La PCUE ne répond pas aux besoins des étudiant-es

La YCL-LJC rejette les limites prohibitives de la Prestation canadienne d’urgence pour les étudiant-es (PCUE) et exprime la nécessité urgente qu’y soient inclus tous les étudiant-es sans les confiner à la pauvreté. Alors qu’ils ont enfin accès à un plan d’urgence, la PCUE ne répond pas aux problèmes fondamentaux liés à la condition d’étudiant-e. Nous rejetons également la nécessité de prouver être à la recherche d’un emploi d’été (souvent rémunéré au lance-pierres et sans doute dans des conditions sanitaires précaires) pour y avoir accès tout en devant également se consacrer aux études.

CESB does not answer students’ needs

The YCL-LJC rejects the narrow limitations for the CESB (Canadian Emergency Student Benefit) and expresses the urgent necessity to include all students without confining them to poverty. While students can finally access their own emergency plan the CESB does not address the fundamental problems with the condition of students. We also reject the need to provide documentation to be constantly looking for work that pays poverty wages in unsafe conditions to receive such benefit while still trying to balance commitments to studies.

Les jeunes communistes célèbrent la Journée internationale des étudiant-es

Le 17 novembre prochain, des millions de jeunes à travers le monde célèbreront la Journée internationale des étudiant-es. Cette date marque les 80 ans après que Jan Opental et 9 autres dirigeants étudiants ont été assassinés par les forces nazies d’occupation de la Tchécoslovaquie. C’est cet épisode qui a marqué le premier acte de la résistance étudiante contre la barbarie fasciste sanguinaire. Dans la foulée, 1200 étudiant-es tchécoslovaques sont déportés dans les camps de la mort.

Young Communists Celebrate the International Day of Students

On November 17th, the whole world welcomes the International Day of Students. This date marks 80 years after John Opental and 9 other student leaders were murdered by the Nazi occupation forces in Czechoslovakia. This episode marks the first act of students’ resistance against fascism. In the aftermath, 1200 Czechoslovak students are deported to the death camps.

High school students carry the torch of resistance against devastating cuts!

Students in every city, and in most high schools across Ontario are walking out and playing their role as an inspiring force to wake-up our collective fight against the Ford Government. The Young Communist League of Canada fully supports high school students walking out of classrooms today at 1:15 pm to protest against the Ford Government’s unprecedented attacks on public education.

All in support of Ontario student’s walk-out on March 20th

The YCL-LJC stands in full support of Ontario Students’ walk-out set for March 20th by the CFS Ontario, calling for free education, grants not loans, and an end to the Ford Government’s attacks on students’ rights to organize. We also call our members and all progressive organisations to support, promote and help organise this important action taking place in the context of dangerous attacks by the Ford government against social and democratic rights for which the youth, students, labour and people’s movements harshly fought for for years.

What the Student Choice Initiative really means, and what’s next?

Student Commission of the YCL-LJC

January 2019

On January 17th, Doug Ford’s Conservative government announced that tuition fees would be reduced by 10% under the slogan “for the people”. This benign-sounding announcement heralds an attack on students’ political power and our access to a quality, public-funded post-secondary education.

Resist Doug Ford: defend public education and the student movement

Central Executive Committee

January 2019

The YCL-LJC condemns Doug Ford’s January 17th announcement on post-secondary education and calls for all progressive organisations, including student unions, labour and all kind of on-campus groups to mobilise against this attack aimed at weakening the student fightback and at going one step further in the direction of privatisation and commodification of our education.

In a vicious way similar to the ‘free speech’ directive (that was all about empowering hate and bigoted speech on campus), Ontario’s reactionary government is playing with words and presents this new attack as a benefit for students. It furthers the provocation to the point where it announces that students’ tuition burden will be lowered by 10%. However, a closer look to the numbers makes it clear that the real goal of this announcement has very little to do with a move towards public, free education.

Solidarité avec les Franco-Ontariens!

La Ligue de la jeunesse communiste appuie la lutte de la jeunesse franco-ontarienne mobilisée pour la défense de ses droits linguistiques et appelle ses membres ainsi que les progressistes, syndicats, associations étudiantes, groups communautaires, etc. à affirmer leur solidarité envers les revendications des Franco-Ontariens.

Solidarity with Franco-Ontarians!

The Young Communist League supports the struggle of Franco-Ontarian youth mobilized for the defense of their language rights and calls on its members as well as progressives, unions, student associations, community groups, etc. to affirm their solidarity with the demands of Franco-Ontarians.