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Voix de Faits

A heads up to all of you who read French, especially those of you who live in Quebec: comrades from NEFAC-Quebec City have a new blog “Voix de Faits” which you should all be checking out regularly. You don’t have to be a platformist, or even an anarchist, to find …

Good Luck Lolo

An article from today’s National Post about how the Canadian State tried to capture a former Roma (gypsy) guerilla, who had suffered ten days of torture at the hands of Franco’s secret police, and deport him, presumably to Spain where the “post-fascist” State has expressed its desire to prosecute him …

Former Communist Guerilla Jean-Marc Rouillan Granted Restricted Freedom – the French State Appeals…

Today the Paris sentencing court ruled in favour of Jean-Marc Rouillan’s request for “restricted freedom”. This qas quickly followed by news that the State was appealing this decision; the courts will rule within the next two months, but in the meantime Rouillan remains in prison. Nevertheless, this is a step …

This weekend’s protest against the August 11th police attack on a communist demonstration in St-Jerome: ——————————-A call from the RCP-Laurentides——————————- DEMONSTRATION AGAINST POLITICAL REPRESSIONIN SAINT-JÉRÔMESaturday, September 29 at 1:00 p.m.Gathering at Parc Curé-Labelle (corner Parent et Curé-Labelle) On August 11, on the occasion of a demo organized by the Revolutionary …

Speaking of St-Jerome…

Immigrants are “buying their way in” to Quebec,Lise Provencher of St. Jérôme tells Gérard Bouchard andCharles Taylor at hearings last night,and Jews are “trampolines of money in the world.” Well yeah timing is everything… i haven’t been blogging about the Bouchard-Taylor roving racist rendezvous, mainly because i thought i should …

The August 11th Police Attack in St-Jerome

On August 11th, one week before the protests against the SPP summit in Montebello, the police attacked a communist demonstration in the town of St-Jerome (population 25,000), about an hour north of Montreal. The police attack, IMO, was motivated by two factors.On the one hand St-Jerome is a small town …

Police Harassment of Immigrants in Cote-des-Neiges: Filipinos Not Allowed To Protest In Their Own Neighbourhood

For immediate releasePhilippines-Canada Task Force on Human RightsSeptember 21, 2007 Filipinos driven away from their own community by Montreal police intimidation (Montreal, Quebec) During a peaceful demonstration yesterday in front of the Plamondon metro station in Montreal’s Cote-des-Neiges area, peace-loving Filipinos and Canadians were driven away from their own community …

Kahentinetha Horn: Two Six Nations Youth Defend Themselves From Five Thugs

The following from Kahentinetha Horn’s Mohawk News Network: MNN. Sept. 15, 2007. On September 13th at around 4:00 pm. witnesses saw non-native men running out, picking up weapons and going back into the unfinished house. Inside they had ambushed two Indigenous youth. The kids’ backs were against the wall. They …

Jacqueline House on Recent Events in Six Nations

From Jacqueline House, regarding the September 13th fight which left Sam Gualtieri unconscious in Caledonia: What has been happening here on Six Nations? Scano Tonight, my heart is heavy. However, I thought I would write a little of the past few days. First of all, there have been a few …

Self-Defense, Political Divisions and State Repression in "Caledonia"

On September 13th there was another violent confrontation in Caledonia between Indigenous people defending their land and settlers defending what they consider their property. Initially the settler media reported that Sam Gualtieri, a 52-year old man who was “trying to build a house for his daughter” in Caledonia, had been …