(en) France, Alternative Libertaire AL #250 - Quebec:
Breaking the spiral of austerity (fr, it, pt) [machine translation]
The provincial government conducts a liberal policy of acquired breakages and favors
multinationals. In response, the Quebecois social movement reacts. ---- The Liberal
government of Quebec due to the destruction of social gains priority. Austerity, nothing
else that neoliberal measures at great speed, the course is chosen by the Prime Sinister
and his gang. Drastic cuts in education, health, child care, funding for community groups,
associations and neighborhood, everything goes. ---- However, there are still public money
for multinationals. Thus, billions of dollars are and will be invested in the Plan Nord
project (a large project of extractivism in the northern territories). Mining companies
will benefit from transport infrastructure and subsidies from public funds. This is also
the government that has to pay the bill for decontaminating already exploited mining
sites. On that date, the sum of 1.2 billion Canadian dollars (1.12 billion euros).
Height of deceit, the Plan Nord is a territory that belongs to First Nations: the Cree,
Inuit, Atikamekw and Innu Anishinabeg. These have never ceded their lands. The project is
therefore on stolen land. The message is clear: the government would favor a destructive
extractive economy of our environment and our lives, rather than to finance public
services and social programs. After over four hundred years of colonialism, the reports of
the State is still part of a single dynamic operating.
Before such finding, among students, feminists, union and community are mobilizing to
fight a war in the government, leading figure of the application of neoliberal schemes.
The student movement began walking this spring. Tens of thousands of students are
currently on strike to protest against austerity measures introduced. Multiple unions and
community groups have already established social strike mandates a day for May 1[1].
Create autonomy
In parallel with this mass movement, it seems necessary to create our spaces of autonomy
through our communities (neighborhoods, working and learning environments, etc.). The
current struggle is conducted in Quebec can not be limited to aim the preservation of
modernizing reforms of the Quiet Revolution (1960). There is no salvation in capitalism.
We can not content ourselves with simply slow the inevitable destruction of our acquired
within the system.
Locally, in the Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean, we multiply the food distributions, free markets
and vacant lots of occupations, while participating in the social movement in progress. We
try daily to create autonomous spaces that do figure against-power system.
Collectif anarchist Emma Goldman (Saguenay, Quebec)
[ 1 ] Some groups have voted for more strike days.
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