Spring

Spring Phone Zap for Paid Sick Days!
2021-04-28 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Toronto)
April 28 is the Day of mourning for workers who have been killed or injured on the job. Many workers are taking action to mourn for the dead and fight for the living.
We are organizing a phone zap for paid sick days! Many workers still don’t have access to paid sick days. Low-waged and racialized workers are disproportionately impacted by the lack of legislated paid sick days for all.
We are going to call Tory MPPs and Premier Ford to tell them workers need paid sick days that are legislated, adequate, employer-paid and universal. Workers need paid sick days not policing!
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Spring Decent Work Organizing Meeting
2021-04-26 19:00 - 20:30 (America/Toronto)
We are devoting the meeting to planning and thinking through how we can better support the decent work movement and fight the bosses.
Movement folks who are interested in this strategic discussion are welcome!
Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/1130701607405574/
Please email us at info@springmag.ca for the link

Indigenous Sovereignty, Anti-Racism, & Solidarity - Spring Organizing Meeting
2021-04-12 19:00 - 20:30 (America/Toronto)
This is a meeting to talk through our perspectives and organize around Indigenous sovereignty, Anti-racism, & Solidarity.
This is a meeting for members of the Spring Socialist Network, a pan-Canadian organization of socialists, but others are welcome to join. Agenda will be posted soon.
Email us at info@springmag.ca for the Zoom link.
Find the event on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/915037009263687

Spring Socialist Network Spring Convention
2021-03-28 12:00 - 17:00 (America/Toronto)
Join us as we discuss how to build the movements to take on racism, settler colonialism and capitalism. We will also discuss how we can build the Spring Socialist Network.
Find the event on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/256984405911430
Email us at info@springmag.ca for the Zoom link

Revolutionary Journalism
2021-03-25 19:00 - 20:30 (America/Toronto)
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 ideas but delivering the necessary information people need to do something. For the Spring Socialist Network, our magazine is the centerpiece of our organizing efforts to build movements and our organization.
Join us for this session, we will explore the principles of socialist writing, what that looks like in the 21st century, the importance of ideas and debates to our movement, and how writing enables us to effect social change.
Find the event on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/330281545083936
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Spring Decent Work Organizing Meeting
2021-03-15 19:00 - 20:30 (America/Toronto)
We are devoting the meeting to planning and thinking through how we can better support the decent work movement and fight the bosses.
Movement folks who are interested in this strategic discussion are welcome!
Find the event on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/2867048570237280/
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Indigenous Sovereignty, Anti-Racism, & Solidarity - Spring Organizing Meeting
2021-03-08 19:00 - 20:30 (America/Toronto)
This is a meeting to talk through our perspectives and organize around Indigenous sovereignty, Anti-racism, & Solidarity.
This is a meeting for members of the Spring Socialist Network, a pan-Canadian organization of socialists, but others are welcome to join. Agenda will be posted soon.
Find the event on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/2867048570237280/
Email us at info@springmag.ca for the Zoom link

Farmers' Protest: Resistance & Repression in India
2021-02-28 15:00 - 17:00 (America/Toronto)
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 through 3 agricultural laws that will further impoverish India’s farmers and farming communities.
The laws remove the minimum price farmers receive for their crops, remove the requirement of state support for farming communities, and further shift the balance of power away from farmers to big corporations and tech firms.
Join us for this group discussion as we draw inspiration from the mass movement, assess the political terrain, and share lessons.
Speakers:
-Navi Aujla is a leader in the Fight for $15 and Fairness and a community organizer based in Brampton.
-Sarah Nafisa Shahid is a freelance writer based in Toronto, mainly writing about film, culture, and art with a particular interest in the political and social implications of visual media.
-Garry Sran is an Economist and a Senior Research Advisor at the Alberta Union of Provincial Employees. He lives in Edmonton.
Find the event on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/700662770626289
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Spring Decent Work Organizing Meeting
2021-02-22 19:00 - 20:30 (America/Toronto)
Fighting for paid sick days, safe schools, higher minimum wage and decent work for all. We will be discussing supporting the struggles of union and non-union workers for better working conditions.
We are devoting the meeting to planning and thinking through how we can better support the decent work movement and fight the bosses.
Movement folks who are interested in this strategic discussion are welcome!
Email info@springmag.ca for the Zoom link
Find the event on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/2773018076280827

Getting organized for revolution
2021-02-18 19:00 - 20:30 (America/Toronto)
Marxist economics provides an invaluable framework for understanding our world. However, as Marx famously said, “the point [of interpretation]… is to change it”. To actualize the possibility of socialism, forces must collectively unite in order to be strong enough to confront the problems of capitalism. It is organization that provides the means for doing so.
In this session, we will discuss the value of joining a socialist organization specifically and the strategy involved in building the movements that will overthrow capitalism. Through movements we struggle for reforms to the capitalist system with revolution as our aim.
Join us for the discussion.
Find the event on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/490522649014030
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Indigenous Sovereignty, Anti-Racism, & Solidarity - Spring Organizing Meeting
2021-02-08 19:00 - 21:00 (America/Toronto)
This is a meeting to talk through our perspectives and organize around Indigenous sovereignty, Anti-racism, & Solidarity.

We will be focusing on the current state of the abolition movement in Canada and how we can contribute to building it.

The second half of the meeting we will be discussing the rise of the far-right in the United States and what lessons can take from the fight against fascism.

This is a meeting for members of the Spring Socialist Network, a pan-Canadian organization of socialists, but others are welcome to join.

Find the event on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/139782281290198/

Email info@springmag.ca for the Zoom link.

Socialists and Elections: What Brings Change?
2021-01-31 15:00 - 16:30 (America/Toronto)
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 does this relate to elections?
In 2021 we are likely to face a federal election and many provincial elections. Join Spring for a discussion about how socialists should approach elections and the project of building working class power.
Find the event on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/414243043334615
Suggested reading:
Beyond the New Democratic Party: https://canadiandimension.com/articles/view/beyond-the-new-democratic-party
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Building power: Centering anti-racism and anti-oppression practice
2021-01-28 19:00 - 20:30 (America/Toronto)
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 that mandates their oppression.
Marxist organization provides a framework for understanding exploitation, strengthening fights against different forms of oppression, and requires the centering of different oppressions in order to be effective. Learn in this class the relationship between capitalism and racism, capitalism and other forms of oppression, and how Marxism empowers those fighting inequality and injustice to fight back.
Find the event on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/228561755550008
Readings:

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor: https://socia7listworker.org/2011/01/04/race-class-and-marxism
Claudia Jones: https://palmm.digital.flvc.org/islandora/object/ucf%3A4865/datastream/OBJ/download/An_end_to_the_neglect_of_the_problems_of_the_Negro_woman_.pdf
Esma Choonara: http://isj.org.uk/racism-institutional-structural/

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Ten years after the Egyptian Revolution
2021-01-24 14:00 - 16:00 (America/Toronto)
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 about the origins of the revolution, its impact across the region and around the world, and the lessons it offers other revolutionary movements today.
A discussion will follow Wassim’s talk.
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Spring Decent Work Organizing Meeting
2021-01-18 19:00 - 21:00 (America/Toronto)
Fighting for paid sick days, safe schools, higher minimum wage and decent work for all. 2021 will be a year to support struggles of union and non-union workers for better working conditions.
We are devoting the meeting to planning and thinking through how we can better support the decent work movement and fight the bosses.
Movement folks who are interested in this strategic discussion are welcome!
Email info@springmag.ca for the Zoom link
Find the event on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/397180941570873

Spring into 2021 - Spring Socialist Network Winter Convention
2021-01-09 12:00 - 16:00 (America/Toronto)
Join us for the 2021 Spring Socialist Network Winter Convention.
We will be looking back at 2020, learning from the upsurge in social movements, assessing our work and discussion how we can prepare to fight and organized in the year to come.
Join us as we discuss how to build the movements to take on racism, settler colonialism and capitalism, while also building our socialist network.
Find the event on Facebook: Click Here
Email info@springmag.ca for the Zoom link

Reading group: Crisis & Resistance in Lebanon
2021-01-06 10:00 - 12:00 (America/Toronto)
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. The readings are listed below.
–http://isj.org.uk/lebanese-apocalypse/
–https://menasolidaritynetwork.com/2020/12/22/a-year-after-lebanons-uprising-there-is-power-in-our-collective-organisation/
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Spring into the Holidays - Social
2020-12-18 19:00 - 21:00 (America/Toronto)
Join Spring Magazine for an online holiday social!
We will look back on this wild year, celebrating revolutionary organizing, and activism while also looking forward to the end of 2020! We will have games, trivia, music, photos and poetry!
All are welcome!
Find the event on Facebook: Click Here
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Revolution Time وقت الثورة
2020-12-12 14:00 - 15:30 (America/Toronto)
وقت الثورة

يوم السبت 12 ديسمبر
2 مساءً بتوقيت شرق الولايات المتحدة ، 7 مساءً بتوقيت غرينتش ، 9 مساءً بتوقيت افريقيا الوسطي
انضم إلى مناقشة الكفاح من أجل الحرية والعدالة من قبل الشعب السوداني. لقد تم كسب بعض الحريات منذ الإطاحة بالبشير ، لكن هناك الكثير من الحريات على المحك. ما الذي يتطلبه الفوز بالثورة التي تضع القوة والاقتصاد في أيدي المواطنين السودانيين العاديين؟
سيتم استكشاف هذه الأسئلة الاستراتيجية في العروض التقديمية والمناقشات الجماعية باللغتين الإنجليزية والعربية ، مع الترجمة.
المتحدثون هم:
مزن النيل (السودان) شاب ثوري بالخرطوم
إلهام عبد الخالق (كندا) ، المؤسسة المشاركة لمنظمة كنداكة الدولية لحقوق المرأة
وسيم وجدي (بريطانيا) ، ثوري مصري

“Revolution time”

Join the discussion of the fight for freedom and justice by the Sudanese people. Some freedoms have been won since the overthrow of Bashir, but so much more is at stake. What will it take to win a revolution that truly puts power and the economy into the hands of ordinary Sudanese people? These strategic questions will be explored in presentations and group discussions in English and Arabic, with translations.

Panelists:

Muzan Alneel (Sudan), young revolutionary in Khartoum
Elham Abdelkhalig (Canada), co-founder of Kandaka International for Women’s Rights
Wassim Wagdy (UK) , Egyptian revolutionary

Saturday, December 12
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Panelists will refer to articles from the International Socialist Journal:
https://isj.org.uk/living-on-revolution-time/
https://isj.org.uk/class-power-and-revolution-in-sudan/
See Arabic translations in Spring magazine:
https://springmag.ca/arabic-living-on-revolution-time; and https://springmag.ca/arabic-class-power-and-revolution-in…

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Why the international working class?
2020-12-10 19:00 - 20:30 (America/Toronto)
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 socialism is solidarity. As Rosa Luxemburg argued, solidarity must be international for the fight for liberation to truly succeed. The working classes of the world are extremely diverse but they are unified in their oppression under the capitalist system. They share a common cause in the overthrow of a system that, in the age of climate crisis, is increasingly recognized as untenable and in need of a global solution. In this session, we will explore who the working classes are, what inextricably links them, and how socialists have come to understand that it is only through international solidarity that capitalism’s continuous crises may be brought to a halt.
If you missed the first two sessions, don’t worry, all are welcome.
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The state is not neutral: Canada’s violent history of genocide and oppression
2020-11-19 19:00 - 20:30 (America/Toronto)
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 is the history of resource extraction on unceded lands from which Indigenous peoples have been dispossessed. The Canadian left has an extended tradition of producing counter-history in exploring and exposing the tension between Canada’s famous perceived image of multicultural tolerance and its exploitative imperialist practices rooted in capitalism. In this session, we will learn more about both the history of oppression in Canada and the rich traditions of resistance that have emerged in response to colonialist exploitation.
If you missed the first session, don’t worry, all are welcome.
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NDP Re-elected: What Does This Mean For Our Fight for Reforms?
2020-11-05 19:00 - 20:30 (America/Vancouver)
With the provincial NDP winning a majority government, many are hoping to see movement towards social reforms that the NDP shares historic connections with. Has John Horgan and the BC NDP placed themselves in a better position to the ongoing climate, employment, and housing crises?
Join Spring as we discuss the political record of the BC NDP, as well as explore the ideas of reforms and the fundamental conflicts between a democratic society and capitalism.

Capitalism: How the economy works (or doesn’t)
2020-10-22 19:00 - 21:00 (America/Toronto)
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 racism and police brutality, and a looming climate crisis, 2020 has shaped up to be the beginning of a new era. Underpinning these crises however is the historical constant of the last 500 years: capitalism. Though 2020 has been a rocky year its upheavals are not unique under capitalism, which is inherently prone to “crises and booms”.
Join Spring for the first part of our “Spring into Socialism: A Beginners’ Guide to Social Change” series with an introduction to capitalism and come away with an understanding how Marxism empowers us to both understand the world and to fight to change it.
Suggested Readings:
-The Crisis Deepens- Joseph Choonara http://isj.org.uk/the-crisis-deepens/
-Marx’s theory of economic crisis https://isreview.org/issues/32/crisis_theory.shtml
-Why You Should Join a Socialist Organization https://www.jacobinmag.com/2020/05/join-socialist-organization-dsa-working-class
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West Coast Reading Group: What's Class got to do With it?
2020-10-09 19:00 - 21:00 (America/Vancouver)
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 ever, we need an international and organized working class movement. We need to work in solidarity with one another to put into motion a world free from oppression, exploitation, and disaster.
Join Spring for a discussion focusing on the what, the why, and the how of building the strength of the international and intersectional working class.
Recommended resources:
-The Working Class is the Vast Majority of Society https://jacobinmag.com/2020/09/working-class-peoples-guide-capitalism-marxist-economics
-Race is About More than Discrimination: https://monthlyreview.org/2020/07/01/race-is-about-more-than-discrimination/
-Marx was Right: Economics for the 99% (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEObOvuwI0g)
Also check out Covid, Crime, and Capitalism on our YouTube channel, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIT3RHiglOc
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Universal Basic Income: Should the left support it?
2020-10-04 15:00 - 17:00 (America/Toronto)
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 of a global pandemic and a massive economic crisis, discussion over UBI touches on real political and economic anxieties.

Over the last 40 years the attack on the social welfare state, the depreciating power of organized labour and an economy producing increasingly low-wage precarious jobs have led many to search for alternative mechanisms and policies to address these problems.

Could Universal Basic Income be that alternative policy? This Spring online meeting will explore this question.

Speakers:
Loretta Fisher, writer, poet and activist, member of Spring and the Workers’ Action Centre
Mina Rajabi, an education researcher and policy analyst
John Clarke, longtime anti-poverty activist with the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty
David Bush, contributor to Spring Magazine

Find the event on Facebook here: https://www.facebook.com/events/406748450313592/

Zoom link:

When: Oct 4, 2020 03:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Topic: Universal Basic Income: Should the left support it?Please click the link below to join the webinar:
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Online reading group: We need socialist organization
2020-09-11 19:00 - 21:00 (America/Toronto)
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 about alternatives. But, as Antonio Gramsci said, “ideas can’t live without organization.” The corporations, the capitalist state, the right wing are all organized. They are constantly learning and honing their methods. Our side needs organization too. To go from understanding the system to challenging it we need socialist organization. Join this discussion of the why, what, how and when of socialist organizing.
Email info@springmag.ca for zoom link
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Suggested Readings:
-Why you should join a socialist organization: https://www.jacobinmag.com/2020/05/join-socialist-organization-dsa-working-class
-Why socialists need organization: https://solidarity-us.org/whyorganization/
-Towards a revolutionary socialist party: https://www.marxists.org/archive/hallas/works/1971/xx/party.htm
-The period, the party and the next left: http://socialistworker.org/2019/03/22/the-period-the-party-and-the-next-left
-The Dig Podcast, “Organize to Win”: https://www.thedigradio.com/podcast/organize-to-win-with-andres-celin-and-rapheal-randall/

Online Reading Group: The Age of Surveillance Capitalism - PT. 3
2020-09-01 19:00 - 21:00 (America/Toronto)
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 discuss this book. But all are welcome, even if you missed our last discussion.
-We will be reading up to the end of Part 2 (Chapters 7 – 11).
-Email info@springmag.ca for zoom link
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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 by powerful corporations to predict and control our behavior.
In this masterwork of original thinking and research, Shoshana Zuboff provides startling insights into the phenomenon that she has named surveillance capitalism. The stakes could not be higher: a global architecture of behavior modification threatens human nature in the twenty-first century just as industrial capitalism disfigured the natural world in the twentieth.
Zuboff vividly brings to life the consequences as surveillance capitalism advances from Silicon Valley into every economic sector. Vast wealth and power are accumulated in ominous new “behavioral futures markets,” where predictions about our behavior are bought and sold, and the production of goods and services is subordinated to a new “means of behavioral modification.”
The threat has shifted from a totalitarian Big Brother state to a ubiquitous digital architecture: a “Big Other” operating in the interests of surveillance capital. Here is the crucible of an unprecedented form of power marked by extreme concentrations of knowledge and free from democratic oversight. Zuboff’s comprehensive and moving analysis lays bare the threats to twenty-first century society: a controlled “hive” of total connection that seduces with promises of total certainty for maximum profit–at the expense of democracy, freedom, and our human future.
With little resistance from law or society, surveillance capitalism is on the verge of dominating the social order and shaping the digital future–if we let it.

West Coast Reading Group: Marxism & Oppression
2020-08-19 19:30 - 21:00 (America/Vancouver)
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 objective truths of the violence capitalism forces on us, but the ways in which this violence is measured, spread, and reproduced. Marxists are often accused of ‘class reductionism,’ that is, that all forms of oppression faced by the masses of marginalized peoples is a product of the class struggle.

While it is true that those most oppressed by the ruling class are often members of historically and systemically marginalized groups, we do not all face oppression under capitalism the same way. Today, we are more multiracial, more openly LGBTQ2SA+, more disabled, and more upset than ever.

Join Spring for an online discussion on this topic and how we can best unite and fight in our time for a better world.

Resources:

Russia 1917: gender, class and the Bolsheviks (https://marxistleftreview.org/articles/russia-1917-gender-class-and-the-bolsheviks/)
Revolution in the 21st Century; chps 10-12 (https://www.marxists.org/archive/harman/2007/revolution/index.html)
Marxism, Exploitation, and Oppression (https://wearemany.org/a/2018/07/marxism-exploitation-and-oppression)

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Solidarity trip to 1492 Land Back Lane
2020-08-12 09:00 - 15:30 (America/Toronto)
Show your support for Indigenous Sovereignty! Join the Toronto solidarity trip to 1492 Landback Lane!

Land Defenders from the Haudenosaunee Six Nations are occupying their traditional territory at the McKenzie Meadows construction site in south Caledonia which is slated for development into townhomes. Just last week, the OPP arrested 9 people and fired a rubber bullet while enforcing an injunction from Haldimand County mayor Ken Hewitt.

Let’s bring our solidarity and material aid to show these Six Nations Land Defenders that we support their fight.

We will be leaving Toronto together and driving down together. Sign up to get details, send supplies, drive down a group or to find a ride at: info@springmag.ca
Donations can be sent to landback6nations@gmail.com

Online reading group: Socialist journalism
2020-08-07 19:00 - 20:30 (America/Toronto)
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 are doing the oppressing.” How can socialists challenge the ideas of the corporate media? How can we amplify the demands of social movements, remember lessons of past struggles, and build our own networks of resistance? Join us for a discussion of socialist writing, filming, posting and media of all kinds.
Suggested Readings:

Writing while socialist: http://bostonreview.net/global-justice/vijay-prashad-mark-nowak-writing-while-socialist
Unfortunately, we can’t log off: https://jacobinmag.com/2018/12/log-off-social-media-twitter-organizing-facebook
The revolutionary press: https://www.marxists.org/archive/harman/1984/xx/revpress.html
What is to be done: The website as organizer: https://www.jadaliyya.com/Details/27025 or video from the author, Revolution 2.0? Social media and social movements: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E74Ear0seaE

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