A mass movement denouncing sexual assault has rocked Quebec over the past few weeks. This has taken the form of online callouts against thousands of people. Various famous personalities, including singer Éric Lapointe, Simple Plan bassist David Desrosiers and leader of the Bloc Quebecois, Yves-François Blanchette, have been denounced, just to name a few. This […]

On Sunday, July 5 in Montréal, hundreds of people drove in protest against the dehumanizing racial profiling of Black drivers, known as “Driving while Black”. Two convoys, draped in Quebec and Canadian flags, converged at metro station Namur where several city councilors and activists gave speeches. Demonstrators came from Longueuil, Repentigny, and Terrebonne, showing that […]

This article is a translation of a French article written by our Quebecois comrades in La Riposte socialiste. In English Canada our task is to expose Anglo-chauvinism and the reactionary policies of the federal capitalist state. In Quebec it is the task of our Francophone comrades to expose the reactionary policies of the bourgeois-nationalist leadership. […]

With health care workers at the end of their rope, seniors dying in long-term care facilities and medical equipment in short supply, Quebec Premier François Legault has decided that now is the best time to end the confinement of the population.  For weeks, Legault and Dr. Horacio Arruda, national director of public health in Quebec, […]

After years of debate, state discrimination against religious minorities has been enshrined in law in Quebec with the adoption of Bill 21. Unfortunately, opposition to this bill has been confused to say the least. While the left and the workers movement have generally opposed this law, no one seems to know what to do. Up […]

The Bombardier saga continues. After being handed billions in government subsidies, the value of the company’s shares has plummeted by more than 50% and the company is almost $10 billion in debt. Thousands of workers have been laid off and the government has lost hundreds of millions. The elephant in the room is obvious to […]

2020 is shaping up to be a pivotal year for the class struggle in Quebec. Public-sector collective agreements expire on March 31, and negotiations have begun. Without a doubt, the results will have important repercussions for the decade to come. The outcome of the negotiations will either mean further hardship for the 550,000 public sector […]

The recent Québec solidaire congress, held on Nov. 15-17, concluded with enthusiastic speeches from Manon Massé and Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois, who confidently stated that “our movement is the real force opposing the CAQ”. Indeed, everything seems to point towards Québec solidaire being a strong contender for power in three years’ time. The party has a record […]

Quebec media is in crisis. Six of the 10 regional weekly papers in the province owned by Groupe Capitales Médias have now declared bankruptcy, but this is only the tip of the iceberg. Faced with growing global competition in the online era, advertisement and subscription revenue has plummeted drastically for media across the board, leading to […]

This article was originally published June 6th, 2019 on La Riposte Socialiste. This past April, 38,000 jobs were created in Quebec. This was the most new jobs recorded in a single month in the last 17 years. This lowered the unemployment rate from 5.2 per cent to 4.9 per cent, the lowest it’s been since […]