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nous recevons et transmettons

Nous appelons à l’organisation d’un contingent anarchiste dans la manifestation anticapitaliste organisée par la CLAC le 1 mai. La manif commencera à 16 h 30 au coin des rues Gosford et Sainte-Antoine, adjacent au métro Champ-de-Mars. Il ne sera pas difficile de nous trouver. Le code vestimentaire est le noir, mais si quelqu’un n’a pas une penderie suffisament équipée et n’a pas le temps d’aller à la friperie, il reste important de porter un masque et de se couvrir la tête. Amenez vos amiEs, des drapeaux, des plans, des parapluies, peut-être de l’eau ou des barres d’énergie pour les partager  (et qu’ainsi nous puissions continuer toute la nuit) ainsi que d’autres matériaux auxquels vous pouvez penser qui pourraient être utiles. Arrivez avec la compréhension que nous devons rester groupéEs et que nous devons lancer ce que nous voulons seulement de l’avant.

Nous espérons que beaucoup des gens qui ont porté des masques pendant la rébellion étudiante en cours, mais aussi celles et ceux qui ne l’ont pas fait, courront avec nous. Nous ne sommes pas des spécialistes et nous n’avons pas une liste de membres ou une cotisation annuelle. Même si vous  planifiez ne rien faire qui est particulièrement fou, ça sera vraiment apprécié si vous pouvez exprimer votre appui pour l’utilisation des tactiques diverses en vous habillant vous-mêmes en noir ou en contribuant à la normalisation du simple acte d’essayer de cacher son identité lorsque nous sommes confrontéEs par la surveillance étatique. Ce type de solidarité ne peut qu’être réciproque. Continue reading →

we receive and transmit

We are calling for an anarchist contingent in the May 1 anti-capitalist demonstration organized by CLAC, starting at 4:30PM at the corner of rues Gosford and Saint-Antoine, near Champ-de-Mars métro station. We shouldn’t be hard to find. The dress code is black, but if your wardrobe isn’t up to snuff and you can’t find the time to go to the friperie, be sure to at least bring a mask and cover your head. Bring friends, flags, plans, umbrellas for either rain or sun, maybe some water or energy bars to share (so that we can continue into the night), and whatever other materials you think might be handy. Make sure you know to stay tight and only throw from the front.

We hope that lots of the people who have been masking up in the course of the student unrest, as well as those who haven’t been, will roll with us. We’re not specialists and we don’t have a membership list or annual dues. Even if you aren’t planning anything particularly crazy, it would be great if you could express your support for diverse tactics by wearing black and if you could normalize the simple act of concealing your identity in the face of state surveillance. That kind of solidarity gets reciprocated. Continue reading →

Depuis Sabotage Media

Aujourd’hui, 20 avril, débutais le salon de l’emploi du Plan Nord au Palais des congrès et deux manifestations était appelé pour perturber déroulement de cette opération de propagande du gouvernement où entre autre le premier ministre Charest venait faire son petit numéro de promotion pour son mégaprojet industriel de destruction d’un des rares endroits de la planète où il reste encore des espaces sauvages.

Une manif appelée par la CLASSE a rassemblé au parc Émilie-Gamelin plus de 1000 personnes qui se sont dirigés vers le Palais des congrès. Avec tout le dispositif de répression déjà déployé, vers midi un groupe a réussi à entrer au rez-de-chaussé du Palais des congrès par un stationnement intérieur et a tenté de monter au 2e étage ou se déroulait le Salon. Les flics on pousser les personnes dans les escaliers, une confrontation avec les flics à l’intérieur s’en suivi au moment où Charest devait faire son clown et ils ont finalement réussi à repousser les gens à l’extérieur. Plus tard, après avoir été retardé par les événements, Charest a fini par donner son discours avec une introduction qui fait maintenant les manchettes; « À ceux qui frappaient a notre porte ce matin on a à offrir des emplois dans le nord autant que possible. » Le voile de l’hypocrisie politicienne s’amincit, pas à cause de la déjà plus qu’évidente farce plate qu’est la démocratie, mais parce que nous voyons assez clairement ce que le « Nord » représente dans l’esprit du porte-parole des rapaces: un endroit éloigné dont ils se sentent détaché, qu’ils s’en crissent ben de ceux et celles qui s’y trouvent et ce qui s’y passe, tant que ça continue de gonfler leurs comptes bancaires. On pourrait bien y construire des goulags tant qu’à y être. Continue reading →

From Sabotage Media

Today, April 20th, was the start of the Salon de l’emploi du Plan Nord at the Palais des congrès [the main conference center in Montreal] as two demos were called to disrupt the unfolding of this government propaganda operation where notably the prime minister Charest was to put on his little show promoting his industrial megaproject of destruction (forestry, mining, dams, infrastructure, etc.) of northern so called Quebec, one of few places on Earth where there still remains wild untouched areas. Continue reading →

Depuis Anti-dev

Bref reportage de l’intérieur sur l’émeute du 20 avril contre le Plan Nord

Ça a largement été une superbe journée de lutte, même si elle n’a peut-être pas été complètement victorieuse. Dès le premier moment, ça se sentait que cette jour allait être le nôtre, tout comme le mien… et ça paraissait jusque dans les black blocs chantant et rigolant dans la sérénité alors qu’ils-elles mettaient leur attirail. L’esprit de la Terre autochtone nous animait; harmonieux-euses, même dans notre détermination à semer le désordre. Continue reading →

From Anti-dev

A brief insider’s report on the April 20th Plan Nord protest

This was overall a great day of fighting, even though it wasn’t all victorious. From the very first moments, it could be felt that we were set to totally seize the day, and this was showing in black blocs serenely chanting and joking as they were dressing/gearing up. The Native spirit of the Earth was in us; harmonious, even in our drive towards disorder.

All thanks to the incompetence of Montreal’s fascist police force (only efficient at ganging up on individual street people) and the careless, mindless nihilo-capitalism of the political establishment, this April 20th’s protest against the corporate Plan Nord, a huge development plan aiming at robbing and raping roughly 70% of the Great North’s wilderness -through mining and hydroelectric development, mainly- has turned into the havoc that tons of student strikers and radicals alike were waiting for, deep inside. Continue reading →

we receive and transmit

Everyone likes to claim that, on whatever stupid day that something interesting might have happened, a movement was born. It’s a cliché that ignores everything that happened leading up to it, all of the years of hard work and small struggles that don’t capture the imagination like broken glass and tear gas, and so I’m a little embarrassed that the way I feel right now, as I’m writing this and barely back to my normal frame of mind, is that Friday, April 20, might have been the beginning of an actual anti-capitalist social movement in Montréal, such that I haven’t seen before in all the time I’ve lived here. Continue reading →

From Insurrection Days

We don’t demand anything, we want everything!

People all over the world are taking their protest to the streets, fighting for their freedom to overturn the current conditions. But why not here? The German reality is marked by social exclusion and cuts in the supply of basic essentials. Simultaneously, the media is brainwashing people’s mind against every existing resistance that criticises this inhuman oppression by the state and capital. It isn’t just the police who beat us up or arrest us and it isn’t just the political legislative which establishes laws to enslave us. Also responsible are those people who are not offering resistance to this situation and those who are making it possible through their ever-so-important (wage-) labour so that the “machinery of administration” runs smoothly. This machinery kills in agreement with German bureaucracy whether on the street or from one’s desk. Silence gives consent. We don’t know why hardly anyone says “Stop!”. Maybe it is because it is not yet bad enough for people or is it just the result of a traditional submissiveness resulting from centuries of monarchist and subsequently fascist leadership, which is burnt in people’s brains. There are nearly no noteworthy protests in Germany against the current shitty situation. That’s a fact. For sure, there are demonstrations which are sometimes joined by a quarter of a million people but the majority of these people, most of whom are members of parties and unions, are therefore directly responsible for what is going on here. Besides, these people are not willing to fight for real changes. Just complain and that’s all. Real changes would mean the loss of one’s own social rank and of all the privileges with which some people have made themselves damn comfortable. For example, economical privileges that exist because other parts of the world were continually ransacked. These conditions have been maintained for a long time with brutal force. Continue reading →

Coup pour coup est le cinquième numéro du journal de la CLAC-Montréal, produit au printemps 2012 en vue du 1er mai anticapitaliste.

À lire également:

– Tout d’un coup – Spécial grève étudiante (hiver 2012)
– Coup de torchon (septembre 2011).
– Coup de chien (automne 2010).
– Coup de semonce, le premier journal de la CLAC-2010, produit en mai-juin 2010 comme support à la campagne de mobilisation contre les sommets du G8 et du G20 en Ontario.

From Crimethinc

In May 2011, tens of thousands occupied plazas throughout Spain in a protest movement that prefigured similar occupations around the world, including the Occupy movement in the United States. On March 29, 2012, a nationwide general strike erupted into massive street-fighting in Barcelona, as participants wrested control of the streets from riot police. How did this come to pass, and what can it tell us about what will follow the occupation movements outside Spain?

In this full report, our Barcelona correspondent provides extensive background on the riots of March 29, tracing the trajectory from the plaza occupations to the general strike, covers the events of the day in full, and explores the questions that have arisen in this context as anarchists face new opportunities and challenges.

From Guelph Peak

Introduction from Magazine:

May Day represents many things to many people. It is internationally recognized as a day where the working class mobilizes against the rich, appropriately named the ‘real’ labour day. It is a time to remember the Haymarket martyrs who died at the hands of the state. It also represents a time of change, as plants begin to produce their first fruits. May first is also known as beltane, a pagan holiday celebrating renewed fertility and life.

If due to climate change or just a freak cyclical weather pattern, Spring has come early this year, bringing with it new growth and actions targeting domination and capital across the globe. Perhaps this is why it brought us so much joy, here at the Peak, when general assemblies associated with the occupy movement started to call for an International general strike against capitalism on May 1st. We have tried to amplify this call at the Peak.

Throughout the issue, we have included posters collected by the occuprint.org collective, check out their website for print quality versions of these posters to litter your city with. In this issue, we start off with two pieces on the importance of our collective memory of struggle (pg. 5) & comrades lost struggling against capitalism(pg. 7). Then we telling the story of May Day with the speeches (pg. 19) and history of the Haymarket martyrs (pg. 11). Next, we present analysis from May Day in Barcelona (pg. 31) and last years successful General Strike in Oakland, California (pg. 36), which both give us insight into the possibilities we have before us this coming May 1st. We follow that with analysis of the working conditions of migrant labours in North America (pg.41, 53), whose precarious labour drives capitalism forward, and who without them, capital would falter. And finally, we end our magazine with calls for actions on May Day in Toronto, Hamilton & Internationally, as well as days of insurrection (pg. 63) to target capital in the lead up to May Day.

As the Federal and Provincial governments announce new austerity cuts to the sound of the labour movements funeral procession, we find our new hope in autonomous actions and wild cat strikes. The days of tired marches through the streets will come to an end as we recognize the power we hold by targeting capital where it gains its strength, from the sweat of our labour and the commodities we produce. Heed the call and on May 1st, phone in sick, walk out of school, get your shop floor to strike and/or in the evening after work, join us in the streets for economic disruption to show the rich that we have not lost our fighting spirit and remember the fertility of revolt.

Resist // Occupy // General Strike

– The Peak Collective

Table of Contents:

• The First of May and the General Strike…by Mother Earth (Mag.)
• Memory as a Weapon…by Anonymous
• Fallen Comrades…by Anonymous
• Hugs for Thugs: Support the Asheville 11…Compiled by Bryan Hill
• Hurray for Anarchy! May Day as Celebrated by the Anarchists…by Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness & Eberhardt Press
• The Great Anarchist Trial: The Haymarket Speeches as Delivered on the Evening of the Throwing of the Bomb, at Haymarket Square, Chicago, May 4, 1886…By August Spies & Albert R. Parsons
• Barcelona: A Combative May Day Regained…By Anonymous
• Cracks in the Glass…By Bay of Rage
• Migration, Movements, Wages and War in the Americas: Reasons for Unity on May Day 2006 – and After…by Midnight Notes and Friends
• #MAY1TO: May Day of Action…By No One Is Illegal
• Migrant Worker Advocacy in Guelph and May Day…by Erica
• Oakland Call for Global General Strike…by Occupy Oakland General Assembly
• Strike as a Strategy Against Control…by Strike Everywhere
• Call for Insurrection Days…by Anonymous

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La forêt précède la civilisation, le désert la suit suivi de Colonialiste, le mouvement étudiant?

Montréal, avril 2012. Deux textes contre le Plan Nord, en espérant faire circuler l’information largement à propos de ce projet de développement de la mort. Alors que le premier texte expose les développements actuels et la planification future du projet, le deuxième s’avère être une critique du syndicalisme étudiant d’un point de vue écoanarchiste.

Texte élaboré, mis en page et diffusé par La Mitrailleuse et La Mauvaise Herbe

En lecture page par page  / En brochure imposée imprimable format letter

La ligne verte du métro de Montréal a été de nouveau paralysée ce matin, faisant rager des centaines d’usagers du transport en commun. Une bombe fumigène aurait été lancée dans le tunnel entre les stations Beaudry et Papineau vers 7h20.

MONTREAL – McGill University’s exam period got off to a rocky start on Tuesday when picketing students blocked access to at least three entrances onto campus as part of a protest against tuition hikes. Continue reading »

(Québec) À Québec, une quantité importante de peinture rouge a été déversée sur la chaussée de la côte d’Abraham, dans la nuit de dimanche à lundi, près de la côte Sainte-Geneviève. L’équivalent de six gallons de peinture, estime la porte-parole de la police de Québec, Christine Lebrasseur. Continue reading »

MONTREAL – Police are investigating four separate acts of vandalism overnight that targeted the Montreal offices of several high-ranking government officials.

Things got started just after 3 a.m. when someone smashed a window at 750 Marcel Laurin Blvd., a building which currently houses the offices of Quebec Justice Minister Jean-Marc Fournier. Several bottles which “looked like Molotov cocktails” were thrown inside, said Montreal police Constable Yannick Ouimet. Continue reading »

Depuis nos ennemis

Le service dans le métro est de nouveau perturbé aujourd’hui. Cette fois, c’est un engin fumigène qui aurait été trouvé dans la station Berri-UQAM vers 14h15.

Quand ils coupent les programmes sociaux
Qui demandent aux pauvres de travailler plus
Pour que les riches payent moins d’impôts
On se statch tous ensemble dans les bureaux d’la Loto
Pis on chante des beaux slogans, on est bin belles on est bin beaux

Continue reading »

Depuis nos ennemis

Le Service de police de la ville de Montréal a arrêté ce matin un individu qui serait directement lié au saccage du bureau de la ministre Line Beauchamp.

Lundi le 16 avril 2012 à 18h

à la Place Vauquelin (à l’Ouest de l’Hôtel de Ville, 275 Notre-Dame E.)

Pour la liberté de manifester masqué, sans trajet ni permis!

Le lendemain de la manif historique du 15 mars 2012 contre la brutalité policière à laquelle des milliers de gens ont participé, le maire de Montréal Gérald Tremblay s’est dit « dégoûté » par les images de vandalisme (mais pas par la brutalité de ses policiers). Il a déclaré qu’il voulait interdire le port des masques dans les manifs et même refuser d’accorder un « permis » pour manifester si les organisateurs-ices refusent de fournir leur trajet aux policiers. Continue reading »

From Bay of Rage

In addition to the marches called for by the General Assembly of the Oakland Commune, several marches were organized outside the formal processes at Oscar Grant Plaza. The organization of this, and other “unofficial” actions throughout the day is a point to be celebrated: the GA  has consistently emphasized autonomous action and the strike has to be seen as a success in opening space for such autonomous activity. Most significant of these was the march that departed from the intersection of Broadway and Telegraph at 2 p.m. This march had been anonymously called as an anti-capitalist march. Both the poster promoting the march and the banner at its front boldly proclaimed “if we cannot live, we will not work; general strike!” An accompanying banner declared “this is class war.” This messaging of the march matched its stated intention and its subsequent action: to shut down those businesses and banks that remained open despite the strike (a promise it would make good on). Continue reading »

The website of Quebec’s Liberal Party has been the victim of Internet hackers and inaccessible since 6 p.m. Friday. Several other government sites linked to education, including the ministry of Education, Sport and Recreation’s website and the government’s student financial aid site were also experiencing technical difficulties and couldn’t be accessed Friday evening. The culprits were not known.