This collective produces a radio show on CKIA 88.3 FM. The objective of the show is to allow women to speak for themselves as women, to demystify the anti-authoritarian movement (anarchy, social ecology, coloured people’s feminism, etc.) and to make different social struggles, as well as women artists, known. Combining theoretical analysis with interviews from the ground, Ainsi squattent-elles presents pieces on self-care, poetry readings, and experiences of self-organization here and elsewhere.

The Quebec City chapter of Anti-Racist Action gathers information on fascist/neo-Nazi/sexist/ homophobic individuals and groups with the aim of having a presence at their public events. ARA-Quebec also engages in anti-sectarian defence of other anti-fascist groups and individuals. In addition to this front-line work, ARA-Quebec has already produced several publications and occasionally organizes anti-racist concerts.

Contact: araquebec@gmail.com

An anti-sectarian collective that mostly works against racism, but also against all forms of discrimination. It aims to act as an information network on fascist and neo-Nazi movements. The collective attempts to boycott neo-Nazi spaces and events in order to destroy their visibility and opportunities for recruitment. The Montreal collective specifically opposes Israeli colonization (by the state of Israel) of Palestinian lands and the apartheid it has created.

A group member of NEFAC (North-Eastern Federation of Anarchist Communists), and then of the UCL (Anarchist Communist Union). “The Federation’s activities centre around developing theory, anarchist propaganda and interventions in the struggles of our class.” The work of the Sherbrooke collective addresses several issues, including anarchism in the student context, food autonomy and precarious work.

The collective is currently inactive.

Formerly known as the Émile Henri anarchist group, the anarchist Collectif La Nuit is a political organization which has been active in Quebec since 2002. The members of the collective agitate for combative social movements and the emergence of a broad and open anarchist left. The group organizes diverse actions, supports social struggles and spreads anarchist ideas. Since fall 2007, la Nuit has produced Voix de faits (literally “voice of facts” but it sounds similar to “voie de fait”, the charge of assault under the criminal code), an anarchist news show on CKIA 88.3 FM, and a blog of the same name.

Since November 2008, the collective has been affiliated with the Union communiste libertaire (UCL – Union of anarchist communists). The collective is mandated to edit Cause commune, UCL’s publication. The UCL organizes talks and other public events, develops action campaigns and is involved in social struggles.

Contacts:
PO Box 55051, St-Valliers W.
Quebec  (Quebec)  G1K 1J0

Collective without a formal basis of affinity. Prepares and serves organic, vegetarian food (almost always) once a week at the University of Sherbrooke. Other activities have also been organized such as readings of engaged poetry and participation in various information tables.

The collective is inactive, but a cooperative café was opened.

Political collective mainly focused on defending rights. It has organized and participated in many actions with specific demands, related to poverty, women, housing and even international (the case of Abu Jamal) and national issues (with OCAP in Ontario). The collective also organizes public assemblies, education campaigns, etc. It has also produced mass circulation newspapers for the neighbourhood, stickers, flyers, etc.

Contacts: comitedessansemploi@hotmail.com

Affinity group which prepared recuperated food. The prepared food was served during solidarity actions and activist events. Dada a faim also organized an evening against patriarchy and another action: the night, women without fear. The collective existed from 2002 to 2005.
 

A direct action occupation originally organized by the Comité populaire St-Jean-Baptiste in the context of a FRAPRU campaign. Over time, the occupants decided to transform the squat into a “social centre for different political and community actors. The occupants still demand that the city build social housing, but want this space to be a place for organizing struggle, a self-managed space.” The initiative gave birth to La Page Noire, a self-managed social bookstore.

The squat lasted from 17 May to 20 September 2001.
 

Genr’Radical is a music collective with four members (two guitars, one bass, one violincello and four voices) which is, first and foremost, politically engaged. Their songs – composed, written and arranged by the group – engage with various issues related to their main political orientations. Gen’Radical produced an album in January 2004 and has appeared on different stages in support of activist struggles, here and elsewhere.

Guerre à la guerre evolved from a coalition of groups to a network of individuals. As its name implies, the collective is opposed to war in general and specifically to the militarization of Canada and sending troops from Valcartier to Afghanistan. Guerre à la guerre has organized several protests and workshops in Quebec City and participated in different actions in other parts of Quebec.
 

Hommes contre le patriarcat is a pro-feminist, radical affinity group which recognizes that the feminist struggle is a class struggle and a struggle for the freedom of women and thus accepts that it  belongs entirely to women. The collective supports feminist activists, specifically by addressing men. Its main aim is to quell masculinist groups, but it also tries to bring radical change to their so-called private lives, attempting to eliminate sexism and patriarchy in their behaviours and attitudes.

La Journée autogérée existed from 2003 to 2006, taking back, in its first three years, the “Îlot Fleurie” in Quebec City, which was the site of a symbolic rally during the Summit of the Americas in 2001. The goal of this day was to create a space to share different collective experiences and discuss modes of autonomous organizing. Dinner was prepared collectively and shows took place in the evening. An Autonomous Day was also organized in 2009.

The main aim of this collective is to work in the political field to create a movement towards the self-management of Point St. Charles (a neighbourhood in Montreal) by its residents. To this end, the group writes texts on current or upcoming neighbourhood issues, carries out diverse actions, and proposes projects (such as a social centre on CN rail yards). The collective also works with other anarchist and community groups in the neighbourhood. It was formerly known as La Pointe d’espace libertaire – LAPEL (literally, Point of anarchist space).

Radical feminist collective active against the oppression of women. They publish a journal by the same name which serves as a "space of expression, analysis, creativity and subversity which, from the perspective of struggle, can have an influence across the collectivity (…) to move, transform, create a momentum away from the stagnation into which the mass media attempts to sink us." They also organize launches, workshops, and direct actions. The Sorcières also try to denounce machismo in activist circles and to carry out feminist conscientization.

ASSÉ is a union which brings together, across Quebec, CEGEP and university student associations representing more than 40,000 members. It embodies the continuity of the current that has, for the past forty years, made the student movement an unavoidable actor in Quebec society and an important agent of social progress in education. It has struggled for free education at all levels since its foundation.

Contacts:
2570 Nicolet St., #301
Montreal (Quebec) H1W 3L5
Telephone : (514) 390-0110

Hours:
Monday to Friday from 10am to 5pm
**Please contact us before dropping by.
 

Radical feminist affinity group which aimed to unlearn attitudes and behaviours of internalized domination, to put anarchist and feminist beliefs into practice, to encourage the creation of affinity groups and direct action. This collective gave numerous trainings on "Women and globalization" and "Radical nonviolence". Nemesis also organized and participated in many actions with other feminist groups.  

Founded in 2000 as the Women's committee of SalAMI, it assumed its new name in 2002 when it became an autonomous collective. It ceased to exist in 2005.

NOII is part of a global movement of resistance struggling collectively for the self-determination of migrants and indigenous people. The collective organizes workshops, presentations, discussions and does popular education work around immigration, emigration, borders, and the struggles of migrants and indigenous people. NOII has a radio show and news bulletin. They also organize direct actions against deportations and detentions, racial profiling, war and capitalist imperialism as well as support people who are directly affected.

Email: noii-montreal@resist.ca

Radical queer affinity group which fights heterosexism and pink capitalism through festive and bizarre direct actions, workshops, DJ film nights, artistic production of all kinds (clothing, video, design), etc. The struggle is also carried out by connecting with other sex and gender rebels (transgenders, prostitutes and others), as well as people who challenge the advertising industry, the church, psychiatry, ultra-capitalism and so on.

Q-Team is a radical queer collective whose work focuses on creating anti-racist, anti-capitalist, and anti-assimilationist queer spaces and events in Montreal.

RAME strove to "unite anarchist forces in the student milieu through a visible, formal and regular network. In the medium term, RAMÉ aims to set up local groups in order to become a network of groups.” RAMÉ produced propaganda and did conscientization work by organizing activities (workshops and panels) and publishing a bilingual bulletin "Marmite" or “The Boiling Point”. It also tried to "contribute to establishing anarchist practices".

RAME has been defunkt since 2007.

L'Union communiste libertaire (UCL) (Union of Anarchist Communists) was founded in November 2008. The new revolutionary organization took over from the regional union of NEFAC Quebec.

UCL is an organization of activists from diverse resistance movements who identify with the communist tradition within anarchism and share the objective of a revolutionary rupture with the established order. UCL’s activities are organized around developing theory, spreading anarchist ideas, and contributing to the struggles of our class, both autonomously and through direct involvement in social movements. UCL publishes Cause Commune (Common Cause).

On the theoretical level, UCL is aligned with anarchist communist principles and draws on the theoretical basis of this specific tradition. On the tactical level, we prioritize involvement in social struggles according to the radicalization of social movements and building counter-power.

Local collectives exist in Quebec (La Nuit), Montreal and Saguenay.  

Contacts:
UCL a/s E.H. 55051, CP Langelier  
Quebec (Québec) G1K 9A4
Email: ucl@causecommune.net

Theatre collective which brings together anarchist activists from various perspectives who want to get involved in a different way, through artistic expression. Mainly known for its play on Emma Goldman, the collective participated in every step of production: from research on writings and set conception to promotion and staging. The collective encourages reflection on activism, the place of art in our society and of subjectivity in history.

ZOMBIE is an independent website to share ideas and exchange information. “ZOMBIE encourages discussion, reflection, critical analysis, as well as activism, direct action and concrete social initiatives for the advance of humanity.” It is an alternative media for open publication of content;  specifically, texts with information and analysis, events announcements and links to other sites. ZOMBIE encourages critical discussion of its content through discussion forums linked to each article.