COVID-19: A Socialist Response
As COVID-19 spreads rapidly around the world, outpacing our capacity for testing, let alone treatment, it highlights the weakness of the capitalist system in the...
As COVID-19 spreads rapidly around the world, outpacing our capacity for testing, let alone treatment, it highlights the weakness of the capitalist system in the...
Already, there has been unprecedented state intervention to stablize the economic system as the impact of COVID-19 continues to unfold. Many progressively-minded people - and...
Join us for an on-line reading group on the economy, the pandemic and state responses. We are facing an unprecedented economic crisis in the midst...
Join us for an online discussion on capitalism, the state and socialist strategy. What is the capitalist state? How does it function? And what does...
The economic crisis triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic has caused millions to lose their jobs or see their hours of work reduced. Workers are struggling...
COVID-19 has opened up basic questions on how society organizes food, shelter, work and health, It has also shown all the ways migrants, BIPOC, poor...
Born in Poland in 1871, Rosa Luxemburg became a rabble rousing activist. Eventually, she ended up in Germany as one of the leading revolutionaries in...
Should the Left support a demand for a Universal Basic Income (UBI)? This simple question has provoked a fervent and confusing debate. In the midst...
As dozens of American cities rise in rebellion against murderous and racist police forces, calls for defunding or even abolishing the police are becoming louder....
The murder of George Floyd by four Minneapolis police officers has unleashed a wave of anger. Protests across the country and beyond (thousands marched for #justiceforRegis in...
The movement against police brutality and racism are continuing to grow in the US, Canada, and the world. There is an ever increasing push on...
The challenges to humanity posed by the digital future, the first detailed examination of the unprecedented form of power called "surveillance capitalism," and the quest...
Join us for an online reading group of this very substantial read. We are reading this book in sections. This is our second meeting to...
As Malcolm X warned, "if you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who...
One of the reasons we fight for revolutionary change is to put an end to oppression. It is important to truly acknowledge, not just the...
Join us for an online reading group of this very substantial read. We are reading this book in sections. This is our second meeting to...
The capitalist system breeds a cruel world of racism, sexism, exploitation and climate chaos. These problems lead many to question the system and start thinking...
The global health pandemic and continued economic and climate crises have only shown capitalism’s inability to put the needs of people over profit. More than...
We are now living through the largest global recession in modern history. With widespread joblessness, public health emergencies, rising rates of homelessness, mass uprisings against...
Join us for our second course in the series Spring into Socialism: A Beginner’s Guide to Social Change. The history of the settler Canadian state...
Join us for our third course in the series Spring into Socialism: A Beginner’s Guide to Social Change. The fundamental ethic of the struggle for...
A few of us are getting together Wednesday morning to discuss a recent article on Lebanon by Anne Alexander, published in the International Socialism Journal....
January 25, 2021 marks the ten-year anniversary of the start of the Egyptian Revolution. Join us to hear Egyptian socialist and revolutionary, Wassim Wagdy, talk...
Capitalism’s contradictions necessitate inequality, injustice, and social division. Be it by race, gender, sexuality, ability, religion, nationality, or age, people struggle unequally under a system...
Where does the power of the working class reside, the ballot box or the streets? How should socialists understand where social change comes from. And...
Marxist economics provides an invaluable framework for understanding our world. However, as Marx famously said, “the point ... is to change it”. To actualize the...
Millions of people have been moved into action as farmers in India resist the far right BJP government of Narendra Modi. Last year, Modi pushed...
The distribution of information is crucial to socialist organization. Through journalism socialists can connect “principles, experience, and the tasks of the moment”, not only sharing...
12 years after the historic Tamil protests in Toronto, Eelam Tamils in Sri Lanka live under the military occupation of the Sri Lankan state. Tamils...
October 7, 2021 will mark the 20-year anniversary of the start of the US-led bombing campaign of Afghanistan, which led to two decades of war...
Join Spring for this special roundtable discussion on the history, achievements, challenges, and opportunities of the Palestinian national liberation struggle, featuring a multi-generational panel of...
In 2019, Sudan's mass democratic uprising toppled the country’s hated dictator, Omar al-Bashir, and secured a power sharing agreement between civilian leaders and the military...
Join Sudanese revolutionaries from on the ground to discuss the flourishing of revolutionary bodies and resurgence of the uprising in Sudan. The 2019 revolution in...
From the fight for climate justice to the movement to defund the police, more and more people are concluding that capitalism itself is the problem....
For Israeli Apartheid Week join Spring for this special roundtable discussion about how we can build solidarity with Palestine on campuses. This panel will look...