Hundreds of Students Strike in Québec

Students in Québec are again mobilizing around rising tuition fees. In particular, organization has been intense at the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM). UQAM, a public university in the heart of Montréal founded in 1968, is itself the result of past student militancy around accessibility issues for working-class Montréalers. UQAM's radical pedigree has not been lost on current students.
From CBC:

Hundreds of students at the Université du Québec à Montréal walked out on their classes Monday as part of a weeklong strike against rising tuition fees.

Students in UQÀM's faculty of social sciences are protesting against increases to tuition fees and the university's plan to eliminate its multi-million dollar deficit.

UQÀM's deficit reduction plan will lead to service cuts and will inevitably dilute the quality of teaching, said Alex Bourdon-Charest, a spokesman for the students' association in UQÀM's Faculty of Social Sciences.

This comes on the heels of last month's protest action by the radical student union ASSÉ, which featured the occupation of a government office. From The McGill Daily:

About 50 student protesters calling for free tuition occupied the office of the Vice-Chair of the Committee on Labour and the Economy Friday, as other demonstrators targeted what they called symbols of privatized education.

The three-hour occupation of the office of Gerry Sklavounos, also the Liberal MNA for for Laurier-Dorion, was part of a day of economic disruption organized by the radical student group Association pour une solidarité syndicale étudiante (ASSÉ).

The day’s actions, which also included a demonstration at the Economic Institute of Montreal (IEDM) and a Bank of Montreal, sought to pressure institutions and companies, which ASSÉ says have an increasing financial hold over postsecondary education.