Anti-capitalists take to the streets in Montreal to denounce ‘scheming’ rich
MONTREAL — Barely 30 minutes into the anti-capitalist protest march Monday in Montreal, several in the crowd threw canisters of pink gas at police, who responded with tear gas.
Moments later, red flags, black masks and other clothing littered a downtown square, belonging to a few protesters who entered into the city’s underground network to evade arrest.
Most of the anti-capitalist protesters stayed above-ground, however, and marched through downtown to disturb what they claimed were the corporate playgrounds of the scheming rich.
For the 10th consecutive year, a group calling itself the “anticapitalist convergence” organized a march in the city to celebrate International Workers’ Day, also known as May Day.