Quebec government tries to ban protest
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The student movement in Quebec faces an all-out offensive by the government.
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Hundreds of thousands in Montreal support students and defy ban on protests
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On 22 May 250,000 or more demonstrated in the centre of Montreal.
John Carlos: "It's not about winning medals - it's about being a freedom fighter"
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(In the 1968 picture, John Carlos is on the right.)
Neither Washington nor Moscow: those were the days
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We continue our series of recollections and reflections from activists who were involved with the “third camp” left in the United States — those “unorthodox” Trotskyists who believed that the Soviet Union was not a “workers’ state” (albeit a “degenerated” one), but an exploitative form of class rule to be as opposed as much as capitalism.
The heart of the “third camp”
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In Solidarity 242, we began publishing a series of recollections and reflections from activists who had been involved with the “third camp” left in the United States — those “unorthodox” Trotskyists who believed that the Soviet Union was not a “workers’ state” (albeit a “degenerated” one), but an exploitative form of class rule to be as opposed as much as capitalism.
Quebec: three months of student strike
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On 13 February 2012 an indefinite student general strike in Quebec against an increase in tuition fees began.
Demonstration: support the students' movement in Quebec!
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Date:
16 May, 2012 - 17:30 - 19:00
Location:
Canada House, 5 Trafalgar Square, City of Westminster, SW1Y 5BJ
Description:
Sign the online petition against police violence here
The Quebecois students’ movement has been engaged in an all-out student strike for 12 weeks, against a 75% increase in tuition fees.
Demonstrations, occupations, walk-outs and blockades have been taking place across Quebec since February, in protest against the Charest government’s plan to make students pay radically more for their education.
The students, organised in the coalition CLASSE, have made a counter-proposal to the government: cut management pay, and tax the rich and big business to fund free education.
The sustained action of the students has brought the government to the negotiating table – but the movement has also suffered violent police repression.
Police have repeatedly attacked demonstrations, and last week at a protest in Victoriaville, students Maxence Valade, 20 and Alexandre Allade, 20, were seriously wounded by police. Valade lost an eye and both are still in hospital with potentially fatal head injuries.
Join the protest called by the National Campaign Against Fees and Cuts at the Canadian High Commission on Wednesday to show your support for the Quebecois student movement.
Student Strike movement in Quebec
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Student Strike in Quebec against the increase in tuition fees
Réflexions sur la question nationale du Québec
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Le Canada est un pays impérialiste fondé depuis 250 ans sur l’oppression nationale des Québécois, des Autochtones, des Acadiens et des autres communautés francophones réparties à travers le pays.
Why I became a third camp socialist, and what I've done
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I grew up in a working-class neighbourhood on the South Side of Chicago. My Dutch immigrant grandfather, John Cornelius La Botz, became a socialist in Chicago during the Great Depression.