Supplement to
La Vie Réelle in English, February 9th
2011
HAPPY DAYS
By Daniel
Paquet dpaquet1871@gmail.com
Every springtime,
during school mid-term, thousands of US University and College students gather
in Florida, at the beaches, for a few days. They take free time to meet, to have fun
together and why not… to make love. Well,
let’s call a cat, a cat… They relax
their mind and their body; this is no time for worries. Usually, they don’t want to get into
troubles; they may not be rich, drive a jalopy, but they are on their own. Those are happy days, that they will recall for
the rest of their life.
Most of
them will become lawyers, scientists, professionals or white collars, in
general. Some will remember their modest
social and economical background, and connect with the labour movement or “devote
their life” within people’s organizations, like president Obama did, or become
full-time “executives” in the AFL-CIO, the US trade union centre, for instance;
while a few will join the US Communist movement; at least for now.
Of course,
altogether this “privileged layer” may choose to support the cause of peoples,
plundered by US monopolies; the ones that offer good jobs and prospects for
their personal future, if they make the “right” choice, namely to defend –with
their brain and any other capacity- US imperialism at home and around the
world; including lost battles such as the 30 years Egyptian “democratic”
regime, at his time headed by Hosni Mubarak, a US straw man. In this case, a statement issued by the
Egyptian Communist Party says: “The hour of truth is near and the decisive
moment has arrived when the Egyptian people pronounce their final word
asserting the need to bring down Mubarak and change his regime. It seems that the life of the regime of
tyranny (…) especially that its American masters have taken their hands off in
the wake of the continuing revolution of the people and its escalation
everywhere in Egypt.” Was that the prelude
to the Arab Spring?
Like wrote
New York Metro newspaper on February 6th,
“demonstrators in central Tahrir (Liberation, Ed.) Square, focal point of an
uprising that has rocked the Arab world and alarmed Western powers, said they
would intensify their 12-day battle to oust the president who has vowed to stay
on until September.” So far, as reported
by the Toronto Metro –on February 8th-
“Protesters have clashed with police who fired live rounds, tear gas and rubber
bullets and fought pitched street battles for two days with gangs of
pro-Mubarak supporters who attacked their main demonstration site in Cairo’s
central Tahrir Square.”
Young
people, especially students in North America are ever more stunned by the
striking uprising. Students’ leaders in
Canada, those who got in touch with the International Union of Students (IUS),
are more or less aware of the events. By
the end of the 1970s, exchanges took place at the international level,
including the 1978 World Festival of Youth and Students (Habana, Cuba). Parti québécois (PQ) members and other nationalists
got scared of these contacts, especially between IUS and the Québec National
Association of Students (ANEQ). Today, through a press release on the thwarting
of examination and police assault, “Egyptian students demand you to uphold the
student movement against repress and deprivation of examination. […] Hundreds of students of the Egyptian
universities have already been attacked; additional to tens who have been
prevented from examining, as well as having had their right of expression and
demonstration abolished. Thus we demand
you to stand in solidarity with us against the arbitrariness and repress,
practiced by the authority and the university against the students”. (http://www.solidnet.org/index.php/egypt-egyptian-communist-party
) According to Metro, the death toll in Egypt nears 300 on Feb. 8th
2011.
Québec students (and North American students as
a whole), should not be afraid to defend their viewpoints anytime and anywhere.
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