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Consider, for instance, some of the NUS demands: increased student aid until all student fees are abolished, systematic national planning of education, elimination of financial barriers preventing international students from studying in Canada, greater affirmative action policies in the realm of education, and the elimination of unemployment in Canada through government creation of jobs. These issues, especially the demand for full employment, indicate a concrete student-worker alliance that may have great ramifications in Canada. In many West European nations? particularly Italy and France--it is this alliance that has effectively challenged the idea that capitalism is the best...
Demands, however, are easy to make, but hard to back up through student protests and demonstrations. The success with which the NUS has organized student marches is truly its most impressive feat. Last month students at 30 junior colleges took part in a general strike to force the government to accede to their demands: free tuition, free books, and grants, not loans, to pay for student living expenses...
...four full-time field workers to organize students around issues. Twelve other employees do research and secretarial work. The NUS also constantly lobbies legislators to support student interests...
...course, one of the main objectives of the NUS is to allign students with campus employees like dining hall workers, instead of allowing divisions between the two groups to undermine student-worker solidarity...
Herbert Marcuse, onz of the gurus of the '60s U.S. student movement, proposed a student-worker alliance as the stepping stone to economic change in the United States. But when hard hats began bashing hippies during demonstrations everyone realized the idea had no future. The NUS in Canada is trying to make the idea a reality. Maybe the Canadian climate will be more hospitable to the possibility than...