Life on the Left

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Showing posts with label Parti québécois. Show all posts

Showing posts with label Parti québécois. Show all posts

Wednesday, February 24, 2021

Against the tide: André Frappier’s journey as a class-struggle militant

Introduction I first met André Frappier in the late 1970s, when we were members of the Revolutionary Workers League/Ligue ouvrière révolutio...

Friday, October 30, 2020

Quebec, Canada and the Indigenous Peoples: Toward Plurinational Alliances around a Decolonial Outlook?

Introduction The latest issue of the Quebec journal Nouveaux Cahiers du Socialisme , published in September, revisits the Quebec national qu...

Sunday, October 18, 2020

50 Years Ago: When Canada Suspended Civil Liberties

Introduction This memoir by John Riddell, at the time a leading member of the League for Socialist Action (in Quebec the Ligue socialiste ou...

Wednesday, October 14, 2020

Quebec’s October Crisis, 1970 – What today’s left learned from Ottawa’s turn to repression

By Richard Fidler Fifty years ago this month the federal government, invoking the War Measures Act – its first use in peacetime – occupied Q...

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