in the Spanish State enormous levels of precariousness that seem to become chronic without an organized response from the workers. In recent years, there seems to be a change in trend with a boom in organization and the levels of mobilization in the university and research sector, especially in some territories such as Catalonia, and in the hands of organizations such as the CGT. This growth has been driven and sustained by a
determined fight on the part of the most precarious staff of the university: associate professors and pre-doctoral researchers, mainly. The number is an allegation for a university at the service of education, labor guarantees, public investment and against the tyranny of the marketwho wants to denature the function of teaching.
In the opinion of the editorial collective of The gap: «The university drags enormous levels of precariousness in the Spanish state, which especially affect non-permanent teachers. The The new Organic Law of the University System (LOSU), which came into force this year, was advertised as a solution to this problem. Far from contributing to this, the new Law seems to consolidate -and even deepen- the most extreme forms of precariousness. In this number of The gap we took a critical look at some of the most damaging aspects of LOSU, with the goal of spurring a response to this deterioration of the university.”.
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