Students in Quebec, whose strike shut down the province's higher education system for the first half of this year, celebrated the achievement of their top goals last month when the new Parti Québécois (PQ) government announced it was rescinding a planned tuition hike and repealing most of the repressive Law 12 aimed at restricting the right to protest.

The government recently pushed the registration fee to €2000 per year and cut the student ‘non-adjacent’ grant.
Despite having the capacity to stage a concerted campaign of mass mobilisation, the students’ union (USI) leadership has instead called meekly for ‘a cap’ on the registration fee.
Clearly the strategy of lobbying has been a complete failure.

Thousands of Chilean students and school students have taken to the streets and become
the voice of a massive protest movement. What started as calls to reform Chile’s elite and

STORMONT HAS VOTED to maintain the cap on university tuition fees in
Northern Ireland.
This means that other than a standard adjustment for inflation, the

Panos Garganos, editor of Socialist Worker’s sister paper in Greece, explains how students have organised to block the latest pro-market reforms.

The young have taken the streets of Chile, and transformed them into theatres, circuses and platforms for a huge protest movement.

Over one million students, parents, lecturers, workers and young people took part in mass demonstrations in cities throughout Chile on Monday.

Chilean students joined the 100,000-strong protest against attacks on education last week. They are now set to join workers in a national strike against the government.

As the new government takes it's seats further cuts to our courses and grants as well as increases to the fees are likely. It is nothing short of a joke that the USI leadership can claim that an increase of the fees of €500 to €2000 a year was a victory.

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