At campuses across the country, students are enthusiastically taking up the campaign for a student strike for Palestine!

Everything hinges on broadening  this movement as far  as possible!

Last Wednesday Oct. 25, on the initiative of the Palestinian Youth movement, thousands of students walked out across Canada to protest against Israel’s war on Gaza, and denounce our ruling class and universities’ complicity with the ongoing ethnic cleansing in Palestine. The communists of Fightback participated in and helped organize many of these walkouts from Vancouver to Montreal.

As the Israeli state esclate their genocidal campaign in Gaza, the York University administration have also ramped up their campaign of silencing the student movement for denouncing this genocide.

Capitalism has utterly failed the youth. With rising inflation, skyrocketing tuition, and no prospect of a future, young people are guaranteed a worse quality of life than their parents. Left behind by a system that prioritizes profit over human life, young people across Canada are rejecting capitalism and striving for revolutionary change.  It is in […]

On the afternoon of March 24, the McGill administration threatened student democracy. This was in relation to the passing of the Palestine Solidarity Policy in the most recent Students’ Society of McGill University (SSMU) referendum. We must fight against this hypocritical attack on student democracy! A blatant attack on student democracy This threat took the […]

On March 9 and 11, 2022, the United Conservative Party (UCP) approved massive tuition hikes proposed by the University of Alberta (UofA) and the University of Calgary (UofC) administrations. These “exceptional tuition hikes” are over and above the annual seven per cent increase and will lead to upwards of $10,000 more in tuition paid for […]

On March 7, members of Fightback at the University of Alberta, the Non-Academic Staff Association (NASA), and the Association of Academic Staff of the University of Alberta (AASUA) organized a public event to discuss the need for student-worker solidarity, in a potential upcoming strike. There were about 40 people in attendance. This event is a […]

On Jan. 14, the McGill University administration announced that the majority of in-person classes and teaching activities would resume starting Jan. 24. The decision to return to in-person learning came as the Omicron variant was tearing through the province and the Montreal area health-care system was reporting the highest possible alert level, as record numbers […]

On Monday, Nov. 15, a packed room of 70 people came to attend our event on “The Indigenous struggle and the fight for socialism” held at Concordia University in Montreal. This was our biggest meeting on campus since 2016! The massive presence at the event is a testament to a major shift in consciousness that […]