BTL:Quebec's Student Tuition Strike Grows into Massive Anti-Austerity Movement

Quebec's Student Tuition Strike Grows into Massive Anti-Austerity Movement

Interview with Andrew Gavin Marshall, an independent researcher and writer based in Montreal, conducted by Scott Harris

What began as organized opposition against 75 percent and then 83 percent increases in university tuition in Canada’s Quebec province, developed first into a student strike – and now has grown into a full-blown social protest movement in sync with anti-austerity activists across the globe. A student boycott of classes initiated in mid-February, grew to over 166,000 students on strike across the province by the end of March.

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