Anti-capitalism / Anticapitalisme

Lancement du journal Mauvais Coup

[English version below]

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.

Nous y distribuerons également le matériel de mobilisation en vue de la manifestation anticapitaliste du 1er mai!

Thématiques: Anti-capitalism / Anticapitalisme, Class War / Guerre des classes Date:
20 Mar 2023

Assemblée de création: Coalition anticapitaliste et écologiste post-COP15

Quelques semaines après la fin de la mobilisation contre la COP15, la coalition écologiste et anticapitaliste contre la COP15 vous invite à une assemblée populaire écologiste et anticapitaliste le dimanche 5 mars prochain à midi. Cette assemblée publique permettra de discuter de l’avenir de cette coalition ainsi que des prochaines mobilisations anticapitalistes et écologistes, parce que la lutte continue!

Thématiques: Anti-capitalism / Anticapitalisme, Ecological Struggles / Luttes écologistes Date:
16 Feb 2023

Coup de hache! (2022)

Coup de hache: porter un coup à l’aide d’une hache. Historiquement le coup de hache a été la première étape de la colonisation. Présentement des méthodes d’abattage plus sophistiquées renvoient le coup de hache à la résistance. Ex: «Crisser un coup de hache dans la machine capitaliste de destruction de la nature!»

Téléchargez ici!

Thématiques: Anti-colonialism / Anticolonialisme, Anti-capitalism / Anticapitalisme, Class War / Guerre des classes, Ecological Struggles / Luttes écologistes, Militarization & war / Militarisation et guerre, LBGTQI2+ Struggles / Luttes LBGTQI2+, Workers' Struggles / Luttes ouvrières Date:
09 Jun 2022

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

Thématiques: Anti-colonialism / Anticolonialisme, Activism & Resistance / Activisme et résistance, Anti-capitalism / Anticapitalisme, Anti-racism & anti-fascism/ Antiracisme & antifascisme, Class War / Guerre des classes, Ecological Struggles / Luttes écologistes, Financiarisation & Financial Crisis / Financiariation & Crise financière, Indigenous Struggles / Luttes autochtones, International Struggles / Luttes internationales, Local Struggles / Luttes locales Date:
26 Jun 2021

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.

Thématiques: (Im)Migration Struggles / Lutte des migrant·e·s, Anti-colonialism / Anticolonialisme, Anti-capitalism / Anticapitalisme, Class War / Guerre des classes, Workers' Struggles / Luttes ouvrières Date:
21 Mar 2021

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.

Thématiques: Anti-capitalism / Anticapitalisme, Ecological Struggles / Luttes écologistes, International Struggles / Luttes internationales Date:
06 May 2020

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.

Thématiques: Anti-capitalism / Anticapitalisme, Class War / Guerre des classes, International Struggles / Luttes internationales, Workers' Struggles / Luttes ouvrières Date:
19 Apr 2020

Ecological intersectionality

This text was originally written in French

Intersectionality is mentioned in about all of social science literature nowadays. Typically, this concept shows the interdependent relation between generic situations and how different domination systems can overlap. Intersectionality is however, as it presents itself historically, an analytical tool developed especially with the aim to build an understandable holistic view of the critics of capitalism, patriarchy and racism. It is why this concept is so important for environmental struggles.

Thématiques: (Im)Migration Struggles / Lutte des migrant·e·s, Anti-colonialism / Anticolonialisme, Anti-capitalism / Anticapitalisme, Feminist Struggles & Anti-patriarchy / Lutte féministes & Antipatriarcales, Anti-racism & anti-fascism/ Antiracisme & antifascisme, Ecological Struggles / Luttes écologistes, Indigenous Struggles / Luttes autochtones Date:
30 Mar 2020

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]

Thématiques: Anti-colonialism / Anticolonialisme, Anti-capitalism / Anticapitalisme, Anti-racism & anti-fascism/ Antiracisme & antifascisme, Ecological Struggles / Luttes écologistes Date:
20 Mar 2020

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.

Thématiques: Anti-colonialism / Anticolonialisme, Activism & Resistance / Activisme et résistance, Anti-capitalism / Anticapitalisme, Ecological Struggles / Luttes écologistes, Indigenous Struggles / Luttes autochtones, International Struggles / Luttes internationales, Militarization & war / Militarisation et guerre Date:
20 Feb 2020

Journal 2020 - Heatstroke!

Surprise! After years of environmental destruction, the foreshadowed crisis is upon us. It's hard not to notice that the climate is fucked. And undoubtedly, the capitalist system is to blame. A radical critique of the issue is in order and we have to act now if we want to avoid the worst.

Thématiques: Anti-colonialism / Anticolonialisme, Anti-capitalism / Anticapitalisme, Anti-racism & anti-fascism/ Antiracisme & antifascisme, Class War / Guerre des classes, Ecological Struggles / Luttes écologistes, Indigenous Struggles / Luttes autochtones, International Struggles / Luttes internationales Date:
08 Feb 2020

Toward a Revolutionary Environmental Movement

A Flyer from the CLAC, the IWW and Montreal Antifascist

1. GOVERNMENTS WON’T SAVE US

Those who benefit from poisoning the land and exploiting people you care about won’t be reformed. They’ll make it seem like they hear your voices and occasionally put on grand spectacles to temporarily appease your anger. They’ll encourage you to channel your anxiety into pointless practices that only reinforce individualism. So while some of us compete to take shorter showers or to reduce our trash output, government officials, universities, and corporations shamelessly invest in more pipelines, host uncritical academic conferences, or fly jets to fancy meetings where empty promises are made.

Thématiques: Anti-colonialism / Anticolonialisme, Activism & Resistance / Activisme et résistance, Anti-capitalism / Anticapitalisme, Ecological Struggles / Luttes écologistes, Indigenous Struggles / Luttes autochtones Date:
29 Sep 2019

Antiracist and Anticapitalist Contingent at the Climate Strike March

The fight against climate change must break out of its rut. It must also fight the system of borders which benefits certain lives more than others. It must crush this capitalist economy which is always looking to produce more, more and more. It must fight the migrant prison being built in Laval, in which children are raised behind bars. It must fight imperialism which forces countries of the South to produce for a pittance what we consume here in the North. It must fight white supremacy, whether it takes the form of neo-fascist militia, conservative talking heads, or colonial governments which impose their law on unceded native lands. It must fight those who benefit from poisoning the Earth and from the exploitation of our sisters and brothers.

Thématiques: (Im)Migration Struggles / Lutte des migrant·e·s, Anti-colonialism / Anticolonialisme, Anti-capitalism / Anticapitalisme, Anti-racism & anti-fascism/ Antiracisme & antifascisme, Class War / Guerre des classes, Ecological Struggles / Luttes écologistes, Indigenous Struggles / Luttes autochtones, Militarization & war / Militarisation et guerre Date:
06 Sep 2019

Anticapitalist MayDay Post-Demonstration Press Release

  • No interview will be given to corporatist mass media.
  • Special fuck you to Québecor Média and its peddlers of hate.
  • Others can contact the CLAC at info@clac-montreal.net

Why did we protest again?

May 1st was created out of workers' struggles leaded by immigrants. The struggle took place on this continent more than a hundred years ago. Today, globalized imperialist capitalism created conditions which forces millions of people to leave their home in order to find a refuge to survive. These millions of people are place in situations of extreme vulnerability, creating a stateless and exploitable population. According to an article published in the Devoir today, the risk to suffer from workplace accident causing severe wounds or death is twice as high for foreign workers.

Thématiques: (Im)Migration Struggles / Lutte des migrant·e·s, Anti-colonialism / Anticolonialisme, Anti-capitalism / Anticapitalisme, Anti-racism & anti-fascism/ Antiracisme & antifascisme, International Struggles / Luttes internationales, Workers' Struggles / Luttes ouvrières Date:
02 May 2019

Brochure on the history of MayDay: "Chicago, mai 1886" [In French only]

Where does the habit of organizing demonstration every May 1st comes from? Warm weather, blooming flowers, or just the need to walk around? Nothing of the sort, even if it can helps... In reality this date is a symbol for unions everywhere, the remembrance of the struggle of American workers for the 8-hour days taking place at the end of the XIXth century.

Thématiques: Activism & Resistance / Activisme et résistance, Anti-capitalism / Anticapitalisme, Class War / Guerre des classes, International Struggles / Luttes internationales, Workers' Struggles / Luttes ouvrières Date:
28 Apr 2019

Bosses Are Always Wrong! - Video release and discussion panel

Bosses Are Always Wrong!

Release of a documentary short from CLAC

  • Wednesday, 16 January, 6PM
  • Station Ho.st
  • 1494, Ontario East

The screening will be followed by a panel discussion about work with the following speakers:

  • Camille Robert, feminist activist,
  • Joëlle Dussault, activist of the syndicat industriel des travailleuses et travailleurs (SITT-IWW),
  • Mostafa Henaway, from the Immigrant Workers Centre (IWC).
Thématiques: Anti-capitalism / Anticapitalisme, Workers' Struggles / Luttes ouvrières Date:
09 Dec 2018

2018 Anticapitalist MayDay - corner of Sherbrooke/Amherst, 6PM

Now as before, they are rich because we are poor.

The financial masters of the Western world and seven of their political puppets will meet later this year at la Malbaie. They will fight to continue the exploitation of the global South and the pillaging of natural resources. The G7 will be a magnificient circus, paid for by our own exploitation. Paid by those who break themselves at work, by cut to social services, to education, to healthcare, to human dignity. A circus which will encourage free work given by unpaid internship, which will support the staggering profits of real estate moguls forcing us outside our homes. A circus whose sole goal is to promote an immoral statu quo. Imperialism and colonialism will be celebrated, at the expense of those who produce most of the world's wealth. But it is not too late to fight back.

Thématiques: (Im)Migration Struggles / Lutte des migrant·e·s, Anti-colonialism / Anticolonialisme, Anti-capitalism / Anticapitalisme, Anti-racism & anti-fascism/ Antiracisme & antifascisme, Workers' Struggles / Luttes ouvrières Date:
25 Mar 2018

Revolution Fest V !

C'est demain jeudi que commence la cinquième édition du Revolution Fest de Montréal !

3 jours de musique sous la bannière de l’anticapitalisme, de l’antifascisme et du féminisme!

Lancé pour la première fois à l’automne 2013 par le chapitre montréalais des Red and Anarchist SkinHeads (RASH) et du Montreal Sisterhood, le Revolution Fest se veut un festival annuel présentant des groupes de musiques et des activités à caractère politique. Ce festival se déroulant sur plusieurs journées dans la ville de Montréal, permet à l’ensemble de la gauche de se rassembler, et ce, dans un cadre festif et de faire la promotion d’une contre-culture vivante et radicalement opposée à toutes les formes que prend l’extrême droite.

Thématiques: Anti-colonialism / Anticolonialisme, Anti-capitalism / Anticapitalisme, Feminist Struggles & Anti-patriarchy / Lutte féministes & Antipatriarcales, Anti-racism & anti-fascism/ Antiracisme & antifascisme Date:
04 Oct 2017

Anticapitalist Mayday Protest - They are rich because we are poor and we are right to revolt!

-For immediate distribution-

Anticapitalist Mayday Protest

They are rich because we are poor and we are right to revolt!

Meetup: May 1st, 2017 at 6PM at Phillips Square (McGill metro) in Montreal

Montreal, April 29th, 2017- The Anticapitalist convergence (CLAC-Montreal) organizes, for the ten straight year, the anticapitalist mayday protest. This year, the International Workers’ Day protest outlines our campaign on poverty and precarity named “they are rich because we are poor and we are right to revolt!”.

Thématiques: Anti-capitalism / Anticapitalisme Date:
30 Apr 2017

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