Author: Xavier Lafrance

Xavier Lafrance was a spokesperson for ASSÉ in the 2005 strike, and is currently active with the Greater Toronto Workers’ Assembly and a PhD student at York University in Toronto.

  • Campus Fightbacks in the Age of Austerity

    Learning from Quebec Students The 2012 Quebec student strikes delivered one of the few victories we have seen in anti-austerity struggles in the Canadian state. The mobilization, which at its high … Keep reading »

    Social Movements  •  February 9, 2013  •  Xavier Lafrance and Alan Sears

  • Red Square, Everywhere

    With Quebec Student Strikers, Against Repression The Charest government has turned to repression to try to break the largest and longest student strike in Quebec history. Students had already endured heavy-handed … Keep reading »

    Canada  •  May 24, 2012  •  Xavier Lafrance and Alan Sears