In defense of the Public University

Since the two massive university marches in Argentina—on April 23 and October 2—in protest against the defunding of public universities, the decline in salaries for faculty and staff, and President Javier Milei's veto of the University Funding Law, the mobilization of students, faculty, and staff has strengthened throughout the country. Occupations of university buildings, strikes, public lectures, artistic interventions, and demands on legislators and labor unions to intervene in defense of public universities are multiplying daily, exposing the neoliberal, anti-state policies and actions against the interests of the people implemented by Javier Milei's government.

Among other actions, as part of a series of 109 public lectures in Plaza de Mayo organized by the University of Buenos Aires teachers' union, on October 23, Germán Pinazo , Vice-Rector of the National University of General Sarmiento, gave a lecture on the operational mechanisms of all Argentine public universities. Pinazo's presentation focused on dismantling, one by one, the false arguments with which Javier Milei's government seeks to undermine the public's support for public universities.

Meanwhile, students from the National University of the Arts staged an artistic intervention at the Once train station during rush hour, which was very well received by those present.