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Is it possible to repeat the events of Quebec 2012 in English Canada?
Military spending, far from boosting the real economy, is a massive drain, throwing billions away that could be spent in the real economy.
This example shows what is possible with leadership. There is nothing unique about students at McMaster, the same desire to fight the cuts exists everywhere. What made the difference was an organization actively engaging with students and pointing a way forward.
Houston’s retreat means that he is weak and it is time to press forward until the entire austerity budget is defeated!
Falardeau rails against the “profiteers who pass themselves off as philanthropists,” the “groveling journalists dressed up as servile editorialists,” the “senile senators” and other specimens of rapacious capitalists, “in New York, Paris, Mexico City.”
In simple words, their crime was to organise people to protest for their rights, and for this they have been charged with terrorism.
The RSP has surged to power, not on its own strengths, but on the weakness of everybody else. As it too becomes intertwined and associated with the rotten establishment, it can fall just as quickly as it has risen.
“The rich want war – young people want a future!” was the central slogan of over 50,000 school students, who went on strike during school hours in over 140 German cities on 5 March against the German government’s reintroduction of compulsory military service.
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I work in the student housing department at my university. During one of my duty rounds, I was talking to a coworker about the OSAP cuts. She told me she has never been interested in politics, that she didn’t vote in the last election and voted Conservative in the one before that. But as we […]
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I asked if she heard about what the Quebec students did in 2012, she said she hadn't. As soon as I began explaining they went on strike in response to tuition hikes, she immediately cut me off and said "We need to do that!". — Aytekin M., Waterloo
But the session on permanent revolution gave me a way to actually analyze those defeats rather than just mourn them.
I have been left with an even greater hunger to study the core ideas of Marxism.
Every presentation I attended was enlightening, every comrade I talked to had something interesting to tell me.
Revolution is coming to Canada
After years of omissions and slanders, the document below brings out the real history of the Fourth International and the role of Ted Grant.
The privileged position Canada once enjoyed on the world stage is under threat. This will have profound implications for politics, the economy, and the class struggle.
Trump’s efforts to put the clock back to the world as it was in those far-off days are doomed to fail, shipwrecked by the changed world situation and the balance of class forces within the USA
We are the Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP), the section of the Revolutionary Communist International in Canada. Our demands are modest: the complete overthrow of capitalism—the construction of a society free of exploitation and oppression.
