AGIR (''ACT'' or ''REACT'' in English) is an organization of students with a Galician independentist and

anticapitalist Anti-capitalism is a political ideology and movement encompassing a variety of attitudes and ideas that oppose capitalism. Anti-capitalists seek to combat the worst effects of capitalism and to eventually replace capitalism with an alternative ...

ideology. It's an organization that has presence in different comarcas of

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and is made up only of active students.

History

AGIR was created by the merge of 4 previous organizations: Independentist Students, the FER, the

Galician Antifascist Students Assembly Galician Antifascist Students Assembly (AEGA, ''Assembleia de Estudantes Galeg@s Antifascistas'' in Galician language) was a Galician student union with its main base in the University of Vigo. AEGA had an antifascist, anticapitalist and Galici ...

and CAMEM, being the FER, close to Primeira Linha, the most supportive of the merge. The majority of the Independentist Students militants (the largest of the previous organizations) abandoned AGIR due to disagreements with the political line of the new organization. In the 2012 elections to the student representatives in the

University of Santiago de Compostela The University of Santiago de Compostela - USC (, ) is a public university located in the city of Santiago de Compostela, Galicia, Spain. A second campus is located in Lugo, Galicia. It is one of the world's oldest universities in continuous o ...

AGIR gained its first seat in the University Council. In 2014 elections AGIR won two seats.

Ideology, goals and structure

AGIR defends a

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Galician language Galician ( , ), also known as Galego (), is a Iberian Romance languages, Western Ibero-Romance language. Around 2.4 million people have at least some degree of competence in the language, mainly in Galicia (Spain), Galicia, an Autonomo ...

, not patriarchal, democratic and of quality. The organization fights against privatization and for an educational plan for

, in

and against

sexism Sexism is prejudice or discrimination based on one's sex or gender. Sexism can affect anyone, but primarily affects women and girls. It has been linked to gender roles and stereotypes, and may include the belief that one sex or gender is int ...

in the classroom. The organization is connected to Nós-Unidade Popular and specially to its youth wing, BRIGA. The central and basic body of AGIR are the different Committees of each college or secondary school in which they have presence.

References

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* Secessionist organizations in Europe 2001 establishments in Spain Galician nationalist parties Feminism in Spain Left-wing nationalist parties Socialism in Spain Student organisations in Spain {{Galicia-stub