Since the government of President Milei decided to move forward, with the support of the pro, radical and Peronist groups, in vetoing the budget for national universities, it has only increased the anger and unrest in the university community and in the entire society that it defends. public education. Proof of this was the concentration that brought together more than 5 thousand people in the UNLP Rectorate the night after the vote in the national Congress.
This Monday, in line with the rest of the country’s national universities, the assemblies began early in La Plata and were numerous in almost all the faculties. By after noon, the first faculties of the UNLP voted to take over the buildings and the active strike, with public classes. Everywhere the need to stand up defending the right to education was raised.
“So far on Monday, massive assemblies have already been held in 13 faculties of the UNLP and it was voted to take the faculties of Natural Sciences, Psychology, Humanities, and Journalism. In the afternoon and after large assemblies it was also voted to take Arts and Social Work. In everywhere the demand is the same, reject the veto of Milei and company, urgently demand an increase in the budget and teaching and non-teaching salaries,” says Matías Busi, a representative of the PTS Youth and the Faculty of Humanities.
“Milei managed to pass the veto in Congress by buying wills but he did not win, what he did was awaken the student movement that entered the scene throughout the country. The students, together with teachers and non-teachers, are going to defend the university and we are committed to massifying each assembly and each take. On the way to preparing a third national educational march where all the ongoing struggles can be expressed. In today’s assemblies it was clear that the student movement stands in solidarity and coordinates with other UNLP assemblies and with struggles like. that of the Bonaparte and Garrahan hospitals and the Aeronáuticos. That unit is the one that we know can defeat Milei’s plan,” remarked Sofia Matta, a reference for ContraImagen, and Pan y Rosas at the Faculty of Arts.
Matías Busi, from the PTS Youth, concluded “Normality is over at the university and this fight shows it. Milei’s plan is not working, we don’t want it. But we also don’t want to wait, as some leaders suggest. That’s not working either. “New is what the student movement is showing with assemblies and occupations and that is what must be promoted and massified.”
The conflict continues with a series of measures throughout the week, with a meeting of the takeovers tomorrow, a torchlight march on Wednesday and an active strike on Thursday the 17th.
Non-teaching workers also participated in the assemblies along with teachers and students
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