In addition to being back on the front lines during the second wave of COVID-19, health-care professionals in Quebec are in negotiations to renew their collective agreement. Despite the terrible working conditions putting the health-care system on the edge of collapse, the government refuses to budge. Sooner or later, the question of a strike will […]

On Nov. 21, two members of Atalante, a fascist group in Quebec, tried to intimidate a member of La Riposte socialiste in Quebec City at his workplace. This is not the first time this group has gone after left-wing activists in the city. We have a clear message for them: we will not be intimidated. […]

For Marxists, it is important not to merely glorify or condemn the FLQ, but to soberly study its errors and weaknesses. More than ever today, we need a revolution, and the history of the FLQ and its lessons can help us to understand the way forward in this struggle.

Joyce Echaquan, an Indigenous woman and mother of seven, died in a Joliette hospital on Sept. 28. This was after she filmed her cry for help, claiming she was overmedicated by the nurses. In the video we see nurses and attendants insulting her and making racist comments. Carol Dubé, Joyce’s partner, is adamant: “Systemic racism […]

For the first time in a very long while, more than 20 unions and organizations, including the most important Montreal labour councils (the FTQ and the CSN), held a militant, anti-capitalist Labour Day rally.

We are faced with the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. Already, the CAQ, this government of the bosses, has demonstrated their intent to make us pay for the crisis. It is time for the labour movement in Quebec to revive its rich traditions of militancy and prepare for the struggle.

This article was originally published in French by La Riposte Socialiste. The Port of Montreal has been closed since Monday Aug. 10 by order of the dockworkers! After two four-day strikes over the last few weeks, the dockworkers have declared an indefinite strike. The employer, the Maritime Employers Association (MEA), has wasted no time in […]

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. […]