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Librairie l'Insoumise
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Montreal's anarchist bookstore, Librairie l'Insoumise, is located downtown on Saint Laurent Boulevard. It opened in November 2004,[1] several months after the closing of the Alternative bookshop. The bookstore specializes primarily in French and English-language literature on anarchism, ecology, labour, anti-racism, history, economics, feminism, art and fiction, primarily from perspectives relevant to anarchism.
Since the late 1970's, there has been an anarchist bookstore at this location. The non-profit association that presently owns the bookstore formed in 1982, bought the building, thus ensuring that a bookstore could continue without paying high downtown rents.
The bookstore's name "l'Insoumise" means in French "The Insubordinate", a derogatory moniker given to Louise Michel, a French anarchist and participant in the Paris Commune.
The bookstore is managed by a bookstore committee (the comité libraire) mandated by the non-profit organisation [2] open to individual anarchists or anarchist distribution projects, through their delegates. Since 2004, the great majority of Montreal's anarchist distributors, writers or publishing projects have become active members, or in the case of smaller projects, have left their material on consignment.
In the same building as the bookstore, there is a lending library and reading room, the DIRA, which stands for Documentations, Informations, Références et Archives.
