Anomalous Wave

21 January 2009, La Sapienza, Rome. Gianfranco Fini, the President of the Italian Chamber of Deputies, paid a visit to La Sapienza. Protests erupted. See video and pictures.

A solidarity message from Mexico to Italy. This is in Spanish. Speaker is a representative of S.E.R.A.Z.L.N. (”the zapatista autonomous and rebel educational system of national liberation”).

Students are back, and so are the mobilizations. Now it seems that The Wave of universitarians is taking part in the numerous protests against the war in Gaza. But besides this, the campaign for self-reductions (autoriduzioni) has been going on, and there have been some university protests too.

On Thursday 15 January 2009, the university of Calabria was celebrating the inauguration of the academic year. There was a notable guest, too: the president of the republic, Giorgio Napolitano. However, students decided to voice their criticism towards the university administration and the Italian government. “What is there to inaugurate? The destruction of the university? The situation of precarity? Or even better, the end of democracy?”

In the morning, before the inauguration, the university was occupied…by the police. Students were kept outside. At 1 p.m. students took back their university. The party was spoiled and president Napolitano was on the run, students say. (Source: Uniriot)

Social center ESC has produced its first book, Lessico Marxiano, marxian lexicon. ESC has an experimentation of self-education called LUM, Free Metropolitan University. The project of the book is: to re-read Marx against the misery of marxism & go beyond Marx if possible. The book consists of 12 essays which focus on some of the key concepts of marxian theoretical production. ESC website has info about the book in Italian: www.escatelier.net

5 January 2009. Alemanno, the mayor of Rome, says “La Sapienza is controlled by 300 criminals” and “something should be done”. Students say the real criminals are those who are destroying the university. The aim of Alemanno and friends is obvious: to normalize the university, push the Wave into the corner. (Source: Uniriot)