Over the past fifty years, Quebec has been the battle ground of five different united fronts, and this past year the province was shaken by a sixth wave of public sector strikes that reached historic proportions. What lessons can the history of this movement teach us today?
The North Star's "Us Against the State" explores how the united fronts of the past can illuminate today's struggle against privatization, inflation and corporate greed, by giving voice to the movement - past and present.
- Quebec healthcare workers still without a contract
- Quebec unionized nurses reject “disrespectful” proposed deal
- “We could have fought together for better,” says FIQ member
- One in ten workers soon on strike?
- 1972, the Year Workers Shook the State
- Privatization in the name of “efficiency”
- Strike mandates accumulate with overwhelming support
- An Education Reform Deaf to the Key Issues
- Québec government improvises solutions
- Us Against the State: A Documentary on the United Front
- 100,000 workers in the street: “they’ve had enough”
- It’s Halloween for Quebec’s Public Employees, Or at Least for Some
- United Front workers determined to keep up the fight
- FAE to call unlimited strike on November 23
- A historic movement, “we’ve never seen anything like it”
- The CAQ cares about kids (or so it says)
- Government treatment fuels “our indignation and will strengthen our mobilization”
- Superior Court Violates Teachers’ Right to Strike
- “Legault and all the others are destroying Quebec as we know it”