"If you live to be at least to avenge the blood of the many fallen, of the thousands of
martyrs" ---- - Solano Palacio ---- Rebellion is an act of disobedience against what
oppresses us speaking in a relentless search for freedom that has been stolen and trampled
by those with political and economic power, being present in the minds and actions of all
those who have historically been exploited rising against the ruling classes in their
revolutionary struggle to build a world without domination or humiliation. This uprising
of the dispossessed by freedom and equality has been, in many cases, support of students
reflected in marches, protests and statements showing their solidarity and fraternity (1).
However, the creation of worker-student union that has been repressed by state violence in
the service of economic mafias, in his mind to accumulate capital, have been silencing
dissenting voices who take to the streets, take the universities, are organized into
unions or show a different attitude than desired by bourgeois ideology.
This night showed the June 7, 1929 (2) when the murderous bullets conservative regime by
Miguel Abadia Mendez pierced the heart of the student libertarian Paez Gonzalo Bravo, who
participated in the protests that had as main objective to show the dissatisfaction of
students and other sections of the people against the "thread" (3) while repudiating the
slaughter against the workers of the United Fruit Company, who fell killed by the
Colombian military rifles in the service of U.S. imperialism.
25 years later, on June 8, 1954, the State murderer hands Colombian military dictator
Gustavo Rojas Pinilla end the life of Uriel Gutierrez, National University student, when
commemorating a march in memory of Bravo Paez. That day, after walking to the central
cemetery, the students return to the university to spend the afternoon, however, and post
eviction by the police, would an army truck shooting indiscriminately individuals was
inside the campus.
The next day, on June 9, 1954, the students from different universities to march would
Bolivar Square to express their opposition to what happened, but they would be arrested by
the battalion Colombia (4) up to Jim?nez Avenue, who begins to open fire on the protesters
giving as resulting murder more than 10 partners (5).
They, along with Bravo Gonzalo Paez and Uriel Gutierrez, will be remembered not only for
giving his life to the student revolt but by believing in radical social transformation of
an unjust system that is causing misery, pain and death, then as now, the state and its
repressive tools at the service of big business, and help to increase and perpetuate
social inequalities continue chasing, threatening and killing the day students raise their
voices in public and private universities as organizing barricades fight territories of
dignity and hope.
You just have to remember the death of Luis Fernando Barrientos in 1973, Jesus Humberto
Leon Patino in 1984, Tom?s Herrera Cantillo in 1987, Beatriz Eugenia Sandoval Saenz in
1991, Alfonso Gustavo Marulanda in 1999, Carlos Giovanny Blanco in 2001, Jaime Alfonso
Acosta in 2002 , Jhony Silva Aranguren in 2005, Oscar Leonardo Salas Angel in 2006 and Jan
Farid Cheng Lugo in 2011, among others, to understand that the repression of the student
movement is not over and has been intensifying in recent decades with the and the
emergence of paramilitary death squad (Esmad) (6) continue to harass critical thinking to
maintain the status quo in favor of the criminal oligarchy and imperialism abroad.
But the events of 8 and June 9 coupled with state crimes should strengthen us in our fight
for a decent education conquered through a radical commitment toward a libertarian society
characterized by structural changes in the socio-economic and current political. Just as
the murder of Bravo P?ez the late twenties we must remember the importance of the alliance
that should exist between the student movement and other social sectors exploited, because
today more than ever indigenous, peasants, workers and unemployed have taken to the
streets and fields to protest against the neoliberal model, therefore, it is our duty to
support them dignified rage fueling.
Finally, it is worth remembering that the commercial college kneeling to the dictates of
big capital must be demolished in order to build a university in the service of the
oppressed society by providing critical minds and transformative, and not entities that
determine their existence in achieving a carton.
Anarchist Student Group
Notes:
1: For example, the French May occurred in 1968 proved to be the clearest manifestation of
unity between students and workers, for both unions and universities took to the streets
of Paris and held strikes, marches and rallies against arbitrary actions by the French
State that favored an authoritarian society, capitalist and repressive.
2: Prior to that fateful day had occurred in the student revolutionary fervor caused by
the university reform of 1918 had proclaimed the necessity of linking students to the
struggles of the working class, which would lead to the demonstration of 6 June where
universities with workers and traders would take the city of Bogot?. Similarly, on 7 June
in the afternoon, the students organized mobile teams that would face the police and would
show the strength of the movement causing the resignation of several members of the "thread".
3: The so-called "thread" the conservative bureaucracy conformed power: Arturo Hernandez
(Minister of Public Works), Ignacio Rengifo (Minister of War), General Carlos Cort?s
Vargas (Director General of Police), Ruperto Melo (Governor of Cundinamarca), Hernando de
Velasco (Enterprise Manager Bogota Municipal Tramway) Alejandro Osorio (Bogota Water Manager)
4: Remember that this battalion is sadly remembered for his involvement in the murder of
hundreds of Asians in the 1951-1954 period when imperialist army supported the United
States in the Korean War.
5: Hernando Ospina Lopez, Hernando S?nchez Morales, Rafael S?nchez Matallana, Elmo Lucich
G?mez, Alvaro Gutierrez G?ngora, Juan Pacheco Grijales, Hugo Leon Ramirez Velasquez and
James Moore are the names of students massacred by the army on June 9, 1954.
6: If in the past the military was massacring students at present is the state body Esmad
charge of ending the lives of hundreds of revolutionary.
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