Úrsula Abramovich, a secondary school teacher in the City of Buenos Aires and part of the Pan y Rosas group, participated in the Educational Fields workshop at the 37th Plurinational Meeting of Women and Sexual Diversity.
There he maintained that there are various ongoing fights against “this misogynistic, far-right government, which is against health workers, against university students and against us teachers who put our bodies in schools every day to sustain a deterioration that we see with the kids who walk through our classrooms.”
A reality that in the City of Buenos Aires also takes on concrete values with the educational reform proposal carried out by Jorge Macri: “the Macri regime that has been advancing a reform tied to the interests of the market, which is emptying education, which is to further reduce the possibilities of our kids accessing university with solid content. “It attacks our jobs, it implies the closure of 162 courses throughout the city.”
In this context, he added a reflection on the debates that go through the workshops and the meeting where the need for unity is postulated. “I believe that from now on we need unity and this meeting has to serve to emerge stronger in the face of the government’s attacks,” she noted and added: “in the City of Buenos Aires we had a plenary session of all teaching since the pandemic, just one. So, what unit is it that we want to dispute?”
He stressed that, for teachers, unions like UTE-CTERA do not call them to assembly spaces where they can express themselves and debate what plan of struggle is necessary to confront the government. He contrasted this situation with the example that the student movement has been giving: “Today the university students who take college are showing the way. A path that was built from below, with self-convened assemblies.”
In the same vein, he raised another reflection in counterpoint with the positions expressed by UTE in the workshop, “it was proposed yesterday whether to stop yes or stop no, that discussion seems decontextualized to me, they are taking the powers and we are lukewarmly thinking whether we are going or not.” to accompany next week with a national strike in defense of the public university.”
To which he finally added: “It seems absurd to me that we are discussing whether to go on strike or not. Of course we are going to go on strike and I think that is what we should go out to fight in all the schools, in all our unions. Let the unions provide the resources and accompany the student mobilization, we cannot allow the universities to close in our faces. We cannot leave the university students alone, that has to be the commitment of the meeting and teaching, and the unions and the centers have to be up to the fights we have to give.”
Source: www.laizquierdadiario.com
