Fascist movements have always sought to control bodies, genders, and sexualities, and queer people have often been among their first targets. As anti-queer and anti-trans rhetoric becomes normalized and the radical right gains ground, it becomes urgent to analyze these attacks and the forms they take today.

But queer communities have never been merely targets — they are also spaces of resistance. This panel proposes a discussion on the strategies of struggle, autonomy, and solidarity developed in the face of the reactionary surge.

Mariam Mannaï, Chacha Enriquez, André Querry, Front Rose & F.A.G.S.

An exploration of the history of anarchism between 1871 and 1937, through its defining events, key figures, and the ideas and theories that circulated during that period.

This workshop is intended as an introduction, but you are welcome to share your knowledge if you are already familiar with the subject.

This workshop will focus on the right to protest in Quebec, with an emphasis on the situation in Montreal. We will begin by presenting the legal foundations of the right to protest (freedom of expression and peaceful assembly) and its limitations.

We will then explain the rights that apply before, during, and after a demonstration, using concrete examples. We will then discuss current developments on these issues, including Bill 13. The workshop will conclude with a critical and practical contextualization.

Mission Abolition is a workshop for young people interested in exploring safety, care and resistance differently. Working with movement, collage and drawing, we invite participants to imagine which superpowers they would need to face hard moments at school, on their street and during a protest. What if we didn’t reach for punishment, for the police, for prisons? Ages: 6 – 12 years +

A discussion group for those involved in or interested in regional struggles, facilitated and focused on strategic reflection.
What struggles are currently underway across the region?
What are the realities and strategies for organizing outside urban centers?
How can we build inter-regional connections, share experiences, and strengthen our solidarity?
Comrades from different regions are invited to join us, but we are aware that traveling isn’t always easy. So this discussion will be held in two formats: participation will be available online, with in-person presentations and discussions.

Work is a ever present, even central aspect of social oppression. Anarchists have addressed this in various ways, to the point where there are now several different perspectives on the issue and on how to free ourselves from it. Are you familiar with these different approaches? Exploring this diversity will help you better define your own position. Collectively, we will also have a clearer understanding of what we want to fight against and how we want to fight together.

The goal of this workshop is to highlight the essential concepts that will help participants navigate the various anarchist positions on labor.

The year 2014–2015 in Quebec was marked by a campaign against the Couillard government’s austerity measures, waged on various fronts : by students, unions, community groups, and others. Now that everything is falling apart and turning into a nightmare, and with talk of a general strike resurfacing, what lessons can we draw from the experience of May 1st, 2015?

After a brief historical overview, we will open a discussion on how to revive the project of the general strike, with its revolutionary dimensions.

“On The Revolt” brings participants together to think through a world in which crisis is no longer a distant backdrop, but the very condition shaping everyday life. In conversation with Idris Robinson, author of The Revolt Will Eclipse Whatever the World Has to Offer, this gathering invites a collective engagement with the escalating realities of our time.

Participants are encouraged to grapple with how crisis is not only deepening, but also becoming more visible and more normalized whether through intensifying civil conflicts, or inter-imperialist tensions. This conversation hopes to create space to consider how the breakdown of imperial structures from within might also open new revolutionary horizons. If the present order is coming apart, what becomes possible in its wake?

This workshop will be an opportunity to learn about far-right movements in so-called Quebec during the 20th century and to explore the landscape of the contemporary far right. We will also discuss antifascist resistance and current struggles.

A personal reflection and analysis of the experience of living in « Fireweed Universe City », a loosely defined squatting community in Detroit active from roughly 2012-2018. The workshop will be focusing on themes like challenges of community squatting, radical acceptance, shared goals, (lack of) safety, finding cohesion, urban off-grid resourcefulness, integration with exisiting community, temporary and (possibly) permanent nature of squats, liberation/community through autonomy, and beautiful chaos.

fireweed presentation.pdf

This workshop explores important questions about laws and rules through Shaun Tan’s picture book The Laws of Summer, using games, images, and imagination. Through the strange “rules” that the young narrator claims to have learned over the summer, children reflect on the concept of rules. We offer a philosophy workshop in the form of a discussion to practice critical thinking, listening to others, and imagine a world where rules are made by everyone and for everyone. Ages: 4–10+

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Presentation and screening of the film Autour du feu (Around the Fire), bringing into dialogue, two former members of La Bande à Fasel, an armed anticapitalist cell from French-speaking Switzerland, with three young activists from the ZAD du Mormont, Extinction Rebellion and Swiss antiracist collectives. We will then take time for a conversation on the ways of keeping the fire of struggle alive in the face of the repression and cooptation that constantly threaten it.

This panel explores the inseparable relationship between Black autonomy and Prefigurative Politics, approaching them as forces that have continually shaped and sustained one another. It considers how practices of self-determination have been forged through organized resistance, and as modes of social relationships that aim to reflect future revolutionary horizons.

Jordan and Prince Shakur from The Dugout: A Black Anarchist Podcast, a radical classroom, a sonic archive, and a laboratory for building the emotional and intellectual infrastructure of Black freedom.

Come chat with two bozos about why psychiatric institutions and much of the mental health care system are a load of bullshit.

In all humility, we’d especially like to discuss the sabotage of psychiatric institutions and collective care practices. We’ll try to keep things informal and not too theoretical! We hope this sparks a lot of ideas.