Laurentian Alliance

L'Alliance Laurentienne is a conservative socialist organization based in Quebec, Canada. The main goal of the party was to obtain the sovereignty of the province of Quebec. History

The Alliance was the first modern Francophone organization to raise the question of Quebec's independence from Canada. It was founded in 1957 and was founded by Raymond Barbeau. The organization was based on Catholic social doctrine, respect for individuality and private property, but unequivocally advocated the full state independence of Quebec, or what it called the Laurentian Republic. The Alliance has never been transformed into a functional political party, but its rise has far-reaching political implications. The Alliance has awakened the nationalist movements, of which the most important are the Union populaire, the Nationalist Party, the Nationalist Party, the Ralliement national, the Parti Québécois. Although many of them ideologically and physically came from the Alliance Laurentienne, most have rejected the Catholic-conservative ideology of liberal, social-democratic or socialist. Manifest Alliance Laurentian

The Alliance in 1858 issued a very important document - the manifesto of the organization. It became the basis for any further claims of independence in Quebec. In the first sentences of the manifesto, the authors defined his aims as "the dissemination of the idea of ​​the independence of the province of Quebec and the formation of the La Reine François de la Laurentie, which encompasses all French-speaking Canadians." In the next paragraph, the manifesto invoked Francophonie patriotism and its attachment to Catholic tradition. In the following, the authors cited an example of the fate of Arab states, which dropped the burden of foreign influence, creating a number of national states. They also relied on the far-reaching ideas of Pan-Slavicism.

The authors, no doubt, argued that the 5 million Canadian francophones did not have the full potential to cultivate their language, culture and national identity in the Anglo-Saxon and Protestant Canadian society. According to the authors, this situation could only lead to les haines, les misères, les guerres et le despotisme - hatred, poverty and despotism. On the contrary, l'harmonie et la paix reviendront dans le monde lorsque chaque nation sera libre: LIBER POUR LES PERSONNES, LIBERTÉ POUR LES PEUPLES! - harmony and peace have come to rule when every nation reaches freedom. The sentence ends with the slogan "freedom for individualism, freedom for the people". In these statements the representatives of the "laureate nation" did not differ much from the 19th century European nationalists.

According to the authors of the manifesto, in Quebec, there will be happiness and freedom when the Republic is established. It had the following rules:

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