[news] The University Revolt in Oruro

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marxist.com | By Ramon Sanchez The Oruro Technical University (UTO) students have been giving further headaches to the Bolivian ruling class. The clashes between the very highly UTO lecturers and the students began just over three weeks ago when the lecturers demanded a 20% wage rise during a University Council meeting. This demand angered the students and the low paid non-academic workers (kitchen staff, cleaners, porters and so on) who did not accept this abuse of the already tight UTO budget.

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