Analysis
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September 28, 2022 
The market doesn’t care about your grandma
The market doesn’t care about any of us. But it surely does not care about your grandma. The people in power insist that the current…
Articles
Interview
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September 27, 2022
Education workers fighting back: Interview with Laura Walton
CUPE’s Ontario School Board Council of Unions represents 55,000 education workers in Ontario. They are fighting for higher wages and better working conditions. Currently members are in the midst of a strike vote. Spring recently spoke with Laura Walton, the President of OSBCU – CSCSO, about how education workers are organizing to fight for decent wages and a fair contract.
Interview
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September 26, 2022
Migrant justice challenges ‘precarity at every level’
September 18 marked an important day for migrants across the country. Migrants and supporters alike are demanding regularization and permanent residency status for all. Some…
Review
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September 23, 2022
How strikes made the elementary teachers’ union
Class Action: How Ontario’s Elementary Teachers Became a Political Force by Andy Hanson (Between the Lines, 2021) Andy Hanson’s Class Action is an accessible and…
News
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September 22, 2022
Status for All: We are not begging, we are telling
Thousands of migrants, advocates, and allies gathered at Christie Pits Park in Toronto on Sunday to demand Status for All. The rally started at 2…
Op-ed
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September 21, 2022
In defence of mapping settler-colonialism
Mapping settler-colonialism exposes the links between corporations and governments in perpetuating atrocities, displacement and exploitation at home and abroad.
Interview
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September 20, 2022
Labour and the Global Climate Strike: An interview with Nigel Barriffe
For thousands of years, Indigenous Peoples across Turtle Island have cared for and protected the land and water we all rely on. This is especially…
Feature
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September 19, 2022
Remember the victims of Britain’s monarchy and empire
What is the federal government asking us to commemorate when it declared Monday a holiday (for federal public sector workers) to mark Queen Elizabeth II’s…
Op-ed
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September 17, 2022
Why international students should join the status For all day of action
Canada has seen an exponential increase in the intake of international students. With a record number of study permits issued in 2021 (450,000), Canada is…
Feature
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September 16, 2022
Justice delayed and distorted: Ontario police officers charged for killing 18-month old Jameson Shapiro
On November 26, 2020, Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) officers shot and killed 18-month-old Jameson Shapiro and his father, William Shapiro (33) in the city of…
Analysis
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September 15, 2022
Migrant justice = economic and climate justice
A united working class, based on migrant justice and Indigenous sovereignty can challenge Canadian borders, bosses, and the climate crisis.
Analysis
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September 14, 2022
Royalty and the ruling class
Royalty plays an important part in reinforcing ideas that inequality is natural and of the impossibility of fundamental change. It has no place in a democracy and is anathema to the idea of socialism and equality.