Students as workers

Ah, cheers.

Forgetting students for a moment, it seems to me on an admitedly simple level, that the potential for communism to develop as a movement and as a new society rest on the material basis of it being;

1. In the interests of humanity in the long run (which can in the future some considerable time after the actual revolutionary overthrow of the capitalist economy and state see the emergence of a genuinely classless society),

2. In the interest of the whole working class in its widest sence (the propertyless class of wage earners irrespective of heirachy and power relationships)so that again after the revolutionary overthrow of the capitalist economy and state and in the period of transition communism as a classless society might start to emmerge.

3. In the interest of a broad layer of the working class above who are particularly under attack and who have the abillity and inclination to start a fight back with the potential to spread to wider sectors of the class in a similar situation, thus creating a social movement which promotes conflicts and confrontations which force the 'middle layers' of the broader working class to choose which side they are on.

Its all about the 'class in itself' 'the class becomming for itself' and only then the 'class actually for itself' before we get the end of class.

I know this is all very schematic but just see it as shorthand by someone who is now very tired after a day work.

Irrelevent question I know but what is wrong with schematism?

Whether they are considered to be workers or not, I find it interesting that in Quebec for instance, there is a tradition of student syndicalism which views the student as a "young worker". This is taking from the Charter of Grenoble which was established in 1946, directly inspired by the Charter of Amiens, the granddaddy charter for syndicalism in the labour movement. I also find it interesting that in Quebec there is a vibrant tradition of "student strikes" and "general assemblies" which are largely absent in the rest of Canada. This is one reason why their tuition fees are the lowest in Canada and working class communities have much greater access to post-secondary education.