The International Youth and Students for Social Equality (IYSSE) at the University of Michigan (UM) condemns the latest moves by the administration to intimidate and silence opposition to the US/Israeli genocide in Gaza.
To support the humane and democratic spirit of the faculty resolution requires that it not be used to promote illusions that the governments, universities, parties and official institutions such as the UN that uphold the world capitalist system can be forced by pressure from below to halt the genocide and end the decades-long oppression of the Palestinian masses.
The regents’ compendium of clichéd affirmations of the university’s devotion to free speech includes wording that directly contradicts the justification given by U-M President Ono in December for a permanent ban on student government resolutions denouncing the genocide in Gaza.
We are publishing here a letter being sent by the International Youth and Students for Social Equality (IYSSE) at the University of Michigan condemning the violent attack on two members of the Socialist Equality Party (SEP) in Sri Lanka by pro-government thugs.