The launch of marxiste.qc.ca - a step forward for Marxism in Quebec

This summer, the Marxists in Quebec launched their French paper, La Riposte. La Riposte is a paper that speaks for all sections of the working class in Quebec; the International Marxist Tendency is proud to announce the launch of this new website, www.marxiste.qc.ca, and we wish the comrades every success in their struggle for a socialist Quebec, a socialist Canada, and a socialist world. Read here a statement of La Riposte (Quebec) editorial board.

Read this statement in French.

Last fall, the capitalist system was plunged into the biggest economic crisis since the Great Depression. Across the board, no economists, politicians, or members of the bourgeois press predicted this crisis. Ever since they have been trying to convince working people that the worst is over. This is the least of the sins of the bourgeoisie. Leading up to this crisis, they unleashed a vicious assault on the very idea that any other options existed other than unbridled, international capitalism. The basic logic was “socialism has failed, therefore capitalism is the only way.” The biggest campaign of slander was carried out specifically against the ideas of socialism and Marxism in order to destroy any opposition to their exploitative system.

Now, with the economic crisis hitting home for millions workers around the world, people are starting to question the intentions of these rulers who have led us down a blind alley. Everything has been turned on its head. The very ideas of Marxism that they assured us to be outdated, failed, and completely incorrect have now shown themselves to be the only ideas that are capable of explaining what is unfolding before our eyes.

With this crisis as the back drop, the International Marxist Tendency in Quebec launches its very own Quebec website: www.marxiste.qc.ca. This website, in conjunction with “La Riposte”, our very own Marxist journal launched in June, will be a voice for all sections of the working class in Quebec. Countering bourgeois propaganda, behind which lies their innate thirst for ever increasing profits, we seek to cut through this thick fog and point the way forward for all oppressed sectors of the Quebec population. We will provide up to date analysis of labour struggles, the student movement, Latin America solidarity activity, Quebec Solidaire, international events, and much more.

We call on all workers, students, and militants to check our website regularly and subscribe to our paper. Furthermore, we call for all militants who wish to fight for a better world, to join the International Marxist Tendency and help us build the Marxist wing of the labour movement in Quebec.