Quebec’s 2012 Student Strike and What We Can Learn From It
In March 2011, the Executive Council of Quebec, led by Liberal premier Jean Charest, proposed a hike in university tuition fees. Over the five years between 2012 and 2017, annual fees for Québécois students were to rise from C$2,168 to C$3,793, a 75 percent increase. Over the rest of 2011 and into 2012, students responded […]
International Declaration: Long Live the Workers’, Peasants’, and Indigenous Rebellion in Bolivia! Down with the Austerity Government of Rodrigo Paz!
The below is a republication of a declaration from Current for Permanent Revolution – Fourth International (CPR-FI), originally published in Spanish on June 6 in La Izquierda Diario, and translated for Left Voice The popular rebellion against the government of Rodrigo Paz has lasted for over a month, with tens of thousands of workers, residents, union members, transport […]
Students and Radical Politics
For as long as there have been calls for radical change, students have been involved in a big way. In the past decade alone, we’ve seen the rise of massive movements led by young people around the world. From global calls to combat climate change and campaigns for a free Palestine to mass protests against […]
The Revival of the Radical Left and Working-Class Politics
The below is a reprint from redflag.com.au Most of us have lived most of our lives under a one-sided class war. The billionaires have built fortunes while the poor have been screwed. Governments the world over have bent over backwards to facilitate this. The result has been a world in which the rich stomp over […]
Why we stand for Palestine
Solidarity According to the Gaza health ministry, Reuters reported on 16 October, at least 2,750 Palestinians had been killed and 9,700 wounded in Israeli air strikes on the Gaza Strip since 7 October. By the time of writing, the death toll was much more. Before this latest round of bombs and death most of Gaza’s […]
Israel is the Aggressor
In the midst of a civilian massacre perpetrated by Israel in response to Hamas’ jailbreak out of Gaza, western media responses have focused solely on Israel’s right to defend itself against all those it labels as terrorists. The deeply irresponsible reporting of the imperialist core such as AP News and BBC may present an alternative […]
Five things to remember when Israel ‘defends itself’
Whenever the “international community” starts talking about Israel’s right to self-defence, Palestinian civilians head to the bomb shelters. Or they would, if they had any—the Israeli government prevents the Gaza Strip from importing the necessary construction materials. During Israeli bombardments, Gazans might try sheltering in UN-run schools, but Israel blows them up and kills the […]
Iran’s Feminist Revolution – A conversation with local Iranian organisers
Masha Amini (or Jina Amini, her Kurdish name) was 22 years old when she was arrested in Tehran on 13 September 2022 by the Guidance Patrol (or “morality police”) of Iran for not wearing her hijab “correctly”. Three days later, she died in hospital. Leaked medical scans suggest this was a result of beatings by […]
‘Lets Have This Fight’: Sudan Resisting a Coup
“A sense of relief” is how Sudanese political activist Muzan Alneel, speaking via Zoom from the capital, Khartoum, describes the mood on the streets of Sudan in the first hours of the coup on 25 October. “I remember seeing people come into the street singing, like they’re singing against the coup and they’re singing against […]
Ōtepoti Protest against Myanmar Coup
Mandalay demonstration “Free! Free! Free our leaders! Free! Free! Free all activists!” Around 60 people, including Myanmar nationals, their friends and families, peace activists and socialists, marched from Ōtepoti/Dunedin’s train station to the Octagon, where organisers took to the stage to speak to the crowd. One woman spoke of this as her first protest action […]
