International Student Movement

Quebec, March 22nd:
Student Strike and Massive Rally
against Tuition Fees

Just like in many other parts of the world people in Quebec (Canada) struggle against ever increasing tuition fees, where authorities now announced plans to hike them by 75% over the next 5 years.

To resist these moves students in Quebec have been building a major student strike over the recent weeks. L'Association pour une solidarité syndicale étudiante (ASSÉ) is leading the current student strike, via Coalition large de l’ASSÉ (CLASSE).

Following a massive rally against tuition fees with up to 300,000 people in the streets of Montreal...

....CLASSE is now calling for a week of actions disrupting the economy and the State from March 26 to March 30.

"Already through our open-ended strike we are exerting incredible economic pressure. Each day of the strike costs the State dearly in administrative costs. The longer the strike lasts, the greater the impact of each day longer on strike. From March 22 onward, we are at a crucial point: the government hopes the strike movement will deflate on its own, but it is also horrified of general assemblies voting to prolong the strike. The strike is starting to become unmanageable for the government and this is exactly what we wish." - linchpin.ca

“After Thursday, we will go to the next level,” said Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois, a spokesperson for the Coalition large de l’association pour une solidarité syndicale étudiante. “There will be more protests, more occupations, more and more actions that are disturbing.”

Students, he says, will become more radical. More civil disobedience will be practised.

Videos and pictures of the historic rally on March 22nd:

more details on: stopthehike.ca + montreal.mediacoop.ca + montrealgazette.com