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Vol. 75/No. 16      April 25, 2011

 
Canada communists join
tuition hike fight
Militant/John Steele

MONTREAL—Joseph Young, right, Communist League candidate for the Montreal constituency of Papineau in the May 2 federal election, campaigns with Militant at March 31 protest here of several thousand against Quebec government plans to raise university tuition fees by 75 percent.

“The Communist League supports all those resisting the drive by ruling capitalist families here and around world to make working people and youth pay for the deepening economic crisis of the capitalist system,” said Young in a press release.

The action, organized by Quebec’s three main student federations, had as its central theme “Education is a right.” Some 50,000 students across the province voted to boycott classes that day.

After most of the students had dispersed, police on horseback fired stun grenades and used pepper spray on a small group of students carrying out a sit-in, arresting five.

—JOHN STEELE

 
 
 
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