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April 21, 2021 
Paid sick days for all: A reader
The onset of the third wave of the pandemic has increased the calls for paid sick days to help keep workers safe and combat the…
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March 23, 2021
Spring’s writing guide
Writing is a powerful tool to communicate socialist ideas, to share the best lessons, tactics and strategies and to build the capacity and confidence of…
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March 8, 2021
International Women’s Day and the struggle for socialism
On March 8, 1950, Claudia Jones—a leading member of the Communist Party of the US—delivered a speech on International Women’s Day, which was subsequently published…
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March 3, 2021
COVID survivors still need paid sick days
Queen is an essential worker without status, who survived COVID-19 during the first wave and continues to work in long-term care. She spoke with Spring…
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February 24, 2021
C.L.R. James: Revolution and the Negro
C.L.R. James, renowned Marxist historian and activist C.L.R. James, wrote this essay in 1939 for New International, the theoretical magazine of the Socialist Workers Party. This…
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February 19, 2021
Brown is beautiful: Rosemary Brown’s 1975 NDP convention speech
In 1975 Rosemary Brown ran for the federal NDP leadership under the slogan “Brown is beautiful”. She was the first Black woman to be elected…
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February 11, 2021
#Justice4ChantelleAndMike: Police and medical violence
On February 8 Chantelle Krupka and Michael Headley shared their experience with police violence and medical complicity, in an even organized by Malton People’s Movement…
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January 22, 2021
A guide to refusing unsafe work in Ontario
As federal income support for workers ends and employers are eager to ramp up profits, more and more workers are heading back to work despite…
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January 21, 2021
Egyptian Revolution: A brief introduction
January 25, 2021 marks the ten-year anniversary of the start of the Egyptian Revolution. To mark the anniversary Spring compiled a selection of articles covering…
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January 19, 2021
‘Legislate paid sick days for all’ draft motion
As the second wave of the pandemic hits Canada more and more workers are getting sick. But far too many workers don’t have paid sick…
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December 28, 2020
Spring’s books of 2020
2020 has been a year of intense crisis and inspiring resistance. Here are some of the books we reviewed at Spring Magazine that were sources…
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December 18, 2020
2020: A year of crisis and resistance
2020 was a year of crisis—environmental, economic, and viral. But it was also a year of resistance—against racism, austerity, and injustice. Below is a brief…