Nationwide Meeting of MAS:The big Nationwide meeting of MAS was completed in a fighting and militant spirit!

More than 120 Student Associations participated in the meeting. Hundreds of students from all over the country met to discuss and jointly plan their action under the slogan "Degrees that matter – Free Studies! This is what is contemporary for the students. We fight collectively - we are coordinating nationwide".

The call of MAS stressed: "(Our slogan) will resonate loudly on Saturday at Panteion University. There will beat the heart of the Student Movement, of every student who is concerned and worries about their studies and their life, who does not compromise with what the governments and the EU present to us as 'realism'", and added:

"The big meeting is about organising the students' struggle in the face of the attack on our needs and rights. Against the huge cost of studies that is a lump in the throat of every student and his/her family, against the conditions of studies that are constantly getting worse because of selective underfunding, against the reactionary changes of downgrading our degrees.

We continue even more decisively, with experience and lessons learned from the biggest student mobilisations of recent years, against private universities and the further commercialisation of higher education. Our previous Meeting played a decisive role in manifesting this nationwide movement. This year's Meeting takes on special significance, because now that the attack on our rights is getting stronger, it is time to coordinate the struggle nationwide!"

The meeting started with the opening speech on behalf of the Executive Secretariat of the MAS.

Representatives of trade unions and All Workers Militant Front (PAME), the Athens School Students' Coordination Committee, the Greek Committee for International Detente and Peace (EEDYE), the Association of Students of Dance, Theatre and Film Schools, the Federation of Women of Greece, the Federation of Administrative Staff of Higher Education and other bodies were present and greeted the participants.

Alongside were shown greeting messages sent by student organizations and Student Associations of other countries.

Dozens of representatives from the Student Associations participating in MAS took the floor throughout the day.

The meeting concluded with the formation of the new coordinating body of the MAS and the planning of action.

On the sidelines of the Nationwide Meeting there were meetings of students with representatives of workers' federations and trade unions and meetings of militant coordination of the demand concerning important fronts of struggle.