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State of Play
The opposition between the government and an important social movement like the student movement is reminiscent of a game of chess. Two organizations face off, each unravelling complex strategies both to confound their adversary and to reach their objectives.
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Massive student upsurge fuels major debates in Quebec society
A crowd estimated at 250,000 people or more wound its way through Montréal April 22 in Quebec’s largest ever Earth Day march. They raised many demands: an end to tar sands and shale gas development, opposition to the Quebec government’s Plan Nord mining expansion, support for radical measures to protect ecosystems, and other causes. And many wore the red felt square symbolizing support to the province’s students fighting the Liberal government’s 75 percent increase in post-secondary education fees over the next five years. The Earth Day march was the largest mobilization to date in a mounting wave of citizen protest throughout the province.
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The Student Movement: Radical Priorities
The student movement in Quebec is an incredibly important development, with implications that reach well beyond provincial borders, rekindling the political imagination to a degree not seen since the Quiet Revolution of the 1960s. This is the most troubling and dynamic period in recent Quebec history, and the possibility that this energy will foster fundamental social change is very real.
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Should we ‘take down’ the banks or try to save the best of capitalism?
If Canada is to rid itself of the destructive neoliberal Conservatives, perhaps the best that we can do, given present conditions, is to push the New Democrats and Liberals to embrace some aspects of traditional liberalism and combine those policies with some tough, new measures to protect the public.
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The Second Wind of the Worldwide Social Justice Movement
We have to think of the world struggle as a long race, in which the runners have to use their energy wisely, in order not to become exhausted while always keeping their eye on the end goal—a different kind of world-system, far more democratic, far more egalitarian than anything we have now.
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Debating our tactics in Oakland
In the aftermath of the Oakland general strike on November 2, a debate over tactics has emerged among supporters of the Occupy struggle. The discussion centers on the late-night attempt by a relatively small group of self-described anarchists to occupy a building that formerly housed the Traveler’s Aid Society, a homeless advocacy organization closed by city budget cuts.
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“The process is the message”
Mainstream analysis of the Occupy Together movement has been marked by a dramatic albeit predictable failure of the imagination.
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CD Conversation on the Occupy Movement
CD Collective members started a conversation about the potential of the Occupy Movement beginning with this question posed by Saul Landau. What’s your view? Join the conversation.
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The Ballerina and the Bull
For those of us who have long been labouring to expose the inherent perils and injustices of the neoliberal regime, Occupy Wall Street is undoubtedly the most exciting political development in North America in decades.
But it would be a mistake to read it as a revolutionary moment.
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2011: Reflecting on Social Movement Successes in Canada
Working through and across differences—while maintaining the diversity of an inter-generational anti-oppression and radical politics—has strengthened the terrain for inclusive, participatory, and revolutionary struggle in Canada for the upcoming year.
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