The Legal Self-Defense Committee of the Anti-Capitalist Convergence (CLAC) is getting its Legal Self-Defense Fund back together. The fund aims to support people who are victims of police or legal repression for alleged acts committed in the context of individual or collective actions with an anti-capitalist, feminist, anti-colonial or anti-racist scope.
A message from CLAC-allies. 
Respect Kanien'kehà:ka sovereignty, support the search for unmarked graves
Follow our Twitter @stopthenewvic to find out how you can provide on the ground support
The second season of "The Whole Orchard" podcast will soon be available!
This year we'll talk about anticarceral feminism, police forces on indigenous territories & transformative justice, amongst other subjects. Until then, you can listen to the five episodes of the 1st season by searching "Le verger au Complet" on your favorite podcast platform or by going to the web site
Le 1er mai 2022, suite à l'appel de la Convergence des lutte anticapitalistes (CLAC), plus d'un demi-millier de personnes ont pris la rue pour la journée des travailleuses et des travailleurs. Le thème mis de l'avant cette année était : "Colonial et écocidaire, le capitalisme c'est la guerre !". La manifestation a débuté à 17h30 à la Place du Canada, dans le centre-ville, après plusieurs discours de militantes autochtones Anishnabées/Ojibwe et Kanyen'kehà:ka.
The Convergence des luttes anticapitalistes (CLAC) denounces the violent repression of its demonstration again this year. Indeed, the SPVM proceeded, as usual, to unjustified and brutal arrests. The police used truncheons and tear gas to silence the people who are tired of being exploited every day to enrich the nauseating bourgeoisie and their companies that profit from COVID-19. Several people were injured and the police even destroyed the cell phone of one participant.
CLAC (an Anti-Capitalist Convergence) publish today a first episode of a series of podcast shaped as interviews name The Whole Orchard. The Whole Orchard aims to share information relating to the abolition of police, prison and the justice system taking on topics such as the jailing of migrants, criminalization of dissent et transformative justice. The first episode introduces the idea behind the project and propose a historical picture of police in colonized Canada and the United States more specifically in so-called « Québec ».
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.
A banner that reads:
"Essential: Health workers, delivery people, cashiers
Non essential: Landlords, bankers, bosses
May Day 2020: Celebrate the workers. Destroy capitalism"
A banner that reads:
"Essential: Health workers, delivery people, cashiers
Non essential: Landlords, bankers, bosses
May Day 2020: Celebrate the workers. Destroy capitalism"
The Anticapitalist Convergence (Convergence des luttes anticapitalistes, CLAC-"Montreal") now publishes its articles on the Contrepoints.media news platform, available at https://contrepoints.media/ in addition to its own website. The objective of the Contrepoints.media project is to offer a mobilization platform for small and large collectives, and to avoid the repetitive effort necessary to produce and maintain various websites. In their own words:
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.
Nous ne nous tairons pas!
Le 27 novembre 2018, à la cour municipale de Québec, ont comparu six personnes qui ont été arrêté.e.s en marge des manifestations contre le G7.
Ces personnes exerçaient pacifiquement leur droit à la libre expression et à la réunion pacifique, droits garantis par les Chartes canadienne et québécoise des droits et libertés. Les personnes arrêtées ont été détenues pendant quatre jours après avoir été arrêtées par les policiers du SPVQ et/ou de la SQ, selon le cas.
For immediate distribution.
Some CLAC activists built a house made from reused electoral campaign materials taken from a gentrified street of the Rosemont neighborhood, near the wreck of a derelict restaurant and a new condo building.
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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!”.
Punto de encuentro : 1ero Mayo 2017 a las 6hpm al Carré Phillips (métro McGill)
Montreal, 29 de avril 2017 – La Convergencia de las luchas anticapitalistas (CLAC-Montréal), organiza su décima marcha anticapitalista del 1ero de Mayo.
Le 6 novembre dernier, la CLAC est allée confronter les futurs crosseurs des HEC de l'Université de Montréal !
Bien que nous étions en petit nombre, la police et la sécurité nous ont barré le chemin en verrouillant la journée portes ouvertes !
Le milieu journalistique est scandalisé, avec raison, par les récentes révélations concernant la surveillance dont il fait l'objet. Pourtant, pour quiconque conteste le statu quo politique actuel, cela n'est guère une surprise.
Montréal, 2nd May 2016 - La Convergence des luttes anticapitalistes
(CLAC-Montréal) and its allies reached KPMG, that infernal tower, those fucking backstabbers, that heap of capitalist maggots, those thieves without souls, the accountants and lawyers who allow for their
millionaire friends to souse their fortunes in tax havens, safe from
taxes and obligations to help with financing public services.
We reached the French consulate, in solidarity with our comrades who
took up demonstrations in the streets of Paris some weeks ago, and
info @ clac-montreal.net
CLAC's educ-pop commitee is a member of GRIP-UQAM.
CLAC is a member of QPIRG-Concordia.
