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Political Arrests in Montréal

Statement from the Canadian Revolutionary Communist Party (not the same as the u.s. Avakian group): Update (07/13/11): The four individuals who have been arrested and charged went in court last Wednesday. The Crown disclosed its evidence to the defendants. It also asked for a hardening of their release conditions. The …

Montreal Bank Trash

This from Bash Back! news: 06/07/10: The Laurentian Bank was attacked in the middle of the night. The atms, windows and sign were smashed with a hammer and rocks. An attempt was also made to obscure one of their cameras with paint bombs. The words “Solidarity with the G20 arrestees” …

Laugh Out Fucking Loud

These are tags. One says “Fuck the Police”, another says “All Cops Are Bastards.” We have also seen these slogans at demonstrations in the past, so we can surmise that the group we are dealing with here is a group that we see in demonstrations.– Yannick Ouimet, Service de police …

Smashing Cop Cars in Montreal

Play safe and don’t get caught! From the CBC: Vandals hit 11 Montreal police carsSaturday, March 13, 2010CBC News Eleven cruisers were vandalized overnight at the Montreal police traffic and road safety division’s building in the city’s St. Henri district, police said Saturday.Windows were smashed and the police cruisers’ computers …

There’s a Fire Truck on My Ceiling: Windi Earthworm Remembered

Windi Earthworm was an institution of the radical anglo left in 1980s Montreal. A crossdressing openly gay street musician who took it upon himself to educate the public about the Vancouver 5, the genocide of Indigenous peoples, the destruction of nature, and the miseries of life under capitalism, Windi was …

If I Knew Who You Were, I’d Buy You A Beer

Brilliant fucking action by persons unknown in Montreal, who have very recently engaged in an educational graffiti campaign exposing the sordid history of police murder in this city. As an article in today’s edition of La Presse, with the scandalously biased headline “Des graffitis haineux contre le SPVM” (“Hate Graffiti …

The Maison Norman Bethune: A New Maoist Bookstore in Montreal

The following announcement from the Revolutionary Communist Party (the on based in Quebec, not to be confused with the Avakian-led group in the united states!), regarding the opening of their new bookstore in Montreal. The original French is available in pdf here. The Opening of the Maison Normal Bethune The …

Thoughts on March 15th

Every lost battle is a principle of weakness and disorganization; and the first and immediate desideratum is to concentrate, and in concentration to recover order, courage, and confidence. – Carl von Clausewitz, On War By the time the day was over, over two hundred people had been arrested at yesterday’s …

Montreal Neo-Nazi Gets Two Years for Armed Assault

Last Wednesday in Montreal an eighteen year old neo-nazi was sentenced to two years prison for stabbing two Arabs in downtown Montreal and assaulting a taxi driver. The scumbucket, whose name we are not given because he was under 18 at the time, was one of a gang of neo-nazis …