MONTREAL — The Communist League is campaigning to put Katy LeRougetel on the ballot for mayor of Montreal and Philippe Tessier for mayor of the borough of Saint Leonard for the November municipal elections. To qualify, LeRougetel needs 200 signatures of registered voters and Tessier needs 100 in his district. The CL is planning to go well over the requirements. As of July 27, campaign supporters have collected 147 for LeRougetel and 67 for Tessier. They have sold six subscriptions to the Militant while campaigning, as well as 25 copies of the paper and 18 books by leaders of the Socialist Workers Party and other revolutionaries.
Tessier and several CL campaign supporters participated in a celebration of the 72nd anniversary of the July 26, 1953, attack on the Moncada Barracks in Cuba. “I became a communist through the example of the Cuban Revolution when I was a student,” he told participants. “The example of the Rebel Army under the leadership of Fidel Castro showed me it is possible to organize a society based on high moral values and not the law of the jungle as it is under capitalism. We need to follow their example and organize to build a leadership capable of taking political power into our own hands in Canada.”