{"id":309051,"date":"2017-05-20T16:03:43","date_gmt":"2017-05-20T15:03:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/quebec-solidaire-congress-prepares-alliance-with-parti-quebecois\/"},"modified":"2017-05-20T16:03:43","modified_gmt":"2017-05-20T15:03:43","slug":"quebec-solidaire-congress-prepares-alliance-with-parti-quebecois","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/quebec-solidaire-congress-prepares-alliance-with-parti-quebecois\/","title":{"rendered":"Qu\u00e9bec Solidaire congress prepares alliance with Parti Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3 class=\"nomargin\">\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h2>Qu\u00e9bec Solidaire congress prepares alliance with Parti Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois<\/h2>\n<h5>\n<p>    By<br \/>\n    Richard Dufour<br \/>\n    <br \/>20 May 2017<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p>Qu\u00e9bec Solidaire (QS)\u2014an ostensibly left-wing, pro-Quebec independence party that has had representation in the Quebec legislature since 2008\u2014is holding its twelfth congress this weekend. Two interrelated questions will be the principal focus of debate: whether QS should form an electoral alliance with the big business Parti Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois (PQ) and whether it should merge with Option National, a small right-wing nationalist party that is itself a split-off from the PQ.<\/p>\n<p>On the first question, QS is divided, but the disagreements are purely tactical. All the factions embrace Quebec nationalism and separatism, differing only on how best to promote them, and more specifically the precise character of Qu\u00e9bec Solidaire\u2019s relations with the other members of the larger \u201cfamily\u201d of pro-Quebec independence organizations and parties, above all the PQ.<\/p>\n<p>Quebec <em>ind<\/em> <em>\u00e9pendantiste<\/em> nationalism articulates the interests and aspirations of a section of the ruling class that want greater autonomy for the capitalist Quebec state\u2014even to the point of secession from Canada. This faction calculates it can better pursue its global economic and geostrategic interests, including striking its own deals with Washington, if it is not tied to Ottawa and its rivals in English Canada. Moreover, it views the reorganization of the state apparatus that separation would necessarily entail as a golden opportunity to create a more \u201ccompetitive\u201d Quebec\u2014that is to intensify the assault on public services and workers\u2019 social and democratic rights.<\/p>\n<p>The flagship and standard bearer of the Quebec independence movement for the past half-century, the PQ has been rocked by the hemorrhaging of it&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2017\/05\/20\/queb-m20.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Qu\u00e9bec Solidaire congress prepares alliance with Parti Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois By Richard Dufour 20 May 2017 Qu\u00e9bec Solidaire (QS)\u2014an ostensibly left-wing, pro-Quebec independence party that has had representation in the Quebec legislature since 2008\u2014is holding its twelfth congress this weekend. Two interrelated questions will be the principal focus of debate: whether QS should form an electoral [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2526,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-309051","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309051\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}