Milei keeps his word: the government in Argentina is making drastic cuts in education and science

“advises the union about a possible strike. (…) universities and state scientific operations are also affected. The budget for universities was frozen at last year's level. (…) Last Wednesday, one floor of the building Godoy Cruz 2290, central headquarters of the Conicet, was temporarily closed …”Contribution by Miguel Arndt from February 22, 2024 in Amerika21 , see:

• Over 500 injured at the 5th Federal University March in Argentina on October 15th: Milei lets universities bleed dry and protests are brutally suppressed 
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    The demonstrators also insisted on the “historic pillars of the Argentine university model”: freedom from fees, autonomy, co-determination and the nationwide presence of universities as places for social advancement. They criticized the fact that the draft budget for 2027 for public universities presented by the Mileis government was the lowest in history - it comprises less than one percent of GDP and does not provide any funds for the implementation of the University Financing Act. In contrast, the National Interuniversity Council (CIN) is calling for an increase in the official draft by 33.4 percent…”Report by Stephan Hollensteiner from October 20, 2026 in Amerika21 
  • Milei is bleeding universities dry
    “Permanent violation of the law: Argentine government refuses to fund universities and suppresses protests
    Argentina is of great importance as a laboratory for the ultra-right. Javier Milei's government has been bleeding universities dry in an exemplary manner since it took office. Mass student protests are met with brutal police violence. The fifth national march in defense of public universities took place last Thursday. The main rally in Buenos Aires ended with the use of rubber bullets and tear gas by the police after the reading of a “Declaration in Defense of Sovereignty, Education and Democracy.” (…)
    Architecture student Pablo Fernández Martínez described the “catastrophic conditions” at the UBA in Buenos Aires: “Broken floors, wobbly tables and a lack of chairs – despite low wages, most lecturers are still committed. It is an unprecedented situation. Since Milei took office, the budget for the universities has been cut by 45.6 percent. There are no current figures from the Ministry of Education. The most recent are from 2024. In that year, the university budget accounted for 0.56 percent of GDP. In 2023 it was 0.72 percent. The consequences of the cuts are devastating. From January 2024 to April of this year, 438 lecturers and researchers were laid off at the UBA's Faculty of Natural Sciences. "The teachers have lost a third of their salary and there are no funds for research," explains biology lecturer Guillermo Folguera. Those who continue to teach at the university have to do additional jobs in order to survive. (…)
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• • Argentina: Three-day university strike
    “Buenos Aires. The resistance of public universities to the higher education policy of the government of Javier Milei continues. After the government ignored a federal court deadline to clear outstanding payments, teaching and administrative staff unions called for a three-day strike. Their main demand is a salary adjustment of 33.4 percent and the immediate implementation of the higher education financing law passed almost a year ago, which provides for an increase in university budgets in line with inflation and the resumption of scholarship programs for students.
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  • Universities: Teachers' strike and new judicial ultimatum – Milei violates the financing law
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    The judiciary has again asked the state to comply with the two most important articles of the law on higher education financing within five days; otherwise the officials would have to pay fines. The Ministry of Human Resources said it was “an alleged violation that does not exist as such,” but Judge Martín Cormick upheld the enforcement order and university unions went on a 72-hour strike to highlight the fight for public universities ahead of the Fifth Federal March, which will take place on October 15th…” span.Article by Camila Pace from October 1, 2026 on Página|12 (machine translated)
  • The fifth nationwide March in Defense of Higher Education will take place on October 15th
    The government is delaying payments and universities are taking to the streets. Teachers' salaries still need to be increased by 32 percent, but the government is only offering 3 percent. To make matters worse, she wants to allocate 4 trillion pesos less for this area in the 2027 budget than requested…” span.Article by Pablo Esteban from September 21, 2026 on Página|12 
• Education strike against austerity measures in Argentina: Second, nationwide strike by university teachers within just one week
  “University employees want to strike again against the lack of funding for universities and low salaries
  
  Last Wednesday, university lecture halls in Argentina remained empty for 24 hours. The union alliance of the Federation of University Teachers (FEDUN) and the Federation of National University Employees (FATUN) had launched the first part of their action plan after wage negotiations with the government predictably failed. The union leaders had previously backed away from the original demand for a 51 percent increase and, despite increased mobilization and protests, had agreed on 21 percent. But after three months, the teachers finally burst their collar when the government put a three percent increase in salaries on the table.
  For more than 300 days, the government has ignored the university funding law, which requires it to increase lecturers' salaries by 51 percent and a budget increase amounting to 0.36 percent of GDP. The law was only passed last year due to strong public pressure. She continues to refuse to accept the legislative setback for her course, even though she has so far failed with all objections and four legal challenges. Even a three-day deadline to submit a progress report given by Argentina's Supreme Court last week appears to have bypassed President Javier Milei's cabinet…” (“Education strike against cuts”)
• Nationwide 24-hour teachers' strike on August 3rd for increased funding, the social right to education and against the Milei government's anti-education offensive
  • Protests against Milei are spreading in Argentina: social organizations are criticizing the right-wing government's austerity policies and labor market reforms
    Buenos Aires. Teachers' unions and dock workers are shaping a new wave of protests against President Javier Milei this week. They blame the government for the loss of purchasing power, the underfunding of public education, the deregulation of the labor market and reforms that, in their view, dismantle social gains of the past decades.
    
    One of the focal points of the conflict is education. The association of education workers CTERA called for a nationwide strike and accused the government of refusing collective bargaining and failing to reintroduce the teachers' fund (FONID). This salary subsidy was discontinued by the Milei government in 2024.
    …” Ultra-right Javier Milei will be the new president of Argentina – if Bolsonaro and Trump congratulate...)
  • Nationwide teachers' strike in Argentina: Teachers demand dialogue and adequate salaries
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    On Monday 3, a nationwide teachers' strike will begin in Argentina, called by the Association of Education Employees (CTERA) for preschool, primary and secondary education, following the “continued refusal” of the government of Javier Milei to enter into dialogue and new wage negotiations.
    
    
    The measure coincides with the planned start of school in the city and province of Buenos Aires, Chaco and Santiago del Estero, but will affect the entire country. Although it primarily concerns public institutions, some private schools will also take part, depending on the decision of the institution in question or the requirements of the teaching staff and the unions in the sector, such as the Argentine Union of Private School Teachers (SADOP).
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  • Forceful nationwide teachers strike with extremely high participation and massive CTERA mobilizations across the country
    “The Association of Education Workers of the Republic of Argentina (CTERA) reports that the national teachers' strike called for today saw an extremely high turnout throughout the country, with large numbers of education workers taking part in the various actions and demonstrations in each province.
    The focus of the day of action was the large-scale rally in front of the Ministry of Economy, which was organized together with CONADU, CONADU Histórica and ATE and which strongly demanded measures that guarantee the social right to education and respect for workers…” span.Reported on August 3, 2026 by CTERA with photo gallery  (machine translated)
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• More than 2,600 scientists from different countries, including 25 Nobel Prize winners, warn of the dismantling of science in Argentina 
  “Buenos Aires. More than 2,600 scientists from different countries, including 25 Nobel Prize winnersin an open letter to President Javier Milei turned. In it they call on him to stop his government's "dismantling" of the science and technology system.
  
  The scientists attribute the deterioration to the reduction in funding for science and technology as well as a lack of long-term prospects for sustaining the sector. They explain that the measures implemented since the beginning of the current government's term in office have resulted in the loss of around eight jobs per day in the science and technology sectors.
  In the letter, the signatories say they are “dismayed” by the militarization of scientific institutions. (…)
  They specifically condemned the "increasing militarization" of the National Institute of Industrial Technology (INTI) and the "repression" against Conicet, Argentina's main research institution, whose employees peacefully protested against 379 layoffs and the abolition of careers for support staff and researchers.
  Such events are “unprecedented incidents worldwide,” the letter says. “It is unthinkable to find examples of governments physically abusing their scientists,” the international scientists wrote. (…)
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• Researchers from the state research funding organization CONICET in Argentina are protesting against cuts and layoffs of 375 postdoctoral researchers
  "Across the country in Argentina, employees of the state research funding organization CONICET (National Council for Scientific and Technological Research) protested against budget cuts and the impending dismissal of 375 scholarship holders. They also demanded the immediate reintroduction of health insurance for all employees. In Buenos Aires there was a march to the CONICET headquarters in the Palermo district, at the same time as a meeting of the CONICET board. Similar actions with a few hundred participants also took place in others Large cities, including many members of the Union of State Employees (ATE). (…) At the end of July, 375 postdocs who qualified for further employment in the “Scientific Researcher Career Track” are to be terminated. In addition to the threat of layoffs, the termination of health insurance has also led to the interruption of treatment for people with illnesses. According to ATE, the CONICET board is acting on the instructions of the Milei government's austerity policies. The recent escalation comes amid a policy of freezing funding programs for projects and laboratory supplies, as well as a decline in scientists' real wages by more than 40 percent. Both have already led to an exodus of scientists abroad. (…) In previous years, hundreds of CONICET employees were put in a precarious position due to the suspension of their previously included health insurance. CONICET offered those affected 90,000 pesos (approx. 52 euros) each to insure themselves. “An insufficient amount that disadvantages people with previous illnesses,” said those affected. Contribution by Stephan Hollensteiner from July 6, 2026 in Amerika21 (“Researchers in Argentina protest against cuts and layoffs”)
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  The rectories will not withdraw the lawsuit pending before the Supreme Court regarding the financing law. In addition, increases in financing costs, university hospitals and scholarships were decided.
  
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• • Against austerity policies. With public lectures and protests: The strike at universities against the financing law has begun
    “The measure is met with resistance from Milei. The left and militant circles denounce the complicity of the authorities in trying to negotiate with the government.
    On Tuesday 26, a nationwide strike by teaching and non-teaching staff began in all public universities in Argentina, which will last five days and is one of the most determined protests in recent years. The measure, initiated by teachers' associations such as Conadu and Conadu Histórica, comes just two weeks after the massive Marcha Federal Universitaria on May 12, in which hundreds of thousands gathered in defense of public and free education. Finally, the Fedun Teachers' Union (CGT) called for a strike on June 29 that will see non-teaching staff paralyze universities across the country.
    The situation escalated on Tuesday. Students from the “Nacional Buenos Aires” and “Carlos Pellegrini” high schools decided in meetings to support the teachers’ strike by occupying their respective schools. (…)
    Budget cuts are not the only attack. The day before the university march, the government officially announced another cut of more than 5.3 billion pesos, affecting not only universities but also academic institutions and important social sectors. Far from vigorously defending the university, the university administration's response was to negotiate behind the backs of the educational community. Peronist and radical rectors, united in the CIN, are trying to secure minimum funds for their coffers, while at the same time the government is pushing forward a new law that will replace the current one, abolish the inflation-related salary adjustment and further restrict resources.
    
    Milei's government responded with attacks and threats. She published an official document in which she questioned the right to strike and, together with rectors such as Emiliano Yacobitti (UCR), threatened to deduct strike days from their salaries and to classify the education sector as systemically important - a clear attack on the right to protest. But the teachers did not let this deter them and reaffirmed their will to fight for wages that correspond to the shopping basket and to defend the public, free and scientific university…” span.Report from May 26, 2026 in La Izquierda Diario 
  • Indefinitely. Students occupy the “Nacional Buenos Aires” and the “Pellegrini”: They demand compliance with the university financing agreement
    Faced with non-compliance with the funding law and anger over austerity measures and teachers' starvation wages, students from Nacional Buenos Aires and Pellegrini gathered in rallies and voted for indefinite school occupations to intensify the fight. An important step to multiply and radicalize by coordinating a real battle plan to bring Milei to its knees. The conflict in universities is coming back into focus with the strike by teaching and non-teaching staff that has begun in all public universities in the country and will continue for five more days. However, to this measure there is another piece of news: after weeks of mobilizations, symbolic hugs and important meetings of all university members, students of the Colegio Nacional de Buenos Aires and Carlos Pellegrini have decided to continue with indefinite occupationsSubmitted by Juan Manuel Astiazarán on May 26, 2026 in La Izquierda Diario (machine translated) with photos
• • Great Federal March. University March, live: Thousands of people stream into the Plaza de Mayo
    “Large rally in the Plaza de Mayo and in numerous cities across the country. The rejection of austerity measures in the education system is massive. But university authorities and union bureaucracies want to use this power for negotiations that lead nowhere. The government is in a serious crisis. She can be defeated. But for this to happen, the fight must be continued by developing a common struggle between teachers, non-teaching staff and students with the support of the population. The left represents this perspectiveReport from May 12, 2026 in La Izquierda Diario (machine translated) with photos and videos
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    “Large crowds are expected in central Buenos Aires as the government continues to violate the law that provides funding for universities. Repeated demonstrations are taking place across the country…” span.Report from May 12, 2026 in Página|12 (machine translated) with photos and videos
  • Across the country, crowds gathered for the fourth nationwide student march: “
     
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    “The Libertarian government announced cuts affecting universities and institutions such as Conicet, the National Commission for Space Activities and the National Commission for Atomic Energy.
    As universities and academics prepare for the fourth march across the country on Tuesday, the government is taking up the chainsaw and making new cuts in another desperate attempt. A provocation with which the libertarian government is experimenting by cutting the budget of emblematic institutions such as the Conicet (3 billion pesos less) and reducing, among other things, the funds for improving the infrastructure of state universities by 5 billion pesos. The excuse is the same as always: maintaining the zero deficit. The timing is precise: this decision is announced just as millions of people are preparing to demand from the authorities the right to study and receive training in the country. Faced with this situation, the National University of Río Negro (UNRN) decided to internationalize the conflict and filed a complaint with the United Nations to highlight the deterioration of Argentina's higher education system and demand intervention.
    Jorge Aliaga, physicist and planning secretary at the National University of Hurlingham, describes the cuts in detail. Speaking to Página 12, he explains: "This measure was taken as a result of falling tax revenues. The aim is that the authorities do not spend and that there is no budget deficit. This will of course have an even greater impact on the functioning of the system." He continues: “What was published in the Official Journal on Monday represents a budget amendment that adds some items in the Anses and in the repayment of external debts, but foresees very significant cuts in most departments, in particular in health, education, science, public works and roads.”
    Article by Pablo Esteban from May 12, 2026 in Página|12 (machine translated)
• On May 12th, teachers, students and university staff will be called upon to defend public education and university hospitals in various cities in Argentina 
  • There are more than enough reasons: a historic mobilization to save the universities is expected
    The libertarian government wants to destroy higher education in Argentina. The organizers expect a massive turnout and emphasize: “We hope that May 12th will be the beginning of the end of Milei’s presidency.”
    There are more than enough reasons for the fourth University March, which will take place across the country this Tuesday. With nearly 60 universities taking part, it is only natural that the protest will be replicated in every corner of the country. The call in Buenos Aires will be centered in Plaza de Mayo, and the main rally will take place at 5 p.m., when unions, principals, teachers and students will take the floor. Public universities and the 2 million people who live there face their darkest hours in May 2026. The judiciary's move to delegate the final decision on the higher education funding law to the Supreme Court could further delay the implementation of the law, which has not been applied for more than 200 days. The most recent conflict: the dispute between the government authorities and those of the UBA over cutting funding for university hospitals. When the libertarian smoke has cleared, only one reality remains: the situation of teaching and non-teaching staff is catastrophic, as they have lost around 34 percent of their purchasing power since Javier Milei took office. (…)
    University hospitals whose days are numbered
    The last few days have been very tense for state universities, as if the May 12 demonstration had further inflamed tensions between the government authorities and the university authorities. While the UBA complained that the government had not transferred funds for consumables, maintenance and equipment for its hospitals, Capital Humano said it was keeping up with the transfers and accused the UBA of wanting to withhold all the funds that are actually due to the entire university hospitals in the country.
    The truth is: the total budget for these health facilities is 114 billion for 2026, but only 10 percent of this has been spent so far this year (just over 10 billion has been allocated). As a result, the situation of 700,000 patients using these facilities is in an uncertain situation.
    The situation in hospitals is a clear example of what is currently going on in general. The latest report from the Ibero-American Center for Research in Science, Technology and Innovation (Ciicti) and the Association of University Teachers indicates that wages for university employees have fallen by 33.7 percent in real terms over the last 29 months, falling for the seventeenth consecutive month. In order to return to the November 2023 level and compensate for the losses incurred during this period, they would have to be increased by 50 percent…” span.Article by Pablo Esteban from May 11, 2026 in Página|12 (machine translated)
  • On the way to the fourth federal march. Impoverished: The university in a state of emergency
    “…It's not just about the cuts as a purely economic issue. It's not about the fact that we lost 42 percent of our salary in two years. The point is that the faculties constantly have to live with the despair of having to close their doors, and that this situation gets worse the further you get from the city of Buenos Aires. (The universities in the greater Buenos Aires area have made higher education accessible to the first generations who never had this opportunity before.) It's not just about the economics, it's not about university financing, nor is it about the gaps in social security that result from underfunding. It is about something much broader: the “poverty” of a country that cannot generate, produce and pass on its knowledge in a reflective, critical, secular and committed way.
    Just like the concept of slave, the concept of poverty is a false, erroneous concept adopted by those who try to see a dialectic where there is none. Slaves do not exist and never have existed, just as there are no poor people. There are the enslaved and the impoverished. Nobody enjoys being a slave. It's a process. One is born free - perhaps with too much freedom, which is later regulated for the greater good - but one becomes enslaved.
    We should talk about the impoverished. And one of the main factors of this impoverishment is the attack on the public university, which has become a spoil of war. The precariousness of the conditions in which we do our work - caused by the current government and its attempt to present this as normal - attacks and destroys the history of a country in which the public university has been a unifying factor and engine of social advancement.
    How far will we go? As we have done so often, we university teachers will continue to teach in and out of the classroom and stand up for our rights - rights that are also the right of all Argentines to education. We will think together with our students about the conditions under which they will later work, learn, live and love. We will hold our lessons where they belong: in the lecture halls, on the streets, at the demonstrations.(…)
    Teachers, researchers and universities – central places of thought – are currently going through a critical time. Our options to continue practicing this profession are limited. Beyond study plans and organizational charts, it's about something as simple as it is complex: helping to think about the world in which we live. On the 12th we will march and set an example for the public university with every step.“ SpanishArticle by Martín Smud from May 11, 2026 in Página|12 (machine translated)
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    "The Milei government is downplaying the protests and promising to submit a new university funding law to Congress. At the same time, university hospitals warned of possible supply shortages due to a lack of funds.Faced with the call from the university authorities for a new mobilization protest rally that will take place on Tuesday, May 12, to demand an adjustment in salaries for teaching and non-teaching staff and a higher budget for financing higher education, the University of Buenos Aires (UBA) called on the entire community to march to Plaza de Mayo from 5 p.m. “We must take to the streets again in thousands to defend our future,” they emphasized. The government downplays the mobilization and maintains its stance of not complying with the law passed by Congress. The mobilization is again linked to the demand for compliance with Articles 5 and 6 of Law No. 27,795 on the Financing of Higher Education, given the urgent wage and budgetary problems of state universities…”Report from May 6, 2026 in Página|12 (Spanish, machine translated)
  • 200 days after the higher education funding law came into force, a ruling allows the government to go to court
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    The government has managed to obtain a positive resolution according to which the injunction that obliged it to implement Law 27,795 on higher education funding will now be decided by the Supreme Court, where it is betting on winning the favor of the judicial caste. This is a significant provocation after almost 200 days of non-compliance with the law, which means that the funds for the adjustment of salaries and scholarships in universities are not provided.
    In addition, this decision provides the impetus for the large mobilization that is being prepared for next May 12th. The final decision about college funding will not be made in court, but on the street. (…)
    The day of protest on May 12th will include rallies in various cities, including a central demonstration in Buenos Aires that will start at 3 p.m. towards Plaza de Mayo and will bring together hundreds of thousands of teachers, students and higher education workersReport from May 7, 2026 in La Izquierda Diario (Spanish, machine translated)
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    It is time for universities to take to the streets again on a massive scale across the country. The demand is clear: the law on university financing, which Milei refuses to implement, must be adhered to. The university authorities are preparing a pact with the government behind closed doors. We must not allow their interests and model to be imposed, as was the case in 2024, when operating resources were increased at the expense of the salaries of teaching and non-teaching staff, thereby maintaining precarious working conditions and curtailing the rights of students. It depends on our fight from below!...” span.
• Nationwide strikes by lecturers at state universities in Argentina for higher salaries are expected to last until the end of March, with small interruptions
  "Since the beginning of the week, large sections of lecturers at state universities have been on strike to emphasize their demand for salary increases. The strike was initiated by the two largest national lecturers' unions Conadu Histórica and Conadu. They have called for a strike with small interruptions until the end of March. The unions complain about a large backlog of promised salary increases and are demanding the implementation of the University Financing Act. This was passed in August Passed by the National Congress in 2025, it provides for a larger budget for the operation of all universities and bi-monthly salary increases linked to inflation for all lecturers. The government of President Javier Milei is challenging the law legally and has suspended its implementation by decree (…) The teaching staff of the largest university in the country, the Universidad de Buenos Aires, has called for an indefinite strike until the salary increase provided for in the university financing law (So far) 55.4 percent have been implemented. In addition, they presented a report on salary developments, according to which real wages are currently 35.6 percent below the level of November 2023 and are therefore “at a historic low”. According to Laura Carboni, general secretary of the UBA lecturers’ union, since November 2023 “for every three months worked, only two have been paid”. "Things cannot continue like this. We need coordinated action to end the government's attack on universities," said Carboni. Student organizations also support the strike.Law student Victoria Liascovich, spokesperson for the Falta Envido student movement, emphasizes: “The university funding problem is a strategy brought about by the central government, because a passed law is ignored by the executive.” Their accusation is: “Instead of closing the state universities, they are trying to deprive them of their resources and gradually reduce their offerings.”…” Contribution by Stephan Hollensteiner from March 20, 2026 at Amerika21 (“Argentina: Nationwide strikes at universities”) and:
  • A hit in the budget. Salaries that are not enough, debts that grow: the reality of teachers in the province of Buenos Aires
     
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    SpanishDossier from March 19, 2026 in La Izquierda Diario
• “Law on Freedom of Education” (Milei, not Orwell): Alarm in the education system because of the draft education reform in Argentina
  • “Alarm in the education system because of the draft education reform”
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    The authors of this initiative seek to repeal the current Education Law (LEN 26.206), which was the result of extensive and in-depth debates with all representative sectors of society and the different political areas. They disregard and ignore the respectful and pluralistic participatory process that, in 2006, managed to define education as a social right and knowledge as a public good, in order to undemocratically replace it with another design that clearly corresponds to the dictates and interests of the most economically concentrated companies in the private sector, defining education as a service and focusing on the principles of individual freedom over social interests…” span.
  • Upcoming reforms in the education system. Analysis of the document “Law on Freedom of Education”
    “Last week the document “Law on Freedom of Education” was published in various media. Below is an analysis of the text, its aims and its class natureArticle by M. Betania Oreja Cerruti from 11/25/25 in La Izquierda Diario 
• Buenos Aires Province. On October 8th there will be a teachers' strike for salaries and against adjustments in the education system.
  “It was passed through school mandates in a plenary session sponsored by the Multicolor opposition with the vote of more than 4,200 teachers. It was also decided to stop on the 14th as part of the national measure declared by Ctera. Milei attacks education with cuts and a shrinking budget. In the province, Kicillof adapts with poverty wages and schools without conditions. A battle plan with continuity is necessary.
  Given the inaction of Baradel and Sutebas Celeste to declare the wage adjustment valid, discontent is growing in the schools. Teachers are forced to work a nine- or ten-hour day (with the fifth hour added by Kicillof). Teachers' salaries are poverty wages; a teacher earns $700,000 for one position and a teacher earns $599,402. (…)
  To make ends meet, teachers take on two or even three jobs. In addition to the overload of work, there is also the poor condition of the buildings and the lack of resources to deal with the effects of a social crisis that is being felt strongly in schools. For this reason, they are calling for an increase in the education budget for construction work, canteens, positions, scholarships and materials. The fight over salaries and budgets is a fight to defend public schools.  This fight takes place in a national context in which the Milei government, which once boasted of the chainsaw, is in free fall. The connection between Espert and the drug trade, which the left denounced in 2019, was the straw that broke the camel's back. Last week, Milei's vetoes of the University Funding Act and the Pediatric Emergency Act were finally defeated in the Senate.
  In the meantime, the union leaderships, under the leadership of Peronism, plan actions only sporadically. The Ctera announced a delayed strike for October 14 and allowed entire months to pass without action, leaving key provincial conflicts such as Misiones, Santa Cruz and Jujuy isolated. (…)
  While the crisis-ridden government presents a budget that calls for "projected" inflation of 10% by December 2026 - an unrealistic figure that hides deep cuts - it is also preparing to abolish the Education Financing Act. (…)
   Let us support the provincial strike on October 8th and take charge of the Ctera national strike on October 14th to enforce continuity!Report from October 6, 2025 in La Izquierda Diario https://www.pagina12.com.ar/857780-estudiantes-de-la-uba-convocan-a-la-marcha-universitaria-fed 
• • University staff in Argentina are on strike again
    
    The street protest was followed by a general strike that took place on Friday and paralyzed various UBA faculties. It was the end of a week of action with which the unions tried to unite protests and place the “university conflict” more firmly on the political agenda again. Despite the massive protests last year, which culminated in the nationwide mobilization of around 800,000 people on April 23, the Milei government is sticking to its course. Milei deprives public universities of resources and adjusts salaries only slowly and inadequately. "With the salary cuts, Milei is draining the public universities. There is an exodus of lecturers who have to look for other jobs in order to secure their livelihood," said Laura Carboni, general secretary of the UBA lecturers' union. According to the union, the loss of purchasing power among university professors during Milei's 17-month tenure is estimated at an average of 34 percent. “There is a lot of anger against this government,” said Carboni, “several salary groups are now below the poverty line” (…) Jorge Anró, deputy secretary of the Argentine Union of University Employees, explained: “The situation is really disastrous, we are doing even worse than in 2024..”…”Post by Stephan Hollensteiner from May 27th, 2025 in Amerika21 
  • Universities in Struggle: Adaptation, Precarity, and a Plan to Defend Education Funding.
    “Argentina's public universities are facing an unprecedented crisis characterized by budget cuts, loss of purchasing power and increasing precariousness of employment. Since last week, the education community has intensified its fight with strikes, occupations and mobilizations in defense of public education…” span.Article by Laura Antonini from May 26, 2025 in La Izquierda Diario (machine translated)
  • MAY 22: CTERA NATIONAL FIGHT DAY
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    –    From May 19th to 23rd: National Day of Visualization of the University Conflict, with various actions established in each union with the aim of discussing university issues not only in the different houses of study, but also with the different forms of expression that make up the catchment area of ​​each university.
    –   Last week of May: University march as part of the presentation of the project to finance higher education…” span.CONADU report from May 15, 2025 (machine translated)
• Public universities in Argentina are threatened – not only by underfunding, but also by political control
  • Public universities in Argentina threatened
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    Last week, the prosecutor of the Ministry of Finance, Rodolfo Barra, signed an order for the “Sindicatura General de la Nación” audit body to resume control of national universities. This is a massive violation of the autonomy of universities. Poor economic performance at universities is the president's main argument to justify budget cuts. Since 2022, audits have been left to the National Audit Office, a control body that is not dependent on the executive branch.
    Sol Alconada, president of the union of the University of La Plata, capital of Buenos Aires province, said: "We know that this is an attack, it is not an economic problem of university funding, but a political problem, since they do not want the university to continue to exist as an institution for social advancement, for personal development, for national development." The week-long strike and nationwide protests are just the beginning of a growing student movement, said Sol Alconada.
    According to estimates, up to 40,000 students and supporters gathered in La Plata last week to demonstrate against the Milei government's plans. They demand that the 3.4 billion pesos [approx. three million euros] that the government canceled for next year. The funds are intended primarily for salaries of teachers and administrative staff, which should be adjusted for inflation. This is not yet provided for in the executive branch's project. According to Luca Bonfante, general secretary of the student center of the Faculty of Philosophy and Literature, more than a hundred public universities nationwide are involved in the protests and strikesPost by Julia Liebermann from October 28th, 2024 in Amerika21 (“Public universities in Argentina threatened”)
  • University. UBA Economics: Radicals prepare curriculum reform behind closed doors in the service of Milei
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  • Argentina: How the student movement can become a subject of the fight against the law and for a liberated university
    
    The actions continued throughout the week, showing that this phenomenon has few precedents. Among the highlights of the week was a massive mobilization of more than 30,000 people in La Plata on Wednesday October 16 in defense of higher education and against Milei's austerity measures. After a week of meetings and sit-ins in 14 of the 17 faculties of UNLP (University of La Plata), this was a protest march with historic characteristics. Meanwhile, in Tucumán, a large university mobilization took place, organized across faculties through the streets of the city based on mandates from grassroots assemblies. It was a forceful response to the arrogant attitude of Governor Jaldo's police, who had tried to evacuate a public lecture in front of the Faculty of Philosophy and Arts the previous day. (…) This criticism means fighting for a university at the service of workers and the large majorities, in which studying at university is neither a privilege nor a path to social differentiation. We question the fact that our education is designed according to the needs of the “market” to maximize capitalist profits, and that there are agreements between universities and large companies and employers (from Monsanto to Shell, from Bayer to Chevron). This is the elitist policy that the government wants to deepen for universities…” Article from La Izquierda Diarioon October 28th, 2024 in German. Translation by Kilian Gremminger at Klasse gegen Klasse