usi-ait - No longer a working bureaucrat or a boring
obligation: Report of Maria Fortino (it) [machine translation]
After that of Rino Ermini publish the intervention of Maria Fortino Congress founding of
USI-AIT Education. We recall that - actions that propose congress highlights - have
already been published in the anarchist magazine n. 396. ---- We intend to begin this
speech with some general reflections. USI-AIT Education has a considerable potential for
innovation, in fact we have to push, especially, about the idea of a union of the field
that cancels, in itself, any kind of hierarchy between everyone involved in the
educational process, starting from the students up to educators and operators, from the
masters to the teachers, the ATA to university researchers, who is role to those who are
precarious. In other words you must really pursue the realization of that horizontality,
its anarcho-syndicalism and who does, in fact, the entire reference USI-AIT
For these purposes, for us fundamental premise is perhaps superfluous but always
appropriate to reiterate the particularity of this historical period with regard to the
education sector which is certainly framed in a more general dynamic of assault of capital
to the men and women who are free, nevertheless the education sector assumes, just within
this dynamic general, a role, if we want to call it, strategic.
One goal: to survive
The capital, in fact, intend to forge young minds - future workers - acts to absolute
flexibility (read enslavement) ready to do anything to satisfy the power, because they
believe there are other avenues pursued, or humble slaves that have the sole purpose of
existence and that in contrast, have lost any idea, any prospect of freedom.
For this project, which has long been advocated and promulgated by various successive
governments in recent times - reflecting the fact that all governments are merely carriers
the interests of the state hierarchy, in turn masks the interests of capital, ie the
fundamental elements of the exploitation of man by man, and the man on the animal on the
planet - it is pointed to the progressive impoverishment of all workers and all education
workers and students of all levels: subtraction of rights, widespread hierarchy,
corporatization, verticismi and control you need, first, to bend minds potentially
dangerous, to subtract force to a possible movement of " dangerous "to workers and
students are, however, were driven to the individual struggle for survival cloaked by both
bogus idea of meritocracy that hides just exploitation.
The result is there for all to see!
The process took decades and decades, but now maybe some have more awareness, certainly a
minority although present and conscious. The veil of Maya is thus unveiled: we are now
unable to live a widespread and generalized struggle of the workers in the sector because
too much was the disintegration of the workers, too much repression that hit the students,
too much individualism and fragmentation that impede widespread to arrive at a collective
vision of the struggle.
Accomplices of this state of affairs, indeed among the main culprits, the big unions of
three who deceived workers and students, offering themselves as the only alternative to
fight indeed have tried, wherever possible, to suppress or at least discredit the
self-organization of students and workers finally moderation mobilizations with the usual
actions of " social pompieraggio ": the streets are promised fire and flames, in the
palaces is contracted and sells off the fight. Conversely many base unions continue to act
in a manner that both recall the CGIL. Say acting on the basis of structures rigidly
organized, top-down and are placing almost all confidence in the traditional strike. We as
anarcho-syndicalists, we believe that this approach is not only ineffective but, bottom,
functional capital: in other words undertake strength and desire in minority struggles and
destined to remain so because it does not aspire to being a real change but tend to
research all reformist, a new balance that often sees in the state the only answer:
guaranteed salary or other similar amenities caring nature. Whose finally continue with
the work of dissimulation about abbreviations and acronyms do not want to even talk about.
Self-management as a practice
One of the tasks of our new union sector we must just be the identification of new tools
to fight that are effective, incisive and not slaves of any form of subservience and are,
instead, based on key concepts of anarcho: that self-management widespread rejection of
the delegation, in other words we mean the union not as means of perpetration of power
either through the model of the union as mere provider of services, both union used as
external tool to conduct battles reformist party.
Is often not easy to say what you want while it may be difficult to define what you want
believe, however, that this trend today is not valid here. We want to free ourselves, we
want that education is no longer a job as a bureaucrat or a tedious obligation, but that
becomes, through self-management and the widespread practice daily, accompanied by a
growth path in a common, collective, horizontal without educated and educators, without
servants or masters but only free men and women to learn, free to donate experiences.
Today, twenty duemilaquattordici December, at Via Torricelli is the first national
congress of the USI-AIT education, hooray USI-AIT Education!!!!
Maria Fortino
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