“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…
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…
It has been months since the encampment evictions that garnered national attention and outrage in Toronto this summer, however none of the city’s actions have…
In a society where health outcomes reflect social and economic inequalities, and where the uneven application of policies reinforces these inequalities, we need to centre equity and workers rights in any public health discussion.
The PPC danger should not be underestimated. They are a pole of attraction on the far-right and the only strong voice opposing vaccine passports. Their growth only gives a wider platform for racism, bigotry and a potential to pull the entire political debate to the right.
Canada’s upcoming federal election, scheduled for September 20, will take place against a backdrop of public health as well as environmental crises. In addition to…
The days, weeks and months after 9/11 saw mourning turning into rage and reaction. Grief and fear were transformed into justifications for war and violence. The entire political needle moved to the right at lightning speed. The war on terror unleashed the terror of war.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau called for an early federal election as we entered into the fourth wave of the pandemic. The question on everyone’s mind:…
In the vast history of imperialist exploitation, few episodes match the depravity of Haiti’s debt of independence. Military blackmail of a small country by a…
Spring Magazine is proud to announce the launch of the Spring Podcast. This is a podcast that aims to connect socialist ideas with action and…
In response to the corporatization of pride and pink-washing of police, we should learn from Marxist feminism and adopt Marxist principles into queer theory. We should reject corporations and cops, support anti-capitalism and abolition, and build movements that combine Black liberation, women’s liberation and queer liberation. And like Marsha P. Johnson, be prepared to throw bricks when the time comes.
Whichever party wins this election, the problems of Canadian capitalism will not disappear, especially those that have been accentuated by the COVID-19 pandemic.
