Front de Libération Populaire
Internal and Unpublished Documents
F.1 Manuscripts and Typescripts:
Esquisse d’un Manifeste. Outline of a manifesto for the FLP,
presented at the Preliminary Congress, December 1969. Mimeo. 5 p. Rough
notes for this outline. Handwritten. 3 p.
>Mimeographs:
Statuts of the FLP. September, 1969. Mimeo. 3 p. Also a typed translation
into English of part of the first page of this document, titled “Rules
of the Front de Liberation Populaire”.
FLP Constitution, as adopted by the Preliminary Congress. n.d.
Mimeo. 7 p.
[Part of a draft version on FLP Manifesto]. Circa December, 1969.
Mimeo. 12 p.
Strategie. A discussion of strategy by one faction of the FLP.
December, 1969. Mimeo. 7 p.
Tendence 1. A discussion of strategy by one faction of the FLP.
January,1970. Mimeo. 4 p.
L’Avenir du Front de Libération Populaire. Notes on
a meeting of the Quebec section of the FLP, 5 Feb., 1970 sent to the rest
of the organization. Suggests changing the name, structure, strategy and
tactics of the FLP. n.d. Mimeo. 6 p.
F.2 “Perspectives Revolutionnaires”, Ts./photocopy, 50 p.,
1969. Pages 1-19 are typed, pages 20-45 are photocopies of the ts., pages
46-48 are typed, pages 49-50 are photocopies of the ts.
Press Releases, Leaflets, Ephemera
F.3 Operation Congrès. Press statement on the Union Nationale
convention and the FLP-organized demonstration against it, June 1969.
Mimeo. 2 p. See also: Events: Operation Congrès.
Message de Solidaritié du Front de Liberation Populaire au Congrès
de la S.D.S. (Chicago). June, 1969. Photocopy. 1 p.
Communiqué. A press release and leaflet calling for a demonstration
against the Drapeau-Saulnier administration after the police strike. 9
October, 1969. 2 p. and 1 p.
Bulletin d’Information from Agence de Presse Libre du Québec.
10 November, 1969, announcing an FLP press conference (11/11/69) on Drapeau’s
anti-demonstration bylaw. Mimeo. 2 p.
Déclaration du Front de Libération Populaire: La Dictature
S’Affirme. Press release of 11 November, 1969, on Drapeau’s
anti-demonstration bylaw. Mimeo. 3 p.
Le FLP Organise une Manifestation le 24 Avril. Press release announcing
a demonstration (later cancelled) for independence, socialism and unilingualism,
on April 24, 1970. Dated 26 March, 1970. Mimeo. 2 p.
Communiqué. Press release and leaflet announcing a demonstration
in support of the LaPalme drivers. 1 May, 1970. Mimeo. 3 p. and 1 p.
Operation “Liberons le Québec”. Press release
and leaflet announcing a campaign of “action and propaganda”
against the federal government and Anglo-Canadian capitalists, culminating
in a demonstration on 1 July, 1970. Mimeo. 5 p. and 1 p.
Leaflets. An open letter from the editors of La Masse, and several
other leaflets from strikes and demonstrations. 1 p. each.
F.4 Eighteen clippings from the French and English press on FLP actions,
including Operation Congrès, the SSJB parade of 24 June, 1969,
and the demonstration which was to have been held 24 April, 1970.
F.5 Brochure explaining the organization and objectives of the FLP.; Bumper
stickers.: "Bourassa, chien fidèle de trudeau".
Publications.
F.6 Mobilisation The theoretical journal of the FLP, printed and
illustrated.. Numbers 2 and 4 are extremely rare; number 4, on urban guerilla
warfare, was largely confiscated by the Montreal police. Some of the material
from this issue can be found in the Saulnier-Choquette brief to the federal
government on “subversive” activities of the Company of Young
Canadians in Quebec. These journals contain articles by Vallieres, and
members of the FLP and MSP. There are many unsigned articles. No. 1 April-May,
1969.
Bulletin De Liason. Basically an information bulletin among members
of the FLP. Mimeo. March, 1969.
F.7 Logement: Position du Front de Libération Populaire.
April, 1969. Mimeo. 5 p.
F.8 Electoralisme et Libération Nationale. April, 1970.
Printed. 11 p. Two rough drafts of parts of the paper: La Libération
Nationale, 1es Objectifs et 1es Moyens. Ts. 2 p. L’Electoralisme.
Ts. 5 p.
F.9 Le Chomage. n.d. Printed and mimeo. 12 p. “Cahers
de Libération Nationale #1”.
Affiliated and Associated Organizations:
F.10 Le Comité Populaire De Mercier. This was a youth group in
Mercier, a working class district of Montréal, and one of the constitutive
groups of the FLP.
Du Chomage, des Profiteurs, et des Valets (Gouvernants). A pamphlet
on unemployment. n.d. Printed. 7 p.
Education Populaire. Schedule for a series of political education
classes. n.d. Mimeo. 1 p.
Brochure on the analysis and program of the Comité populaire de
Mercier. n.d. Mimeo. 8 p.
Arthur. Student Journal CÉGEP de Vieux Montréal. Volume 1 No. 5
(December 1, 1969)
F.11 Operation Congrès:
This was the name given a series of demonstrations, 19-21 June, 1969,
organized by the FLP against the Union Nationale convention in Quebec
City.
Opération Congrès. Press statement by the FLP prior
to the convention. [June,1969]
FLP Leaflets 2 leaflets announcing Operation Congrès 1 p. each.
F.12 Lettre aux Militants Ouvriers Québécois. François Monier.
(1970?). 44p.
F.13 Où sommes nous? (January 1970)
F.14 Additional Documents and
Pamphlets.
Rézo. Volumes 3 and 4. Journal for the mobilisation of militant
groups. 30p and 25p. Lord & Cie une lutte à gagner. Front de Libération
Populaire. (Nov.-Dec. 1968). 4p. Document discussing a transformation
of the FLP Journal Mobilisation in reaction to Bill 63 and the current
situation in Québec. 18p. Additional FLP mimeographs.
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