International protests support Indian farmers’ agitation against Modi’s pro-agribusiness laws
Over the past seven weeks, there have been widespread international protests, including in the United States, Canada, the UK, Australia, and New Zealand, in support of the now 45-day-long agitation Indian farmers are mounting against the Narendra Modi-led Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government’s pro-agribusiness laws.
In September, the Hindu supremacist BJP rammed through parliament three pro-corporate farm laws, as well as a labour “reform” that illegalizes most worker job action, promotes precarious contract labour jobs, and empowers large companies to lay off workers at will.
The Dec. 20 protest in Troy, Michigan. (Source: WSWS)
Bogus debate on “decline of French” in Montreal fuels Quebec chauvinism
In the midst of Canada’s raging COVID-19 pandemic and as Quebec, Ontario, and other provinces have registered record numbers of infections, provincial and federal politicians in Quebec have been absorbed in a manufactured controversy over the decline of French in Montreal.
On November 13, the
Journal de Montréal published a report sensationally titled, “Incapable of being served in French.” It reported that during a visit to 31 stores and restaurants in downtown Montreal, 16 had greeted customers/journalists in English.
The
Journal de Montréal is a daily tabloid published by Quebecor, a media and telecommunications empire that owns newspapers and television and radio stations. It is owned by Pierre-Karl Péladeau, a billionaire whose fortune is estimated at US$1.8 billion and who briefly served as leader of the pro-independence Parti Québécois (PQ) in 2015-16.
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