Email from Ségolène Darly, member of LADYSS - The Social Dynamics and Recomposition of Spaces Laboratory
March 4, 2020
Dear colleagues,
French Universities are under attack.
While we are already underfunded and submerged in work, the French government is implementing a new ‘reform’ worsening the current situation. It aims to increase the competition for grants between research teams, discipline the public research community to get it to work on specific topics, and get rid of the legal framework guaranteeing job stability and stipulating the teaching hours. Although the mainstream media hardly cover them, strikes have begun in many French universities.
We know that you have experienced the same pressures and are fighting against the same evils.
Our fights would be harder to ignore if they were addressed as an international issue.
In France, the 5th of march will be a national “Higher education and research stop” day. What about an international “universities on strike” day soon…?
Sincerely,
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- Papers on the current French academic strikes: https://academia.hypotheses.org/the-french-academicstrike-is-on
- List of universities and centers on strike in France: https://universiteouverte.org/2020/01/14/liste-des-facs-et-labos-en-lutte/
- Websites on strikes and universities in french: https://universiteouverte.org/; http://sauvonslarecherche.fr/
- List of international resistances (to be completed): https://seenthis.net/messages/824281
