What to do if you are arrested - Quebec students make plans

A student protester is arrested by riot police

Students across Quebec are preparing for arrest, as the major student association la CLASSE has come out in defiance of notorious Law 78, which limits freedom of speech and assembly. Already, over 1600 students have been arrested since the law came into effect last week.

Exactly how the movement will response has become a major debate, with the Federations of university and college students, as well as the Quebec Federation of Labour, openly calling for the defeat of the government through elections. Both the FEUQ and FEUC have pledged to combat the government in the summer by knocking on hundreds of thousands of doors in ridings where the Quebec Liberal Party is weak.

A more radical path, supported by la CLASSE and more progressive and militant students, has been the question of a continued mobilization and escalation and a general social and political strike.

This strategy of a general strike is supported by la CLASSE as well as other left voices. The LJC-Q and the PCQ (Young Communist League and Communist Party of Quebec).  The LJC-Q has also stated that is is against the law and is calling on youth to maintain the defense of their rights and to continue to exercise them.