German students prepare mass university strikes for November 20

Strike plans

The youth student movement Gen Z regelt! Studis (Generation Z Gets It Done! Students) has announced its intention to join the pan-European protests on November 20 and organize mass strikes at German universities. This was reported by the newspaper Die Tageszeitung, cited by Gazeta.Ru. According to the activists, their main goal is to bring university teaching to a halt as much as possible.

Organization and demands

More than 90 delegates representing students from 35 German universities took part in the movement's founding assembly. The final decision on holding the actions is to be made at general student assemblies, which will be organized at a number of institutions on the eve of the protests. The organizers are counting on mass support and emphasize that they do not intend to limit themselves to small local events.

Demands on the government

The activists plan to exert coordinated pressure on the German federal government. Their demands include a significant increase in public funding for education, a ban on short-term employment contracts with academic staff, the introduction of a wealth tax, and an end to military research at universities. In addition, the movement's participants are calling for the resignation of the German Chancellor and leader of the Christian Democratic Union, Friedrich Merz.

Context of the protest wave

The strikes continue a series of youth actions in the country: according to the German newspaper Bild, cited by Gazeta.Ru, around 100,000 people took part in demonstrations on October 31 as part of the Generation Z Gets It Done initiative — these figures come from the movement's press secretary, that is, from the organizers themselves. Earlier, about a hundred Berlin schoolchildren staged a protest against military service. The final scale of the November strikes will only become known after the student assemblies held on the eve of the actions.