Éloi Halloran

is an undergraduate sociology student at Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM). His involvement for paid internships and the politicization of student work began in his local CÉGEP at Gatineau and continued within the Comité unitaire sur le travail étudiant de l’UQAM (CUTE UQAM) in the context of the strike movement of the past months.

“Autonomy Among Us”: An Interview with Quebec Student Strike Organizers

“Autonomy Among Us”: An Interview with Quebec Student Strike Organizers

A lot of people involved in the different CUTE committees were involved in the 2012 student strike and from that experience we drew some critiques that led to new forms of organizing in the student movement. One of them was the critique of centralization that led to creating autonomous committees, which are the CUTE. One of the principles that led to this movement is that of political autonomy, to try to achieve this as much as we can.