“Tomorrow, we continue! », claims the student union L’alternative. On paper, a dark week is shaping up in higher education. Followed in around forty universities and schools, the call for a renewable blockade, Tuesday March 7, appears to be a success: 250,000 young people mobilized on the territory, it is three times more than on February 7, estimates the representative organization , which has been preparing the ground since the beginning of the year.
The sequel, Wednesday March 8, will take the form of a “feminist strike “, then, Thursday, March 9, an inter-union appeal against the precariousness of young people. Finally, Friday March 10 will mark the return of the youth marches for the climate
In Nanterre, Tuesday morning, they were however only a few dozen to brave the absence of public transport to find themselves in front of the buildings leaning against the RER station. A few trash cans and construction gates present on campus quickly enabled them to block the entrances to several faculties. One more action “symbolic”, according to them, because few students came to follow the courses face-to-face, the university having decided, exceptionally, not to record the absences.
Troops less than expected
In most establishments, teachers have been given the option of teaching their lessons remotely this week. “I think some teachers are holding back from going on strike because our exams are fast approaching and we have a program to finish! », relates Agathe, a student at Sorbonne University in Paris.
Considered a “administrative obstacle to mobilization”, even a “recontainment of youth”, according to Hugo Prévost, national secretary of L’alternative, the passage of distance learning courses risks upsetting the planned schedule. Visually, faculties are blocked – the responses, on social networks, to the “blockade challenge” launched on March 5 by the deputy (La France insoumise) Louis Boyard testifies to this – but the troops are not as supplied as hoped.
On social networks, calls follow one another against “a deadly pension reform” Who “will be precarious for life” a youth having already experienced the start of the baccalaureate reform and Parcoursup. It is now necessary to join the strike pickets of the sectors “of the world of work”, estimates the movement The raised fist.
“College selection puts tremendous pressure on missing classes, testifies on Twitter an activist named Erellux. But I think we have an opportunity here! (…) The RATP, the SNCF, the refineries are going on a renewable strike, and we, the students, must follow them in this. » “It’s time to move on to adding up the struggles”confirms Barth Piron, master’s student at Paris Nanterre University and treasurer of the UNEF union.
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