Bulletin d'information de la LJCQ Février 2012

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Bulletin dinformation de la Ligue de la jeunesscommuniste du Qubec du 01 fvrier 2012

Manifestation : Mme Menace, Mme Lutte!ommon Threats, Common StruggleDEMONSTRATION AGAINSTUITION HIKES / MANIFESCONTRE LA HAUSSE DES FSCOLARIT

O: Dpart Concordia, Hall BuiLobby , 1455 De Maisonneuve, W

QUAND: Jeudi 2 vrier de 114h30

*La LCQ sera de la manifestatisa bannire. Venez nous rejoind

La langue, les classes sociales,origines, le campus, le quartierAutant de barrires qui ont toujdivis les tudiant-es dans leurcombats et continuent da aiblmouvement.

Language, class, race, origin, camneighbourhood Tese barriers hadivided students in their struggle acontinue to weaken the movement

Pourtant, noublions pas ce qui norassemble: un ennemi commun, gouvernement nolibral qui ai

sourde oreille aux revendicationsla population, des menaces concr laccessibilit de lducation, unemprise grandissante du secteur psur les services publics, un systmnous plonge dans lendettement.

Yet, we do not forget what brings us together: a common enemy, a neoliberal government deaf to the demands of theopulation, a concrete threat to the accessibility of education, a private sector intent on seizing public services, a system

which forces us into debt.


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It would take approximately $6billion to pay for allundergraduates tuition, whileHarper is now spending over $20billion (and rising) on the militaryeach year.

Why are the people beingforced to pay for the economiccrisis? This crisis was notcreated by young people, or students, or workers. It wascreated by systemic problemsinherent in the capitalist system,which is also environmentallyunsustainable.

All students are being gouged.At almost every college, tradeschool and university campusacross the country, tuition isbeing jacked-up. Students areforced to run up huge debtsentences.

Aggressive privatization oncampuses is also severelycompromising the quality of

education and student services,independent research, campusdemocracy, as well as decientwages and working conditions for all campus workers.

More working class youth are

excluded from school and leftkicking stones unemployed, or in low-paid work without unionprotection especially youngwomen, aboriginal youth and youthfrom racialized communities. Youthunemployment is far higher thanany other age group.

Big business needs an educatedworkforce. But the corporations arenot willing to pay the bill throughcorporate taxes. Instead, they areforcing students and workingfamilies to pay using credit cards,static wages or shrinking savings.

If they miss a pay cheque, evenfor just a week, 57% of Canadianswould be in financial difficulty with

rent, bills, groceries, etc.

Education is a concerns of

working-class people. Atogether, students and the peopcan again pull open wide the dooof higher learning that have beslammed shut in our faces.

Tuition fees should be frozreduced and then abolisheEducation should be free for a

The Young Communist Leagis proposing a Charter of YouRights guaranteeing the righteducation as well as the rightgood-quality employment, equality, democracy, leisu

justice for Aboriginal peoples aQuebec, a healthy environmeand peace.

More mass mobilizationsand off-campus, sit-ins and striaction are needed. Mass struggand cooperation between tstudents and other movementespecially labour, is the only wforward that can effectively defreactionary governments and waccessible education.

By marching in the streetsFeb. 1st, the students are joinia struggle that needs to grow andeepen.

Now is the time to act akeep going.

Such an approach c

succeed, escalating the struggle

Corporate profits are rising but not corporate taxes, or minimum

wages & salaries in general.

Student debt is now $13 billion, howmuch will it be for the next generation?

What about military spending?

Aujourdhui, des milliers dtudiant-e-s se rLa YCL-LJC participe a cette action dans plusieurs villes du Canada. Dclarat

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d weaving together all theeads of resistance.The Occupy movemen toved again that young peopleCanada are not complacentd apa the t i c bu t candaciously take on the 1%.

Last year, students helpedpple the Mubarak and Ben Aligimes of Egypt and Tunisia.so, in Chile, hundreds of ousands of students haveen marching in the streetsmanding a new constitutiona ran t ee ing acces s ib l eucation. They have beenned en masse by the labour

ovement and other peoplesrces.The b igges t s t uden tobi l iza t ions in Canadasstory took place in Quebec2005 which saw weeks of owing mob i l i za t i on andikes for education.At t he s ame t ime a s

udents in English-speakingnada a r e march ing ,ndreds of thousands of ebec students will be votinguse the strongest weapon of e students to put moral andl i t i c a l p r e s su re on theve rnmen t a gene ra l

udent strike, shutting downtually all campuses.

These student struggles in

Quebec and the rest of Canada areconnected because in Ottawa allstudents face the Conservatives whoare trying to smash basicdemocratic, civil and labour rightswith their agenda of police, prisons,poverty and war.

Take the mass arrests at theToronto G20 summit, or last yearsevictions of Occupy, attempting tosilence dissent.

Take the Tories omnibus attackon human rights crime bill, or their tearing up of Canadas Kyotocommitments. The Harper government are also denying theright to strike, like they did with thePostal Workers.

Last week the Harper Toriesannounced deeper and quicker budget cuts and more major transformations.

Stopping this attack and bringingdown the Harper Conservativegovernment is the first major breaktowards a peoples alternativeagenda.

The way forward for student

a f t e r t he Day o f Ac t iotherefore, is to re-double ouefforts and find every tactic thab r ings i n t housands mor

students as wel l as labourunions, Aboriginal activistcommunity groups, womenorganizations in a powerfuunited campaign targeting thefederal government.

This is also the best way towin the battle of ideas againsright-wing students who havbeen crusading to break apartthe CFS and weaken student

unity.

Youth

unemployment remains at record levels.

dent dans la rue pour le droit lducationconjointe de Parti communiste du Canada et de la YCL-LJC (en anglais) :


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