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1) QUEBEC STUDENTS ARE
MAKING HISTORY
PV
Montreal Bureau, May 8, 2012
As Quebec`s historic student struggle enters its 13th week of strike and
constant mobilization, the battle has entered a new round. At the beginning
of May the provincial Charest Liberals finally sat down with students and
other groups to produce an offer that is now being voted on by students at
colleges and universities across Quebec.
But already 18 out of 19 student assemblies have rejected the agreement by
significant majorities, suggesting the conflict may be long from over. The
Minister of Finance has suggested that ultimately, it may be the voters who
resolve this crisis.
Student demonstrations have not slowed down either. For two weeks now, the
students have been marching late into the night from 9 pm to 2 am. Hundreds
of demonstrators snake through downtown Montreal, tailed and often blocked by
muscular units of riot police who seem eager to gas the protestors or even
beat them up." . . .
2) MAY DAY CELEBRATED ACROSS CANADA
Special to PV
This year's May Day actions across Canada were larger and more
unified than in the recent past, drawing together sections of the trade
unions, students, Occupy groups, anti-war and anti-poverty movements, and
left organizations. While small compared to many other countries, the actions
were a sharp protest against the Harper Tory government's first year as a
majority in Parliament, and a powerful show of solidarity with the striking Quebec students.
In Toronto,
there was a single May Day demo, bringing together groups which had
previously organized two separate marches. An estimated 2,000 took part,
representing a wide cross‑section of the left and social activist
forces in the city. The march featured a number of banners from unions
including CAW, OSSTF, CUPE, and CUPW.
Following the downtown rally and cultural event, about 400 supporters of
Occupy Toronto embarked on a peaceful re‑occupation
at Simcoe Park across from the Metro Convention
Centre. The action temporarily transformed Simcoe Park
into a space for education, conversation, and protest. The park was across
the street from the annual general meeting of Barrick Gold, whose CEO Aaron
Regent is the highest paid CEO in Canada. . . .
3) THOUSANDS RALLY
FOR MAY FIRST IN USA
The emergence
of the Occupy movement last fall has given a huge boost to May Day
celebrations in the United
States. After decades on the back-burner,
May Day was revived in 2006 by a walkout of immigrant workers across the
country, and this year proved that the international day of the worker has
returned to stay in the land of its origins.
In New York,
according to the People's World website, "Unionists, Occupy Wall Street supporters,
immigrants, women, LGBT activists and the disabled filled Union Square from one end to the other
on May Day. The message from the stage was loud and clear: `We are the 99%;
unions, students and immigrants, all of us together can make a better world!'
The New York
Labor Chorus sang `Solidarity Forever,' and the crowd roared the chorus `and
the union makes us strong'!"
People came from as far away as Delaware and
Maryland to join the New York celebration. Homemade signs
denounced greed and demanded government funding of human needs. . .
4)
CANADA'S SECRET BANK BAILOUT REVEALED
5) NEW HOPE,
NEW CHALLENGES - Editorial
6)
UNEMPLOYMENT AND RESISTANCE -
Editorial
7) WHO IS
KILLING BRITISH COLUMBIA SAWMILL WORKERS?
8) F-35 FIGHTER
JETS LINKED TO NUCLEAR WEAPONS DEVELOPMENT
9) KKE REMAINS IN
FRONTLINE OF GREEK STRUGGLES
10) CHAVEZ
SIGNS NEW VENEZUELAN LABOUR LAW
11) WORKERS OF
THE WORLD MARK MAY DAY 2012
12) LONDON
OLYMPICS: IN THE CITY OF DREADFUL NIGHT
13) SPARK #23 PACKED
WITH GREAT READING
14) WHAT’S LEFT
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