1er mai
While the situation in Canada is less catastrophic than in other parts of the world, we are all feeling the weight of increasingly worrisome inflation. Prices are rising faster than wages and we are left with no real leverage to act on the situation. In the neoliberal order, the bourgeois do what they want and people suffer without saying a word. Rents, groceries and transport are an increasing burden on us, and it is a safe bet that things will not get any better.
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.
Toutes les dernières infos pour la manif ! Les contingents, les autres événements le premier mai, les endossements et plus encore !
La journée internationale des travailleuses et travailleurs du 1er mai approche à grand pas et cette année encore la Convergence des Luttes Anticapitalistes (CLAC) appel à un rassemblement à Tio'tia:ke (Montréal). Cette année, pour la 15e édition de la manifestation anticapitaliste, il tombait sous le sens de choisir les thématiques anticoloniales et écologistes. Parce que le capitalisme est un système colonial et écocidaire, il est la guerre!
En vue de la manifestation, nous avons cru pertinent de (re)partager diverses ressources mises sur pied au cours des dernières années par la CLAC et leurs alliéEs. Nous voulons encourager le partage des connaissances pratiques et nourrir un sentiment de sécurité collective dans les rues à l'occasion de cette journée. Nous souhaitons également que chacunE puisse éprouver du plaisir et trouver satisfaction et excitation dans la manif. Notre bien-être, notre joie et notre sécurité en manifestation ne dépendent pas de la police, bien au contraire et c'est en arrivant préparéEs, confiantEs en nos moyens et déterminéEs que nous pourrons faire avancer nos idéaux pour un monde meilleur!
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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.
- 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.
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"
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.
- 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.
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.
- On Wednesday May 1st, at 6:30pm, in Square Cabot, the anticapitalist caravan is back at it again to say fuck your borders and fuck your prisons!
- Meetup at 6:30 in Cabot square (Atwater metro station).
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.
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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!”.
Marcha anticapitalista del 1ero de mayo
Están ricos porque nosotrxs somos pobres... y tenemos razón de sublevarnos!
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.
Faced with mass media owners and other public opinion pundits, stack the odds in your favor! Meet us to pick up the CLAC's mobilization material for this year's anticapitalist MayDay... and come drink a beer in good company!
- Tuesday, March 21st, between 6PM and 8PM,
- Yer'Mad, 901, de Maisonneuve East.
They are rich because we are poor and we are right to revolt!
- Meetup at 6PM at Phillips square,
- Demo starts at 6:30PM sharp!
- Two additionnal metup point will converge to the downtown demo (Métro Frontenac and Cégep St-Laurent)
Organize and join us for the Anticapitalist MayDay 2017