Michel Chartrand was a Canadian trade union leader from Quebec. Chartrand is considered to have been a promoter of socialism, a severe critic of capitalism, and a leading figure of syndicalism in Quebec. He was married to feminist writer and union activist Simonne Monet-Chartrand. Il devient militant syndical à partir de la fin des années 1940. Durant la Grande noirceur, il participe à toutes les grandes manifestations ouvriÚres, dont la grÚve de l'amiante en 1949, de Louiseville en 1952 et de Murdochville en 1957. En 1968, il devient président du Conseil central des syndicats nationaux de Montréal (CCSNM) de la Confédération des syndicats nationaux (CSN), qu'il quittera en
… Read more 1978. En 1970, lors de la crise dâOctobre, il est arrĂȘtĂ© et emprisonnĂ© durant quatre mois. Michel Chartrand est considĂ©rĂ© comme un ambassadeur de la justice sociale au QuĂ©bec, un dĂ©tracteur du capitalisme4 et de l'impĂ©rialisme et surtout comme l'une des figures de proue du syndicalisme quĂ©bĂ©cois5. Il Ă©tait mariĂ© Ă la militante pacifiste et Ă©crivaine fĂ©ministe Simonne Monet-Chartrand.
Syndicalism is a current in the labor movement to establish local, worker-based organizations and advance the demands and rights of workers through strikes. Major syndicalist organizations include the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), the General Confederation of Labor in France, the National Confederation of Labour in Spain, the Italian Syndicalist Union, the Free Workers' Union of Germany, and the Argentine Regional Workers' Federation. A number of syndicalist organizations were and still are to this day linked in the International Workers' Association.
Syndicalists advocate direct action, including working to rule, passive resistance, sabotage, and strikes, particularly
… Read more the general strike, as tactics in the class struggle, as opposed to indirect action such as electoral politics. The final step towards revolution, according to syndicalists, would be a general strike. Labor unions were seen as being the embryo of a new society in addition to being the means of struggle within the old. Syndicalists generally agreed that in a free society production would be managed by workers. The state apparatus would be replaced by the rule of workers' organizations. In such a society individuals would be liberated, both in the economic sphere but also in their private and social lives.
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