Originally published by Voir.ca here on March 29, 2012.

Interview by Marie-Pier Béland

Translation for Linchpin.ca by Maxime Gagnon

Tuition fee increases: the struggle continues!

While the fight against the tuition fee hike has now lasted six weeks and the government still refuses to talk with students, we asked Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois to, on behalf of the CLASSE, do a review of the unlimited general strike which currently has about 200 000 students participating in Quebec.

Quebec student movement on the warpath!

A set of translated summaries of key articles on the student strike appearing in Cause Commune, the newspaper of Quebec-based anarchist organization, the Union Communiste Libertaire just before the strike. We hope the analysis presented here is helpful in understanding the dynamics of the student movement in Quebec and the current general strike.

Translation by Maxime Gagnon-Gauthier and Gabriela Alfaro

Listening to the TV or radio might makes us doubt it, but the student movement is getting ready to strike back against the tuition fees increase announced by the Liberal government. Responding to the call of the Association for Student Union Solidarity(ASSE), a lot of student associations in colleges and universities are organizing a strike that could culminate in the coming weeks.

As appeared in the anarchist journal Cause Commune, produced by the Quebec-based, Union Communiste Libertaire.

Translation by Maxime Gagnon-Gauthier

Original article can be read here in French

Since the advent of the nation-state, the ruling class has taken control of education to promote patriotism and national pride first, and second to train workers to gain skills enabling them to adjust to precarious living conditions and to workplaces gnawed by uncertainty.

This is the text of a talk given by Michael Schmidt, co-author with Lucien van der Walt of the book Black Flame: the Revolutionary Class Politics of Anarchism and Syndicalism (AK Press, USA, 2009), at the DIRA bookstore in Montréal, Canada, on 18 March 2010, as part of his Black Flame tour of Canada. Thanks to Marie-Eve Lamy of Lux Éditeur, Montréal, for the transcription.

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By Marc-André Cyr
Translated by Maxime Gagnon-Gauthier

Originally published in Voir here

It seems that the Quebec student strike movement won't have an easy task achieving its goals. Nowadays, in Québec like anywhere else, social movements face a more and more powerful repressive apparatus [2]. Never in history have we seen a more efficient arsenal of repression and control, and never has the consensus about respect for the law and legality been this firm.

This is a translation of the original article found here:

The Québec student movement on the move : a history of recent actions against the government`s tuition hike

Winter 2010 : Québec government announces tuition increases

February 2010, the Québec government announces plans to increases tuition claiming a consensus has been reached on the issue. Hundreds of students demonstrate in opposition days later. The 2012 tuition increases are confirmed in the provincial government`s March budget.

Spring-summer 2010 : The Québec student movement warns the government

April 1, over 40,000 students launch a one-day strike to join unions, community groups and other social forces in a massive protest against planned increases in user fees and the government’s budget, including the planned tuition hikes.

Fall 2010 : The mobilization begins

To the masses, oppressed and revolutionaries of Russian Federation and Syria,

We, Russian and Syrian anarchists, as we see the infamous collaboration of both Russian and Syrian repressing regimes, and the support of the Russian ruling regime to the bloody crackdown of Assad regime against the Syrian revolting masses; either in supplying arms and ammunition to Assad's forces or providing diplomatic protection to Assad's massacres against the revolting Syrians, we see this as a logical result of the similarity of the repressive and exploitative nature and structure of both regimes; and
as a part of their war against the oppressed of their own people. We, as anarchists and anti–authoritarians, condemn this infamous collaboration and the repressive practices of both regimes, and we call for a strong and brotherly solidarity between the repressed masses, revolutionaries and anarchist of both countries, in their struggle against the repressing elites in both countries.