Agitation material from the coalition "We don’t vote! " is available on the Web and at various places in Montréal. The newspapers, stickers, leaflet and posters of the coalition are available for everyone’s use...

Agitation material from the coalition "We don’t vote! " is available on the Web and at various places in Montréal. The newspapers, stickers, leaflet and posters of the coalition are available for everyone’s use...

On the Web site of the coalition "We don’t vote! ", you will find the different material of agitation related to the campaign. We invite all people interested in pushing forward the principles of abstention to print and diffuse our material! The material can also be found at DIRA (Documentations, Information’s, References and Books), the anarchist library in 2035 Bld the St. Lawrence, third floor, also at QPIRG-Concordia, located at 1500 Bld De Maisonneuve West, suite 204, two doors from Guy-Concordia metro.

If you would like to hear about the ongoing updates of the campaign, along with various relevant articles, please check out our website at- nousonvotepas.org

For any additional information, please contact us at abse...@gmail.com

GUIDING PRINCIPLES
1) We are opposed to the State, parliamentarism, and bourgeois democracy, because these institutions are preserving capitalism. The State is the largest form which a class will use to maintain its domination over others, and will then use this structure as being in "the interest of the general public". The State perpetuates the continual division of antagonistic social classes: those who have- and those who must work (to provide for their needs). The representative democracy that we know today does not work to represent anything for those who produce all the worlds’ goods, but rather continues to serve those in the dominant class.

2) The refusal of this middle-class democracy implies the rejection of electioneering. We do not want to delegate our powers of decisions to self-proclaimed specialists, elected officials or otherwise. They all claim to be "better" at representing us, but, once elected, will serve only their own interests, that is to say, that of the dominant class. Thus, to vote is used to legitimate a system, which exploits us, imposes the wages and earnings assigned to us, a hierarchy, and prevents us from taking our life in hands.
Electoralism supports the minority of people in power. The ballot boxes will never put an end to this class system and the structural inequalities that go along with it.

3) We refuse to play a part in the electoral circus- where the ‘professional politicians’ become Masters in the art of saying the same thing but in different words. Their speeches consist of electoral promises, which will be transformed into lies. Even when people call representatives on their false statements, those elected remains in place, having been given a blank check. The Political culminates in a spectacle where all the buffoons are invited to the circus called Parliament or here in Québec the National Assembly. We know that these are only masquerades, which keep intact the domination, and the exploitation that goes on in our society. In the name of this circus, the politicians steal our voice and our power to make decisions.

4) The different arguments related to the national question are unimportant to us. Nationalism is an invention of the dominant class. Historically, Nationalism was used only to divide our class, those of us exploited, and this is knows no border. With each election, Nationalism returns, like a spell cast on us, to confuse and hype up hate. Today, we know that red or blue, they bleed us dry.

5) We think that it is essential to take over the political power. We are opposed to representative democracy and actively try to promote the growth of direct democracy. Direct democracy is using collective decision-making processes, which are based on horizontal organization models rather than hierarchical ones.

6) Without economic equality, the concept of political equality is a veneer. We think that workers must take control of production, with an aim of radically transforming the social structures that exist as a whole. In conjunction with direct democracy, we advocate self-management of society by those who make everything in it.

7) By privileging and encouraging direct democracy and self-managed workplaces, we wish to redefine ‘the Political’ by affirming that it is possible to be organized in a radically different way. Against the State and parliamentarism, our answer is Anarcho-Communism.

8) We are not apathetic and apolitical. We believe that participating in social movements is the best means of changing the conditions we live under. It isn’t the political parties improve the conditions of the working class, but in actuality the actions and pressures made by social movements. These movements can have the potential to build power against the State and capitalism and win. A real change of society can happen by people getting involved in offensive, democratic, and autonomous social movements, within the various aspects of our lives and our communities.

9) Let us stop holding on to illusions, voting is not the solution. Keep you dignity, abstain from voting: the power, it us.