How did the Quebec student movement win?

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For over 4 months, students and their allies, took over the streets of Montreal every day, to protest a tuition hike imposed by the liberal party in Quebec.

On September 21st, the newly elected Premier of Quebec scrapped the tuition hike and repealed a controversial law, that effectively banned public demonstrations.

While this is being touted as a victory by many in the student movement, one element that made this success possible is already being overshadowed. How the the movement's militant street politics transformed the student strike from a single issue campaign to an uncompromising social insurrection.

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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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