Coalition de résistance pour l’unité étudiante syndicale

2024-2026 campaign

Here is the 2024-2026 campaign mandate, adopted by the CRUES Member Associations during the October 19th and 20th regular congress:

CONSIDERING the need for survival of the CRUES in relation to the low number of people holding positions on the executive committee and external committees;

CONSIDERING the likely increase in mobilizing forces within CRUES following a redirection to an ongoing and unifying campaign;

CONSIDERING the primary objective of CRUES as a combative union regrouping local associations at the regional level throughout so-called Quebec, that is to say centralization of forces;

CONSIDERING the political positions of the CRUES on the liberation of Palestine and its support with student camps;

CONSIDERING the persecution of Palestinians since 1896: colonization, forced exodus and apartheid;

CONSIDERING the acceleration of genocidal practices by the Zionist entity since its establishment in 1948 by the UN;

CONSIDERING the latest year of escalation of genocidal attacks on Palestine and the Middle East by the Zionist entity of “Israel” which has caused more than 50,000 direct deaths and 186,000 indirect deaths of civilians primarily;

CONSIDERING the great movements of mobilization towards the liberation of Palestine, both at student and citizen levels;

CONSIDERING the mobilization material already built and used by several organizations;

CONSIDERING that the challenges concerning the liberation of Palestine are fighting the same systems of oppression and exploitation than the ones against which the movement for the salarization of internships ;

That CRUES launches a new campaign for the liberation and the end of genocide in Palestine and the Middle East ;

That all CRUES committees have the liberation of Palestine as their main guideline ;

That there be a follow-up concerning current and future steps concerning the salarization and unionization of internships.

That CRUES engage in two campaigns, one being the main and current one, the liberation and end of genocide in Palestine and the Middle East, as well as a follow-up campaign, the one concerning the salarization and unionization of internships.

That there be a continuation of the militant effort put into the follow-up campaign, in order to recognize the mobilization and advances in the struggle for the wage and unionization of internships.

That CRUES recognizes the urgent nature and need for immediate action by resistance movements for the liberation of Palestine. 

That this campaign holds the following demands ::

  • That the CRUES demands the entire transparency on financial activities of all scholar establishments of so-called Quebec and their total divestment of all products, services and commercial, academic and direct or indirect military collaborations with the State of Israel ;
  • That the CRUES demands that the government of so-called Quebec and of so-called Canada recognizes the genocide of the palestinian people and the colonization of Palestine ;
  • That the CRUES demands the end of apartheid and the end of occupation by the zionist State of Israel ;
  • That the CRUES demands that education on decolonial resistance from so-called Canada to Palestine be made accessible to the student community ;
  • That the CRUES demands an immediate ceasefire in Palestine and the end of the embargo on humanitarian aid in Gaza ;
  • That the CRUES demands that so-called Canada and so-called Quebec uses mean of political and economical pressure until the ceasefire is effective ;
  • That the demands apply to all victims of the zionist entity, including Lebanon, Yemen, Jordan, Irak, Iran and Syria ;
  • That the CRUES demands the end of complicity of so-called Quebec and so-called Canada with Israel ;
  • That the CRUES demands the withdrawal of so-called Quebec government’s offices in Tel-Aviv ;
  • That the CRUES reiterates its support for decolonial struggles ;

Pour consulter le plan d’action de cette campagne cliquez ici.