Vol. 71/No. 33 September 10, 2007
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5,000 attend Quebec Social Forum
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Militant/Beverly Bernardo
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MONTREAL—More than 5,000 people attended the August 23-26 Quebec Social Forum here. Participants, in their majority from Quebec, included young people, trade unionists, political activists, and others. The political gathering was patterned after the World Social Forum initiated in 2001 in Porto Alegre, Brazil.
Joe Young (above, facing camera) and Annette Kouri, the Communist League candidates in the October 10 Ontario provincial elections, joined the wide-ranging discussions there. More than 500 copies of their campaign flyer were distributed. Socialists from Toronto, Montreal, and the United States participated. They sold 39 subscriptions to the Militant and more than 200 copies of the paper, as well as dozens of books on revolutionary politics and copies of the French-language Marxist magazine Nouvelle Internationale. —Beverly Bernardo Front page (for this issue) | Home | Text-version home |