NO to COMMERCIALIZATION OF EDUCATION!

Higher State Budget for Education!

Stop Privatization and Rationalization!

Defend democratic rights of youth and students!

Long live international solidarity!



On November 17, as we commemorate the International Students Day, we stand against the intensifying commercialization of education, increasing privatization and rationalization of public schools, and onslaught of "market-oriented" education curriculum.


The Youth Commission of the International League of People's Struggles during its 3rd International Assembly declared November 17 as a Day of Action against the Commercialization of Education, and against the governments' repression on the democratic rights of the youth.



In Asia Pacific, for example, the students and youth suffer from the increasing government budget slash and bloody crackdown on the student movement. In Europe too, aside from the privatization of education, the students are fighting the "Bologna Process" which pushes for the uniformity of education curriculum to all European member countries. Elsewhere in Africa and Latin America, and even in the US, state abandonment of education is getting worse as globalization policies are imposed.



The youth and students' struggle for a truly scientific, people-oriented and nationalist education is also under constant attack, with neo-colonial governments' fascism permeating into our schools and communities.



In different forms, education is under attack. More and more, education becomes a privilege, and a way for people's enslavement honing most youth not to care for their society and not to aspire for social change. Education has not only mirrored the prevailing society, but has been a tool to maintain the unjust social order.



Needless to say, it is imperative to struggle to defend the youth's right to education. We must carry on the fight for a genuinely nationalist, scientific and people-oriented education!



Long live international solidarity!