Ten women have been murdered in Quebec by their partners during the first six months of 2026 alone, surpassing the total number of femicides recorded in all of 2025.
Three of these women were killed by their ex-partners; another three likely while trying to leave the relationship. In four of the cases, the men committed suicide immediately after the murder.
These horrifying incidents are not isolated tragedies, but another symptom of this sick and oppressive system that perverts all human relationships.
In response to the public outcry, the National Assembly of Quebec tabled a law that would allow women to request information from the police to find out if their partner has a history of violence.
Overwhelmingly, it is not a lack of information or willpower but a lack of resources that makes women vulnerable to domestic violence. Therefore, this law, already enacted in four other provinces, is only a Band-Aid on a deep, open wound that the capitalist state is ultimately incapable of healing.
By gutting public services and keeping wages low, the current economic order strips away safety nets that could offer women at risk an escape route. Due to severe underfunding, Quebec shelters are already forced to turn away more than half of the women who seek their help. Compounding this, a lack of decent jobs and affordable housing means women must stay in emergency beds longer, creating a bottleneck effect that traps others in dangerous domestic situations.
It is no coincidence, then, that femicides are on the rise. This violence is bound to intensify as the economic crisis deepens, placing an increasingly suffocating burden on the working class.
Capitalism does not merely exploit our labour; it forces us into a brutal, atomized competition for survival, fundamentally distorting how we relate to one another. To free women from men and to free both from capital, we need to fight for communism.
