How do we defeat Doug Ford?
With less than a month to go before the June 2 election Ford is leading in the polls. To change this we need to build strong movements that raise people’s expectations, put workers and racialized communities’ needs front and centre and aim to shift the political terrain to the left.
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Understanding the crypto crash
On its own, the crypto crash is unlikely to trigger a wider economic meltdown. But the conditions which caused the crash — the pullback of easy money policies by the capitalist class to control inflation — could easily result in a recession. If that happens, a central question of our time of crisis is sure to reemerge: who will foot the bill?
Revolutionary journalism
What is the role of journalism in revolutionary change? Spring Magazine spoke with Hossam El-Hamalawy–a journalist, photographer, and member of the Egyptian Revolutionary Socialists–about revolutionary…
Thousands march in Toronto on Nakba Day
On May 15, Palestinians mark Nakba Day (“the catastrophe” in Arabic), to remember the mass expulsion of Palestinians that accompanied the creation of the state…
State repression in the Philippines: Free the Angat 2!
John Griefen Arlegui (age 20) and Reynaldo Remias Jr. (age 24), also known as “The Angat 2”, are two political prisoners in the Philippines, detained…
Ontario’s childcare deal is bad for workers and parents
Ontarians have been waiting with baited breath for more than a year for Ford to finally sign off on a deal with the federal government…
How global McCarthyism shaped the world
The Jakarta Method: Washington’s Anticommunist Crusade & the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World by Vincent Bevins (Public Affairs: 2020) As debates rage about …
Killings of unhoused people by Canadian cops: Policing as poor bashing
Police are state instruments of class violence, and are indispensable to the maintenance of capitalism. There are few ways in which that violence is deployed…
How housewives organized against inflation
RADICAL HOUSEWIVES is a play about the struggles of Toronto housewives in the 1930s and 1940s for lower food prices, and about the weight of…
NDP fails those who want peaceful solutions to conflict in Ukraine
Those across Canada who would like to support a progressive political party working for peaceful solutions to military conflicts are being pushed out of the…
