Projects
There are a variety of long-standing anarchist projects, including Montreal's Insoumise bookstore, which in 2004 supplanted the Alternative bookshop an anarchist bookshop founded in the early 1970s. Ottawa's Exile Infoshop founded early 2007, as well as numerous other bookstores, prisoner solidarity groups, study groups, publishing houses, record labels, cafes and squats. There are environmental and anti-poverty direct actionists in many regions and cities.
There are also groups, like the Quebec group La Sociale / Centre de Diffusion Libertaire, who have published several pamphlets and distribute for radical French publishers.. The Montreal-based Mauvaise Herbe green-anarchist group publishes a zine of the same name and distributes a variety of pamphlets and new books. The Toronto-based collective Punching Out (Jeff Shantz, pj lilley, Mick Black) made important contributions to the theoretical development of NEFAC including preparing the accepted draft of that federation's workplace position paper. In 2008, members of Workers Solidarity Movement (WSM) and NEFAC initiated the founding of Common Cause along with anarchist activists in Ottawa, Hamilton and Toronto. In 2011 anarchists from Regina along with ex-members of the IWW and NEFAC announced the creation of Prairie Struggle Organization based in the Canadian Prairies. Prairie Struggle, Common Cause like NEFAC and the WSM are projects based on platformism. Other anarchist projects include a number of publications, radio shows and micro radio stations.There are also many under the radar activities like squatting.
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