for over four months students and their allies to cover the streets of Montreal
everyday to protest a tuition hike imposed by the Liberal Party of Quebec
on September 21st at this year the newly elected premier of Quebc
scrap the tuition hike and repeal the controversial law
that effectively ban public demonstrations well this has been touted
as a victory by many in the student movement
one element that made the success possible is already been overshadowed
street politics were huge aspect of the strike and of it becoming
what it became. people lost the fear
and they didn't have any problem, any trouble
standing their ground in fighting back and waiting to be actually
beat enough to ?? for pepper spray before they moved and
this was really inspiring and that's how in my opinion that the movement
increasing got bigger and got more threatening to the government or to the establishment
obviously there's the the process of escalation of repression,
of criminalization and all that
but that probably wouldn't have happened without the street politics,
without the daily blockading, the pickets the hard picket
and the radical element and the fact that is just like eventually it was not
only about the the tuition hike but all these other social issues that
you know that our brawl up by other social
for the actors but also by the radicals in your
the radicals one other things that the authoritarian and I guess the anti-colonial
activist and their the radicals in general are trying to do is to show that
all these issuesare interlinked they're not separated
and that sort of translated into all these different people this the the profs,
the teachers, the students,you know, all the people who are,you know,
usually involved in specific sort of struggles
on a day-to-day basis to come together
and make this movement more they have a coalition movement of getting together
of all these groups to go back to street politics
that show like all these direct action
and also there was eventually those..
there's a big debate among the the movement as part of the movement whether
or not direct
action or respect for diversity of tactics was appropriate after even
just of a couple day or a couple of weeks at the bait was moved
and the the notion that a diversity of tactics is very beneficial to a movement
like this
a sort of wonder argument because it was pretty apparent that going down
in the streets, and fighting back, and show ... and attacking
capital and attacking the institution in the symbols of capitalism
and fighting back against the cops with very much
integral to work to a successful social movement or to a serious social movement
if you're serious about changing
if you're serious about transforming you know society and
and hand gaining things and fighting back against you know cuts and
things of that matter, of that nature you have
at eventually you have to put yourself physically in the way
of repression and of the reactionary agenda
so I think there's no doubt that the street politics
that was to a large extent brought by the radical element
was an integral part in a very important part in making this movement
as big as it was but also as
militant and intransigent as it became
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