- For the education we need, independence! The motto of the strike is Ikama, who has called a strike day in universities, Compulsory Secondary Education and Vocational Training. The mobilisations linked to the call for a strike will be announced in the coming weeks.
Faced with the "rise of fascism and reactionary values", the student organization has defended the need for its own Basque educational system. "We are living with great concern the current context," is indicated in the press release released by the COPE chain. "The educational systems, led by the Spanish and French states, have reached their peak, are instruments to perpetuate the cysheteropatriarchal capitalist system and the assimilation of the Basque Country. They are directly responsible for our people and for the oppression suffered by the Basque students".
"We are aware that the educational system is a fundamental pillar for the reproduction of a state and that the imposed educational system responds to the needs of the Spanish and French states," says Ikama. "The curriculum is totally imposed, a very high percentage is applied from Paris and Madrid. Transmitting values, ideas... of their interest and reproducing the Spanish and French identity". In view of this situation, they have argued that the construction of an inclusive educational system is essential. "Therefore, our obligation is to launch an appeal for independence between students and in general throughout the education system," he added.
Faced with the rise of fascism
"Fascism cannot have a place in the educational system, and it is up to the Basque students to fight for it, claiming the feminist struggle, the struggle for Euskera and independence values," said Ikama. "We say it out loud, independence is essential for the education we need," he added.
"At a time when we are experiencing the rise of fascism, we are going to start a process of anti-fascist struggle," they added. "Because having one's own language, culture and history, along with a national
character that does not have a state, gives us another worldview and sets us apart from the states that oppress us. That is why we understand that in Euskal Herria we must unite the anti-fascist struggle with independence."
Precisely, the strike of 20 March aims to "transmit transformative values for the design of the educational system of the future" and to claim "an own educational system".