Defend public education against Sarkozy's cuts! Unite workers and youth across Europe and internationally!

The one-day strike of high school students and teachers on May 15 against President Sarkozys cuts in education is the continuation of two months of demonstrations and protests. The attacks on students and teachers are part of an assault on the entire working class, including public service workers, pensioners, immigrants and undocumented workers.

This offensive against the working class is not simply a French question, but rather a European-wide and international issue. Throughout Europe, as in the US, public schools are being starved of funds as the financial elites move toward privatizing the schools and creating a two-tier systemquality education for the children of the wealthy and sub-standard schooling for everyone else.

When working class youth leave school, what do they face? The prospect of unemployment or low-wage jobs and the threat of being dragooned to fight and die in war.

The driving force behind the assault on young people is not simply the policies of one president or one government, but rather the objective crisis of the capitalist system itself. With the near-meltdown of the financial systembloated by inflated values on the basis of which the top 1 percent enriched itselfthe world once again is threatened with economic depression.

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