Quebec: Students mobilise against draconian law aimed at breaking four-month strike

Click here to access article by Roger Annis from International Journal of Socialist Renewal. 

The Quebec government provoked the student strike with its proposal last year, confirmed in its March 2012 budget, to increase tuition fees by 60% over the next five years. That was then modified to a 75% increase over seven years.

There have been massive student protests and strikes in Quebec during the past four months which has been met by brutal police methods. 

Some 160,000 students are on strike, approximately 35% of the post-secondary student population in the province. Of those, 65,000 are CEGEP [essentially all public post-secondary institutions] students, all in Montreal and surrounding regions.

With a recent law passed, it appears now that the government of Quebec has declared all out war on the students.