Death of meaningful student activism

University students go on strike every year. Their problems usually range from insecurity to examination -fee issues. In nearly all cases, when such problems emerge, comrades come out in large numbers and demonstrate along the streets. These demonstration start peacefully but turn out to be riots and looting. They picket shops around and within the university. They usually shout for so long that when journalists arrive, they are already tired. They then end up presenting their problems in a wrong, unclear way such that they are despised. With this, their problems hardly get addressed.

The only thing the university administration does is call for the police help, who their presence only angers comrades. After hours of throwing stones at the police, they become silent and assume that it never happened. One interesting thing about the 'comrade’s power!' they usually shout while demonstrating is that the power lies only in the chanting, throwing stones at the police and looting. Nothing more. They express their power at the wrong point.