From Ayotzinapa to Montreal: Overview of the Global Student Struggle

Student Commission, YCL-LJC

November, 2014

Student struggle week of action underway

Every November 17th, International Students’ Day, is commemorated by remembering the important role of students in fighting for a better world. In honour of this day, the World Federation of Democratic Youth’s Commission on Europe and North America has called for a student week of action against the current attacks on our education system taking place across the region. The week of action runs from November 17th-23rd.

YCL-LJC Student Commission Statement on People’s Social Forum

Student Commission, YCL-LJC

August, 2014

Federal and Provincial Governments and big business want people to think that education is a privilege. A majority of students know better, and believe education is a right.

Provincial governments throughout Canada are working to privatize universities and colleges by reducing public funding, increasing tuition fees, and increasing the influence of big business. Some university institutions are even implementing “Program Prioritization Processes”, or PPP’s, which attack Liberal Arts and Social Science programs. In some cases these programs were won by student struggles in the 1960’s and 1970’s when progressive students demanded degrees in women’s studies, Indigenous studies, labour studies, and more.

Students Mobilize Against the Corporate Attack

Joint Statement by the YCL-LJC and the Communist Party of Canada

February, 2012

Students today are facing a corporate steamroller in the form of massive tuition increases and high youth unemployment like our generation has never seen before. The only way forward for the students is to develop a united fightback. The cross-Canada Day of Action, organized by the Canadian Federation of Students, is an excellent step in that direction and has the full support of the Communist Party of Canada and the Young Communist League.