This page was last edited on 29 January 2011, at 21:47. They were tried and convicted for kidnapping and murder. Our struggle can only be victorious. Only you know your factories, your machines, your hotels, your universities, your unions; do not wait for some organization to produce a miracle. Text from "The FLQ Manifesto", Marcel Rioux, Quebec in Question, 1971, translation by James Boake. Together with the inherent flaws of the first-past-the-post electoral system, the drawing of the electoral map is one of the main sources of inequalities among voters.

6. Patrick’s Day parade too English, says sovereignist group”. Today, the citizens of Montreal can be fined if they do not throw out their garbage for pick up in opaque bags, because the whole city is a tourist area now.

In 1970, a public medical insurance was set up in Quebec. Only you are capable of building a free society. Long live the Front de Liberation du Quebec!

Montreal Gazette, April 13, Those members of the FLQ who had fled began returning to Canada from late untiland most received light sentences for their offences. We are sick of a government in the hands of a hypocrite like Bourassa who depends on Brinks armoured trucks, an authentic symbol of the foreign occupation of Quebec, to keep the poor Quebec "natives" fearful of that poverty and unemployment to which we are so accustomed. The manifesto was issued by the Front de Libération du Québec and read over CBC/Radio-Canada on October 8, 1970 as a condition for the release of kidnapped British trade official James Cross.

0000006855 00000 n Laporte’s murder marked a crossroads in the political history of the FLQ. The manifesto had been broadcast by CKAC, a Montreal radio station, the previous day. They were a Quebec separatist group who committed 160 violent incidents which killed eight people and injured a lot more. The Front de Libération du Québec finances itself - through voluntary taxes 6 levied on the enterprises that exploit the workers (banks, finance companies, etc....). Managing Terrorism and Insurgency: Some of their more notable crimes include bombing a railway by which then—Prime Minister of Canada John Diefenbaker had foq to travel within the week. 11. However, the system whereby doctors were paid by the number of interventions was maintained. Pretexting the political uncertainty created by the rise of the independence movement, the Royal Trust, two days before the provincial election of April 29, 1970, organized the transfer of funds from Montreal to Toronto in 9 armoured trucks of the Brink's company. Unreliable citations may be challenged or deleted. The money powers of the status quo, the majority of the traditional tutors of our people, have obtained from the voters the reaction they hoped for, a step backwards rather than the changes we have worked for as never before, the changes we will continue to work for. Make your revolution yourselves in your neighbourhoods, in your places of work. Of the people who were arrested, were eventually released without being charged. 58 19 60 0 obj<>stream 0000000016 00000 n As part of its Manifestothe FLQ stated: The crowd of RRQ supporters demonstrated their opposition to the Canadian monarchy. The workers at Dupont of Canada know some reasons too, even if they will soon be able to express them only in English (thus assimilated, they will swell the number of New Quebeckers, the immigrants who are the darlings of Bill 63). The coup de la Brink's was seen as a symbol of the various means of economic terrorism used to influence public opinion on the question of the independence of Quebec throughout history[1]. <]>>

We've had enough of a Canadian federalism which penalizes the dairy farmers of Quebec to satisfy the requirements of the Anglo-Saxons of the Commonwealth of Nations; which keeps the honest taxi drivers of Montreal in a state of semi-slavery by shamefully protecting the exclusive monopoly of the nauseating Murray Hill, and its owner - the murderer Charles Hershorn and his son Paul who, the night of October 7, repeatedly tore a .22 rifle out of the hands of his employees to fire on the taxi drivers and thereby mortally wounded Corporal Dumas, killed as a demonstrator. In , the RRQ claimed a membership of people. The citizens of the little mill town of Cabano, in the back country of Rivière-du-Loup, took arms and neutralized the provincial police. This category only includes cookies that ensures basic functionalities and security features of the website. This website uses cookies to improve your experience. To hide people's misery, blue and white panels 7-feet high were prepared for the Universal Exposition of 1967. On September 13,events were held in Quebec to commemorate the anniversary of the Battle of the Plains of Abraham. 0 We live in a society of terrorized slaves, terrorized by the big bosses, Steinberg, Clark, Bronfman, Smith, Neopole, Timmins, Geoffrion, J.L.

The strike of the Gaspé Copper-Noranda miners of Murdochville in March-October 1957 degenerated into violent confrontations between the strikers and the scabs protected by the provincial police and private guards.

In 1965, a report of the Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism revealed that the average revenue of French Canadian workers, even when bilingual like the good immigrants some wanted them to be, ranked them number 12 out of 14 ethnic groups in Canada, just before the Italian Canadians and Amerindians. And you, the workers at General Electric, you make your factories run; you are the only ones able to produce; without you, General Electric is nothing! 12. The broadcast of the FLQ Manifesto was listed among the seven demands for Cross’s release.
It is not clear which tax they were referring to here. 0000001057 00000 n 0000017875 00000 n The workers obtained the recognition of their union some eight years later, but in 1970, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled against them and were condemned to pay 2.5 million dollars in damages. Allusion to Robert Bourassa's electoral promise to create 100,000 jobs. In the coming year Bourassa is going to get what's coming to him: 100,000 revolutionary workers, armed and organized! Over 100,000 French translations of English words and phrases.

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