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Archive for September 6th, 2012
Lessons for Australia from the victorious Quebec student strike
Posted by John, September 6th, 2012 - under Fighting back, National Tertiary Education Union, Neoliberalism, Strikes, Students, Universities.
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There are lessons from the magnificent and victorious Quebec student strike that are relevant for the whole higher education sector in Australia. The message is simple. If you don’t fight, you lose. If you do fight, you can win.
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Québec students show the way: if you do fight you can win
Posted by John, September 6th, 2012 - under Fighting back, Quebec, Strikes, Students.
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The ANU School of Music defeat shows us that if you don’t fight you lose. Québec shows us that if you do fight you can win.
Québec students win strike
Posted by John, September 6th, 2012 - under Guillaume Legault, Quebec, Strikes, Students.
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In Québec a student strike of 150,000 students last semester and now this semester looks as if it has won. The Parti Québecois has defeated the sitting Liberal government in provincial elections and promised to scrap the fee increases which prompted the strike. Of course mass, democratic direct action never wins, does it? I interviewed […]