Socialists and the fight for climate justice
“We cannot simply build isolated utopias while the rest of the world burns, nor can we wait for the slow process of reformist reform to…
“We cannot simply build isolated utopias while the rest of the world burns, nor can we wait for the slow process of reformist reform to…
22,000 public service workers in New Brunswick are on strike. The school bus drivers, custodians, mechanics, healthcare workers in rehabilitation and therapy, educational support staff,…
Immediately following the recent military coup in Sudan, an emergency solidarity rally was held in Toronto on October 26. Spring Magazine spoke with one of…
Almost a century ago, Canadian socialists advanced a vision for cities built in the interest of people, not profit, that included gorgeous public housing. We should look to their ideas to learn how we can revitalize public life.
“Well, what’s wrong?”/ “So, the thing is…”/ “How about you use your body to pay?”/ “What?”/ SLAP! It’s probably one of the more innocuous (although…
The Liberals were re-elected on this promise, and this can’t wait. Justin Trudeau needs to translate words into action: immediately mandate 10 paid sick days for federally regulated workers, and convene the provinces and territories to develop a national action plan for similar legislation across the country. And provincial governments, from BC and Ontario to the rest of provinces and territories, need to follow.
A moralistic approach to social transformation is not only incapable of building the power to win, it can unconsciously reproduce a ruling class perspective about social change. We need ideas that can help us understand our world in order to transform it.
One of the promises Justin Trudeau made during the federal election was to legislate 10 paid sick days within 100 days of re-election. Trudeau has…
While calls to defund police have spread across Canada, police budgets have actually been growing, often substantially. Police have deployed a range of fear campaigns…
The struggle for a free Palestine has been ongoing since the Zionist project displaced millions of Palestinians from their homeland in 1948 to create the…
Undoing centuries of racism requires looking at major government purchases through the lens of whether or not they challenge, or reinforce, existing structural power imbalances. …
Hundreds gathered outside the former Halifax Memorial Library building on Spring Garden Road in Kjipuktuk/Halifax on Thursday, October 14 to commemorate and celebrate the life…