“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.

The conclusion many are drawing is that the only way to stop this is with a student strike! But how can we build it — and how can we win?

COVID-19 has created huge challenges for students in post-secondary, who have been forced to shift to lower quality online learning. Unfortunately for the students at the University of Alberta, instead of helping them face these new difficult circumstances, the UCP government has decided to kick them while they are down. Alberta students are facing massive […]

As students return to classes this fall, it has become clear that they are being crushed under the weight of the new cuts to post-secondary education and OSAP. In particular, these cuts have hurt working-class students the most, with some students reporting up to $10,000 lost in OSAP funding. The resulting inability to pay tuition […]

This month, students in Ontario return to school in an incredibly desperate situation, thanks to Premier Doug Ford. Since the government announced its post-secondary education overhaul in January, it has cut deep into programs that make post-secondary education possible for many youth. The Ford government eliminated grants for low-income students as well as the six-month […]

On April 4, an estimated 100,000 high school students, from more than 700 schools across Ontario, walked out of their classrooms in the largest demonstration yet against Doug Ford’s austerity agenda. The walkout movement took off after cuts to public education were announced that will result in lost teaching jobs, increased class sizes, and loss […]

Thousands of Ontario post-secondary students walked out of their classes Wednesday, March 20 in protest against Premier Doug Ford’s cuts to student funding. The walkout, called for by the Canadian Federation of Students (CFS), involved 17 campuses, including in Toronto, Ottawa, Windsor, and London. The action was also joined by hundreds of high school students, […]

On the weekend of Jan. 18-20, delegates at the Semi-Annual General Meeting of the Canadian Federation of Students (CFS) approved a motion to create a plan for an Ontario student strike. The vote was taken only days after the Ford government announced steep cuts to post-secondary education, primarily impacting low-income students. While an official announcement […]

Source – The Toronto Star Starting Jan. 5, GO buses will no longer enter the York campus. GO buses formerly servicing our campus will be redirected to the Highway 407 TTC station, and the York bus loop will sit empty. Thousands of students who rely on these buses every day will have to ride the […]

On Oct. 19, Socialist Fightback Students (SFS) Waterloo hosted a public discussion on Premier Doug Ford’s anti-protest law. This event was part of a series of province-wide actions against Ford’s so-called “free speech” mandate for universities and colleges set to be implemented January 2019. Ford’s mandate is in reality an anti-protest law which aims to […]