In this episode, we tune in to a condensed version of Spring’s recent conversation with education worker and socialist Benoit Renaud about lessons we can learn from the Quebec labour movement.
York University, like many post-secondary institutions, relies heavily on low-wage precarious labour to provide education and support students. The majority of the teaching at York is done by contract faculty, yet York does not value or protect them, as demonstrated in their continuous refusal to address job precarity and potential job loss they face every few months. Workers are making job security a key issue in this strike because we know York works because we do.
On January 30, 2024, British Columbia’s now-former Minister of Post-Secondary Education and Future Skills Selina Robinson added her name to the long list of anti-Palestinian racists.
On January 27, Stephen Marche wrote a piece in the Globe and Mail titled ‘When extremist activists drive the left to oblivion, what will remain?’…
This episode is about the spirit and energy of a revolution: the Russian Revolution and its impact all over the world, from India to Peru, from 1917 to today.
Films reflect the times, places, and people that made them. In late-stage capitalist Hollywood, superhero movies reflect hyper-individualism, war movies reflect nationalism, horror movies reflect…
In this episode of Spring Radio, Spring member Dave Bush sits down with labour journalist Emily Leedham to reflect on workers’ struggles in Canada in…
In this episode of Spring Radio, we share excerpts from “Red October” where Spring members discuss why fighting transphobia, homophobia, racism, and sexism is inherently a workers’ issue and why socialists need to build anti-oppressive, multi-racial working class movements.
Despite vicious attacks from the media and politicians, Palestine solidarity has become a mass movement in the UK. Multiple demonstrations in London have drawn out over 250,000 people. The November 11th march had close to a million people attend. Large actions are continuously happening across the UK demanding the government support a ceasefire.
This article is based on a talk given in Toronto at Ceasefire NOW: How can we stop the genocide in Gaza? We supporters of Palestinian…
In this episode, we sit down with John Clark of Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP) to discuss the organization’s years of militancy and how it built a coalition of organizers from varying left tendencies and developed a basis of unity.
A phone zap is an action where we collectively call our MPs and government cabinet ministers to raise our demands. It’s an easy and fun…
