News & Analysis
From Embers: It Matters Where We Fight
From From Embers An interview with a now Bogota-based member of Projet Accompagnement Solidarité Colombie, a Quebec-based collective that works to build direct solidarity with Colombian communities, organizations and social movements. Topics include: - the meaning of internationalism ...
Olympia, Washington: We Are the Fire That Will Melt ICE – Rest in Power, Will Van Spronsen
From Puget Sound Anarchists Early this morning around 4am our friend and comrade Will Van Spronsen was shot and killed by the Tacoma police. All we know about what lead up to this comes from the cops, who ...
Tisseur Inc. Awarded GC Contract to Build Migrant Prison
Anonymous submission to MTL Counter-info Three years ago, the Canadian state invested $138 million to expand its migrant detention system, including plans for a new migrant prison in Laval. Since then, a multiform struggle has arisen to stop ...
Staying Out Means Fighting Back! Solidarity with Cedar
From North Shore Counter-Info SPEECH given at the SOLIDARITY WITH CEDAR & DROP ALL CHARGES AGAINST PRIDE DEFENDERS demo, MONTREAL, July 28th. Thank you so much for coming – everyone – beautiful queers and trans people, anarchists of ...
A War Against Queers
Anonymous submission to MTL Counter-info In the past few weeks, the state has once again revamped its war on queers. A few days before Hamilton police targeted Cedar for arrest, Quebec city police bragged online about using plainclothes ...
Solidarity Statement with Cedar Hopperton and the Radical Queer Community in Hamilton
From Montréal-Antifasciste Two weeks ago, the LGBTQ2 community in Hamilton, Ontario, was targeted for a unprecedented attack by a coalition of individuals from fundamentalist Christian groups and far-right groupuscules like the Wolves of Odin, the “Yellow Vests,” and ...
“Vague bleue,” the Last Stand of Québec’s Far-Right Soldier Wannabes
From Montréal-Antifasciste When the so-called Vague bleue [Blue Wave] began it seemed like a breath of fresh air for the identitarian nationalist movement, however it now appears that the organizers failed to draw the lessons of the last ...
After Amherst, it’s Macdonald’s Turn! John A. Macdonald Statue Vandalized Again
Anonymous submission to MTL Counter-info For at least the 8th time in less than two years, the racist and colonial John A. Macdonald Monument (1895) in Montreal has been vandalized by anti-colonial artists. Between the two nationalist holidays ...
Solidarity with Pride Defenders, Free Cedar!
Anonymous submission to MTL Counter-info On June 15th, 2019 in Hamilton, "Ontario", Pride was attacked by a group of far-right homophobes, christian fundamentalists, neo-nazis, and queer bashers. As they did in 2018, they arrived with massive homophobic signs ...
On Guilt & Innocence: A Response to Arrests Following Hamilton Pride
From North Shore Counter-Info Statement by The Tower It’s been a very intense and revealing week since Hamilton Pride. We helped our friends heal, debriefed our strategies, and circulated as much information about the people who attacked us ...
Don’t Call the Cops!
Anonymous submission to MTL Counter-info In the early morning of Monday June 10th, the Montreal police shot a man. A neighbour was having a crisis. Instead of doing anything helpful, they harassed him for hours. They had guns ...
June 11th: Lemay Vice President’s Car Set on Fire
Anonymous submission to MTL Counter-info On the day of solidarity with long-term anarchist prisoners, the BMW belonging to André Cardinal, parked in front of his private residence in NDG, was set on fire. André Cardinal is the ...
