Quebec and Quebec solidaire: Linking sovereignty, equality and anti-neoliberalism

By Richard Fidler

March 18, 2013 – Left Streamed/Life on the Left – Amir Khadir, one of Québec solidaire’s two deputies in Quebec’s National Assembly, was guest speaker at this year’s Phyllis Clarke Memorial Lecture in Toronto. It was a rare opportunity for an Anglophone audience to hear a presentation by a leader of Quebec’s pro-independence party of the left.

Khadir’s lecture was addressed primarily to outlining QS’s approach to international solidarity in the face of neoliberalism and capitalist globalisation. In the wide-ranging discussion period that followed, he spoke about the Quebec student movement, the relation between class and national questions, the aboriginal movement, the environment, how Québec solidaire sees the relation between electoral and mass action, and other topics.

Thanks to Pance Stojkovski and the Socialist Project's Left Streamed for this video presentation.

The Phyllis Clarke Memorial Lecture is held annually to honour the memory of Phyllis Clarke, a member of the Ryerson University faculty from 1977 until her death in 1988. The lecture series is organised by Bryan Evans, and co-sponsored and supported by Ryerson's CUPE Locals 233, 1281, 3904 and the Department of Politics and Public Administration, Ryerson University.