Toulouse. At Mirail, 200 students and staff gathered in general assembly against the pension reform
Photo credits: The Raised Fist Toulouse
While anger is brewing all over the country and calls for a strike are increasing for January 19, the University of Mirail in Toulouse is back in the dance today. After a period of partials and, despite a very short deadline to organize a general assembly, nearly 200 students and university staff met to discuss the mobilization against the pension reform.
At the beginning of the general assembly, the introductions recalled the disastrous effects of this reform on the world of work, for young people, but also for the workers in post. ” There are colleagues who were to leave this summer, with the reform, they could not “Explains a unionized college worker at CGT Fercsup. In all the interventions, a strong anger vis-a-vis the reform was made known.
Rozenn, a Raised Fist activist, explains: “When we were filming in the amphitheatres this morning, we met a lot of young people who were very upset about the reform, because we see that the world that Macron, Borne etc. promises us. it only promises us climate, energy, health and economic crises “.
More than 150 people gathered this afternoon in a general assembly against the pension reform at Mirail? pic.twitter.com/7nxptM70ok
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Faced with this reform, students have many reasons to mobilize. “We need to call back the anger we had during the Covid, because they didn’t care about the students, they closed the universities, they left the students waiting in the cold to be able to eat, they fired us from our precarious jobs, it’s all this reality, this distress that we must use to go mobilize other students to join the movement
recalls Alberta, a Raised Fist activist.
If the consensus against the government’s project appears clear, the assembly also discusses means of action to mobilize against the pension reform. Several students have supported the need to link up with the phenomena of strikes, and to build a whole together, from the 19th in order to roll back Macron. In this sense, Alberta pleaded for the construction of a great student movement alongside the world of work: Obviously the fact that there are refiners, railway workers, education, health is central, because that’s what hurts Macron it’s what hurts the bosses when the company stops to shoot, but if we students get into the dance, if high school students open to block their high school, it’s a cocktail that the government will not love “.
Following the interventions, the general assembly voted on the various proposals put forward by the discussion. Thus, were adopted:
Participation in the January 19 demonstration with a procession of Mirail students and workers, inviting students from UT1 and UT3
The total withdrawal of the pension reform
The creation of a mobilization committee to organize the decisions of the general assembly which will be held on Wednesday January 18 at 5 p.m.
The fight against appeals for students and the census of striking personnel on Thursday, January 19 criminally quiise the mobilization.
The organization of a next general assembly on Tuesday January 24 at 12:40 p.m. in the large amphitheater of Mirail
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In the universities, it’s time to broaden the mobilization with the general assembly which has given itself the task of touring the various courses to build the demonstration on Thursday. In this sense, the motion of the board of directors of the University of Mirail which positions itself against the pension reform is a point of support. Indeed, this motion, proposed by the Raised Fist and voted unanimously, explains that “the Board of Directors undertakes to allow any student who wishes to do so to get involved and requests that absences not be penalized in any way “. If this motion is a first step to broaden the mobilization, the massive dissemination of information on the reform is a key issue to broaden the mobilization and build a student movement of magnitude.
Whereas the mobilization against the pension reform is being prepared in many universities in the country , at Mirail, the first bases are laid for the construction of a movement against the pension reform. To organize yourself, join Le Poing Levé: contact us on instagram, Twitter and Facebook !