Lena Palacios is a PhD Candidate (Education and Communication Studies) at McGill University. She is a member of the Students of Colour Montreal collective and of Life after Life, a collective dedicated to prison abolition.
The battle on tuition fees may have been won. But in order for Quebec’s student activists to develop and counter the new government’s ‘backdoor’ austerity, they must make use of the documented memory of student movements from around the world, including the British texts Fight Back! and Springtime