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===Historical Overview===
===Historical Overview===


* Read the section dedicated to the history of our movements
* Read the section dedicated to the [[history of our movements]]
* Read the translation of the [[Political Testament of Louis-Joseph Papineau]]
* Read the translation of the [[Political Testament of Louis-Joseph Papineau]]
* Discover famous people in the history of Québec
* Discover famous [[people]] in the history of Québec
* Read a few selected texts on Québec democracy by the Ministère des relations internationales (PDF)
* Read a few [http://english.republiquelibre.org/pdf/selected-texts-on-quebec-democracy.pdf selected texts on Québec democracy] by the ''Ministère des relations internationales'' (PDF)
* Read the section dedicated to other contemporary independence movements
* Read the section dedicated to [[other independence movements]]


===Historical Documents===
===Historical Documents===


* 1970: The manifesto of the Front de Liberation du Québec
* 1970: The [[manifesto of the Front de libération du Québec]]
* 1960: The manifesto of the Rassemblement pour l'indépendance nationale
* 1960: The [[manifesto of the Rassemblement pour l'indépendance nationale]]
* 1958: The manifesto of the Alliance laurentienne
* 1958: The [[manifesto of the Alliance laurentienne]]
* 1934: The manifesto of the Action libérale nationale (French)
* 1934: The [http://www.members.tripod.com/simonlapointe/his3508/aln.html manifesto of the Action libérale nationale] by Paul Gouin (French)
* 1839: The Report of Lord Durham on the Affairs of British North America
* 1839: The [http://www2.marianopolis.edu/quebechistory/docs/durham/ Report on the Affairs of British North America] by the Earl of Durham
* 1838: The Declaration of Independence of Lower Canada of the Patriotes
* 1838: The [[Declaration of Independence of Lower Canada]] by Robert Nelson
* 1837: An excerpt of the Manifesto of the Fils de la liberté
* 1837: An excerpt of the [http://english.republiquelibre.org/manifesto-fils-de-la-liberte.html manifesto of the Fils de la liberté]
* 1834: The Ninety-Two Resolutions of the Parti patriote
* 1834: The [[Ninety-Two Resolutions]] of the Parti patriote
* 1831: The notes of Alexis de Tocqueville in Lower Canada
* 1831: The [[notes of Alexis de Tocqueville in Lower Canada]]
* 1775: The Letter to the Inhabitants of Canada of the first Continental Congress
* 1784: The lampoon ''Appel à la justice de l'État'' by Pierre du Calvet
* 1775: The [[Letter to the Inhabitants of Canada]] of the first Continental Congress


===Québec's Historical Demands===
===Québec's Historical Demands===


* Québec's positions on constitutional and intergovernmental issues from 1936 to March 2001
* [http://www.saic.gouv.qc.ca/institutionnelles_constitutionnelles/table_matieres_en.htm Québec's Positions on Constitutional and Intergovernmental Issues from 1936 to March 2001]
* A Quebec-Canada Constitutional Law Lexicon (PDF)
* [http://www.transref.org/u-articles/WSCH_LexIntro_KonstLex.pdf A Quebec-Canada Constitutional Law Lexicon] (PDF)
* Québec's historical position on the federal spending power 1944-1998 (PDF)
* [http://www.saic.gouv.qc.ca/publications/documents_inst_const/positionEng.pdf Québec's historical position on the federal spending power 1944-1998] (PDF)
* Québec and its Territory (PDF)
* [http://www.saic.gouv.qc.ca/publications/territoire-a.pdf Québec and its Territory] (PDF)
* Québec's Political & Constitutional Status (PDF)
* [http://www.saic.gouv.qc.ca/publications/documents_inst_const/statut-pol_en.pdf Québec's Political & Constitutional Status] (PDF)


===Failure of Constitutional Reforms===
===Failure of Constitutional Reforms===

Revision as of 17:31, 8 November 2006

This section gathers various links chosen by us to help visitors understand what Québec sovereignists and other independentists are fighting for. Discover the story of a very long national liberation that never ends...

Québécois and Canadian intellectuals agree on the basics

Basic Notions

Historical Arguments

Over 200 years of a just political resistance to imperialism and assimilation in the name of human dignity.

Historical Overview

Historical Documents

Québec's Historical Demands

Failure of Constitutional Reforms

  • Read Canadian federalism and the autonomy of Québec: a historical viewpoint
  • Read Constitutional Saga on this site
  • Read on Institutional Bilingualism on this site

Cultural Arguments

  • Peek through the Independentist Music Directory (French)
  • Read some Independentist & Sovereignist Poetry (French)
  • Discover movie director Pierre Falardeau (French)
  • 1974: Speak White by Michèle Lalonde
  • 1972: L'alouette en colère by Félix Leclerc ( >> English translation << )
  • 1948: Refus global by Paul-Émile Borduas
  • Read the article A Sovereign Presence - The poet and the politician in Gérald Godin ...
  • Read all our translations of lyrics and poems

Various opinions and documents by militants

St-Jean-Baptiste Society

  • Read the section dedicated to the St-Jean-Baptiste Society

Les Intellectuels pour la souveraineté (IPSO)

Jean-François Lisée, Journalist

  • Jean-François Lisée's Texts in English
  • Books by Jean-François Lisée

Andrée Ferretti, political thinker and writer

  • The Parti québécois: for or against independence?
  • Various texts on the Website "Québec un pays" (French)
  • More texts at Vigile.net (French)

Guy Bouthillier, former SSJB President

  • Fundamental law, or fundamental flaw? (2002)
  • Why does it not simply eliminate all questions on ethnic origin and religion?
  • Books by Guy Bouthillier (French)

Pierre Bourgault, former RIN president and journalist

  • A Radical from Quebec Passes
  • Books by Pierre Bourgault

Daniel Turp, former Bloc Québécois MP and constitutionalist

  • Works and opinions published in English
  • Quebec's Quest for Sovereignty and Partnership
  • Québec's Right to Secessionist Self-Determination
  • Don't buy Stéphane Dion's response to the secession ruling (1999)
  • 1995 Project of a Sovereign Québec Constitution (French)

Michel Seymour, philosopher

  • Québec Nationalism and Canadian Federalism
  • On Redefining the Nation (PDF)
  • Québec and Canada at the Crossroads: A Nation within a Nation (PDF)
  • The anti-democratic drift of the federal government: A brief concerning Bill C-20
  • Michel Seymour's Website

Parti Québécois

  • Sovereignist Leaders
  • 5 questions and answers to understand why the Parti Québécois wants Québec to become a sovereign country