The Rise of a Libertarian Student Movement

Students in Chile, Quebec and the USA are organizing anarchist or libertarian socialist federations.

* In Chile, the Frente de Estudiantes Libertarios (FEL) http://felvalpo.blogspot.com/ has groups in five major cities. As well as active in the recent student general strike, they have produced some remarkable wall art (see their other website,

http://www.umlemchile.tk/

check out “fotos” ) They also do support work for the Oaxacan struggle. The student strike and the formation of FEL tend to indicate that the social struggle is heating up again in Chile.

* SDS (Students for a Democratic Society) re-formed in January of this year and now has about 200 chapters, making it the largest student radical movement in the US. While not ideologically anarchist, SDS rejects top-down methods and statist politics, favoring student syndicalism. Many of its members are openly anarchists and libertarian socialists. A non-student group called MDS has also been formed as a sister organization, See:

http://www.studentsforademocraticsociety.org/

* SCAN (the Student Community Anarchist Network ) (RAME in French) see

http://rame.koumbit.org/

grew out of the 2005 Quebec Student Strike and the collapse of CLAC. (1) It has groups or members in CEGEP's (Community colleges) de Maisonneuve, Sherbrooke, Gérald-Godin, St-Laurent, Vieux Montréal, École des métiers de la construction de Montréal, as well as the three universities UQAM, McGill and Université de Montréal. For more information see: http://www.mcgilldaily.com/view.php?aid=5300 and http://nefac.net/node/2141

1. the "Anti-Capitalist Convergence" Group