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Published on Sunday, 08 July 2012 By rosalind hampton Action guided by anti-racist and anti-colonial analysis is essential to imagining and building liberating alternatives to our current social order. The experience of the inspiring movement ignited by Quebec students this year confirms this belief, as questions about its diversity and about incidents of racism...
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for direct and participative democracy to empower all members This document is aimed at students working on campuses where no student association exists at the department or faculty level. Where associations do exist, many of these principles can still be applied. 1. Importance of organizing and mobilizing from the grassroots Creating departmental or faculty...
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The CLASSE*, as a temporary structure built upon l’Assocation pour une Solidarité Syndicale**, subscribes to confrontational syndicalism . This movement affirms that the state and local administrations are, by definition, opposed to our interests. The state is not a neutral entity in which all stakeholders exert equal influence: rather, it must be...
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Commentary by Kevin Paul, McGill law student on the current conjuncture. First published in McGill Daily on 30th August, 2012 “First, if the September 4 election indeed leads to major concessions on student demands by the newly elected party, it is the rapport de force that we have created with the state, and not our engagement in...
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By Sam Bick and Rushdia Mehreen First published in Our Times’ 2012 Summer Issue, Vol. 31 No.3. After 120 days, the Quebec student strike that started in February is no longer focussed solely on accessible education. More than 150,000 students from over 60 associations from universities and CEGEPs (colleges) across Quebec remain on strike....
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by Free Education Montreal   Despite its claim to multiculturalism, Quebec is becoming an increasingly hostile environment for international students. Since 2008, the provincial government has been allowing universities to increase international tuition fees by 10 per cent per year. The worst of these hikes came in the 2008-2009 school year, when Quebec completely...
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