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The purpose is to present the recent work Midnight Notes and allied groups of militant researchers have done to understand the new university movement and its relation to the politics of the commons in the US and around the world. This will be an opportunity to discuss with USSF participants (including many university students, faculty, staff) the political meaning of the student debt trap, the “education premium,” the struggle for “free” education (in both financial and anti-capitalist meanings) and class composition of the contemporary student body. On analyzing new university movements we see a political tension between the demand to have education (especially university education) as the way to access higher income only available to more people, and the demand that education be de-commmodified, that knowledge production be organized communally and that the resulting knowledge be treated as a common good. This tension permeates the new movement from its demands to its tactics and it is important for us in the anti-capitalist movement to discuss it frankly in a comradely space like that of the USSF. Short presentations will pose questions for participants to discuss.
