{"id":356963,"date":"2018-04-16T06:10:58","date_gmt":"2018-04-16T05:10:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/oppose-unions-banning-of-fightback-from-toronto-university-strike-picketline\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T06:10:58","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T05:10:58","slug":"oppose-unions-banning-of-fightback-from-toronto-university-strike-picketline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/oppose-unions-banning-of-fightback-from-toronto-university-strike-picketline\/","title":{"rendered":"Oppose union\u2019s banning of Fightback from Toronto university strike picketline"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3 class=\"nomargin\">\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h4>Political censorship in the name of #MeToo<\/h4>\n<h2>Oppose union\u2019s banning of Fightback from Toronto university strike picketline<\/h2>\n<h5>\n<p>    By<br \/>\n    the International Youth and Students for Social Equality (Canada)<br \/>\n    <br \/>16 April 2018<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p>The International Youth and Students for Social Equality (IYSSE) unequivocally condemns the Canadian Union of Public Employees\u2019 (CUPE) banning of the Fightback group from the picket lines of the ongoing strike by York University contract faculty and graduate assistants.<\/p>\n<p>The ban, engineered by a cabal of union bureaucrats, is a flagrant attack on democratic rights. It underscores the reactionary character of the trade union bureaucracy and of the #MeToo campaign, which is being used to legitimize a frontal assault on basic democratic juridical principles and, in this case, to explicitly silence political debate.<\/p>\n<p>The IYSSE and Socialist Equality Party have long-standing, well-documented, and unbridgeable political differences with Fightback, the Canadian section of the pseudo-left International Marxist Tendency. But this does not lessen our determination to uphold the basic democratic rights of political tendencies to present their programs and policies to workers and young people, especially under conditions in which they are engaged in a bitter struggle against the combined forces of university management and the provincial Liberal government.<\/p>\n<p>CUPE Local 3903 Chair Devin Lefebvre announced the ban on Fightback in a terse March 29 letter. The \u201cimmediate ban of Socialist Fightback from CUPE 3903\u2019s picket lines and spaces\u201d was justified by Lefebvre as a response to \u201cthe pattern of sexual violence, and most shockingly, harassment of survivors\u2019 attempts to speak up, that your organization has displayed in the recent past.\u201d Lefebvre cited a vote in favour of&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2018\/04\/16\/iyse-a16.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Political censorship in the name of #MeToo Oppose union\u2019s banning of Fightback from Toronto university strike picketline By the International Youth and Students for Social Equality (Canada) 16 April 2018 The International Youth and Students for Social Equality (IYSSE) unequivocally condemns the Canadian Union of Public Employees\u2019 (CUPE) banning of the Fightback group from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2526,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-356963","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=356963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356963\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}