Front de Libération du Québec



"The Front de Libération du Québec must've been the ones who kidnapped and murdered Quebec Labour Minister Pierre Laporte in those subsequent negotiations. It looks like they'd be caught up with the Quebecois Civil War real soon, but I don't know why the heck should that happen."

--Su Ji-Hoon, FLQ

The Front de libération du Québec (FLQ; "Quebec Liberation Front";  French pronunciation: ​ [fʁɔ̃ d libeʁasjɔ̃ dy kebɛk]) was aseparatist and Marxist-Leninist terrorist and paramilitary group in Quebec. Founded in the early 1960s, it was a militant part of the Quebec sovereignty movement. It conducted a number of attacks between 1963 and 1970, which totalled over 160 violent incidents and killed eight people and injured many more. These attacks culminated with the bombing of the Montreal Stock Exchange in 1969, and with the October Crisis in 1970, which began with the kidnapping of British Trade Commissioner James Cross. In the subsequent negotiations, Quebec Labour Minister Pierre Laporte was kidnapped and murdered by a cell of the FLQ. Public outcry and a federal crackdown subsequently ended the crisis and resulted in a drastic loss of support, with a small number of FLQ members being granted refuge in Cuba

FLQ members practised propaganda of the deed and issued declarations that called for a socialist insurrection against oppressors identified with "Anglo-Saxon" imperialism, the overthrow of the Quebec government, the independence of Quebec from Canada and the establishment of a French-speaking Quebecer "workers' society". It gained the support of many left-leaning students, teachers and academics up to 1970, who engaged in public strikes in solidarity with FLQ during the October crisis. After the kidnapping of Cross, nearly 1,000 students at Université de Montréal signed a petition supporting the FLQ manifesto. This public support largely ended after the group announced they had executed Laporte, in a public communique that ended with an insult of the victim. Nonetheless, they continued to receive the support of other far-left organizations such as the Communist Party of Canada and the League for Socialist Action. The KGB, which had established contact with the FLQ before 1970[citation needed], later forged documents to portray them as a CIA false flag operation, a story that gained limited traction among academic sources before declassified Soviet archives revealed the ruse. By the early 1980s, most of the imprisoned FLQ members had been paroled or released

In When the Cold Breeze Blows Away, it would be appeared in during USRAC War when they joined the Coalition of the Red Star but when Anti-Rubyism being spread on Canadian locations, they eventually joined the Grey Men.