Editing Front de libération du Québec (section)

== History ==
{{Details|Timeline of the Front de libération du Québec}}

Members and sympathizers of the group were called "Felquistes" ({{IPA|fr|fɛlˈkist}}<!--there is no final [s] in the plural-->), a word coined from the French pronunciation of the letters FLQ. Some of the members were organized and trained by [[Georges Schoeters]], a [[Belgium|Belgian]] revolutionary. FLQ members Normand Roy and Michel Lambert received guerrilla training from the [[Palestine Liberation Organization]] in [[Jordan]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.booksincanada.com/article_view.asp?id=1115 |title=Books in Canada – Review |website=booksincanada.com |access-date=2 April 2018 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20220317202503/http://www.booksincanada.com/article_view.asp?id=1115 |archive-date=17 March 2022}}</ref> The FLQ was a loose association operating as a [[clandestine cell system]]. Various cells emerged over time: the Viger Cell founded by Robert Comeau, history professor at the {{lang|fr|i=no|[[Université du Québec à Montréal]]}}; the Dieppe Cell; the [[Louis Riel]] Cell; the Nelson Cell; the Saint-Denis Cell; the [[Liberation Cell]]; and the [[Chénier Cell]]. The last two of these cells were involved in what became known as the [[October Crisis]]. From 1963 to 1970, the FLQ committed over 200 violent actions, including bombings, bank hold-ups, kidnappings, at least three killings by FLQ bombs and two killings by gunfire.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Stewart |first=James |url=https://quescren.concordia.ca/en/resource/LR9TDBRC |title=The FLQ: Seven Years of Terrorism: A Special Report by the Montreal Star |date=1970 |publisher=Montreal Star |location=Montreal |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=CBC News |title=The October Crisis |url=https://www.cbc.ca/history/EPISCONTENTSE1EP16CH1PA4LE.html}}</ref><ref>October Crisis. The Events Preliminary to the Crisis. historyofrights.ca https://historyofrights.ca/wp-content/uploads/documents/FLQ_appendixc.pdf</ref> In 1966, ''Revolutionary Strategy and the Role of the Avant-Garde'' was prepared by the FLQ, outlining their long-term strategy of successive waves of robberies, violence, bombings, and kidnappings, culminating in revolution. The history of the FLQ is sometimes described as a series of "waves". The ideology was based on an extreme form of [[Quebec nationalism]] that denounced Anglo exploitation and control of Quebec, combined with Marxist–Leninist ideas and arguments.<ref name="Crouch2009">{{cite book |author=Cameron I. Crouch |title=Managing Terrorism and Insurgency: Regeneration, Recruitment and Attrition |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AMaOAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA35 |year=2009 |publisher=Routledge |pages=35–36 |isbn=978-1-135-23018-0}}</ref>