‘Class struggle’ in Berlin
From the website of Revolution
About 8,000 school students left their classes on May 22 and demonstrated through the center of Berlin to the school administration building. The protest was directed against classes being cancelled, the lack of teachers, and also against Germany’s three-tiered school system which discriminates against the poor and immigrants. The strike, the third in the last two years, had been organized by the school students’ initiative “Tear down the blockades in education!” and supported by a number of left-wing groups, including the independent youth organization REVOLUTION.
The Berlin government, made up of the SPD and the Left Party, is supposed to be the most left-wing state government in Germany, but it is at the forefront of cuts in education. For the last few years, Berlin’s school students have had to pay up to 100 euros for school books. The Left Party is not a party that supports young peoples’ struggles – rather, young people struggle against it!