They are anti-capitalist and anti-racists, environmentalists, feminists, and trade
unionists. They have neither god nor master, are opposed to any form of power. They are
interdependent. ---- Fluid, even elusive, yet the anarchist movement is alive and well in
Quebec. We saw in the spring maple last year. Or last Friday to protest against police
brutality that resulted in 250 arrests in Montreal. ---- A group of authors has to devote
a collective, we are ungovernable, published by Lux. It discusses anarchism all angles.
Marc-Andr? Cyr Kruzynski and Anna, a student and historian of social movements and the
other professor in the School of Community and Public Affairs, Concordia University, claim
both the anarchist movement. For them, the arrests last Friday are a manifestation of
growing intolerance of the state, and a rise in public opinion in favor of the police.
"I think the government wants to stop the movement that began with the spring maple. The
PQ government does not want it resumes. There is an attempt to break the movement, "says
Anna Kruzynski. I must say that the spring maple has a glimpse of the "potential" of the
population of Quebec anarchist, says she.
"In the spring, we saw that there was a human potential. [...] We saw people who came out
en masse in the streets with pots. It was the largest civil disobedience in Canadian
history. [...] As we have seen with the popular assemblies of autonomous areas, where
people are organized with their neighbors and neighbors. "
However, the anarchist movement does not recruit. "It is not a political movement that
sells membership cards," said Marc-Andr? Cyr. The anarchist movement regenerates rather
"pollination" of ideas, says Anna Kruzynski.
For her, there are basically two pending action anarchist. "There is one who is, yes, to
disrupt the established order, because the systems are strong and very good fit, and they
will continue to adapt. But at the same time is to build spaces of emancipation that
reflect the values ??of social justice and autonomy as based on principles of
self-determination and self-organization. "
Anarchists, meanwhile, are everywhere, she says. She cites various groups who sympathize
readily with this banner. No One Is Illegal and Solidarity Across Borders, among others
who defend the rights of refugees. "There are doctors and lawyers anarchists who want to
provide services to undocumented immigrants," she said. Politi-Q, which promotes queer and
transgender. The Collective Opposed to Police Brutality. Project Accompaniment and
Solidarity Colombia, affiliated with the Colombian social movements. The Libertarian
Communist Union. International Workers of the World, a union without accreditation
organizing pickets spontaneous defense of non-unionized workers who have lost their jobs,
for example. "They have several pizzerias in the Rue Saint-Denis," notes Marc-Andr? Cyr.
Among ecologists, there is still movement Liberterre, Les Jardins de resistance, where it
manufactures organic baskets without going through ?quiterre magazine Weeds. Among those
recovering from food in the garbage, there's People potato, the Midnight Kitchen, or Food
not Bombs. The group includes The Witches meanwhile anarchist feminists since 1999.
Violence, a tool
"But I am an anarchist, I am 40 years old, a 4 year old, I live in Pointe-Saint-Charles, I
live in a housing co-op, I am a university professor, says Anna Kruzynski. But there is a
wide range in all environments. There are anarchists in the student movement, there are
anarchists who are involved in their neighborhoods, in their union, environmental groups.
And there are anarchists who are not necessarily involved in the groups. Basically, it is
important for anarchists, is that it is not other people make decisions for them. '
Again and again, the anarchist movement is confronted with the thorny issue of violence.
"The riot is an expression of evil," writes Marc-Andr? Cyr, begins an article "Fire on the
Belle Province, anarchists, and riots," published in the book. However, it is generally
considered in the anarchist movement, as a tool, he said in an interview.
"It is that violence is a tool, it is a mode of action. You can not be a 100% tool or a
tool against 100% is like being for or against a hammer or a handsaw. It does not work. It
is a handsaw when you need a handsaw, or a hammer when you need it. In general, the
anarchists will consider that this is a false debate, the wrong question. Is it violent to
break the window of a bank? If you put things in context, we realize that violence is
before the window is broken. That when it is not shattered the window, there are people
who lose their jobs, which are pushed into poverty, the house is entered by these banks.
We never talk about the violence there. [...] The anarchist struggle against the violence.
It is not true that anarchists are violent. They try by all means necessary not to
reproduce violence and resist both. '
"This is a tactic of direct action, says Marc-Andr? Cyr. Sometimes, one is for or against.
This is not always the time to use those actions. Only anarchists will never morally or
ethically denounce those actions because they qu'?thiquement denounce violence really just
larger and more important than the action itself. '
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