Anti-Colonialism

Nighttime Action at Royal West High School Claim of Responsibility

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Nov 222025

Anonymous submission to MTL Counter-info

Tuesday night, two anarchists visited Royal West High School. One person graffitied “Suspension?? Fight BACK” while another smashed the entrance windows with a hammer.

Royal West suspended one of their indigenous students who is Kanien’kehà:ka from Kahnawà:ke for posting “fuck Israel holy shit” on their personal Instagram.

We were disgusted that the school wants to create a social atmosphere of fear where people cannot develop ideas, speak them and contribute to the fight against governments and colonialism. We insisted on showing that we are not animals who can be whipped to always shut up, do our work and obey.

We want to let students know to keep fighting back. We wanted to teach a lesson to your administrators so that they’ll hesitate before shutting anyone down again. You can do the same. Organize action groups and big assemblies of like-minded people. Form crews with your friends. Disrupt the normal functioning of the school. Read “Occupy, Blockade, Strike Back!” Watch “Street Politics 101” on the 2012 Quebec student strikes. See if school walkouts could be interesting. If you think you need it, get outside help from experienced groups in Montreal that you can find through Resistance Montreal.

More broadly speaking, create the culture and self-organization needed for resistance not just to this EMSB decision, but against the broken systems that lead to this kind of repression and that often lead to much worse in our world.

Government schools are designed to crush our natural spirit of rebellion against the injustices of authority. Don’t let yourself be twisted into becoming another worker in this murderous ecocidal economy who forgets who they are and what they believe in. Choose to be a human being, not just some walking extension of a phone, job or bank account. Fight tirelessly for another world. Students while you’re young take control of your lives!

P.S. We might as well not be so ambiguous about who we are because of the media coverage and conversation surrounding this action. Indigenous warrior societies have often used sabotage, property destruction, blockades and taken up guns against the government and corporations. We respect the young Palestinians who have been throwing stones and shooting back against the IDF. People might speculate on our ideas and beliefs and pretend like they’re silly ideas such as the worship of criminality or destruction or a lifestyle, without doing actual investigating. For young people feeling critical about this action but curious you can read “How Nonviolence Protects the State” and for those who want to learn more about why we might identify as anarchists in claiming this action we recommend watching some documentaries and reading online about the anarchist movement.

The SPVM’s attempts to imply that a student was involved in this by saying “we’re not closing any doors on anyone” is disgusting. This shows just how low they will go to create an atmosphere of social fear. The EMSB’s suggestion that this action “undermined the safety” of their community begs the question of who in their community was endangered by graffiti and a smashed window in the thick of midnight at 12:30am? On the other hand, how many children have they made to feel afraid and powerless with this recent political “punishment,” to use Mike Cohen’s own bragging words to CBC?

Unlike them, we do not prey on the weak and dis-empowered because even the idea of doing so is sickening. Let’s instead contribute to collective self-defence against authoritarianism and narrow in our sights on those in positions of power.

West Coast Rail Sabotage

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Sep 262025

Anonymous submission to BC Counter-info

Following the approval of the PRGT in June, dozens of track circuits throughout BC have been shorted, disconnected, or otherwise tampered with.

The vast majority of track circuits operate on direct current (DC) and are relatively easy to induce a fail state. The quickest and most discreet method has proven to be the simple snipping of the cable bonding track blocks, requiring little more than a good pair of cutters. Alternatively, a 4 AWG copper wire (commonly found connecting residential main service panels) can be securely fastened to the rail head. And, of course, there is always the option of disabling the power supply. This may include damaging the grounding, which is more time-consuming but notably harder to detect and locate.

Technical details and diagrams of track circuits, and specifically how to compromise them, are readily available in engineering textbooks at your local library, past communiqués, and even neatly presented in certain PDFs hosted on the Government of Canada’s website.

Not much more needs to be said. However, recall that one of the discursive characteristics of the Canadian state is its spatiality, which is also, perhaps, its most exploitable vulnerability. Reflect on past moments in struggle and assertions of sovereignty and recall how strategically positioned rail blockades effectively stretched and divided state forces, offering land defenders at key rupture points critical time to reorient and regroup. That said, disrupting the logistics of extractivism is often most effective when undertaken unilaterally.

Look no further for evidence of the effectiveness of such actions against a wholly undefended infrastructure than in the words of one counterinsurgency state operative:

“If ever there was a military showdown between Indigenous people and the Canadian army, the first target would be the railway lines and burning cars would be on every railway line in Canada … would almost be impossible to stop despite all the Canadian military and police alerted to the potential. A burning car on a railway track is not simply a blockade, it is also a very efficient and economical weapon. A car with a full fuel tank would burn at a temperature high enough to warp the track and require extensive repairs.”

Until paths cross in the night, on the frontlines of the only good war: the war against PRGT, against Empire, and against all forces that seek to estrange and domesticate.

Fighting the PRGT Pipeline

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Sep 182025

From From Embers

An interview with two settler anarchists in northern British Columbia who are active in a growing struggle against the Prince Rupert Gas Transmission Project or PRGT.

Resistance to the project has been heating up all summer as government approvals have been issued and construction work is expected to begin in the fall of 2025.

Discussions includes history and overview of the project, the changing context of the Canada-US trade war, anarchist-indigenous solidarity, and taking some lessons from Shut Down Canada.

Pipeline project updates at PRGT-news.ghost.io
Anarchist reports at bccounterinfo.org (Tor Browser recommended)

For security reasons, this interview has been re-voiced by voice actors.

Music by Airtone

Edmonton Scotiabank Doors Glued and Windows Spray Painted

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Sep 032025

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Early in the morning of August 23, the Heritage Village Scotiabank branch (111st & 23ave) in Edmonton had its doors glued shut and windows spray painted with the message “SCOTIABANK FUNDS GENOCIDE”, calling out the bank for its illegal investments in Elbit System, Israel’s largest privately-owned weapons manufacturer. Elbit provides up to 85 percent of the land-based equipment procured by the Israeli military and about 85 percent of its drones. To any inconvenienced by the actions taken to disrupt the flow of weapons, consider moving your money to a credit union that will not invest it in genocide. It is all of our obligation to impose material costs on all entities that enable and profit from genocide. Let no bank or branch be allowed to carry on with business as usual while they profit from the slaughter of Palestinians. From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free. Take action, take care.

Blockades and Solidarity

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Sep 022025

Wemotaci region in Quebec (wikipedia). On the left, Dave Petiquay from the First Nation MAMO collective, faces Dany Grenier (on the right), forestry entrepreneur from Dolbeau-Mistassini (image by Lisanne Pittikwi on Facebook).

From the Collectif Emma Goldman

« … the state, the bourgeoisie and even the working class have been constituted in part through the destruction of First Nations, the dispossession of their territories, the extortion of their resources and settler colonialism– Francis Dupuis-Déri et Benjamin Pillet, 2019. L’anarcho-indigénisme. Lux Éditeur, Montréal. p.35

Over the past few weeks, blockades of forestry roads have been carried out in Haute-Mauricie and in the north of Lac-Saint-Jean by the MAMO Alliance (First Nation). These actions, conducted to contest Bill 97 on forestry regime reform, have interrupted or disrupted forestry operations.

Uniting First Nations for Sovereignty and Territory Protection

It was on April 11, 2025 that an assembly was held in La Tuque to found the MAMO Alliance. This alliance, whose name means « Together » in the Atikamekw (Nehiromowin) and Innu (Innu-aimun) languages, aims to bring together First Nations in exercising their sovereignty. It was initiated by the land guardians of Nehirowisiw (Atikamekw), Nitassinan (Innuat) and Ndakina (Abénakis).

Opposition to Bill 97 and Sovereignty

The land guardians express their disagreement with Bill 97, which modifies Quebec’s forestry regime. They believe this law endangers forest caribou and forest sustainability, thus compromising the traditional Indigenous way of life during the climate crisis.

Numerous blockades and demonstrations of sovereignty have generated tensions between Indigenous protesters and (non-Indigenous) forestry workers, also fueling hateful comments on social media. In response to this situation, the Quebec government has promised to negotiate with First Nations to find consensus and consider amendments to the bill.

Traditional Indigenous groups (like the MAMO alliance), who rely on ancestral rights and traditions, maintain that true authority over forestland belongs to families and land guardians. They consider that current band councils, established by the Canadian government’s Indian Act system, do not reflect traditional sovereignty and are perceived as accomplices of the colonial system. These groups believe that band councils cannot negotiate on behalf of all members of the nations.

The Petapan Treaty and Forest Management

This tension between band councils and traditionalists is not new; it also appears in other negotiations, such as the Petapan Treaty. Under negotiation for more than forty years, this draft treaty involves the Petapan Group, which brings together the First Nations of Essipit, Mashteuiatsh and Nutashkuan, as well as Canada and Quebec, and aims to recognize, confirm and protect Innu rights. However, traditionalists oppose this treaty, claiming that the traditional governance of hereditary chiefs and territory guardians is being set aside in favor of band councils.

Conclusion

There will be no reconciliation without reparation. The Canadian and Quebec states were established on the appropriation of Indigenous peoples’ lands and resources. To achieve true reconciliation, it is essential to support and engage in decolonial and environmental struggles. It is crucial to become true allies in this battle to protect the living world. That is to say, to avoid in our relationships between non-Indigenous and Indigenous people within decolonization movements: « the invisibilization of Indigenous people or the appropriation of their voice, the use of token Indigenous people, the imposition of tactical and strategic choices or a general attitude of guilt relief to give oneself a good conscience » (L’anarcho-indigénisme, p.10)

Footnote:

(1) Unlike other regions of Canada where historic treaties were signed, vast expanses of territory, notably in British Columbia and Quebec, have never been subject to land cession treaties.

In Palestine and Everywhere Else, Resistance Persists!

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Aug 212025

De la Convergence des luttes anticapitalistes

Semaine d’action en solidarité avec la Palestine

Depuis 1947, le peuple palestinien lutte contre l’occupation et la colonisation de ses terres par l’entité sioniste (connue sous son nom colonial ”Israël”). Alors que la création de cette entité sur des terres volées est facilitée par l’ONU, les Palestinien·nes, dépossédé·es et déplacé·es de force dans des territoires de plus en plus grugés par l’entité sioniste, ne se laissent pas faire et résistent à l’envahisseur. Alors que Gaza était assiégée depuis près de 20 ans, la résistance a culminé le 7 octobre 2023 dans un coup de force. Déterminé à ne tolérer le moindre écart de conduite, l’entité sioniste en a profité pour accélérer ses politiques et pratiques génocidaires contre le peuple palestinien avec la complicité de ses allié·es. Bombardé·es et affamé·es délibérément par l’entité sioniste depuis deux ans, les Palestinien·nes à Gaza luttent pour survivre et continuent de résister, tout comme les Palestinien·nes en Cisjordanie et à Jérusalem-Est qui font face à une accélération des attaques des colons et du vol de leurs terres.

Pendant que les Palestinien·nes sonnent l’alarme et implorent le reste du monde à arrêter cette violente machine de guerre qui a déjà fait des dizaines de milliers de martyrs, les gouvernements, incluant le ”Canada” et le ”Québec” enchaînent des déclarations vides de sens sur le « respect du droit international » et la fausse « solution à deux États », tout en continuant à supporter l’entité sioniste financièrement, militairement et politiquement, et en refusant d’imposer quelconque sanction. L’entité sioniste, armée par ses complices occidentaux et impérialistes, est bien décidé à prendre le contrôle complet de la bande de Gaza et à anéantir le peuple palestinien. L’armée d’occupation commet des massacres jour après jour en direct dans l’indifférence. Lorsqu’ils en parlent, les médias invisibilisent la réalité sur le terrain : une occupation militaire et une colonisation brutale de par l’entité sioniste, et une lutte de libération historique d’un peuple contre des puissances coloniales qui assujettissent le monde entier.

Cela fait deux ans que les peuples solidaires de la libération de la Palestine protestent partout dans le monde, en rupture avec leurs gouvernements complices. Les actions se multiplient : manifestations, campements, graffitis, occupations, actions de perturbation et de sabotage, flottilles, caravanes et marches mondiales pour briser le blocus. Continuons nos actions pour mettre fin au génocide en cours et soutenir le peuple palestinien dans sa lutte de libération, pour la justice et la dignité !

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Du 6 au 12 octobre 2025, D4P et la CLAC invitent tous·tes et chacun·e à s’organiser avec sa communauté en vue de provoquer, déranger et perturber pour visibiliser notre refus collectif à la complicité au génocide et rappeler la légitimité de la résistance, sous toutes ses formes, en Palestine et ici.

Alors que la violence et la déshumanisation des vies palestiniennes est devenue honteusement normalisée, la résistance en devient d’autant plus légitime et nécessaire ! Confrontons nos gouvernements à l’insignifiance de leurs actions et à leur complicité active ! Ciblons les profiteurs de guerre, où qu’ils soient dans la vaste toile de complicité : qu’ils produisent des armes, des outils d’intelligence artificielle, des fonds de pensions ou des services d’investissement ! En groupe d’affinités, en comités de quartier, avec nos associations étudiantes, dans nos lieux de travail, attaquons partout, par l’éducation populaire, les manifestations, l’action directe et notre mobilisation généralisée.

Pas de paix tant que Gaza saigne : notre devoir est la résistance, par tous les moyens!

* Cet appel à l’action fait écho à celui lancé le 20 juillet 2025 par six groupes politiques et organisations de résistance à Gaza qui nous demandent d’escalader nos actions pour accentuer la pression sur nos gouvernements complices.

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Enbridge Sabotage: Disruption of Service on Line 9B

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Aug 202025

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The boreal forest is burning, the water is being poisoned, all the trees are being cut down, and the treaties are being betrayed. The mirage we call “liberal democracy” bows down to the oil lobby. There is talk of new pipelines that will cross the country like scars, new gas projects that will disfigure the land.

Our history has always been that of an extractive colony founded on plunder and dispossession. It’s up to us to put an end to this disaster.

Last night, we attacked line 9B. This pipe of death snakes through lands stolen from Indigenous peoples, transporting the world’s dirtiest bitumen through waterways, cities and our lives. We hit two control valves, destroying the electronic equipment before vanishing into the night.

Now more than a dozen kilometers of pipeline can no longer be controlled by Enbridge. Until these installations are repaired, it is as dangerous as it is illegal to flow oil through them.

We choose to disarm Enbridge because the current system protects profit and lets ecosystems die. We are taking action because every barrel poisons us, kills us, flows against the grain of history. We are those who face the truth, who recognize the urgency of the situation. We choose to obey the love of life and the future.

Line 9B carries the end of the world barrel by barrel. It’s time to take direct aim at the infrastructures that are responsible.

The facilities concerned are at Saint-André d’Argenteuil (45°33’25.1 “N 74°20’53.7 ”W) and Mirabel (45°36’42.3 “N 74°04’46.6 ”W).

“Israel” terrorist, media complicit

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Aug 192025

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Tiohtià:ke/Montreal, August 18th, 2025 — it’s with a broken heart and rage in the stomach that autonomous militants targeted Quebecois media tonight, denouncing their biased coverage of the genocide of the Palestinian people, in particular the recent massacre of the Al Jazeera team in Gaza by the Zionist occupation forces. Tonight, we honour our martyred siblings Anas Al-Sharif, Mohammed Qreiqeh, Ibrahim Zaher, Mohamed Noufal and Moamen Aliwa of Al Jazeera, Sahat Media journalist Mohammed Al-Khali, Saad Jundiya, and the 262 other journalists who have been killed in this inhumane affront against the freedom of the press. This autonomous action to redecorate the office of the Montreal Gazette (MG) was also in response to the call from the Palestinian resistance, published on July 20th, 2025, calling on international activists to escalate the pressure to open channels of humanitarian aid.

For the past two years, Quebecois media has been providing heavily biased, one-sided, and dehumanizing coverage of the genocide in Gaza. Their editorial framing presents a false symmetry of violence, erasing the fundamental colonial context: the Zionist Entity, “Israel,” has been an expansionist occupying power since 1948, and Palestine an occupied territory. Thr vocabulary chosen by Quebecois journalists has also been extensively documented as being biased in favour of “Israel,” which receives a far more empathetic treatment than the Palestinian victimes, who are treated with distance and coldness. Finally, in the face of the ban imposed by “Israel” against international journalists entering Gaza, Quebecois media have obeyed, without calling the ban into question whatsoever, and none of them have judged it necessary to hire a Palestinian correspondant to document the daily massacres. On the contrary, Quebecois media had offered an exclusive platform to Au the genocidal Zionist authorities, including the higher-ups Tsahal. And yet, no Quebecois media has invited any representatives of the Palestinian resistance to speak.

Tonight, MG was targeted in particular because they represent one of the most powerful propaganda tools of the dangerous and genocidal Zionist ideology. Tribune of choice of the fasho-zionist in chief of the municipal governments, Jeremy Levi, MG spews terrible articles and doubtful chronicles with the goal of encouraging the most sadistic cognitive dissonance of the 21st century. The daily paper has been denounced by the organization Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East at least two separate times over the quality of their coverage of the student encampments in solidarity with Palestine, and more generally for their pro-Zionist biases in their coverage of the genocide in Gaza. In addition, MG is a part of the large Postmedia. Network family, which also owns the National Post, a collection of mediocre pseudo-journalistic texts. It is therefore unsurprising to see MG’s editorial line staunchly in favour of Zionist ideologies. Indeed, the primary stakeholder in Postmedia Network is Chatham Asset Management, an American speculative investment fund known for its proximity to the Republican party, also known to be the power bottom of choice for the tyrannical and genocidal ambitions of Netanyahu. Not only should we thusly consider MG as foreign media, we should also not be surprised when it’s coverage takes so many liberties with basic journalistic integrity when it’s leaders flirt openly with modern fascism.

What will it take for the media to listen to the people and begin to cover the genocide in Gaza to the height of the principles of journalistic integrity to which they claim to adhere? Earlier this week, militants occupied the offices of La Presse and Radio-Canada, without being offered adequate coverage of their critiques against them. Only exception being a mediocre editorial at La Presse from François Cardinal hiding behind a false sense of neutrality to dodge his active role in the normalisation of the genocide in Gaza. It is becoming more and more clear that Quebecois media don’t want to hear anything about the demands and legitimate protests of the people, and that it is only through economic damage that they will understand that they are standing on the wrong side of history.

PKP You Have Blood on Your Hands!

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Aug 012025

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Last night, multiple autonomous groups responded to the call from the Palestinian Resistance to activate and escalate pressure on international political, media, and economic institutions in order to allow aid into Rafah. Thus, Montréal/Tiohtiá:ke, as crowds gathered to applaud the finale of the fireworks season, multiple groups mobilised to remind you that in Gaza, the sounds of explosions signal death and ethnic cleansing.

For almost 22 months the Zionist Entity has been bombarding, torturing, attacking, and starving Palestinians, all before our eyes, and with full complicity from our leaders. As our siblings in Gaza live a famine orchestrated by Zionist forces, it is our responsibility to denounce the structures in place at the core of our society, which enable this genocide by normalizing the attrocities of the army, by normalising Islamophobia and anti-Palestinian hate, by profiting financially from Zionist propaganda, and by favouring repression against activists fighting for Palestinian liberation.

Who would be better to represent this complicity than Pierre-Karl Péladeau and his Quebecor empire? With a hand in each sphere of the media and culture landscape, Péladeau has played a large role in forming Quebecois public opinion for decades. Through a diversity of media entities, editing houses, advertising companies, and cultural productions, Quebecor propagates infinite hatred towards all vulnerable and marginalized communities. Queer and trans folks, drug users, immigrants, houseless people, just to name a few examples, all suffer dehumanization by the hands of PKP’s cronies. We can not ignore the systemic role that the Quebecor empire takes in the flagrant rise of Islamophobia in recent years; an integral element to the desensitization and general normalization of the Palestinian genocide in the public discourse. Through a plateform unilaterally offered to Zionists such as the CIJA lapdog Julien Corona, combined with an explosion of hateful rhetoric from his demagogues in chief, Quebecor looks to render the 77 years of Zionist colonialism in Palestine acceptable and palatable. But the people have not been duped, they are not insensitive. Even as PKP massively invests his dirty money in private security firms such as SIRCO, which profiles and brutalizes pro-Palestine activists, he will never succeed in normalizing the unacceptable.

It’s not because you are brown-nosing Zionists to shop for more Hollywood contracts that you will be able to shut us up, Péladeau!

Fuck your empire!

Fuck your Zionist friends!

Fuck your racism, your transphobia and your misogyny!

The people will always be stronger than you!

A different position

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Jun 112025

Anonymous submission to MTL Counter-info

We are NOT the Association of Nehirowisiw Aski Land Defenders, our position is different: “We do NOT call the police, in this situation”. The supposed colonial justice system is one of the central elements of the systemic racism committed against all indigenous people of turtle island. We are indigenous people that resist the ongoing genocide.

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