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“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.
Anger clearly exists for a serious struggle. Tens of thousands of students have already shown that they’re ready to fight. How can we best channel this anger and win a victory for students?
For the bourgeoisie, “violence” is a variable geometry notion: it is acceptable or even legitimate when it comes from the police or the far right and when it strikes immigrants or the workers’ movement but unbearable when it comes from left-wing militants or workers.
Trump’s bold gamble in attacking Iran may prove to be a key factor in the unravelling of his whole presidency.
In 2016, debt servicing cost $21.8 billion; this year, it will reach $55.6 billion; by 2029, $76.1 billion—more than the cost of federal transfer payments for health care and child care combined.
Faced with a record deficit of $1.9 billion, Houston is now offloading the cost of the debt onto workers and students in Nova Scotia.
In Davos, Carney proposed an alliance of “middle powers” to “build a new order that embodies our values.” This new ethos has shattered under the first test.
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?
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I work in the student housing department at my university. During one of my duty rounds, I was talking to a coworker about the OSAP cuts. She told me she has never been interested in politics, that she didn’t vote in the last election and voted Conservative in the one before that. But as we […]
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I asked if she heard about what the Quebec students did in 2012, she said she hadn't. As soon as I began explaining they went on strike in response to tuition hikes, she immediately cut me off and said "We need to do that!". — Aytekin M., Waterloo
But the session on permanent revolution gave me a way to actually analyze those defeats rather than just mourn them.
I have been left with an even greater hunger to study the core ideas of Marxism.
Every presentation I attended was enlightening, every comrade I talked to had something interesting to tell me.
Revolution is coming to Canada
After years of omissions and slanders, the document below brings out the real history of the Fourth International and the role of Ted Grant.
The privileged position Canada once enjoyed on the world stage is under threat. This will have profound implications for politics, the economy, and the class struggle.
Trump’s efforts to put the clock back to the world as it was in those far-off days are doomed to fail, shipwrecked by the changed world situation and the balance of class forces within the USA
We are the Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP), the section of the Revolutionary Communist International in Canada. Our demands are modest: the complete overthrow of capitalism—the construction of a society free of exploitation and oppression.
