Doug Ford slashing OSAP grant funding has sparked the fury of students across Ontario. The idea of a student strike has already become so popular that an old contact of the Mississauga communists has returned with full strength and determination, organizing tablings and attending cell regularly. She’s a communist who wants to organize with the RCP to overthrow capitalism, and she’s in the process of being recruited by the UofT Mississauga cell. She says she’s a communist because she “can’t help but be angry at the world for how people are treated.” She went on to say, “I feel like I’m actually learning for the first time ever. You guys see the connections I see in the world, and it’s so refreshing!”
We’ve had two other contacts (a couple) sparsely attending branch for a few months by this point. Since attending the Montreal Marxist Winter School together and absorbing lessons from Comrade Josie’s “Are We Doomed?” leadoff, both have been successfully recruited! They explicitly said that the educational talks and being around so many communists convinced them of the RCP. It instilled in them a refreshed sense of enthusiasm to read Marxist theory. Our dedicated work on campus culminated in us having fourteen communists at our first branch meeting after MWS. Replacing our initial leadoff topic on religion with a discussion of Quebec 2012 was the right decision because it sparked a rich and substantive political conversation about the real consequences of Ford’s austerity measures. The RCP has gained its strongest foothold in Mississauga yet.
– Ritwik T., Brampton
