• MayDay 2021: We don’t want this world they are trying to sell us!
• Meet up at 4PM at Jarry park, at the corner of Gary-Carter and St-Laurent.

The pandemic we are mired in precarize everyone and highlights serious injustices. The stimulus wished by the leaders is an economic stimulus which is not addressed to us. It is not addressed to the artists and other people who don’t make enough profit to merit the right to exist. It does not concern sex workers, whose existence itself is still criminalized. This stimulus ignores handicapped people, the marginalized, those with mental health issues. The stimulus they talk about, it is for the oil companies, the Bombardier corporations, the party friends like Guzzo, but it is not for us. To let the governments save us from the crisis they created themselves through the constant cuts to healthcare and through their "snowbird" lives, would be to accept death. What we need to stimulate is not the economy, but the struggles for our rights and the end of capitalist exploitation.

• No interview will be given to corporatist mass media.
• Special fuck you to Québecor Média and its peddlers of hate.
• Others can contact the CLAC at info@clac-montreal.net

Why did we protest again?

May 1st was created out of workers' struggles leaded by immigrants. The struggle took place on this continent more than a hundred years ago. Today, globalized imperialist capitalism created conditions which forces millions of people to leave their home in order to find a refuge to survive. These millions of people are place in situations of extreme vulnerability, creating a stateless and exploitable population. According to an article published in the Devoir today, the risk to suffer from workplace accident causing severe wounds or death is twice as high for foreign workers.

Pendant que les uns tentent d'assouvir leur soif insatiable, les autres travaillent, luttent, fuient ou meurent. Les peuples du Sud global paient depuis trop longtemps le prix du mode de vie qu'a enfanté le capitalisme. Un mode de vie perpétuellement inaccessible à la majorité et perpétuellement insatisfaisant pour la minorité. Qui consomme les fruits de la production industrielle polluant l'air de Tianjin ? Qui se remplit les poches en empoisonnant les cours d'eau du Tamil Nadu ?

As part of the new National Immigration Detention Framework, the government set aside $5 million to implement what it calls “alternatives to detention”. After years of hunger strikes by migrants being held in provincial jails in Ontario and a massive support campaign by the End Immigration Detention Network, this new Framework seems to be the government’s response. Migrants were mainly demanding an end to indefinite detention.

When looking at a map of the world, one sees that territories have been assigned to states. The underlying ideology of this situation becomes clear when we think about how static these maps are, while the colonial project in so-called Canada is actually quite dynamic. From piplines to dams that reach further and further north, a map that would accurately depict the evolution of Indigenous and settler occupation of these territories would refute any pretentions that colonialism is over.

Precarity as a term has come to the front of popular discussions in recent years. The most recent report by the major Canadian bank Toronto Dominion claims that part-time and temporary work is our new reality¹. Yet precarity has actually always been the reality of work under capitalism since its beginning. Even in industries that people see as providing permanent or stable work, this stability is only a result of a long history of struggle by workers.