speech by the university group at the demonstration against the Linke.SDS Tuition fees of 26 January 2010. (Press article a , 2, 3 , photos )
We are here today because we do not pay tuition fees more. Why we do it? Do we pay not a service provided? Do we want to sneak us? Are we about shoplifters, we are criminals? No, because we say education is not for sale! And that's not even a utopia or a remote target, it is already law. Education is a fundamental right under Article 26 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of the United Nations and the UN Social Pact was also confirmed again. It says, education must be there for all, diskrimierungsfrei, explizit auch hinsichtlich des Vermögens und der sozialen Herkunft. Kriminell sind also nicht wir, sondern die Landesregierungen und Politiker, die Studiengebühren eintreiben und die Juristen, die das zulassen.
Nun gibt es aber Studiengebühren. Und sie fördern die soziale Spaltung. Die etwas platte Parole „arm bleibt dumm und reich studiert“ ist so schon fast zur Realität geworden. Wir erleben eine Renaissance der Klassengesellschaft, die Schere zwischen arm und reich geht immer weiter auseinander. Studiengebühren sind eine Manifestation sozialer Ungleichheit und das kann uns allen nicht gefallen. Und jetzt kriechen sie wieder aus ihren Löchern, die Sarrazins dieses Landes, und machen Angst from the growing underclass, which would abolish our country, and promote a lack of solidarity, rather than adopting a sensible approach, for example, sometimes use for the right to education. It begins
social inequality in this country already by the screening at school. Equal opportunities, there is no trace. Numerous studies show that social background of a child when knocking a further career is crucial. In the latest University can since the introduction of Bachelor / Master also no mention of a "free education" be more. And so then retrieve it, the Burnout for 633 €. This figure consists of the 375 € Tuition fees and the 258 € semester fee. Student loans can there hardly be an argument for who is already reasonably be expected to equal the school coming into debt?
And what exactly should be ready for klassistische arguments to justify tuition? The carves, it could not acceptable but that the nurse pays for the training of its senior consultant. The fact that the children want to study the nurse may also, respectively, the nurse himself, is certainly no longer scheduled. The universities are threatening to the elite institutions of the mass of the population to screen.
And if one believes, I paint the devil on the wall here, so I would say: I do not want to wait until until it is at some point then, as far as in England, where the study is already costing a four-figure sum each semester.
What should be done to abolish tuition fees? In Venezuela, Hugo Chávez has done that. In Hungary, the abolition came about a referendum. In the old Federal Republic of tuition fees have also been abolished once before, from Hamburg. The so-called "listeners money in the amount of time 150 D-Mark has been successfully boycotted 1970, after which the tuition fees were abolished at all German universities. Responsible for this action was then the student union of the University of Hamburg.
2006, from the CDU Senate, were then returned to Hamburg, the tuition fees introduced. Many students then called again for a boycott. Also, because the AStA but this time boycotted the boycott did, and ultimately with too few. It is different at the College of Fine Arts, the Academy of Fine Arts. There have always boycotted a quarter of the students and the fees are in dispute because they want to enforce their basic right to education and these people deserve our solidarity!
At the University of Hamburg has shown a ballot that 97% of the students against tuition fees, student council Councils Conference has already collected over 31,000 signatures and continues, the formation strikes of 2009 and 2010 and several weeks of occupation of the main auditorium were clear statements against tuition fees.
And now the Senate wants to cut even further to the university and students work. That means: More expensive cafeteria food, more expensive residences, expensive semester fee. Hamburg is about not expensive enough? In any other state, rents are higher. The port city, a whole district for the rich was built, the Elbe Philharmonic devours million and will deliver high culture for the High Society. Same time, the housing cooperative SAGA increase their rent to pay and said Elbphilharmonie new social Wohnnungsbau not take place. When
can resist this misguided policy is not going to student interests. We must all zusammen halten, die von solchen Kürzungen betroffen sind. Ein breites Spektrum mobilsiert zu einer Demo am 19. Februar und dann werden wieder Tausende sagen: Wir wollen Bildung und Kultur für alle und eine Sozialpolitik, die der Würde des Menschen entspricht. Geld ist genug da! Hamburg ist eine der reichsten Städte Europas mit etlichen Millionären und auch für die gilt das, was im Grundgesetz steht: Eigentum verpflichtet.
Am 16. Dezember 2010, nach dem Rücktritt des schwarz-grünen Senats, hat die Fraktion Die Linke in die Bürgerschaft den Antrag eingebracht, die Studiengebühren abzuschaffen. Ein Block aus CDU, Grünen und SPD hat dies abgelehnt und für Studiengebühren gestimmt. 3000 Menschen demonstrated that day against cuts and tuition fees and some of us it is also managed in the precincts to get pre Hall until they were expelled by the police, claiming they could influence the decision of the citizenry. I always thought that would influence a principle of democracy.
The AStA of the University of Hamburg, who led at the time campaigning and pretending to tuition fees to "fight" had nothing better to do than to distance themselves from the demonstration because he wanted no "general discussion of wealth". Previously, students had already done some symbolic bank robberies and for a few hours, the SPD headquarters, the Kurt-Schumacher-occupied house. As for bringing such actions?
in 2008 abolished tuition fees in Hessen. For the intermediate red-red-green majority in Parliament, this was the first and last joint decision. Why did they do that? It had previously been mass protests and civil disobedience by students. Inspired by the mass protests in France against the CPE, the proposed elimination of employment protection for young people, who would prevent demonstrations and civil disobedience of many pupils, students and trainees, was a law that was simply waved through in Germany, wanted to rebel against the Hessian students , wollten französische Verhältnisse schaffen. Und sie haben es geschafft, sie sind auf die Autobahn gegangen und haben sie blockiert. Dadurch wurde den Politikern klar: Die meinen es ernst, denen ist es wichtig, die können wir nicht ignorieren. Deshalb hat auch die CDU unter Roland Koch sich bis heute nicht getraut, die Studiengebühren wieder einzuführen.
Zurück nach Hamburg. Der AStA, der im Wahlkampf damit warb gegen Studiengebühren zu „kämpfen“, begrüßte die Entscheidung der Bürgerschaft. „Wer Studiengebühren abschafft und große Haushaltslöcher hinterlässt, handelt verantwortungslos.“ So reden unsere SPD-Jungpolitiker im AStA. Fehlende Haushaltskompensationen were cited as the reason for the rejection, if not also include financial compensation in a bill. Only a few weeks later it was announced that the Hamburg universities hoard € 35 million from tuition fees on their accounts. The money will be saved, instead of spending for education and research, while much of the tuition fees only for their own administration is issued. What a Verarschung! And still there is no clear statement of the SPD and GAL, if and when they want to abolish tuition fees.
means for us on the one hand: choose wisely! Finding out which politicians and parties for tuition and what Politicians and party for their elimination are. More important, however: some pressure! We will always go on the road, including funding of civil disobedience! Look out for the movement, they do exist on campus. And until something better we are always here take pre Hall.
for solidarity and free education!
