Finding Aid
Quebec social and political organizations collection. – 1968-1971. – 12.5 cm of textual records.
Note: The order is alphabetical for organizations, files 1-13. This is followed by a second listing of files which were not listed when the finding aid was first prepared.
Centre de Formation Populaire
The CFP is a research, information and education service for militants of unions, cooperatives, citizens committees, and so on. Sociologist Louis Favreau was its director and other social scientists were active in it. Founded in the summer of 1971, it was subsidized by the Fédération des oeuvres de charité Canadiennes-françoises de Montreal. “Militants schools” and “union schools” were planned (as of June 1971) for the fall of 1971, for working class community and union militants. See: “Les Sciences sociales au Service des Comites de Citoyen” in Quebec-Press, v.3 (no.26, 27 Juin 1971), p. 11A.
Internal and Unpublished Documents:
F.1 Le Monde du Travail et les Classes Sociales .A text produced for the education of worker militants. Unpublished. Mimeo. 155 pp. circa 1971.
Capitalisme et Mouvement Ouvrier au Québec. Produced by Louis Farvreau and the Centre de Formation Populaire. (c.1971). 76p.
Capitalisme d'aujourd'hui au Québec : Monopoles, État et Partis Politiques. Produced by Louis Favreau and the Centre de Formation Populaire (c. 1971). 64p.
Button Pin. "All Power to the Soviets." Image of Lenin. The Independent Socialist Club. Lisa Lyons. (1968).
Comité Ouvrier St-Henri
A workers’ neighbourhood committee in the St-Henri section of Montreal which worked quite closely with the FLP.
F.2 Publications:
Pouvoir Ouvrier. The organ of the Comité Ouvrier St-Henri. v. l (no.2, Aug./Sept. 1968); Special issue, Summer? 1969; Special issue, Jan. 1970; v. 3 (no.5, 15 Feb., 1970- no.10, Sept. 1970)
L’Hopital à St.-Henri: position finale du Comité Ouvrier St-Henri. [March,1970] Mimeo. 6 pp.
"Saviez Vous
" Pamphlets d'Histoire Populaire. Produced by Le Comité Ouvrier de St-Henri. No 1 and 2.
Québec sait faire
du chomage. (c.1969).
Internal and Unpublished Documents:
Comité Etudiant de St-Henri: Principes et Procedures. A constitution. n.d. Mimeo. 4 p.
Reports of three Comité meetings: 5 Aug. 1969, 10 March 1970, 17 March 1970. Mimeo. 4 p. each.
Report of a meeting called by L’Opinion Ouvrier, 4 Aug. 1969. Photocopy. 1 p.
Press Releases, Leaflets and Ephemera:
Two press releases on “Opération Alarme”. 6 and 7 Aug. 1969. Photocopy and mimeo. 2 p. and 1 p.
A press release on the St-Henri hospital issue, March 1970. Mimeo. 4 p.
10 leaflets on Comité activities, 1968-1970. 1 p. each.
Comité pour les Droits Démocratiques du Peuple (C.D.D.P.)
F.3 Bulletin de Nouvelles. Anti-Répression. n.d. 4 pp.
Bulletin spéciale du C.D.D.P. n.d. 1 p.
McGill Socialist Action Committee
The SAC was a small Marxist grouping, established at McGill in 1968. It was a disciplined group with closed membership that intended to act as a conscious radicalizing force towards
the larger, more amorphous Students for a Democratic University (SOU) on that campus. It sought contacts with the CIS, MIS, FLP, FLQ, CSN and FTQ, and with the student movement in the CEGEPs. It was involved in the “disruptions” of McGill governing bodies that led to the dismissal of Stanley Gray.
F.4 Internal and Unpublished Documents:
Minutes of meetings, covering the period 18 Dec., 1968- 11 Jan., 1969. Handwritten notes and several photocopied information sheets. 40 p.
Press Releases, Leaflets and Ephemera:
Support Striking Workers..A leaflet calling for a demonstration against Lord and Co., 17 Dec., 1968.
Confront the Board of Governors Today .Leaflet calling for mass student attendance at the McGill Board of Governors meeting. n.d. 1 p. Reverse has an explanation of the nature and aims of SAC. 1 p.
Le Mouvement de Liberation du Taxi
The MLT, the organization of the Montreal taxi drivers, was formed in the fall of 1968 after several unsuccessful attempts to organize a union.
Publications:
F.5 Press Releases, Leaflets and Ephemera:
Opération Tortue, Murray Hill. Leaflet for a taxi-demonstration in Montreal, 18 Dec. 1968. 2 p.
Opération Libération
“Opération Libération was the name given a demonstration on 7 Nov., 1969, in Montreal, against political repression. Organized by a “united front” that included the FLP, LIS, CSN, MSP, Comité Vallières-Gagnon, and workers and citizens committees, it put forward several demands – the freeing of Vallières-Gagnon, the resignation of Justice Minister Remi Paul, and the retraction of Bill 63 in favour of a policy of French unilingualism – and tied repression with such questions as Bill 63, the St. Leonard school issue, and McGill University. The march culminated in the looting of James Street and the proclamation of Mayor Jean Drapeau’s anti-demonstration bylaw.
F.6 Opération Libération. 1000,000 copies of this newspaper were printed, 28 Oct. 1969, for an organizing drive for the demonstration. 8 p.; also 3 leaflets, one page each.
Parti Communiste du Québec
F.7 Mémoire du Parti Communiste du Québec présénte à la Commission d’Enquête sure la Loi sur les Mesures de Guerre. Mimeo. 8 pages of 9?
Un front commun politique: C'est maintenant le temps. Mimeo. (24 February 1983). 11p.
Parti Socialiste du Québec
F.8 Programme 66. The programme of the PSQ, adopted in congress, March 1966. Printed. 14 pp.
Patriotes Québécois
A group formed by some members of the FLP, along with others, when the FLP collapsed. It, in turn, collapsed a few months later with the invocation of the War Measures Act, October 1970.
F.9 Patriotes Québécois. A brochures on medical care, with a note on the Patriotes’ aims and organization. n.d. 4 pp.
Rassemblement pour l’Indépendence Nationale
The RIN, Quebec’s first significant independence party in the twentieth century, was founded in 1962. By 1968, its left wing split to form the FLP, and most of what remained entered the PQ in 1969.
F.10 L'Historique du R.I.N. Speech delivered by Pierre Renaud. (September 10, 1964). 7p.
Le RIN, Parti Politique : Programme Politique du RIN 1966-67. (c.1966). 32p.
Aux électeurs du counte de Westmound (RIN Broadside). Signed André Maillet. (1966). 1p.
Syndicat des Fonctionnaires Provinciaux du Québec
The SFPQ, the public employees union within the CSN, took a sharp turn to the left at its convention in the spring of 1971, and the documents below were produced by people who were instrumental in effecting this shift. Many of them had been active in the FLP before its demise.
Internal and Unpublished Documents:
F.11 Manifeste pour un Syndicalisme Renouvellé. A document of the left wing of the SFPQ, which was circulated at the 1971 convention. Mimeo. 8 p. Autographed by the three principal authors.
Syndicat des Professeurs de l’Université de Montréal (SPUM)
SPUM. Official newsletter. v. 2 (no. 3, Feb. 1968-no. 5, April 1968); v. 4? (no. 2, Dec. 1968)
La démocratie à l’Université de Montréal. A brief presented by SPUM to the university’s joint commission, 30 January 1969. 13 p.
F. 12 A memorandum to the “Conseil de l’université”, ?January, 1969. Mimeograph. 2 p.
Syndicat du Sécondaire
The SDS was a high school student group, founded in the fall of 1969, centered mainly in working class districts of Montreal. It was the SDS which organized the high school walkouts during the campaign against Bill 63 in October 1969 and it remained the only organized political movement in the high schools following this campaign. Soon after the new year (1970) it became informally linked with the Front de Libération populaire – many of its leading cadre held membership in both groups – and began expanding to Quebec city. The Mercier group established a neighbourhood “Comité des Jeunes de Mercier” which then became the Comité populaire de Mercier, affiliated to the FLP. The organization dissipated during the summer of 1970, as did the FLP.
F.13 Publications:
L’Ecole dans la Rue. A critique of the educational system. n.d. Printed. 7 pp. Also a newspaper of SDS, v. 1 (no. 1, Sept. 1970)
Bill 62. A critique. n.d. Mimeo, 6 pp.
Pourquoi des Ecoles? Extracts from “Education and Ecstasy” by George B. Leonard, translated and distributed by SDS. n.d. 10 pp.
Vers le Débrayage Général. Leaflet, March 1970, 4 p.
Untitled Leaflet on the nature of SDS, its aims, etc. 12 May 1970, 1 p.
Etudiant, Serez-vous Chômeurs Diplômes. Leaflet issued by the Comité de Jeunes de Mercier. n.d. Mimeo, 1 p.
Committee for a Free Québec
F.14 "Crisis in Québec." Leaflet.
"People's Banquet." (March 1971), photocopy
Emergency Committee for the Defense of Political Rights in Quebec
F.15 Leaflets
"Confront Trudeau and the Liberal Party : Free all Quebec Political Prisoners." Calling for a demonstration in front of the Royal York Hotel. (March 1971)
"Protest the Montreal Five Conspiracy Trial." Calling for a demonstration in Queen's Park. (January 1971).
"Michel Chartrand Robert Lemieux Speak." University of Toronto. (March 1971).
Ligue pour l'Intégration Scolaire
F.16 Le LIS contre le Congès. Press Release. (June 1969). 1p.
Project de Loi Québec No. 1: Statut de la Langue Francaise au Québec. Author and date unknown. 1p.
Pamphlets
F. 17 Stratégie & organization pour la Jeunesse révolutionaire. Éditions d'Avant-Garde. Cahiers Socialistes. (October 1971). 36p.
Charles Gagnon. Pour le parti prolétarien. L'Equipe du Journal (Montreal, 1972). 47p.
Our Generation
F.18 Pamphlets Ernest Mandel. The Debate on Workers' Control. (May-June 1969). 23p.
James Gillespie. Towards freedom in work. Undated. 32p.
Juliette Mincès. Self-administration in Algeria. Undated. 15p.
Martin Oppenheimer. Participative Techniques of Social Integration. Undated. 14p.
Tony Topham. Show stewards and workers' control. Undated. 16p.
Mulford Sibley. Revolution and Violence. Undated. 7p.
Philip Resnick. Canadian War Industries and Vietnam. Undated. 14p.
Christian Bay. Political and Apolitical Students. Undated. 20p.
Geoffrey Osterbaard. Workers' Control: an idea on the wing. Undated. 6p.
Ken Coates. Definitions: workers' control and self-management. Undated. 3p.
Two Commentaries on "Wars" on Poverty. David Nolan. "Peace Called War: LBJ's Poverty Program." Undated. 5p. Edouard Smith. "Skirmishes with Poverty." Undated. 4p
Yugoslavia: is it workers' control? Undated. 28p.
John Ewan. Cybernetics of self-organizing. Undated. 14p.
David Armstrong. Meaning in Work. Undated. 7p.
C. George Benello. Wasteland Culture. Undated. 27p.
Denis Butt. Workers' Control. Undated. 10p.
G. David Garson. The Politics of Workers' Control: A Review Essay. 10p.
Our Generation. "Workers' Control." Volume 8 No. 2. Part 1 (1971). "Community Action and the Workplace." Volume 8 No. 3 Part 3.
Partisans du Québec Libre
F.19 Bulletin d'information, 1, no. 1 (8 Oct. 1970)
Mimeographs
Le Logement dans nos Quartiers et à Montréal. (November 1969). 8p.
Le Budget à Montréal. Undated and no author. 15p.
Le Loisir à Montréal. Undated and no author. 11p.
Travail et Vie Syndicale à Montréal. Undated and no author. 12p.
Sante et Alimentation. Undated and no author. 5p.
Le Transport à Montréal. Undated and no author. 12p.
Liste des Participations à l'Operation: C.-M. 5p.
Mimeographs (issuing organizations not identified)
F.20 "Notes sur Ideologie et Rapports Sociaux". Undated and no author. 9p.
Claude Lagadec." L'Universite Utopique". Undated. 9p.
"Québec Unions : Between Reformism and Revolution". (January 1973). 7p.
Montreal Council to Aid War Resisters
F.21 Circular letters and some press releases. February 1968-March 1970.
Photocopies of newspaper clippings regarding American deserters. (February 1969).
Newsletters Volumes 2-3. (April 1969-March 1970)
Québec Situation
F. 22 15 newspaper clippings relating to the future of Québec in both English and French. Covering the period March 1971-September 1972.
Québec Solidarity Committee
F. 23 Three issues of Québec Solidarity Committee News Service. Containing information on Operation Liberation and the leaves granted to jailed union leaders. (Nov. 1972-June/August 1973).
Phyllis Clarke. "Anti-Labor Legislation Forces End to Strike". (April 26, 1972). 3p.
Marv Gandall. "Québec Workers Launch Massive Protests Against Jailing of Top Union Leaders".
Other news briefs, mimeographs.
Voix du Québec sur le Viêtnam
F.24 Le Viêtnam et Nous. No. 3 (April-May 1968). 9p.
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