Anti-capitalism / Anticapitalisme
Violences policières: où est le droit de manifester?
Violences policières: où est le droit de manifester?
Le premier mai anticapitaliste, organisé depuis plus d’une quinzaine d’années par la Convergence des luttes anticapitalistes (CLAC), a été l’objet d’une répression brutale, ponctuée d’agressions violentes par les agents du SPVM, et ce avant même que la manifestation ait pu débuter. En effet, les policiers ont provoqué les manifestant·e·s en s’introduisant dans le rassemblement afin de photographier les participant·e·s, ce qui constitue de l'intimidation. Rappelons-le : le droit de manifester est protégé par les Chartes des droits et libertés.
Blocking imperialism is possible!
Blocking imperialism is possible!
History is full of examples of movements that stood up to militarism and imperialism. As early as the 1960s, demonstrations against the Vietnam War mobilized millions of people around the world, denouncing American interference and imperialist massacres. More recently, in 2003, massive demonstrations against the invasion of Iraq brought together people from all walks of life, united against the destructive logic of war and the arms race.
Atelier de sécurité en manif
Atelier de sécurité en manif
🧑🏫👩🏫Atelier de sécurité en manif de la CLAC et de D4P [English below]
En amont à la campagne Bloquons l’OTAN!, la CLAC et D4P vous invitent à un atelier de sécurité en manif le samedi 9 novembre à l’espace Les Révoltes (2035 St-Laurent) afin de rappeler des bonnes pratiques à avoir pour la grande manif du 22 novembre.
DEMO: Block NATO
DEMO: Block NATO
From November 22nd to 25th, NATO's parliamentary assembly will be in Montreal for its mortifying circus. From a military alliance during the Cold War, NATO has today become the armed wing of Western countries, imposing its bellicose policies throughout the world. Faced with these war profiteers, it is imperative that we make our voices heard and combat their destructive logic.
The impact of NATO on our policies is huge:
Event Manifestations
Ciné-raton: Les patrons ont toujours tort!
Ciné-raton: Les patrons ont toujours tort!
Event Projections
Manif du 1er mai, journal et teach-in anticapitalistes
Manif du 1er mai, journal et teach-in anticapitalistes
MANIF DU 1ER MAI, JOURNAL ET TEACH-IN ANTICAPITALISTES 🏴🏴🏴
Le capitalisme détruit tout, défendons-nous! ✊🏼✊🏽✊🏾
Press Release
Teach-in du 1er mai
Teach-in du 1er mai
Teach-in du 1er mai anticapitaliste
Le 20 avril 2024,
à L'Achoppe, au 1800 Av. Letourneux,
de midi à 17h
Joignez-vous à nous pour le teach-in du 1er mai anticapitaliste, où nous présenterons trois ateliers pour aider à se préparer à manifester et à nous défendre contre les attaques de la police et du système judiciaire, qui protègent le gouvernement et le capital !
Horaire de la journée:
Anticapitalist mayday '24: capital destroys everything: let's defend ourselves!
Anticapitalist mayday '24: capital destroys everything: let's defend ourselves!
The anticapitalist convergence (CLAC) invites you to the anti-capitalist demonstration on May 1. 🦝 Once again this year, there's no shortage of reasons to demonstrate! This year, the state and capital have stepped up their attacks on tenants, queers, ecology, Gazans and workers.
Lancement du journal Mauvais Coup
Lancement du journal Mauvais Coup
Vous êtes invité-e-s au lancement de “Mauvais coup", le journal officiel de la CLAC pour le 1er mai 2023. Le tout se passera au Centre Social Anarchiste de l'Achoppe le 30 mars à partir de 19:00.
Au menu: Présentation du journal suivie d'interventions des groupes Ben Trop Cher! et SLAM-MATU, qui y ont collaboré, activités ludiques et musique militante!
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Y’all are invited on March 30th to the launch of “Mauvais coup”, the 2023 edition of the CLAC’s journal May 1st. The event will be held on March 30, at the Achoppe anarchist social center, beginning à 7PM.
There will be a presentation of the journal, interventions by Ben trop cher! and SLAM-MATU who collaborated in the journal, fun games and activist music!
We will also distribute posters and flyers for the mayday anticapitalist demo.
Non à la relance destructrice: ateliers de réflexion sur le développement capitaliste et colonial
Non à la relance destructrice: ateliers de réflexion sur le développement capitaliste et colonial
Les ateliers se tiendront un samedi sur deux, a partir de la mi-juillet, à 19h dans la cour du DIRA (2035 Saint-Laurent):
17 juillet : Historique du rôle des infrastructures de transport et de communication dans le projet capitaliste colonial québécois
31 juillet : Réaménagement du territoire en cours et à venir : la stratégie maritime du Québec
14 aout : Résistances à la réorganisation urbaine, stratégies et pratiques
Event Teach-ins/Conférences
MayDay 2021: We don’t want this world they are trying to sell us!
MayDay 2021: We don’t want this world they are trying to sell us!
- MayDay 2021: We don’t want this world they are trying to sell us!
- Meet up at 4PM at Jarry park, at the corner of Gary-Carter and St-Laurent.
The pandemic we are mired in precarize everyone and highlights serious injustices. The stimulus wished by the leaders is an economic stimulus which is not addressed to us. It is not addressed to the artists and other people who don’t make enough profit to merit the right to exist. It does not concern sex workers, whose existence itself is still criminalized. This stimulus ignores handicapped people, the marginalized, those with mental health issues. The stimulus they talk about, it is for the oil companies, the Bombardier corporations, the party friends like Guzzo, but it is not for us. To let the governments save us from the crisis they created themselves through the constant cuts to healthcare and through their "snowbird" lives, would be to accept death. What we need to stimulate is not the economy, but the struggles for our rights and the end of capitalist exploitation.
Post-MayDay communiqué: In action despite being confined!
Post-MayDay communiqué: In action despite being confined!
This past MayDay, like each year for over a century, was the International Workers' Day. Despite being confined, many people took action to redecorate the city. The situation might seem grim, but there are still a few positive observations we can make.
The air in our city is clearer that it has been for over a century. Oil consumption slows down and greenhouse gases production diminishes. For many people, being confined is an opportunity to review our unhealthy relationship with work within an hyperperformist and hyperproductivist society.
This MayDay, resistance continues despite the confinement!
This MayDay, resistance continues despite the confinement!
In these times of pandemic, capital kills more than ever. Workers are left without equipment in hospitals. Confinement falls upon us because our government did too little, too late. Rich landlords who brought the virus back from their latest trip are angered by a rent strike that their penniless tenants have no other choice but to partake in. The people dying right now are among the most vulnerable, from grocery store clerks, to delivery workers, prisoners, homeless folks, and undocumented migrants. All of this while the most fortunate get to work from home. Nevertheless, social distancing remains an important way to reduce transmission, and this is why WE WILL NOT MEET PHYSICALLY FOR A MAYDAY PROTEST. We will however try to make resistance as visible as possible, given the difficult context.
Racism and capitalist development
Racism and capitalist development
This text was originally written in French
Racialized people are victims of many forms of discrimination. For instance, during the 2016 census, the income of people reported as belonging to visible minorities was 30% lower than white people. Another example is the fact that polluting factories and city dumps are often found on land populated by Indigenous and racialized people. One may assume that capitalist developments simply prefer territory inhabited by poorer people, but wealth does not explain what is seen in the field. In practice, capitalist developments are often used as a pretext to enforce racist ideology. [1]
Day of workshops: Ecology, anticapitalism and resistance
Day of workshops: Ecology, anticapitalism and resistance
Given the current situation, the day of workshops "Ecology, anticapitalism and resistance" planned for Saturday, March 28th at the SCPA is postponed to a future date. The date will be announced when it gets clearer what this future has in store for us.
Event Teach-ins/Conférences