Berlin: Humboldt University IYSSE holds final election campaign meeting
For a socialist movement against war and militarism!
By
our correspondents
20 January 2017
On Monday, the final meeting of the IYSSE took place at Berlin’s Humboldt University (HU) as part of the campaign for the elections to the student parliament, held over Tuesday and Wednesday.
The meeting was attended by some 50 students and young workers, who attentively followed the various contributions and participated in the ensuing discussion. The meeting was chaired by Katja, a history student at Humboldt University and one of the IYSSE representatives to the student parliament last year.
“We are participating in the elections to build an international and socialist movement against war,” Katja said in opening the meeting. “This is why we have dedicated today’s event to this theme.” She recapped the last three meetings conducted by the IYSSE at HU. These centered on the election of Donald Trump as well as the return of German militarism and the role the universities play in this.
The first contribution was from Andre Damon, the IYSSE spokesperson in the US. Damon gave an assessment of the incoming Trump administration and political developments in the United States. “The inauguration of Donald Trump, which is scheduled for this coming Friday, is an unprecedented political event in American history,” he said. “His government will be a government of billionaires, by billionaires and for billionaires.” It was the result of a policy that had made the United States the country with the greatest levels of social inequality.
There was no dispute in the ruling elite about this, Damon said. The only conflicts revolved around the question of who should be…