Generated by All in One SEO v4.9.0, this is an llms.txt file, used by LLMs to index the site. # Spring a magazine of socialist ideas in action ## Sitemaps - [XML Sitemap](https://springmag.ca/sitemap.xml): Contains all public & indexable URLs for this website. ## Posts - [Articles](https://springmag.ca/articles) - [Corruption, the courts, and the French Presidency: Marine Le Pen declares for 2027](https://springmag.ca/corruption-the-courts-and-the-french-presidency-marine-le-pen-declares-for-2027) - The far-right leader of the National Rally (RN) in France, Marine Le Pen, among the favorites to win next year's presidential election, has been convicted along with other RN leaders, of embezzlement. The convictions have just been confirmed in the appeal court, but the ban on her standing in elections, imposed by a lower court, - [Review: Understanding the counter-revolution in Egypt](https://springmag.ca/review-understanding-the-counter-revolution-in-egypt) - Counter-revolution in Egypt: Sisi’s New Republic by Hossam el-Hamalawy (Verso, 2026). “Engels elucidates the concept of the ‘power’ which is called the state…What does this power mainly consist of? It consists of special bodies of armed men having prisons, etc., at their command.” – Lenin, The State and Revolution Even after living in extremely repressive - [BC nurses kick off strike with VGH solidarity picket](https://springmag.ca/bc-nurses-kick-off-strike-with-vgh-solidarity-picket) - Striking nurses held a mass solidarity picket on July 7 at Vancouver General Hospital. Hundreds of nurses attended, some still wearing their scrubs from a previous or upcoming shift. They were joined by members and leaders from several unions, including BCGEU, CUPE, SEIU, HSA, HEU, TSSU and the BC Federation of Labour. The mood was - [Despite what Doug Ford thinks, social services are Worth Fighting For](https://springmag.ca/despite-what-doug-ford-thinks-social-services-are-worth-fighting-for) - Over 4,000 workers in Ontario’s social services organized with OPSEU are either on strike or locked out in a province-wide fight for better wages, backpay from the illegal Bill 124, better conditions, and better funding to keep social services strong. The workers are taking action under the banner of the Worth Fighting For campaign, uniting - [Don’t shed a tear for Keir: How Labour botched their big chance and what comes next](https://springmag.ca/dont-shed-a-tear-for-keir-how-labour-botched-their-big-chance-and-what-comes-next) - It was a big week in British politics. On June 18, Mayor of Manchester and Labour candidate Andy Burnham won the Makerfield by-election on a high turnout with 55 percent of the vote, compared to 35 percent for Reform and 7 percent for Restore, the UK’s two far right parties. Shortly after the by-election win - [“Rifle, machine gun, the people will not be silenced”: General strike and protests in Bolivia](https://springmag.ca/rifle-machine-gun-the-people-will-not-be-silenced-general-strike-and-protests-in-bolivia) - Austerity and neoliberalism have pushed workers across Bolivia into an indefinite general strike, with miners, teachers, and transport workers, alongside social movement groups (primarily Indigenous), blockading La Paz and other major cities for over five weeks, grinding the cities to a halt. Road blockades, led by millions of mostly Indigenous peasants and labour unions directed - [AI for no one: Stop the Vancouver data centres from being built](https://springmag.ca/ai-for-no-one-stop-the-vancouver-data-centres-from-being-built) - Federal and provincial ministries have announced plans for two AI data centres in Vancouver: Downtown and Mount Pleasant, two major sites of tenant activism, Indigenous activism, and conflict with developers. These data centres have a tremendous environmental cost due to massive use of fresh water as well as emerging concerns of pollution and human disease. - [George Jackson, prisoner liberation, and the building of the united front ](https://springmag.ca/george-jackson-prisoner-liberation-and-the-building-of-the-united-front) - As reactionary policies become further entrenched by increasingly overt copaganda, bi-partisan support for prison expansion remains a foundational component across the electoral spectrum. Since 2020, several provinces (including NDP-run BC and Manitoba) have committed to building a combined 3800 prison beds by 2031 in both existing and newly built carceral institutions at the exorbitant cost - [Marx’s revolutionary roads](https://springmag.ca/marxs-revolutionary-roads) - The Late Marx’s Revolutionary Roads: Colonialism, Gender, and Indigenous Communism by Kevin B. Anderson (Verso, 2025). For a lot of new socialists who are just starting to read about Marxist concepts like historical materialism, Kevin B. Anderson’s book, published in 2025, covers a lot of gaps in most introductory materials. Specifically, Anderson reframes many of - [Munk Debates exclude relevant voices ](https://springmag.ca/munk-debates-exclude-relevant-voices) - The Munk Debates are displaying a paternalistic and even imperialistic tone based on tenuous assumptions about power and relevance that are increasingly alien to public sentiment. These Canadian debates occur in a country whose government refuses to act against the ongoing U.S.-Israeli war on Iran or Israel’s perpetual aggression. Therefore, it is unsurprising that victims - ["If it's in life, it should be in the movies": An Interview with John Sayles & Maggie Renzi ](https://springmag.ca/if-its-in-life-it-should-be-in-the-movies-an-interview-with-john-sayles-maggie-renzi) - Spring Magazine spoke with legendary independent filmmaker and author John Sayles and producer Maggie Renzi on their recent visit to Toronto for Declarations of Independence: The Cinema of John Sayles, a retrospective of their films currently screening at TIFF Lightbox. John Sayles is primarily known for his independent films, which vary widely in genre but - [Riding high on the AI bubble ](https://springmag.ca/riding-high-on-the-ai-bubble) - Money for child care and hospitals will deliver far more positive economic and social impacts than handing out cash to private companies for yet more data centres. But for now, Carney is committing to blowing public money into the private AI bubble regardless of the potential long-term impact on workers and the economy. - [A data centre may be coming to your neighbourhood ](https://springmag.ca/a-data-centre-may-be-coming-to-your-neighbourhood) - In the United States, data centre developments have become an increasingly pressing issue for many communities. They bring noise pollution, water contamination, and higher utility bills, which can have the added effect of lowering property values of nearby residents. Data centres also offer relatively few jobs despite their scale and environmental impacts, with even the - [Clean air and COVID care are working peoples' affairs](https://springmag.ca/clean-air-and-covid-care-are-working-peoples-affairs) - Around the world people are getting sick more often, and staying sick for longer, than before the pandemic began. Here in so-called canada, our government claims that the COVID-19 public health emergency is over, despite the fact that 1 in 32 people in the country are currently infected, people continue to die from COVID-19, cases - [Palestinian liberation is disability justice](https://springmag.ca/palestinian-liberation-is-disability-justice) - 10 Principles of Disability Justice (from Sins Invalid) INTERSECTIONALITY “We do not live single issue lives” –Audre Lorde. Ableism, coupled with white supremacy, supported by capitalism, underscored by heteropatriarchy, has rendered the vast majority of the world “invalid.” LEADERSHIP OF THOSE MOST IMPACTED “We are led by those who most know these systems.” –Aurora Levins - [Workers undeterred by growing tensions in fight for Ontario's social service sector](https://springmag.ca/workers-undeterred-by-growing-tensions-in-fight-for-ontarios-social-service-sector) - Thousands of community and social service workers in Ontario, unionized under OPSEU, are currently on strike or locked out of their workplaces as they fight the provincial government’s chronic mishandling of their sector. These workers, over 4,500 of them, are taking action as part of OPSEU’s “Worth Fighting For” campaign. Their main demands are an - [Book Review: "Thin Blue Rage: The Police Countermovement"](https://springmag.ca/book-review-thin-blue-rage-the-police-countermovement) - Thin Blue Rage: The Police Countermovement, by Andrew Crosby and Jeffrey Monaghan (Fernwood Publishing, May 2026). The years following the George Floyd rebellions have witnessed a significant upsurge in the power of police, whose budgets and resources have increased dramatically in an attempt to combat resistance against genocide, neoliberal austerity and rising authoritarianism. However, this - [Colonialism, capitalism and Canada ](https://springmag.ca/colonialism-capitalism-and-canada) - Canada in the World: Settler Capitalism and the Colonial Imagination by Tyler Shipley (2020, Fernwood Press). Tyler A. Shipley’s book Canada in the World: Settler Capitalism and the Colonial Imagination is an incredibly useful history. It compiles a list of Canada’s crimes, giving reason to those of us who have always felt a bit icky when - [Remembering the International Socialists](https://springmag.ca/remembering-the-international-socialists) - From the Free Speech Movement to the Factory Floor: A Collective History of the International Socialists, edited by Andrew Stone Higgins (Haymarket Books, March 2026) Towards the end of the 1960s, a small group of socialists in northern California were shopping around for a national left-wing organization to join. They invited members of various groups - [Striking OPSEU social service workers are fighting for their communities](https://springmag.ca/striking-opseu-social-service-workers-are-fighting-for-their-communities) - Workers at Sistering in west Toronto (OPSEU 540) took strike action and walked off the job on Monday. Sistering is a 24/7 community drop-in service that provides supports for women and gender-diverse people in need, including harm reduction services, food access, counselling, and healthcare. The roughly 70 workers at Sistering join another 4,500 other social - [Ontario’s war on special education ](https://springmag.ca/ontarios-war-on-special-education) - Across Ontario, parents are watching specialized classrooms disappear. As supports shrink and staffing levels decrease, children with disabilities are being left behind. Students with disabilities and learning challenges are being abandoned as Ontario education suffers from underfunding and slow, creeping privatization. Cuts aren’t “investments” The Ford government has repeatedly touted its “historic investments in education,” - [Tahanan tenants on rent strike against 8% rent increase](https://springmag.ca/tahanan-tenants-on-rent-strike-against-8-rent-increase) - On Friday, May 22nd, a crowd of approximately 40 residents and community supporters gathered for a press conference and rally outside of Tahanan Homes, a small apartment building tucked up in a quiet neighbourhood north of Davenport Rd and Lansdowne Ave in Toronto. During the press conference, tenants of the building (supported by the Federation - [Stopping Ford's hospital privatization train wreck](https://springmag.ca/stopping-fords-hospital-privatization-train-wreck) - On Thursday, May 28, thousands of Ontarians will be taking to the rails and converging on Union Station in downtown Toronto. In addition to their bags, these passengers will be carrying a key message for the government of Ontario: “Stop Ford’s hospital privatization train wreck.” Organized by the Ontario Health Coalition, attendees expected from as - [Ontario classrooms are being stripped down to the bare minimum](https://springmag.ca/ontario-classrooms-are-being-stripped-down-to-the-bare-minimum) - For a long time, class sizes (the ratio of students to teachers) have been a key indicator of the state of public education. However, in my lived experience as an elementary teacher in a public school board in Ontario, the crisis in schools cannot be reduced to class sizes alone. Through cuts and power grabs, - [Worth fighting for: Community Living London workers ready to strike](https://springmag.ca/worth-fighting-for-community-living-london-workers-ready-to-strike) - Community Living London workers are preparing to walk off the job on Monday, joining thousands of workers across Ontario in a growing labour dispute driven by chronic underfunding, low wages, and worsening working conditions. This action is a part of the “Worth Fighting For” campaign, a coordinated, province-wide community and labour action in Ontario led - [A Bug’s Life: Almost thirty years later, Pixar’s forgotten film is more relevant than ever](https://springmag.ca/a-bugs-life-almost-thirty-years-later-pixars-forgotten-film-is-more-relevant-than-ever) - As Trump took to Twitter to threaten a potential nuclear strike on Iran in April, many users on the platform and other social media cried out for “someone” to “do something”. This has recently become somewhat of a common occurrence as the ruling class continues to wreak havoc on the working class by escalating its - [From bad to worse: Labour’s latest defeat signals an uncertain future for British politics](https://springmag.ca/from-bad-to-worse-labours-latest-defeat-signals-an-uncertain-future-for-british-politics) - Polls closed across the UK on Thursday 7 May 2026 for local elections across the UK. In England, around 5,000 local councillors across 136 councils (including all London boroughs) as well as six mayors were up for election. These councillors are responsible for day‑to‑day local services such as housing, planning and social care. The same - [The Canada Strong Fund is a farce](https://springmag.ca/the-canada-strong-fund-is-a-farce) - On April 28, 2026, Prime Minister Mark Carney presented the Federal government’s spring economic update. The announcement that garnered the most attention was the “Canada Strong Fund” (CSF): Canada’s bizarro sovereign wealth fund that provides Canadians the opportunity to invest in federal projects. Unfortunately for Canadians, as Carney continues to demonstrate an over-reliance on financial - [Mama Earth workers fight back against union busting](https://springmag.ca/mama-earth-workers-fight-back-against-union-busting) - On Saturday, May 9th, laid-off workers at Toronto-based produce delivery service Mama Earth led a rally to protest union busting at their workplace. The action comes on the heels of Mama Earth CEO Ran Goel’s announcement of the firing of 102 unionized workers, along with the business’ impending move from East York in Toronto to - [For-profit operator lobby group seeks to undermine $10-a-day child care again](https://springmag.ca/for-profit-operator-lobby-group-seeks-to-undermine-10-a-day-child-care-again) - The Association of Canadian Early Learning Programs (ACE), a lobby organization that acts as the mouthpiece for-profit child care operators, has released a new proposal that would undermine child care affordability and weaken the long-term viability of Canada’s $10-a-day child care system. In a March 2026 press release, ACE argued that $10-a-day child care is - [After April 29, what's next for education workers? ](https://springmag.ca/after-april-29-whats-next-for-education-workers) - On April 29, education workers across Ontario participated in a province-wide day of action. What began as an effort by one teachers union to wear red and buttons turned into an action that involved over 250,000 union members across several unions. April 29th as a test The day of action brought together education workers from - [Support Spring's 2026 Fund Drive!](https://springmag.ca/support-springs-2026-fund-drive) - This International Workers' Day, Spring is excited to announce the launch of our 2026 Fund Drive! 2026 has already seen US President Donald Trump launch an unprovoked and deadly war on Iran, while giving Israel impunity to bomb and invade Lebanon — all while maintaining the siege of Gaza, extending its illegal settlements in Palestinian - [Mayworks Festival showcases artists as workers, workers as artists](https://springmag.ca/mayworks-festival-showcases-artists-as-workers-workers-as-artists) - Cover image: "Holding the Line" by Ibrahim Abusitta. View the full painting in Toronto at 25 Cecil St during this year's Mayworks Festival, taking place from May 1 to 31. From May 1 to May 31, the Mayworks Festival returns across the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area for its 41st year. With it comes a - [From Newfoundland to Palestine: Building power through health sovereignty and solidarity](https://springmag.ca/from-newfoundland-to-palestine-building-power-through-health-sovereignty-and-solidarity) - Elise Thorburn is an emergency physician and an organizer in St. John’s, NL. She grounds her practice in anti-imperialist Marxist politics, and operates within a framework of solidarity. She co-founded Palestine Action YYT and continues to expand its work through the Apartheid Free Communities campaign. Spring’s Robyn Letson spoke with Elise about her recent time - [Why Ontario education workers are rising for a Day of Action](https://springmag.ca/why-ontario-education-workers-are-rising-for-a-day-of-action) - Across Ontario, education workers are preparing for a province-wide Day of Action: a day to show that the people who make schools run every single day are ready to stand together. This moment isn’t about speeches or official statements. It’s about the power that comes from classrooms, hallways, staff rooms, and schoolyards — the places where - [Militarism will not bring prosperity](https://springmag.ca/militarism-will-not-bring-prosperity) - Not only will Mark Carney's attempt to bolster the military to "fight Trump" not provide the protection that Canadians pine for, but it will also fail to buoy the Canadian economy. - [Spring remembers the late Sudanese revolutionary Muzan Alneel](https://springmag.ca/spring-remembers-the-late-sudanese-revolutionary-muzan-alneel) - Due to their shared history, there are many links between the Egyptian and Sudanese peoples, including on the revolutionary left. So it is fitting that it was through an Egyptian activist living in London, UK, that our organization first learned about Sudanese activist Muzan Alneel as someone we should get to know. Shortly after learning - [The Ganges Renewal: A test of sovereignty against hydro-hegemony](https://springmag.ca/the-ganges-renewal-a-test-of-sovereignty-against-hydro-hegemony) - As the sun sets on the thirty-year lifespan of the 1996 Ganges Water Treaty, Bangladesh finds itself at a historical crossroads that will define its ecological and economic viability for the next century. The 2026 deadline for renewal is not merely a diplomatic formality; it is a moment of reckoning. For three decades, the people - [Spring Radio: The year of capitalist crisis on film (feat. Carlie Macfie & Santiago Moran-Izquierdo)](https://springmag.ca/spring-radio-the-year-of-capitalist-crisis-on-film-feat-carlie-macfie-santiago-moran-izquierdo) - In 2025 we saw an influx of films made in response to the current political moment. While political filmmaking can be expected from documentaries and independent films, we notably saw political films coming straight out of Hollywood. Ahead of the 2026 Oscars, co-host Sarah Shahid sat down with Spring members Carlie Macfie & Santiago Moran-Izquierdo - [Spring Radio: From Claudia Jones to Hossam El-Hamalawy: What is revolutionary journalism? (Red October 2025)](https://springmag.ca/spring-radio-from-claudia-jones-to-hossam-el-hamalawy-what-is-revolutionary-journalism-red-october-2025) - This episode of Spring Radio was recorded at Spring's annual Red October conference of socialist ideas in action. The session took place on October 25, 2025 as part of the course “What is Revolutionary Socialism?” and features Spring Members Ayan Tani, Sarah Shahid and Emma Paling. “As revolutionaries, we must engage in battles not just - [Spring Radio: What Zohran Mamdani's win means for socialists (feat. Emily Lemmerman)](https://springmag.ca/spring-radio-what-zohran-mamdanis-win-means-for-socialists-feat-emily-lemmerman) - Last month, Zohran Mamdani won the mayoral race in New York. In January, he will take office. This campaign opened up the imagination for progressives not only in New York but across the world. In this episode, Sarah Shahid speaks with Emily Lemmerman, an organizer, member of the Democratic Socialists of America, and formerly the - [Spring Radio: CUPW postal workers' strike and the fight against privatization](https://springmag.ca/spring-radio-cupw-postal-workers-strike-and-the-fight-against-privatization) - Mail deliveries in Canada have been disrupted after postal workers across the country walked off the job. The strike comes after the Canadian government authorized widespread reforms to Canada Post that would shut post offices and end door-to-door deliveries for millions of people. The government intends to replace postal workers with community mailboxes, speed up - [Spring Radio: Tenant organizing and housing justice (feat. Chiara Padovani)](https://springmag.ca/spring-radio-tenant-organizing-and-housing-justice-feat-chiara-padovani) - The housing system is designed to make the people at the top richer while the rest of us struggle to pay rent or afford a mortgage. The only way the system will improve is if the working class organizes to challenge the status quo. In today’s episode, we talk with Chiara Padovani, an organizer who - [Spring Radio: A socialist response to Pierre Poilievre, Part 3: Immigration (feat. Harshill and Vedanth)](https://springmag.ca/spring-radio-a-socialist-response-to-pierre-poilievre-part-3-immigration-feat-harshill-and-vedanth) - In this episode, we analyze Pierre Poilievre’s anti-immigration rhetoric and the broader political landscape, including policies and messaging from the federal Liberals, Doug Ford, and Donald Trump. Spring member Samuel Tetelepta sat down with migrant student organizers Harshill and Vedanth to discuss why we need solidarity, not scapegoating, in this critical moment. Episode links: Migrant - [Comment les socialistes peuvent aider à bâtir un mouvement anti-guerre](https://springmag.ca/comment-les-socialistes-peuvent-aider-a-batir-un-mouvement-anti-guerre) - Les années 2020 ont été marquées par une montée spectaculaire des conflits armés à travers le monde : le génocide à Gaza, l’invasion en cours de l’Ukraine, les attaques contre le Liban, l’Iran et le Yémen, les bombardements aux Émirats arabes unis, en Arabie saoudite, en Irak, au Qatar, au Koweït, à Bahreïn et à - [Red Rosa’s “Reform or Revolution”](https://springmag.ca/red-rosas-reform-or-revolution) - “What do you mean ‘or’ revolution? Surely we want to have both?” The Spring Toronto West branch book club just finished reading Rosa Luxemburg’s Reform or Revolution, and had an interesting time discussing this very question. Luxemburg was a Polish-German revolutionary socialist active in the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century, mainly in Germany. - [Book Review: "The Long Sixties: Stories from the New Left"](https://springmag.ca/book-review-the-long-sixties-stories-from-the-new-left) - The Long Sixties: Stories from the New Left, edited by Jim Harding (Fernwood Publishing, March 2026). The Long Sixties brings together seven Canadian leftists who became politically active as students in the 1960s. They share reflections on their decades of activism across Canada and offer useful insights for those of us looking to rebuild the - [Ontario’s School Boards are buying what should be free](https://springmag.ca/ontarios-school-boards-are-buying-what-should-be-free) - It is a familiar scene in Ontario staff rooms: a teacher stands at a photocopier that has been out of toner for days, holding a pack of paper they bought at Staples with their own money, wondering why the school budget can’t afford workbooks to begin with. Meanwhile, in north Toronto at the Catholic Education - [Canada complicit in illegal bombing of Iran](https://springmag.ca/canada-complicit-in-illegal-bombing-of-iran) - While Prime Minister Mark Carney says Canada “will never participate in” the bombing of Iran, he nevertheless supports it with “regret” while blandly acknowledging that the attacks violate international law. Canada’s political and material support for the U.S./Israeli bombing of Iran therefore makes Canada complicit in what Carney himself acknowledges is an illegal act of - [Ontario budget 2026: Social service workers let Doug Ford know they’re watching](https://springmag.ca/ontario-budget-2026-social-service-workers-let-doug-ford-know-theyre-watching) - On March 26, workers in the Ontario Public Service Employees Union (OPSEU/SEFPO) hosted watch parties across Ontario, bringing together union members and community allies to analyze and respond to the 2026 Ontario budget. These gatherings — part teach-in, part discussion forum — created space for workers to collectively break down the numbers, share how government - [Book review: A wage for every moment women live at the service of capital](https://springmag.ca/book-review-a-wage-for-every-moment-women-live-at-the-service-of-capital) - Working for Nothing: A Wages for Housework Anthology, edited by Louise Toupin (Between the Lines, 2026). Working for Nothing animates the International Feminist Collective, better known as Wages for Housework since the 1970s, through a collection of its most important texts by Italian and American Marxist feminists, bringing its relevance to the current day when - [Explaining AI with Marx: Turns out that class matters a lot!](https://springmag.ca/explaining-ai-with-marx-turns-out-that-class-matters-a-lot) - The Means of Prediction: How AI Really Works (and Who Benefits) by Maximilian Kasy (University of Chicago Press, 2025) With the AI “revolution” coming for our jobs, our creativity, our politics, our environment, and just about anything else you’d care to think of, it is heartening to see an emerging critique of the shameless boosterism - [Revolution in technicolour: An interview with Tim Denee, creator of Blades '68](https://springmag.ca/revolution-in-technicolour-an-interview-with-tim-denee-creator-of-blades-68) - A revolutionary setting for a revolutionary game Ten years ago, John Harper’s Blades in the Dark set a new precedent for tabletop role-playing games with a fresh system that emphasizes politics, puts story over simulation, and places agency in the hands of players. Now, ten years on, game designer Tim Denee returns to Harper’s Victorian-Gothic - [The cost of Nova Scotia’s budget cuts: Students, communities and a future at risk](https://springmag.ca/the-cost-of-nova-scotias-budget-cuts-students-communities-and-a-future-at-risk) - Houston is tugging on this loose thread that could unravel a social fabric. This budget’s acceleration of resource extraction and military spending send the message that they have given up on our children's future. - [The impact of closing Safe Consumption Sites in London](https://springmag.ca/the-impact-of-closing-safe-consumption-sites-in-london) - Ontario’s decision to end funding for supervised consumption sites has sent shockwaves through service users, service providers, and harm reduction advocates across the province. In London, Ontario, the potential that Carepoint Consumption and Treatment Services will close has ignited grief, frustration, and deep fear within the community. Ontario’s Ministry of Health informed agencies on March - [How Canada uses student migrants to justify austerity cuts for education](https://springmag.ca/how-canada-uses-student-migrants-to-justify-austerity-cuts-for-education) - Not Your Cash Cow, Not Your Scapegoat: Student Migration and Canadian Universities by The Racialization of Asian International Students Collective (Fernwood Publishing, ships preorders in May 2026). After many years of research, the Racialization of Asian International Students Collective (RAIS) has put together a very important book about the circumstances student migrants in Canada are - [BC Teachers’ Federation passes BDS motion](https://springmag.ca/bc-teachers-federation-passes-bds-motion) - On March 16th, in an historic vote at the BC Teachers’ Federation’s (BCTF) 2026 Annual General Meeting, teachers from across British Columbia passed a motion in support of the Boycott, Divestment & Sanctions (BDS) movement in solidarity with Palestine. Individual motions were submitted by 10 of the 76 locals of the BCTF. Speaking in support - [“People look to Vancouver as a progressive place”: An interview with municipal candidate Sean Orr](https://springmag.ca/people-look-to-vancouver-as-a-progressive-place-an-interview-with-municipal-candidate-sean-orr) - With the 2026 Vancouver municipal election coming up in October, Spring’s Lisa Dee spoke with socialist city council candidate Sean Orr (pictured above, right) about his vision for the city, the relationship between movements and city hall, and what it will take to build a Vancouver that works for everybody. Lisa Dee: I saw you - [France: Polarization, fascism and local elections](https://springmag.ca/france-polarization-fascism-and-local-elections) - In the middle of the most comprehensive smear campaign against the radical Left that France has seen for the last 50 years, this month's municipal elections are key struggles for fascists and antifascists alike. The first round on March 15 saw a strong showing for the radical Left and very worrying steps forward for the - [Ford’s purchasing cards can’t mask education cuts ](https://springmag.ca/fords-purchasing-cards-cant-mask-education-cuts) - Peel Education Workers United (PEWU), a coalition of the 12 unions that represent more than 23,000 education workers in the Peel District School Board (PDSB), are denouncing the board’s decision to cut over 300 positions. The cuts would affect the 2026-2027 school year and are the biggest layoffs in the board’s history. As budgets are - [How socialists can help build an anti-war movement](https://springmag.ca/how-socialists-can-help-build-an-anti-war-movement) - The 2020s have seen a dramatic rise in armed conflicts around the globe: the genocide in Gaza, the ongoing invasion of Ukraine, the attacks on Lebanon, Iran, and Yemen, the bombings of the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, Oman, the attack on Venezuela, the continued devastation of the wars in Sudan, Myanmar, and - [Students across Nova Scotia strike against corporate control of universities](https://springmag.ca/students-across-nova-scotia-strike-against-corporate-control-of-universities) - Students at multiple universities in Nova Scotia have voted in favour of a province-wide student strike set to take place March 16 to 21. The decision marks one of the most significant student mobilizations in the province in decades. At NSCAD University, students voted 89 percent in favour of the strike. At Saint Mary’s University, - [International Women’s Day and the revival of the anti-war movement](https://springmag.ca/international-womens-day-and-the-revival-of-the-anti-war-movement) - On March 7 in Toronto, International Women’s Day (IWD) was marked by a large rally and march organized by a broad coalition of trade unions, community groups, students, migrant organizations, and socialist groups. Under the theme “Rise and Resist: Uniting for a New World,” the march connected the legacy of IWD with opposition to war, - [Opposing the dark clouds of war ](https://springmag.ca/opposing-the-dark-clouds-of-war) - On Sunday morning the sun did not rise on my home town of Tehran, because of dark clouds of toxic smoke that filled the sky. This was a result of oil depots that were blown up by the US and Israel. Rivers of fire were flowing through the streets as the oil leaked out into - [RESOURCES: Stop bombing Iran!](https://springmag.ca/resources-stop-bombing-iran) - As the bombing of Iran by the US and Israel continues, Spring has compiled resources to help us stand up against our government's support of war and spread the message: stop bombing Iran! - [Canada should break the US fuel blockade on Cuba](https://springmag.ca/canada-should-break-the-us-fuel-blockade-on-cuba) - For over six decades, the US government has imposed a crushing economic blockade on Cuba, aimed at punishing Cubans for choosing a political model not to Washington’s liking. The explicit purpose of the US blockade has always been to degrade Cubans’ living conditions in order to produce hunger, desperation, and overthrow of government, as spelled - [Making data work for the masses](https://springmag.ca/making-data-work-for-the-masses) - Mobilizing Data for Justice: A Guide to Activism in the Digital Age by Chris Hurl, Elena Rowan, Marius Senneville, and Kevin Walby (Between the Lines, 2025) Mobilizing Data for Justice: A Guide to Activism in the Digital Age provides an in-depth analysis from Chris Hurl, Elena Rowan, Marius Senneville, and Kevin Walby, a group of - [Unions call for early start to bargaining as Ford takes over two more school boards ](https://springmag.ca/unions-call-for-early-start-to-bargaining-as-ford-takes-over-two-more-school-boards) - Ontario Education Minister Paul Calandra named supervisors to run the Peel District School Board (PDSB) and the York Catholic District School Board (YCDSB) this past week. Calandra said in a news release “After careful review, it is clear that both Peel and York Catholic are facing serious challenges that they cannot resolve on their own…I - [CBC’s moral panic against drug use continues](https://springmag.ca/cbcs-moral-panic-against-drug-use-continues) - On February 23rd, CBC released an article called “Police outreach making ‘small steps’ in curbing open drug use downtown.” It outlines the outcomes of a foot patrol program initiated in 2025 by the London Police to, as stated in the piece, “engage people using drugs, refer them to supports and where necessary, conduct ‘targeted enforcement’ - [The Midnight Accords: A sovereign breach in the twilight of an interim mandate](https://springmag.ca/the-midnight-accords-a-sovereign-breach-in-the-twilight-of-an-interim-mandate) - In the fragile transition following a popular uprising, the primary duty of an interim government is stewardship—the careful preservation of the state until a democratic mandate can be restored. Yet, in the waning hours before Bangladesh’s national election, the administration of Muhammad Yunus has instead opted for a radical and legally dubious entanglement. By signing - [Attacks on Iran: Imperialism, repression and resistance](https://springmag.ca/attacks-on-iran-imperialism-repression-and-resistance) - This article first appeared in Socialist Worker. Photo by Guy Smallman. Donald Trump’s assault on Iran is the latest round of the eternal “war to end all wars” he promises his disciples. We now know that “regime change” by bunker buster bomb is his preferred strategy. This is imperial adventurism of the highest order. But - [POSTERS: Fund healthcare, education, and housing — not war!](https://springmag.ca/posters-fund-healthcare-education-and-housing-not-war) - New posters: fund healthcare, education, and housing — not war! To help fight rising militarism and advocate for strong public services and peace put these posters up in your neighbourhood today! - [Canada must not join the war on Iran](https://springmag.ca/canada-must-not-join-the-war-on-iran) - Canada’s stance on the US’s escalating war on Iran has been characterized by confusion, contradictions, and a risky openness to military intervention. Prime Minister Mark Carney originally signaled Canada’s preference for a diplomatic resolution to the crisis. Yet, within a mere 24 hours amid a trade tour across Asia and a visit to Australia, his - [Toronto’s emergency response to bombing of Iran](https://springmag.ca/torontos-emergency-response-to-bombing-of-iran) - On February 28, 2026, Toronto was one of several cities that held emergency rallies to protest the US/Israeli bombing of Iran. The Toronto rally at the US Consulate drew around 200 attendees, though no large civil society groups appeared to be involved (save for one flag from the United Steelworkers). Unfortunately, there was also a - [After a dictator, Bangladesh turns right](https://springmag.ca/after-a-dictator-bangladesh-turns-right) - This article first appeared in Jamhoor. On February 12, 2026, Bangladesh held its first general election since overthrowing the authoritarian rule of Sheikh Hasina and the Awami League (AL) – an election widely believed to be a true democratic election in 17 years. Around 44% of the electorate were young (<37 years old), first-time voters. - [A socialism-from-below response on Venezuela](https://springmag.ca/a-socialism-from-below-response-on-venezuela) - The two-part series published by Spring under the titles “Who will ‘run’ Venezuela? A socialist hope” and “What next for Venezuela? Three possibilities” by Lucy Lu is driven by admirable anti-imperialist instincts: an uncompromising rejection of US imperial aggression and a refusal to equate the Venezuelan people with either Washington’s plans or the right-wing opposition. - [Fascist offensive across France and the need for a counter-attack](https://springmag.ca/fascist-offensive-across-france-and-the-need-for-a-counter-attack) - After the regrettable death of a young fascist, Quentin Deranque, in street fighting in Lyon, the Right is hoping to use the situation to destroy the France Insoumise (FI, “France in Revolt”), main organization of the radical Left, even if that means giving a huge boost to the fascists. On Saturday February 21, in the - [Past Lives: A show about what it means to be free](https://springmag.ca/past-lives-a-show-about-what-it-means-to-be-free) - The show starts with something a lot of us can relate to: back pain. The back belongs to a woman named Nanaya, who was kidnapped from her home 2700 years ago and forced to work as a cleaner in the bustling city of Assur. For most of us, her Iron Age world is unimaginably long - [Doly Begum’s opportunism reflects outdated neoliberal strategy  ](https://springmag.ca/doly-begums-opportunism-reflects-outdated-neoliberal-strategy) - On February 3, Ontario’s political scene was rocked by the news that the ONDP’s Deputy Leader, Doly Begum, was leaving the party and resigning her seat to run for the federal Liberals in the upcoming by-election in Scarborough Southwest. This was a shocking move that has left NDP members and many in the labour movement - [Rally for Cuba](https://springmag.ca/rally-for-cuba) - Cuba is on the brink; news of armageddon for the socialist project is all we can hear since the United States government tightened the embargo on the Caribbean nation. Despite Mexico providing some humanitarian aid, Cuba is discussing rationing fuel. Its aging energy grid is crumbling, airlines are cancelling flights to the island due to - [Don't forget to live: Bad Bunny and the world we are fighting for](https://springmag.ca/dont-forget-to-live-bad-bunny-and-the-world-we-are-fighting-for) - When 128 million people tuned in to watch this year’s Super Bowl, one of the world’s most corporate spectacles, they witnessed a Boricua party. Led by Bad Bunny, the fully Spanish performance showcased his irrefutable charisma and rhythms that move listeners even if they don't understand a word of the lyrics. His music has transcended - [Why the left should stand in solidarity with Iranians](https://springmag.ca/why-the-left-should-stand-in-solidarity-with-iranians) - We must support Iranians in fighting for economic justice and democratic freedoms, as well as advocate against narratives which push for war and increased sanctions, which only devastate ordinary working class peoples. - [What’s left of Canadian social democracy?](https://springmag.ca/whats-left-of-canadian-social-democracy) - Social democracy is in a real crisis in Canada. It presents no viable path forward to address the systemic problems facing workers and the planet. It has been completely integrated into the project of managing capitalism, only offering advances for workers within the confines of the market. - [Bringing rank-and-file perspectives to the forefront of Ottawa & District Labour Council](https://springmag.ca/bringing-rank-and-file-perspectives-to-the-forefront-of-ottawa-district-labour-council) - “We don’t have to watch things get worse, or wait for politicians to save us. Yes, we need champions in labour, and we must push them to deliver. That’s on us.” - Lizzie Houlding Elections for Ottawa & District Labour Council (ODLC) are on Wednesday February 18th and Lizzie Houlding, Spring Member, is running for - [« On ne peut plus renoncer à l'option de la grève » : Entrevue avec les organisateurs de la grève générale du Minnesota](https://springmag.ca/on-ne-peut-plus-renoncer-a-loption-de-la-greve-entrevue-avec-les-organisateurs-de-la-greve-generale-du-minnesota) - Deux blocages contre l'ICE, organisés par des syndicats et des groupes étudiants du Minnesota, ont secoué les États-Unis en janvier. Ces manifestations ont été déclenchées par les meurtres de Renée Good et d'Alex Pretti, respectivement observatrice juridique et infirmier, tué·e·s par des agents fédéraux de l'ICE lors de l'opération Metro Surge au Minnesota. Six personnes - [Mayor Tory stop mass evictions](https://springmag.ca/mayor-tory-stop-mass-evictions) - Surrounded by members of the press and Toronto police officers, housing justice organizers, tenants and workers from across Toronto held a press conference in front of One Bedford Road, the residence of Mayor John Tory. They called the press conference this afternoon to demand that Mayor Tory find the political will to avert a looming - [Ontario's war on accessible education is a war on the working class](https://springmag.ca/ontarios-war-on-accessible-education-is-a-war-on-the-working-class) - Ontario’s recent changes to OSAP are a major setback for students across Ontario. Under the new rules, only 25 percent of funding will come as non-repayable grants, while at least 75 percent will be loans that must be repaid after graduation. Previously, most aid could be received as grants. This shift places a heavier financial - [San Francisco educators’ first strike in fifty years wins big ](https://springmag.ca/san-francisco-educators-first-strike-in-fifty-years-wins-big) - On February 13, the United Educators of San Francisco (UESF) bargaining team announced major victories on key contract demands. The strike by 6,000 public schoolteachers was the first teachers strike in the city in nearly 50 years. For four days the strike closed all 120 of the district’s schools. Teachers hit the picket lines demanding - [2025 in radical arts: A Spring roundup](https://springmag.ca/2025-in-radical-arts-a-spring-roundup) - 2025 has been a devastating year in many ways. From the emboldening of the far-right, Trump’s tariffs plunging the global economy into crisis, the threat of nuclear war creeping closer, rising unemployment, to the complete destruction of Gaza, many long-brewing developments have become full-blown crises. These events have been sharply reflected in the art that - [Ford government dealing a devastating blow to students and the future of post-secondary education](https://springmag.ca/ford-government-dealing-a-devastating-blow-to-students-and-the-future-of-post-secondary-education) - Ontario’s post-secondary education has been in a prolonged crisis due to chronic underfunding from the government and mismanagement by college and university administrators It is not surprising that Ontario comes dead last in post-secondary funding per student compared to other provinces. Ontario also comes dead last in hospital funding and general program spending. Colleges and - [Ministers meet, but the future of $10-a-day child care remains uncertain](https://springmag.ca/ministers-meet-but-the-future-of-10-a-day-child-care-remains-uncertain) - In advance of a January 30 meeting in Ottawa between Canada’s federal, provincial, and territorial ministers responsible for early learning and child care, Child Care Now and more than 100 major organizations issued a joint call urging governments to strengthen the Canada-wide Early Learning and Child Care (CWELCC) program. The groups warned that without renewed - [Worth striking for: Oakville care home workers fighting for decent pay ](https://springmag.ca/worth-striking-for-oakville-care-home-workers-fighting-for-decent-pay) - Support workers with OPSEU Local 249 are in their twelfth week of a strike. They are fighting for better wages and have not seen a raise since 2020. - [Memory of fire: South America is burning](https://springmag.ca/memory-of-fire-south-america-is-burning) - Ever since the start of the year, fires have spread over the Amazon rainforest, engulfing provinces in Brazil, Peru, Bolivia, Colombia, and across Latin America. While some governments have been scrambling to put the fires out, others have been ignoring them, causing the destruction to increase and spread to even more countries. The origins of - [Municipal workers in Brampton are striking for fair wages](https://springmag.ca/municipal-workers-in-brampton-are-striking-for-fair-wages) - On November 7, after nine months of negotiations and nine proposals rejected by their employer, City of Brampton workers started their strike. CUPE Local 831 represents 1,200 municipal workers who provide road maintenance, animal services, theatres, transit, and parks and recreation services. The workers’ previous deal Workers under CUPE Local 831 agreed upon their last - [Canada Post workers strike to demand a proper deal](https://springmag.ca/canada-post-workers-strike-to-demand-a-proper-deal) - On Friday, 55,000 workers for the Canada Post Corporation (CPC) walked off their jobs after a year of unfruitful bargaining. They are seeking fair wages, proper benefits, and to fight against privatization in their line of work. - [Flimsy charges against pro-Palestine author show state’s true colours](https://springmag.ca/flimsy-charges-against-pro-palestine-author-show-states-true-colours) - Last week, author and critic of the Israeli genocide against Palestinians, Yves Engler, was arrested in Montréal on charges of harassment and “indecent communication.” Engler has since been released, though the charges against him remain. The arrest of Engler, a father of two young children whose career has been spent dutifully critiquing Canadian foreign policy, - [Toronto Public Library workers vote to strike in record-breaking turnout](https://springmag.ca/toronto-public-library-workers-vote-to-strike-in-record-breaking-turnout) - On March 3rd, the Toronto Public Libraries Workers’ Union (TPLWU or CUPE 4948), representing approximately 2,300 Toronto Public Library workers, announced that its members had voted 96% in favour of a strike in a record-breaking turnout. The old and new collective agreements CUPE 4948’s previous agreement was ratified in 2020 and lasted until December 31, - [Contract workers at UofT vote to strike if they cannot get a better deal](https://springmag.ca/contract-workers-at-uoft-vote-to-strike-if-they-cannot-get-a-better-deal) - CUPE 3902, representing contract academic workers at the University of Toronto, has held its strike mandate vote. This is a bargaining year for Units 2, 3, 4, 6, and 7, all of whom voted between 75% and 99.3% in favour of a strike. Who is affected and what are their demands? The units of CUPE - [International solidarity is the answer to Trump's tariffs](https://springmag.ca/international-solidarity-is-the-answer-to-trumps-tariffs) - With U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs on USMCA goods looming until April and unemployment threatening to rise, it’s time for the North American labour movement to take its internationalism seriously. American unions are mistaken While Canadian unions are loudly condemning the tariff threats and suggesting international solutions, many of their U.S. counterparts are supporting the - [1996: How OPSEU won against Mike Harris’ Progressive Conservatives](https://springmag.ca/1996-how-opseu-won-against-mike-harris-progressive-conservatives) - In 1996, workers with the Ontario Public Service (OPS) went on strike for the first time, standing up to Mike Harris’ Progressive Conservative government, its cuts, and its bad-faith negotiating—and won. As we approach the twentieth anniversary of the strike under Doug Ford’s Conservatives, the lessons of the strike are worth revisiting. OPSEU’s blueprint for - [How the YWCA workers won their new agreement](https://springmag.ca/how-the-ywca-workers-won-their-new-agreement) - 250 workers unionized with CUPE 2189 ratified their newest collective agreement in May after five months of negotiations, averting a looming strike-lockout situation. By using strong organizational and mobilizing methods, the union won an average 11 percent increase for their workers’ wages, alleviating many of them from housing insecurity and reliance on food banks, among - [14 days and counting: the migrant worker encampment in Brampton](https://springmag.ca/14-days-and-counting-the-migrant-worker-encampment-in-brampton) - In the afternoon of August 30th, international students and migrant workers set up tents on the Bramrose Square lawn in Brampton. They had banners with their slogan, “Good enough to work, good enough to stay” and signs that read, “Foreign workers contribute, they don’t cause crises.” This encampment comes after threats of mass deportation and - [Police violently remove Pro-Palestine activists from UTAM building](https://springmag.ca/police-violently-remove-pro-palestine-activists-from-utam-building) - On Thursday, August 8th, students from Occupy U of T, Palestinian Youth Movement, Jews Say No To Genocide, and more, held a sit-in on the lobby of the University of Toronto’s Asset Management Corporation office at 777 Bay Street. The students were protesting their tuition money being reinvested in weapons manufacturing companies that sell to - [Counter-protests at the People’s Circle for Palestine](https://springmag.ca/counter-protests-at-the-peoples-circle-for-palestine) - The People’s Circle for Palestine has been active at the University of Toronto’s (U of T) St. George campus since Thursday, May 2. The encampment has received an outpouring of support, but some waves of counter-protests have also made their way to campus. What has happened? There have been many different manifestations of counter-protests. Some - ['Good enough to work. Good enough to stay'](https://springmag.ca/good-enough-to-work-good-enough-to-stay) - On June 22, a group of protestors rallied at Kaneff Park in Brampton, Ontario. The group was mostly international students and immigrant workers demanding better treatment. Naujawan Support Network (NSN), an organization of international students and immigrant workers resisting exploitation and abuse, was handing out flyers with a heading that read “Good enough to work. - [The Mississauga Library Workers Union needs your help](https://springmag.ca/the-mississauga-library-workers-union-needs-your-help) - On Saturday, June 8, the Mississauga Library Workers Union, CUPE local 1989, held a public event to raise awareness about the current working conditions they have to deal with. The workers united at Mississauga Valley Park, next to the community centre and library. They stood by a large teal food truck, holding CUPE banners and - ['Women, Race, and Class': A book everyone should read](https://springmag.ca/women-race-and-class-a-book-everyone-should-read) - Women, Race, and Class, her classic 1981 book looking at the history of feminist movements in the United States and how they intertwined with labor and Black liberation movements remains essential reading for socialists. - [“We can no longer forgo the option to strike”: An interview with Minnesota General Strike organizers](https://springmag.ca/we-can-no-longer-forgo-the-option-to-strike-an-interview-with-minnesota-general-strike-organizers) - Two shutdowns against ICE organized by Minnesota labour unions and student groups shook the United States in January. Spring sat down with two organizers involved in the strikes, Aminah Sheikh and Dan Troccoli, to talk about ICE, the political climate in Minnesota, and the potential for a general strike. - [Carney's speech exposes the moral bankruptcy of the West](https://springmag.ca/carneys-speech-exposes-the-moral-bankruptcy-of-the-west) - At Davos, during the ongoing elite annual gala known as the World Economic Forum (WEF), Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney delivered a speech, receiving much fanfare. His “bravery” and “honesty” in calling out the reality of the post WW2 global order—the so-called "international rules based order”—has led to enthusiastic approval from establishment liberals. Carney admitted - [The Canadian Boomerang in Minnesota](https://springmag.ca/the-canadian-boomerang-in-minnesota) - There is a convergence manifesting in Minnesota. Hundreds of thousands of people are revolting against the federal government and the murders of Renee Good on January 7, 2026, and Alex Pretti on January 24, 2026. Good and Pretti represent two of the nine people killed by ICE this year: Keith Porter Jr., Luis Gustavo Núñez - [Student encampment at Windsor wins victories on disclosure, divestment](https://springmag.ca/student-encampment-at-windsor-wins-victories-on-disclosure-divestment) - The Liberation Zone at the University of Windsor has reached an agreement with the University's administration. It is the most comprehensive and far-reaching agreement to come out of Canadian encampment negotiations, with seven sections addressing all of the Zone's demands: Disclosure, Divestment, Academic Boycott, Support for Palestinian scholars and students, and anti-Palestinian racism. A spokesperson - [Ford “rescues” school board from crisis he created](https://springmag.ca/ford-rescues-school-board-from-crisis-he-created) - The Ford government announced on January 28 that it was moving to put two more Ontario school boards under its direct control. The Peel District School Board (PDSB) was taken over immediately and Education Minister, Paul Calandra put the York Catholic District School Board “on notice”, giving them two weeks to make the case against - [Who will “run” Venezuela? A socialist hope ](https://springmag.ca/who-will-run-venezuela-a-socialist-hope) - This is the first in a two-part series on the developing situation in Venezuela, following the Jan. 3 kidnapping of President Nicolás Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores, first lady and former president of the National Assembly. This article provides historical background on Venezuela's decades-long challenge to capitalism, and the next article examines the current moment. Donald - [What next for Venezuela? Three possibilities](https://springmag.ca/what-next-for-venezuela-three-possibilities) - This is the second in a two-part series on the developing situation in Venezuela, following the Jan. 3 kidnapping of President Nicolás Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores, first lady and former president of the National Assembly. The previous article looked at the historical context of Venezuela’s challenge to capitalism, and this article considers what could arise - [Vancouver’s left looks for their own Mamdani to unseat Mayor Sim](https://springmag.ca/vancouvers-left-looks-for-their-own-mamdani-to-unseat-mayor-sim) - Zohran Mamdani’s lightning-in-a-bottle campaign took just nine short months to rally New York City’s largest voter turnout in over half a century—collectively defeating Democratic powerhouse Andrew Cuomo and Republican Curtis Sliwa with 50.78% of the vote in New York’s mayoral elections this past November. A historic win built on the field work of over 100,000 - [Clouded by hate: Working against (and through) Hamilton’s white supremacy problem](https://springmag.ca/clouded-by-hate-working-against-and-through-hamiltons-white-supremacy-problem) - In mid-January, two white supremacists stood on a street corner at the busy intersection of Main Street and Queen Street in Hamilton distributing flyers to pedestrians passing by. A community member took photographs of the perpetrators and their poster, titled “White Canada,” detailing their principles of organizing white Canadians against “non-White immigrants” along with contact - [Why London needs a vacancy tax](https://springmag.ca/why-london-needs-a-vacancy-tax) - London’s apartment vacancy rate has hit a 15-year high. According to Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation’s (CMHC) report from December 2025, London’s vacancy rate now sits at 4 percent, up from 2024’s 2.9 percent. Meanwhile, there has been a 19 percent increase in people experiencing homelessness in London. Without urgent action, a new report indicates - [Postal workers are striking to save public services (again)](https://springmag.ca/postal-workers-are-striking-to-save-public-services-again) - This past Thursday, the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) resumed their strike in response to the proposal announced by Joël Lightbound (Minister of Government Transformation, Public Works and Procurement) regarding the future of Canada Post. According to the CUPW website's update, Lightbound’s proposed changes to Canada Post are in line with William Kaplan’s Industrial - [Carney’s realism is just neoliberal fan fiction  ](https://springmag.ca/carneys-realism-is-just-neoliberal-fan-fiction) - Carney’s address at the World Economic Forum on Tuesday was an extraordinary speech for a G7 leader. Carney openly admitted something socialists have long known: that international rules-based order was “partially false, that the strongest would exempt themselves when convenient, that trade rules were enforced asymmetrically. And we knew that international law applied with varying - [Review: Rogers v. Rogers](https://springmag.ca/review-rogers-v-rogers) - Rogers v. Rogers is a play about oligarchs and oligopolies. In its sold out world premier run at Crow’s Theatre in Toronto (and soon coming to Winnipeg), the show has brought audiences inside the Rogers Communications board room and somehow made the Competition Bureau of Canada interesting. A biting satire that provides a fictionalized retelling - [How you can support Minnesota workers' fight against ICE](https://springmag.ca/how-you-can-support-minnesota-workers-fight-against-ice) - Watching the anti-ICE fightback from afar, workers worldwide are feeling inspired by the unifying tactics of their Minnesotan counterparts. But it’s not enough for us to be online witnesses to this fight. There is a role we can play this week in helping build the confidence of Minnesota workers and immigrant communities as they stare down ICE and Trump, and in helping raise the profile of this fight among our own co-workers and fellow union members. - [Iran's uprising: A revolution from below](https://springmag.ca/irans-uprising-a-revolution-from-below) - The current revolutionary movement in Iran is led by the Iranian women, workers, and students in the country who are fighting for their basic human rights and the removal of an oppressive state. It is incumbent on the Canadian left to support this movement, while also rejecting the call for more Western intervention. - [ICE and the myth of Canadian exceptionalism](https://springmag.ca/ice-and-the-myth-of-canadian-exceptionalism) - The purpose of the system is what it does. Renee Good’s murder by ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) agent Jonathan Ross in Minneapolis was a shocking event to many, inspiring protests and pushback and front-page news stories. But at the same time, Good’s murder does not exist as an aberration: it is merely the latest - [Peel teachers push back against Bill 33 and Police in schools](https://springmag.ca/peel-teachers-push-back-against-bill-33-and-police-in-schools) - Bill 33, the so-called Supporting Children and Students Act, passed a final vote in the Ontario legislature on November 19. The Bill gives the Ontario government more control over school boards. It grants Education Minister Paul Calandra the power to override school board decisions, remove trustees and establish policies and guidelines. The province is currently - [Bill 11: Privatization and Alberta’s health care inequality](https://springmag.ca/bill-11-privatization-and-albertas-health-care-inequality) - Canada’s public health care system is designed to limit the role of market forces in essential medical services. The Canada Health Act establishes rules that prohibit extra billing and user fees for medically necessary care in order to protect equal access and allow governments to plan services effectively. Alberta’s Bill 11, expected to be implemented - [These United States of the Americas: Solidarity with the Venezuelan working class](https://springmag.ca/these-united-states-of-the-americas-solidarity-with-the-venezuelan-working-class) - In the early hours of January 3rd, the United States of America attacked Caracas, kidnapping both Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and National Assembly deputy Cilia Flores, his wife. Both of them are presently detained in New York awaiting trials for “Narco-Terrorism Conspiracy, Cocaine Importation Conspiracy, Possession of Machineguns and Destructive Devices, and Conspiracy to Possess - [Canada’s Venezuela position is opening the door to a more violent world ](https://springmag.ca/canadas-venezuela-position-is-opening-the-door-to-a-more-violent-world) - Canada's weak response to the US's invasion of Venezuela proves that this is not a world where states even feign caring about international law. This is a recipe for greater instability and more war, and highlights the importance of a mass antiwar movement in Canada to create meaningful opposition to our country's imperialist aggression. - [What Bugonia gets wrong about the human species](https://springmag.ca/what-bugonia-gets-wrong-about-the-human-species) - Contains spoilers (as it should). Yorgos Lanthimos is among the latest string of Hollywood auteurs—Paul Thomas Anderson, Ari Aster, to name a few—who are waking up to fascism knocking on America’s doors, only to realize that the call is coming from inside the house! In Lanthimos’ latest film, Bugonia, a girlboss CEO of a biotech - [Carney government ditches social priorities in favour of conservative agenda](https://springmag.ca/carney-government-ditches-social-priorities-in-favour-of-conservative-agenda) - Nine months into the Carney-led Liberal government, the party has moved to the right across the board. Without a clear electoral path ahead, our task is to rebuild the confidence of the working class and show that an alternative is possible. - [On the front lines of austerity: Union and University shows how workers fought back at Queen’s](https://springmag.ca/on-the-front-lines-of-austerity-union-and-university-shows-how-workers-fought-back-at-queens) - When I sat down to watch Union and University at the Canadian Labour International Film Festival this year in Toronto, I expected a documentary about a strike. What I didn’t expect was one of the clearest, most emotionally grounded accounts of how austerity is reshaping universities, and how workers are building the power needed to - [Stop the crackdown on Palestine solidarity](https://springmag.ca/stop-the-crackdown-on-palestine-solidarity) - Anti-war activists are facing criminal charges for protesting outside the Best Defence conference on October 21, 2025, a gathering that brought international arms dealers and defence corporations into Canada to court new business. While weapons manufacturers freely networked with military decision-makers and procurement officials inside, peaceful demonstrators outside were treated as criminals. Activists blocked entrances - [Resisting the Toronto Neighbourhood Community Officer Program](https://springmag.ca/resisting-the-toronto-neighbourhood-community-officer-program) - On November 26th, with a direct endorsement from Mayor Olivia Chow, the Toronto Police Service (TPS) announced that neighbourhood community officers will soon be deployed into four new areas of Toronto: Dufferin Grove, Banbury-Don Mills/Victoria Village, Wexford-Maryvale and Etobicoke City Centre. The message was also accompanied by the plan for four officers to soon be - [Canadian government feeding massacres in Sudan](https://springmag.ca/canadian-government-feeding-massacres-in-sudan) - Since the defeat of the revolution that saw the 2019 overthrow of Sudan’s dictator Omar al-Bashir, the two main armed forces in Sudan have engaged in all out counterrevolutionary war. This is not a war that engages the Sudanese people in taking up sides; rather, ordinary Sudanese are the victims of two externally-backed militaries, the - [Striking for Palestine: The future of resistance in labour struggles in America  ](https://springmag.ca/striking-for-palestine-the-future-of-resistance-in-labour-struggles-in-america) - No Neutrals There: US Labor, Zionism and the Struggle for Palestine by Jeff Schuhrke (2025) In 1973 the United Auto Workers (UAW) purchased over $300,000 in Israeli bonds, enabling the ongoing Nakba on the Palestinian people. But in response, Arab American autoworkers from the Dodge Chrysler Plant in Detroit led UAW Local 1112 to walk - [No war on Venezuela!](https://springmag.ca/no-war-on-venezuela) - As socialists, we must be resolute: Canada should not get involved in the US's imperialist war on Venezuela. - [Ontario’s wage theft crisis: Millions stolen from workers](https://springmag.ca/ontarios-wage-theft-crisis-millions-stolen-from-workers) - Wage theft is more than isolated incidents by a few bad employers: it is a systemic crisis stemming from the government’s neoliberal policies of defunding public services and deregulating businesses. - [New report further reveals the usual cruelty of Canadian prisons](https://springmag.ca/new-report-further-reveals-the-usual-cruelty-of-canadian-prisons) - On October 16th, the Canadian state under Mark Carney announced a plethora of reactionary measures reminiscent of the Harper era that will only increase the number of people in prisons. Among the proposals are amendments to the Criminal Code that will increase reverse onus on bail decisions, allow consecutive sentencing for multiple convictions, impose harsher - [Ireland’s new president Catherine Connolly: A victory for socialist values](https://springmag.ca/irelands-new-president-catherine-connolly-a-victory-for-socialist-values) - In a historic landslide, veteran independent lawmaker and proud Irish socialist Catherine Connolly has been elected the 12th President of Ireland. Her triumph marks not only a seismic shift in Irish politics but also a resounding affirmation of the values she has championed for decades: peace, equality, and people-powered democracy. In a time when far-right - [Review: Sadiqa de Meijer’s "In the Field"](https://springmag.ca/review-sadiqa-de-meijers-in-the-field) - One essay in Sadiqa de Meijer’s superb new collection In the Field refers to Agnes Varda’s film The Gleaners and I. “To glean from farms or garbage is a method of survival,” writes de Meijer. “Gleaning from life might be as consequential; here are the grains I choose to take and plant again.” It’s tempting - [Alberta: Remember the 2022 Ontario Education workers strike](https://springmag.ca/alberta-remember-the-2022-ontario-education-workers-strike) - Alberta’s teachers stand at a fork in the road, between accepting a forced deal after being legislated back-to-work and a potential general strike as hinted at by AFL president Gil McGowan. Which way forward and what could tip the balance? The Alberta teachers strike saw massive support for a fightback against the provincial government’s underfunding - [Breaking the siege: An interview with Freedom flotilla participant Khurram Musti Khan](https://springmag.ca/breaking-the-siege-an-interview-with-freedom-flotilla-participant-khurram-musti-khan) - Anti-war, Palestine solidarity activist Khurram Musti Khan speaks about his experience aboard the Freedom flotilla, enduring Israeli detention, and what everyday people can do to oppose Israel's genocide. - [What makes October red?](https://springmag.ca/what-makes-october-red) - Spring's Red October conference aims to be a space where activists can come together, share our experiences, learn from each other, and draw on the rich history of working-class resistance from all over the world and every period of struggle. Don’t miss Red October—we have a world to win. - [France: Macronism is unravelling](https://springmag.ca/france-macronism-is-unravelling) - This interview first appeared in Green Left Weekly. Susan Price, from Australian activist journal Green Left Weekly, spoke to John Mullen, a revolutionary socialist activist in the Paris region, about the deep political crisis in France. GLW: Why did right-wing French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu resign, less than a day after nominating his team of - [Budget season is a painful reminder of how neoliberalism killed the welfare state](https://springmag.ca/budget-season-is-a-painful-reminder-of-how-neoliberalism-killed-the-welfare-state) - The Carney government recently announced that they will be tabling their first federal budget on November 4th. Already, they have made vocal commitments to increased defence-spending and focusing on “nation-building” projects, which will likely include environmentally destructive builds such as new pipelines. This is blatant disregard for today’s ongoing cost of living and climate crisis. - [Review: Nafis Hasan’s blueprint for struggle against the cancer-industrial complex](https://springmag.ca/review-nafis-hasans-blueprint-for-struggle-against-the-cancer-industrial-complex) - Metastasis: The Rise of The Cancer-Industrial Complex and The Horizons of Care by Nafis Hasan (Common Notions Press, 2025) In his recent book, Metastasis: The Rise of The Cancer-Industrial Complex and The Horizons of Care, Nafis Hasan describes the origins of the “cancer-industrial complex.” Hasan illuminates how a sinister alliance between government, industry leaders, and - [Liberals choose genocide over Irish music, ban KNEECAP from Canada](https://springmag.ca/liberals-choose-genocide-over-irish-music-ban-kneecap-from-canada) - On Friday, September 12, Minister Vince Gasparro, the Parliamentary Secretary for Combatting Crime, publicly announced on X that the rap trio KNEECAP would not be allowed to enter Canada for their four upcoming shows in Vancouver and Toronto. KNEECAP is an Irish-language rap trio comprised of Liam Óg Ó hAnnaidh, Naoise Ó Cairealláin and J. - [The radical hope of "One Battle After Another"](https://springmag.ca/the-radical-hope-of-one-battle-after-another) - Contains spoilers Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another may be the most important American film made this year. I will go on a step further and say it’s the most relevant American film of the 2020s. First, it is rare to see films engaging with the contemporary moment. Hollywood productions are stacked with biopics, - [Freedom of speech means freedom to agitate: Elizabeth Gurley Flynn and the free speech fights in Missoula and Spokane](https://springmag.ca/freedom-of-speech-means-freedom-to-agitate-elizabeth-gurley-flynn-and-the-free-speech-fights-in-missoula-and-spokane) - On October 3, 1909, American labour activist Elizabeth Gurley Flynn was arrested in Missoula, Montana. She was leading a campaign of civil disobedience across the American West that united demands for workers' rights with free speech advocacy. These "free speech fights," as they became known, inspired generations of socialists to identify free speech rights as - [Mark Carney and the contradictions of Canadian nationalism](https://springmag.ca/mark-carney-and-the-contradictions-of-canadian-nationalism) - Pierre Trudeau once noted that Canada bordering the United States was akin to a mouse living next to an elephant. This euphemism perfectly encapsulates Canada’s relationship with its neighbour to the south: a nation hoping to remain economically tied to the Hegemon, but distinct in its national affairs. The fears that the status quo would - [When peasants revolt: Class struggle in a public health crisis](https://springmag.ca/when-peasants-revolt-class-struggle-in-a-public-health-crisis) - Amongst the feelings of fatigue and pessimism in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, many political figures turned to messages of hope and encouragement to boost the morale of their suffering constituents. The pandemic brought some of the most pervasive societal inequities to the forefront, exposing the toxicity of capitalism to even the most - [Why Ford won](https://springmag.ca/why-ford-won) - Ford successfully took advantage of the real fear and anger that people feel about the looming trade war with the US, and positioned himself as the best defender of jobs and the economy. But Ford will face major political challenges. The healthcare crisis, the housing crisis, and a potential deep economic downturn are not going away. - [Against carceral unionism: OPSEU must divest from the correctional bargaining unit](https://springmag.ca/against-carceral-unionism-opseu-must-divest-from-the-correctional-bargaining-unit) - Prisons are anti-labour and anti-Indigenous institutions that exist to warehouse the surplus populations left behind by the production of capital. Its populations consist of primarily poor, working class people who come from displaced communities shaped by organized abandonment from the state. Correctional officers serve the interests of the state and act as the front line - [“Our schools are in crisis”: 51,000 Alberta teachers threaten Smith government with strike ](https://springmag.ca/our-schools-are-in-crisis-51000-alberta-teachers-threaten-smith-government-with-strike) - The Alberta Teachers (represented by the Alberta Teachers Association) is set to strike on October 6, 2025, unless a deal is reached before then. This is Alberta’s largest strike threat ever, with 51,000 teachers set to hit the picket lines. In June, roughly 39,000 teachers voted 94.5% in favour of strike action if a deal - [Solidarity, not scapegoating: The fight-back at Christie Pits](https://springmag.ca/solidarity-not-scapegoating-the-fight-back-at-christie-pits) - The tension in Toronto’s Christie Pits Park on Saturday, September 13th carried the weight of history. In 1933, Christie Pits was the site of historic antisemitic riots; ninety-one years later, a small, agitated group of alt-right “Canada First” supporters gathered waving flags and shouting slogans of exclusion. Canada First supporters had predicted a strong turnout - [Exposing Doug Ford’s Ontario: Why we must defend the public sector and the workers behind it](https://springmag.ca/exposing-doug-fords-ontario-why-we-must-defend-the-public-sector-and-the-workers-behind-it) - Contrary to what the Ford government wants us to believe, public services and public sector workers are our best defense against economic precarity—not privatization. - [Explosions in France as Macron names his pal Lecornu Prime Minister ](https://springmag.ca/explosions-in-france-as-macron-names-his-pal-lecornu-prime-minister) - On September 8, the sleepy minority government of François Bayrou fell. This was the reactionary Prime Minister who recently expressed sympathy with those who “felt we were being flooded with migrants”. Since June 2024, the Left has had the biggest grouping within the French National Assembly, but President Macron is not prepared to respect democracy - [Ford government’s school board takeover agenda continues ](https://springmag.ca/ford-governments-school-board-takeover-agenda-continues) - Rumours have begun to surface that Paul Calandra has plans to collapse Ontario’s 72 school boards into just four: English Public, English Catholic, French Public and French Catholic. Calandra, Education Minister in the Conservative Ontario Government, has already appointed supervisors to take over five school boards including the Toronto District School Board (TDSB), Toronto Catholic - [Trans youth in Saskatchewan: between legal victory and continued struggle](https://springmag.ca/trans-youth-in-saskatchewan-between-legal-victory-and-continued-struggle) - One year ago, I published an article outlining the legal challenge over trans rights and the notwithstanding clause going on in Saskatchewan. The Court of King’s Bench in Regina was faced with a dispute between the Government of Saskatchewan and the University of Regina Pride Centre over the Government’s Parents’ Bill of Rights, which restricted - [Doug Ford's return-to-office order is bad for workers](https://springmag.ca/doug-fords-return-to-office-order-is-bad-for-workers) - On August 14, 2025, the Doug Ford government released a statement ordering all Ontario public servants to return to working in-office full time by January 5, 2026. This order came as a shock to the tens of thousands of government workers who have been working effectively from home since the pandemic hit in March 2020. - [Rally Against Hate: Showing up to oppose racism](https://springmag.ca/rally-against-hate-showing-up-to-oppose-racism) - The counter-rally on September 13 in Toronto to oppose the anti-immigrant "Canada First" rally is the kind of action required to address the hateful, racist blaming of migrants for the crises caused by capitalism. - [The logic of capital through the lens of the Air Canada strikes](https://springmag.ca/the-logic-of-capital-through-the-lens-of-the-air-canada-strikes) - Marx’s concept of Surplus Value All wages are theft. The wage system itself is built on a structural imbalance: workers sell their labour power, but the value they produce always exceeds what they are paid in modern industries. Marx’s concept of surplus value is the key to understanding the full value of what is being - [Doug Ford and OMERS executives side step pensioners](https://springmag.ca/doug-ford-and-omers-executives-side-step-pensioners) - Recently, Doug Ford ordered a review of OMERS (Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System), and it's raising a lot of concerns. While reviews for OMERS aren't unheard of, given Doug Ford's track record for micromanaging and meddling in school boards, workers and unions naturally have good reason to be concerned. This is undoubtedly an attempt by - [International Overdose Awareness Day: Organizing against stigma, provincial legislation](https://springmag.ca/international-overdose-awareness-day-organizing-against-stigma-provincial-legislation) - International Overdose (and Drug Toxicity) Awareness Day takes place around the world every year on August 31st to honour those lost to the overdose crisis that is being ignored by those in power. Approximately six people in Ontario die every day from the unregulated drug supply. Countless others suffer acute and chronic injuries, endure discrimination, - [The France Insoumise prepares for a hot autumn](https://springmag.ca/the-france-insoumise-prepares-for-a-hot-autumn) - Well over four thousand people attended the radical left France Insoumise (FI) summer school in Valence, in the south of France, this weekend. (The name of the organization, La France Insoumise, is best translated as “France in Revolt.”) Around five hundred of them had spent two days previously at a young people's event for activists - [Cell Count: “Fool Me Once,” an essay on prisoners’ property and drug use](https://springmag.ca/cell-count-fool-me-once-an-essay-on-prisoners-property-and-drug-use) - Cell Count is a quarterly newspaper published by PASAN, an abolitionist organization that focuses on harm reduction and HIV/AIDS support, education, and advocacy for currently and formerly incarcerated people. Cell Count contains articles, art, poetry, and other works by current and former prisoners as a way of amplifying prisoner voices, highlighting the harms of prisons - [ETFO convention triumphs and challenges](https://springmag.ca/etfo-convention-triumphs-and-challenges) - The annual ETFO meeting held from August 11 to 14 saw a political advance on a number of issues such as Palestine, the inclusion of Trans and Non-binary members, and the politics of collective bargaining and strike readiness. However, it also demonstrated the challenges the union faces in representing its members and uplifting Black leadership. - [Air Canada flight attendants are fighting to be paid for work ](https://springmag.ca/air-canada-flight-attendants-are-fighting-to-be-paid-for-work) - Picture this: you’re scheduled for 7:00 am, because you must be at your job—whatever it may be—before 8:00 am, when the worksite opens. You arrive at the scheduled time, prepare everything for the day ahead, and at 8:00 am, you continue with your tasks. An hour later, you leave the workplace, because that is what - [Flight attendants are fighting wage theft for all of us](https://springmag.ca/flight-attendants-are-fighting-wage-theft-for-all-of-us) - This week, flight attendants working for Air Canada are defying the Liberal governments' attempt to force them back to work. One of the key issues in this strike is unpaid labour. Flight attendants at Air Canada work, on average, 35 hours of unpaid labour per month. Put another way, Air Canada steals 35 hours per - [Air Canada flight attendants defy Carney’s back-to-work order](https://springmag.ca/air-canada-flight-attendants-defy-carneys-back-to-work-order) - The Carney government has chosen to stand with Air Canada executives rather than the thousands who keep the airline running — and flight attendants are fighting back. - [Israel’s Hilltop Youth are on the front lines of settler expansion](https://springmag.ca/israels-hilltop-youth-are-on-the-front-lines-of-settler-expansion) - They aren’t old enough to vote or drink, but they are doing more for the settler movement than most right-wing Israelis. Sometimes they come masked and armed with sticks, rocks, and knives. Sometimes they come with no other weapons but their livestock. These settler youth, often known as Hilltop Youth, are on the front lines - [Canadian Labour finding its voice on Palestine](https://springmag.ca/canadian-labour-finding-its-voice-on-palestine) - It is quite a remarkable moment in our history that the Canadian Labour Congress has found its voice over the genocide in Gaza. CLC President, Bea Bruske has sent a letter to Prime Minister Mark Carney urging the recognition of Palestinian statehood and outlining further action to end the crisis in Gaza. The details we - [Cell Count: Amplifying the voice of prisoners through prose, poetry and art](https://springmag.ca/cell-count-amplifying-the-voice-of-prisoners-through-prose-poetry-and-art) - The following are locations for selected Prisoners’ Justice Day events happening in Ontario on Sunday, August 10th: Toronto: Grange Park at 1:00 pm ETKingston: Grounds at the Prison for Women (P4W), 40 Sir John A. Macdonald Blvd at 11:00 am ETOttawa: Human Rights Monument, 220 Elgin St at 11:00 am ETHamilton: Northwest corner of Barton - ["Elbows up": A poem](https://springmag.ca/elbows-up-a-poem) - Elbows up for Mom,hauling laundry baskets up and down three flights of stairs,gasping at soap operas with her hands full,tucking corners tight on hopeand threadbare sheets. We never needed a flag to keep us warm. Elbows up for the classmate who always broughtan extra sandwich,just in case someone else forgot their lunch.He never asked where - [Prisoners' Justice Day at 50: A reading list](https://springmag.ca/prisoners-justice-day-at-50-a-reading-list) - The following are locations for selected Prisoners’ Justice Day events happening in Ontario on Sunday, August 10th: Toronto: Grange Park at 1:00 pm ETKingston: Grounds at the Prison for Women (P4W), 40 Sir John A. Macdonald Blvd at 11:00 am ETOttawa: Human Rights Monument, 220 Elgin St at 11:00 am ETHamilton: Northwest corner of Barton - [Spring Radio: Canada’s increased military spending and why we must oppose it (feat. Samuel Tetelepta & Alex Hunsberger)](https://springmag.ca/spring-radio-canadas-increased-military-spending-and-why-we-must-oppose-it-feat-samuel-tetelepta-alex-hunsberger) - In this episode of Spring Radio, Spring members Samuel Tetelepta and Alex Hunsberger unpack why Canada and other countries across the world are pivoting to an arms economy, and the danger that this trend poses to the international working class. - [Ethnic cleansing: The foundation of Israeli society](https://springmag.ca/ethnic-cleansing-the-foundation-of-israeli-society) - “As American as apple pie” is an expression that’s been around for over 100 years. Who hasn’t heard it? This cultural phenomenon is so ubiquitous that it is ingrained into American culture, so much so that a 2013 poll found 81% of Americans had a favourable opinion of apple pie. Exceeding 81% of people in - [Transforming the union movement from the ground-up](https://springmag.ca/transforming-the-union-movement-from-the-ground-up) - We are the Union: How Worker-to-worker Organizing is Revitalizing Labor and Winning Big by Eric Blanc (University Of California Press, 2025) Eric Blanc’s We are the Union: How Worker-to-worker Organizing is Revitalizing Labor and Winning Big is a wonderful book for trade union militants that pairs well with direct instruction manuals for worker activists like - [Crackdown: A revolutionary testament from the frontlines of the drug war](https://springmag.ca/crackdown-a-revolutionary-testament-from-the-frontlines-of-the-drug-war) - Crackdown: Surviving and Resisting the War on Drugs by Garth Mullins (Doubleday Canada, 2025) In a political moment when right-wing forces mobilize to dismantle even the most modest harm reduction measures, Garth Mullins’ memoir-manifesto arrives as an essential weapon of resistance, exposing the brutal violence of prohibition while charting a path toward collective liberation through user-led - [Recent construction strike echoes militant trade union history of Cape Breton Island](https://springmag.ca/recent-construction-strike-echoes-militant-trade-union-history-of-cape-breton-island) - The recent strike by the Cape Breton Island Building & Construction Trades Council and its affiliate unions was a direct continuation of the militant trade union tradition in Cape Breton. Like their predecessors in the mines and mills, these workers fought not merely for immediate economic gains but for basic dignity and respect in the - [Cape Breton construction workers reach tentative agreement following historic strike](https://springmag.ca/cape-breton-construction-workers-reach-tentative-agreement-following-historic-strike) - Photo: Nova Scotia Federation of Labour A tentative agreement was reached in the early morning of Monday July 21, 2025 between the affiliate unions of the Cape Breton Island Building & Construction Trades Council and construction companies throughout Cape Breton Island, ending the historic strike of over 4,000 construction trades workers who had withdrawn their - [Abandoned by the province: Housing, harm reduction, and the people left behind](https://springmag.ca/abandoned-by-the-province-housing-harm-reduction-and-the-people-left-behind) - In early July 2025, the Nova Scotia government abruptly terminated its contract with Out of the Cold (OOTC), a non-profit that had been operating two modular supportive housing sites in Halifax and Dartmouth. With just 30 minutes’ notice, OOTC staff were ordered off the premises by provincial officials and plainclothes security, ending a partnership that - [Red Flags: A necessary reckoning with “Actually Existing Socialism” (AES)](https://springmag.ca/red-flags-a-necessary-reckoning-with-actually-existing-socialism-aes) - With rising global inequality, climate crisis, and the resurgence of authoritarian movements worldwide, many are questioning whether there is truly a viable alternative to capitalism. David Camfield’s new book Red Flags: A Reckoning with Communism for the Future of the Left (Fernwood Publishing, 2025) makes a vital contribution to this debate by systematically examining the - [Carney prioritizes border and military expansion, neglects the working class](https://springmag.ca/carney-prioritizes-border-and-military-expansion-neglects-the-working-class) - “Elbows up” was the recurrent message during the campaign trail, when Mark Carney positioned himself as an adversary to Donald Trump. 100 days in office later, however, the former banker’s policies further capitulate Canada’s role into the US empire. Through Bill C-2 (the so-called Strong Borders Act) and an exponential increase in military spending, Canada - [Why we need a united front anti-war movement in Canada](https://springmag.ca/why-we-need-a-united-front-anti-war-movement-in-canada) - As socialists, we see the united front method as essential to building lasting, sustainable movements. The recent illegal bombing of Iran by the U.S., Israel’s attacks on Iran, Lebanon and Yemen and its genocide in Gaza, the grinding bloody Russia-Ukraine war and the rise of militarism around the world show we desperately need to build a strong and broad based anti-war movement here in Canada. - [Private ‘security’ firm illustrates immorality of rich and powerful](https://springmag.ca/private-security-firm-illustrates-immorality-of-rich-and-powerful) - GardaWorld is an odious enterprise that profits from armed conflict, deportations and right-wing fear mongering. The Montréal firm’s government and military ties say a great deal about the Canadian establishment. Collaborating with Trump and ICE in the US Garda’s US subsidiary has a USD $8 million contract to provide armed guards to oversee ‘Alligator Alcatraz,’ - [A review of James Cairns’ "In Crisis, On Crisis: Essays in Troubled Times"](https://springmag.ca/a-review-of-james-cairns-in-crisis-on-crisis-essays-in-troubled-times) - James Cairns’ collection of essays begins by examining the questions one would expect from an academic book on “crisis”: What is a crisis? Who defines a crisis? Why is this considered a crisis, but not that? The answers are not simple. For Cairns — an avid reader of fiction and professor of political theory and - [Galen Weston Jr.: Canada's Top Profiteer](https://springmag.ca/galen-weston-jr-canadas-top-profiteer) - Galen Weston Jr, the former President and current Chair of Loblaw Company Ltd., now has another title to add to his name: Canada's Top Profiteer. This billionaire won by a margin of 35% after over 7,000 people nationwide voted in the inaugural competition hosted by Leadnow, a non-profit dedicated to building collective power. Previously, Leadnow - [Ontario government takes control of four more school boards](https://springmag.ca/ontario-government-takes-control-of-four-more-school-boards) - On the last day of school, Ontario’s education minister announced that the province will be taking control of four more school boards due to “mismanagement.” Paul Calandra said the province has appointed supervisors to the Toronto District School Board, the Toronto Catholic District School Board, the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board and the Dufferin-Peel Catholic School - ["We must stand on the side of workers": Building solidarity with the working class of Hong Kong](https://springmag.ca/we-must-stand-on-the-side-of-workers-building-solidarity-with-the-working-class-of-hong-kong) - The tariff wars unleashed by U.S. President Donald Trump are plunging the global economy into crisis. This tariff crisis has heightened antagonism between capitalist states, while simultaneously igniting workers’ struggles within those states. Labour and the international left now face a strategic question: How do we foster international workers' solidarity to resist all capitalist states, - [A people’s history of gender, sexuality and reproduction](https://springmag.ca/a-peoples-history-of-gender-sexuality-and-reproduction) - “To know what a culture insisted was marginal or deviant was to know what was in fact central.” From the overturning of Roe v Wade, to the backlash against trans rights, to ‘anti-woke’ rhetoric – the policing of gender, sexuality and reproduction continues. This has a long history, but this same record shows there has - [Bill 33 and the school-to-prison pipeline: Ontario’s dangerous return to policing in schools](https://springmag.ca/bill-33-and-the-school-to-prison-pipeline-ontarios-dangerous-return-to-policing-in-schools) - On May 29, 2025, the Ontario government introduced Bill 33, the Supporting Children and Students Act. If passed, it would mandate the return of School Resource Officers (SROs)—uniformed police stationed in schools—across all publicly funded school boards. Premier Doug Ford’s Ministers frame the bill as a common-sense safety measure. But to many students, families, and - [Canada's fossil fuel emissions will grow with new military spending](https://springmag.ca/canadas-fossil-fuel-emissions-will-grow-with-new-military-spending) - On June 9, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney made an announcement that finally obliterated his promise to end Canada’s old relationship with the United States. On that day, Carney announced that Canada will meet the two percent of GDP spending target pushed by Washington and NATO, committing $9 billion in new funding for the Department - [“We’re falling behind”: Canadian Hearing Services workers strike for fair wages, job protections](https://springmag.ca/were-falling-behind-canadian-hearing-services-workers-strike-for-fair-wages-job-protections) - A version of this article was first published on Antler River Media. For more than eight weeks, over 200 Canadian Hearing Service (CHS) workers have been on strike across the province. Represented by the Canadian Union of Public Employees Local (CUPE) 2073, the sign language interpreters, mental health counselors, audiologists, and other striking staff of - [Carney gives green light for war on Iran](https://springmag.ca/carney-gives-green-light-for-war-on-iran) - Canada may not be leading the war on Iran. But it is complicit. And that complicity is precisely where our opposition must begin. - [Don’t attack Iran ](https://springmag.ca/dont-attack-iran) - Israel's "pre-emptive" attack on Iran is not only a violation of international law, but also a dangerous escalation that we must vehemently oppose. US and Israeli officials have already signaled that large numbers of ordinary people will suffer or be killed. The Israeli defense Minister has warned that “Tehran residents will pay the price.” Trump also issued an ultimatum that everyone should immediately evacuate Tehran, a city of more than 10 million. Such statements set the stage for mass atrocities. - [France: Palestine movement moves up a gear as Rima Hassan, MEP, returns from imprisonment in Israel](https://springmag.ca/france-palestine-movement-moves-up-a-gear-as-rima-hassan-mep-returns-from-imprisonment-in-israel) - On Saturday June 14 mass demonstrations were called in Paris and around the country by all five major national union confederations, from the radical Solidaires to the far less combative CFDT. This follows a week of impressive solidarity action. The Freedom Flotilla Twelve included a Euro MP, Rima Hassan, from the radical left formation the - [Ontario moves to fill jails, frames it as housing policy ](https://springmag.ca/ontario-moves-to-fill-jails-frames-it-as-housing-policy) - On June 4th, the Ontario government passed Bill 6, the so-called Safer Municipalities Act. Drug users experiencing homelessness can now be removed from encampments and ordered to pay a $10,000 fine or be sentenced up to six months of jail time. Due to the language of the law, this implicitly empowers police to target anyone - [Time to resist cutting social spending to pay for more military](https://springmag.ca/time-to-resist-cutting-social-spending-to-pay-for-more-military) - The militarists are looking to slash social entitlements to massively boost war spending. Yet there’s little organized opposition. NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte sent a letter to all 32 member states asking them to agree to spend 5% of GDP on the military and associated initiatives. Up from the already outrageously high current alliance target - [Standing the Gaff: One hundred years of Davis Day and the militant legacy of Cape Breton’s coal miners](https://springmag.ca/standing-the-gaff-one-hundred-years-of-davis-day-and-the-militant-legacy-of-cape-bretons-coal-miners) - One hundred years ago, on June 11, 1925, company police gunned down William “Bill” Davis, a 37-year-old unionized coal miner and father of nine, in the woods near Waterford Lake outside New Waterford, Cape Breton while he was participating in a march of striking coal miners. This week marks the 100th anniversary of William Davis - [Protest bans: Yet another example of liberalism paving the way for fascism](https://springmag.ca/protest-bans-yet-another-example-of-liberalism-paving-the-way-for-fascism) - After months of keeping us in suspense, Toronto city council has decided it has the authority to strip us of our democratic rights in a 16-9 vote by passing the so-called “bubble zone” bylaw, which makes protesting illegal within a fifty metre radius of places like religious buildings, schools, and childcare centres. Toronto is just - [Chris Smalls on his film Union: “You have to meet the workers where they are at” ](https://springmag.ca/chris-smalls-on-his-film-union-you-have-to-meet-the-workers-where-they-are-at) - In 2022, a group of Amazon workers in Staten Island led by Chris Smalls achieved a remarkable feat when they fought Amazon and successfully won their union vote, becoming the very first unionized Amazon workplace in the U.S. as the Amazon Labour Union. Union, the documentary directed by Brett Story and Stephen Maing, conveys how Smalls - [Sterile zones and starvation: Canada must stop arming Israel](https://springmag.ca/sterile-zones-and-starvation-canada-must-stop-arming-israel) - A complete, two-way arms embargo is the only principled response. That means cancelling all existing export permits and ending military imports from Israel, freezing joint defence research, and supporting international investigations into war crimes. - [A Marxist analysis of 21st century China ](https://springmag.ca/a-marxist-analysis-of-21st-century-china) - China: Rise, Repression & Resistance By Adrian Budd (Bookmarks, 2024) Adrian Budd’s new book China: Rise, Repression & Resistance wrestles with the contradictions of China’s place in the world economy and tries to outline a Marxist understanding of China and its importance to the international left. After all, China is supposed to be a socialist - [Parkdale Housing Justice Network organizes against luxury condo developers in Toronto](https://springmag.ca/parkdale-housing-justice-network-organizes-against-luxury-condo-developers-in-toronto) - On May 21, members from 230 Fightback, York South-Weston Tenant Union and other grassroots organizations joined Parkdale Housing Justice Network (PHJN) for a planned action at the downtown Toronto headquarters of KingSett Capital, a private equity real estate investment firm with $18 billion in capital assets. The purpose of the demonstration was to demand that - [Exclusion of undocumented migrants makes Ontario’s healthcare system worse for everyone ](https://springmag.ca/exclusion-of-undocumented-migrants-makes-ontarios-healthcare-system-worse-for-everyone) - Canada is known for its promise of universal healthcare. Its public health system is able to provide care at no cost to many of the people who call the country home. In Ontario, however, the ideal of universal healthcare is far from realized. The Ontario Health Insurance Plan (OHIP) leaves some of the province's most - [Canadian Hearing Service workers are standing up to a bully boss ](https://springmag.ca/canadian-hearing-service-workers-are-standing-up-to-a-bully-boss) - Workers at the Canadian Hearing Service (CHS) have been on strike since April 28, following the expiration of their contract on March 31, 2025. The workers and their union, the CUPE Local 2073—which represents more than 200 workers (including front-line staff, speech therapists, audiologists, etc.)—are demanding greater job security and better wages. These workers have - [The Freedom Flotilla Coalition: Challenging the siege on Gaza](https://springmag.ca/the-freedom-flotilla-coalition-challenging-the-siege-on-gaza-with-humanitarian-aid-and-international-solidarity) - The Freedom Flotilla Coalition—the boats delivering aid into Gaza—has been under constant attack by the Israeli military ever since before October 7, compounding the effects of its manufactured famine on the Palestinian people of Gaza. The illegal Israeli blockade: The reason why aid is not getting into Gaza In addition to the Israeli occupation of - [The US Blockade on Cuba](https://springmag.ca/the-us-blockade-on-cuba) - For many Canadians, the US blockade on Cuba is thought to be a relic of the Cold War, either a product of the Soviet era or something eased under Obama’s “Cuban thaw.” This misconception allows American imperialism to go unchecked and obscures the enduring reality of one of the longest and most inhumane economic wars - [Work, songs, and resistance in crisis](https://springmag.ca/work-songs-and-resistance-in-crisis) - Paul Rekret’s Take This Hammer: Work, Song, Crisis (London: Goldsmiths Press, 2024) There is a long history of music expressing resistance. It includes enslaved people in the South singing of freedom to come, and Rage Against the Machine songs blaring at campus rallies. At various points during the past century, music has been at the - [There is no moral distinction between forced starvation and gas chambers](https://springmag.ca/there-is-no-moral-distinction-between-forced-starvation-and-gas-chambers) - No aid has entered Gaza since March 2nd due to Israel’s siege. Since then, fifty children have died from starvation in Gaza. Israeli defense minister Israel Katz has said explicitly, “Israel’s policy is clear: no humanitarian aid will enter Gaza.” Another Israeli Minister, Moshe Saada of Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud Party has said, “Yes, I will - [The Nakba is now](https://springmag.ca/the-nakba-is-now) - On May 5, 2025, the Israeli security cabinet approved a plan to escalate military operations in Gaza, seize more territory, and cement long-term control. As images of emaciated children flood the media amid an ever-deepening humanitarian crisis, Israel declared its intent to make its occupation of Gaza permanent. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu described a mission - [UK Local Elections: Reform on the rise, Labour lurch to the right](https://springmag.ca/uk-local-elections-reform-on-the-rise-labour-lurch-to-the-right) - The 2025 UK local elections have marked a significant shift in the nation's political landscape, with an apparent breakdown in broad support for traditional parties and the far-right, racist Reform UK (previously the UK Independence Party and Brexit Party) emerging to fill the gap. Their impressive performance, including substantial gains in council seats and a - [An interview with the Early Years Liberation Collective](https://springmag.ca/an-interview-with-the-early-years-liberation-collective) - The Early Years Liberation Collective (EYLC) is a collective of educators, advocates, activists, and creators in the early years community who have been organizing for the liberation of Palestine since the fall of 2023. The following interview is with EYLC team member “J”, who explains how the EYLC has advocated for Palestine within the early - [Luksang Bayan: A people’s grief](https://springmag.ca/luksang-bayan-a-peoples-grief) - The Filipino people are no strangers to mourning. Many Filipino migrant workers will tell you harrowing stories of personal grief, the kind of trauma that might make many of us retreat from the world for months or years. A coworker used her minimum wage earnings to fly to the Philippines twice in two months in - [As Supervised Consumption Sites close, people are hurting](https://springmag.ca/as-supervised-consumption-sites-close-people-are-hurting) - This article first appeared in The Grind. It is republished with permission. To read the original, click here. “The first few days [after the closure] you would see more needles and garbage around the site, but now you see even more within the larger vicinity of the neighbourhood,” Chris tells The Grind. Chris is an artist - [Ford’s government is underfunding education](https://springmag.ca/fords-government-is-underfunding-education) - In a story that is all too common across the province, parents and teachers from the Toronto District School Board calling into the CBC Radio’s Ontario Today described a school board that is struggling due to a lack of resources. CBC reported that parents and teachers described old schools with no air conditioning, washrooms that - [LifeLabs workers on strike to keep healthcare public](https://springmag.ca/lifelabs-workers-on-strike-to-keep-healthcare-public) - For the past ten weeks, 1200 workers at LifeLabs in BC have been on a rotating strike for better wages and working conditions. The workers are seeking wage parity for the lab techs, couriers and other employees who do the same jobs as their hospital-based counterparts, but are paid much less. Workers were very united - [The Pahalgam Assault and the struggle for Kashmiri freedom](https://springmag.ca/the-pahalgam-assault-and-the-struggle-for-kashmiri-freedom) - On April 22, 2025, an assault occurred in Baisaran Valley, near Pahalgam, Indian-administered Kashmir. Armed assailants fired on tourists, resulting in 26 deaths and over 20 injuries. Initially claimed by "The Resistance Front," the group later retracted their statement due to a communication breakdown. The attack highlights the persistent violence defining Kashmir’s occupation. Kashmir is - [Undercurrents of reaction: Carney wins, Cons surge, NDP crashes](https://springmag.ca/undercurrents-of-reaction-carney-wins-cons-surge-ndp-crashes) - While some breathe a sigh of relief at avoiding a Poilievre government, the winnowing of the political contest into a two-corporate-party race across much of Canada contains many troubling undercurrents for the left. - [Mayworks Festival: Who’s afraid of labour justice?](https://springmag.ca/mayworks-festival-whos-afraid-of-labour-justice) - The Mayworks Festival of Working People & the Arts commemorates the strength, struggle and imagination of communities seeking labour justice, land sovereignty and dignified life by offering a month-long schedule of films, theatre, art installations, walking tours, and more. The 40th anniversary of the festival kicked off on May 2nd with a performance and panel - [Spring Radio: Trade wars and class wars (feat. Dave Bush & Deena Newaz)](https://springmag.ca/spring-radio-trade-wars-and-class-war-feat-dave-bush-deena-newaz) - Donald Trump’s tariffs have set the whole global economy in a frenzy. The trade war is escalating and countries, including Canada, are retaliating with heightened nationalism. In the upcoming federal election in Canada, tariffs and Trump are the most central issue. But what does it mean for workers and the working class? Who benefits from - [Spring Radio: Fighting to save Safe Consumption Sites in Ontario](https://springmag.ca/fighting-to-save-safe-consumption-sites-in-ontario) - In this episode of Spring Radio, we look at the movement to save supervised consumption sites in Ontario: life-saving sites that could close in April 2025 without mass mobilization. - ['Let's Rent A Train!': The League for Socialist Action](https://springmag.ca/lets-rent-a-train-the-league-for-socialist-action) - 'Let's Rent a Train!' is a newly released historical film documenting the rise and fall of a revolutionary political group, the League for Socialist Action (LSA), whose members waged campaigns that altered Canada’s political landscape. The film examines the experiences of the LSA over the course of the 1970s, investigating its success and the challenges it - [“A lot of things that used to matter to me don’t matter to me anymore”: An interview with Omar El Akkad](https://springmag.ca/a-lot-of-things-that-used-to-matter-to-me-dont-matter-to-me-anymore-an-interview-with-omar-el-akkad) - Omar El Akkad, the Canadian-American journalist and award-winning author of “What Strange Paradise” and “American War,” makes his non-fiction debut with “One Day Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This,” titled after his viral tweet from October of 2023 referencing the Palestinian genocide. Born in Cairo, Egypt, but raised in Doha, Qatar, El Akkad came - [Stop the cuts at Saint Mary’s University](https://springmag.ca/stop-the-cuts-at-saint-marys-university) - I have been teaching at Saint Mary’s University as a part-time instructor for nearly a year and a half now. Despite this part-time status, my students never seem to notice that I am a contract worker. Why would they? I fulfill the same teaching duties as tenured professors who have been teaching for years. Although - [Will Trump’s tariffs be good for auto workers?](https://springmag.ca/will-trumps-tariffs-be-good-for-auto-workers) - This article was first published by Labor Notes. It is reprinted with permission. During the 2019 General Motors strike, while my fellow workers and I were pounding the pavement, something inspirational was happening south of the border: Mexican auto worker Israel Cervantes, along with many others at a GM plant in Silao, Guanajuato, refused overtime - [Library workers for supervised consumption sites ](https://springmag.ca/library-workers-for-supervised-consumption-sites) - In December of 2024, the Ford government announced amendments to The Community Care and Recovery Act that would close supervised consumption sites (SCS) within 200 metres of schools or daycares across Ontario. Due to these changes, 10 sites in the province were set to close on April 1st. In response, the Neighbourhood Group Community Services - [Leveraging the election to build workers’ power ](https://springmag.ca/leveraging-the-election-to-build-workers-power) - Just two months ago, the federal Conservatives were sailing towards an easy election. The Liberals were crumbling under Justin Trudeau, and Poilievre’s victory seemed so inevitable that right-wing ideologue Jordan Peterson hosted a triumphant interview titled “Canada’s Next Prime Minister.” But with the election of Trump, the US-Canada tariff war, and the replacement of Trudeau - [Trump’s tariffs and ‘delinking’ from the US](https://springmag.ca/trumps-tariffs-and-delinking-from-the-us) - The Trump-initiated trade war will have a major impact on all our lives. The US turn to protectionism means great instability and uncertainty in a wide range of countries but Canada is going to be impacted to a particularly severe degree. At this early stage, the response in Canada has been dominated by a wave - [Omar El Akkad’s indictment of Western liberal hypocrisy and complicity in genocide](https://springmag.ca/book-review-omar-el-akkads-indictment-of-western-liberal-hypocrisy-and-complicity-in-genocide) - Omar El Akkad’s latest book, One Day, Everyone Will Always Have Been Against This, articulates the emptiness, anguish, and contradictions many of us have experienced while witnessing our governments’ complicity and even justification for the genocide in Gaza. The liberal establishment’s silence and inaction is appalling, but as El Akkad argues, it is not out of character. - [France: Le Pen's sentencing on corruption charges and the fight against fascism](https://springmag.ca/france-le-pens-sentencing-on-corruption-charges-and-the-fight-against-fascism) - Antifascists in France have had good news. At the end of a two-month trial, far‑right leader Marine Le Pen has been found guilty of embezzling millions of euros in public funds over an eleven‑year period. The judge concluded she was “at the centre … of an organized system” aimed at funnelling public money into party - [Twenty-six Alberta unions form a Common Front  ](https://springmag.ca/twenty-six-alberta-unions-form-a-common-front) - Anticipating attacks on workers pay and rights, the Alberta Federation of Labour and 26 unions representing more than 300,000 workers announced a “solidarity pact” on March 26. Alberta Federation of Labour (AFL) president Gil McGowan said “the purpose of the solidarity pact is to let employers and governments in this province know that the unions - [Human rights lawyer turned Attorney General Gary Anandasangaree must take action against Israel’s genocide](https://springmag.ca/human-rights-lawyer-turned-attorney-general-gary-anandasangaree-must-take-action-against-israels-genocide) - Recently appointed as Canada's Attorney General and Minister of Justice by Prime Minister Mark Carney on March 14, 2025 (a position he is likely to keep after the upcoming federal election), Gary Anandasangaree now faces a moment that directly parallels his earlier career as an international human rights lawyer advocating for Tamil victims of war - [The resurgence of military dictatorship in Indonesia](https://springmag.ca/the-resurgence-of-military-dictatorship-in-indonesia) - The Indonesian parliament recently ratified controversial changes to its military law to expand the armed forces' role beyond defence into civilian affairs. The revision broadened the scope of civilian posts that active-duty soldiers can hold, including the attorney general’s office, the state secretariat, the counterterrorism agency, and the narcotics agency. It also extends the retirement - [UAW leadership should reverse its pro-Trump statement](https://springmag.ca/uaw-leadership-should-reverse-its-pro-trump-statement) - The UAW leadership should reverse its declaration of support for Trump on tariffs and protectionism, and should stand on international labor solidarity in organizing for a labor party and a general strike. The UAW’s statement on March 4, 2025 on relations with Trump and tariffs should be read in full. It is copied at the - [Diversity of Tactics: Leafleting for a free Palestine](https://springmag.ca/diversity-of-tactics-leafleting-for-a-free-palestine) - Every Saturday at Toronto’s Dufferin Mall, I join a group of people in my neighbourhood to hand out leaflets with a call to action “Boycott Israeli Apartheid,” encouraging shoppers to boycott products that support Israeli apartheid. A small group of us started doing this every weekend a few months ago, and since then we’ve distributed - [Toronto’s proposed bylaw polices dissent ](https://springmag.ca/torontos-proposed-bylaw-polices-dissent) - The freedom to protest is the bedrock of a functioning democracy. Toronto’s new bylaw proposal may parade itself as an act of compassion and protection, but beneath its reassuring façade lies a dangerous impulse to silence dissent and curtail free speech. The City’s proposed bylaw seeks to prohibit protests and demonstrations near certain locations, specifically - [If Tories support free speech, they’d dump ‘Doberman’ Oberman](https://springmag.ca/if-tories-support-free-speech-theyd-dump-doberman-oberman) - Neil Oberman personifies the Conservative party’s hypocrisy on freedom of expression. In service of a genocidal foreign state, Pierre Poilievre’s candidate for the Mount Royal riding has been rampaging against freedom of speech and assembly. Partly due to Oberman’s intervention, I recently spent five days in jail for social media posts critical of Israel. The - ["Mo" showcases the highs, lows, and realities of Palestinian life in diaspora](https://springmag.ca/mo-showcases-the-highs-lows-and-realities-of-palestinian-life-in-diaspora) - “Mo” is a groundbreaking television series that offers a heartfelt and humorous exploration of what it means to be a Palestinian American navigating the complexities of identity, family, and survival. Created by and starring Palestinian American Mo Amer, the first season was released in 2022 to critical acclaim. Its recently launched second season has only - [The banker or the bully: Carney is no alternative to Poilievre](https://springmag.ca/the-banker-or-the-bully-carney-is-no-alternative-to-poilievre) - The fear of Poilievre has turned to hope that Carney can beat him. But Carney is no alternative. Between Carney (the banker) and Poilievre (the bully), workers must fight for real alternatives that leave no one left behind. - [Re-thinking Palestinian prisoners: The front line of resistance](https://springmag.ca/re-thinking-palestinian-prisoners) - The Palestinian struggle for national liberation can be seen in microcosm in aspects of Palestinians' daily lives and the multiple dimensions that the struggle plays out in, be that in the inhumane siege on Gaza, the political economy of the occupation, the fragmentation of parties, etc. Of course, the Israeli occupation and settler colonialism work - [Singh embarrassingly trails Carney on questioning F-35 deal](https://springmag.ca/singh-embarrassingly-trails-carney-on-questioning-f-35-deal) - The NDP’s belated call to scrap the F-35 contract is a damning comment on Jagmeet Singh’s leadership. This cautious response to a rapidly shifting political terrain also includes an outrageous sop to the military industrial complex. On February 25, I asked the NDP leader if he’d reconsider paying tens of billions of dollars to a - [Geographies of Canada’s Public Pension Investments](https://springmag.ca/geographies-of-canadas-public-pension-investments) - An excerpt from the new book, Invested in Crisis: Public Pensions Against the Future, by Tom Fraser, published by Between the Lines. The tentacles of the Canadian pension fund are far reaching. It is reflective of a totally bananas system that Hudson Yards, which is the largest real estate project in US history, and some - [After the election, where next for Ontario education?](https://springmag.ca/after-the-election-where-next-for-ontario-education) - The Ontario elections are over. The government spent $189 million in taxpayer money to lose two seats and we are back to basically where we were moments before the election. While Trump’s tariffs received the most attention during the election, parents and educators are still left fighting for more space for issues plaguing education in - [Nova Scotians stand up for democracy](https://springmag.ca/nova-scotians-stand-up-for-democracy) - Headlines about low voter turnout have become commonplace across the country in recent years. Even as the political stakes are higher, people seem understandably checked out, cynical and focused on the real day-to-day struggle of keeping food on the table and a roof over their head. Nova Scotia Progressive Conservative leader Tim Houston was no - [Workers join forces to fight for better work at Queen’s University](https://springmag.ca/workers-join-forces-to-fight-for-better-work-at-queens-university-2) - 2,000 workers at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario are out on strike. PSAC 901 Unit 1, representing 2000 graduate teaching assistants, teaching fellows, and research assistants, is fighting for living wages and dignity in the workplace. Graduate student workers need more than poverty wages In January, Kingston City Council declared food insecurity an emergency. The - [CUPE 79 practice picket in Toronto demands fair deal for city workers](https://springmag.ca/cupe-79-practice-picket-in-toronto-demands-fair-deal-for-city-workers) - On March 6, a frigid day in Toronto, CUPE 79 workers gathered outside the Masaryk-Cowan Community Recreation Centre, alongside community supporters, to make their demands heard as they head toward their strike deadline. The practice picket was a clear and powerful call to action: city workers deserve a fair contract, and they deserve to survive - ["No One Left Behind" campaign sets out an agenda for working-class tariff relief](https://springmag.ca/no-one-left-behind-campaign-sets-out-an-agenda-for-working-class-tariff-relief) - On Thursday, a coalition of workers, housing and healthcare activists, and more held a press conference calling for urgent government action to protect workers and small businesses during the ongoing trade war affecting Canada. The press conference marked the launch of the “No One Left Behind” campaign for a worker-first agenda in response to American - [BC's continued dismantling of harm reduction: Understanding safe supply diversion as survival](https://springmag.ca/bcs-continued-dismantling-of-harm-reduction-understanding-safe-supply-diversion-as-survival) - Amidst the unregulated toxic drug supply emergency in the province that has killed over 16,000 people since 2016, alongside the manufactured onslaught against harm reduction country-wide, the BC Health Minister announced on February 19th that people who use opioids from safe supply programs will now be forced to take their prescription under the supervision of - [California uses prison labour to deal with climate disasters. Canada must avoid a similar model](https://springmag.ca/california-uses-prison-labour-to-deal-with-climate-disasters-canada-must-avoid-a-similar-model) - As wildfires continue to burn in and around Los Angeles, the fact that many of the firefighters battling the blazes are inmates from California’s prison system has drawn significant news coverage. While the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) claims their fire camp program is voluntary and provides prisoners with meaningful opportunities, research demonstrates - [Elon Musk, falling profit, and moral capitalism ](https://springmag.ca/elon-falling-profit-and-moral-capitalism) - Elon Musk has been a public figure for more than a decade. From beloved comparisons to Tony Stark to the persona non grata in liberal circles, he is now the paragon of what Ken Martin would call the “bad billionaires.” As he openly influences Trump's policy and trillions of dollars in funds, concerns regarding - [‘AI’ – Capitalism robs workers (yet) again](https://springmag.ca/ai-capitalism-robs-workers-yet-again) - The Eye of the Master: A Social History of Artificial Intelligence (M Pasquinelli, Verso 2023) Much breathless commentary has in recent years been exhaled about the impact of ‘AI’ – the moniker hung on Large Language Models (LLMs) produced using artificial neural networks that mimic human speech and dialogue. These computational wonders are pitched – - [Spring Radio: 2025 Ontario elections (feat. Sarah Jama)](https://springmag.ca/spring-radio-2025-ontario-elections-feat-sarah-jama) - In this episode of the Spring Radio podcast, we speak with Independent Ontario MPP Sarah Jama about her removal from the Ontario NDP caucus after calling for a ceasefire in Gaza and her ongoing re-election campaign in Hamilton Centre as an independent. We explore the importance of elections, their limitations under capitalism, and why organizing - [Towards socialist answers from and for Sudan](https://springmag.ca/towards-socialist-answers-from-and-for-sudan) - This article was first published in Atar Magazine. It is republished here with permission. To abolish all forms of exploitation and oppression is the goal of socialism, a goal so noble yet so vague when not grounded in detailed visions of the much sought after post-exploitation reality and the path to reach it. For the - [Hamilton communities confront MP Lantsman's anti-Palestinian hate ](https://springmag.ca/hamilton-communities-confront-mp-lantsmans-anti-palestinian-hate) - On Sunday, January 19 2025, Hamiltonian progressive and leftist communities organized outside of the Hamilton Jewish Federation’s (HJF) building in anticipation of Melissa Lantsman, a Thornhill MP and the Co-Deputy Leader of the Conservative Party of Canada, arriving to the city to speak at an event organized by the HJF about how, “the federal government - [Worker solidarity in digital spaces: Interview with Umber Majeed, Artist in the 2024 Mayworks Festival](https://springmag.ca/worker-solidarity-in-digital-spaces-interview-with-umber-majeed-artist-in-the-2024-mayworks-festival) - Umber Majeed is a Pakistani-American multidisciplinary visual artist and educator. Spring Magazine caught up with Umber to discuss her exhibition and performance around the politics of place and technology. Spring: How did you first get involved in the Mayworks Festival? Umber Majeed: I was introduced to Mayworks as a partner organization when preparing for an - [Ontario election: Only a working class response can defeat Ford](https://springmag.ca/ontario-election-only-a-working-class-response-can-defeat-ford) - Ford’s election call is politically self-serving - designed to get re-elected before the threat of Poilievre’s cuts, and using patriotism to erase the memory of his policies and to divide workers across borders. Nonetheless, the way to respond to Ford’s early election is not to oppose the election, it is to say bring it on. - [War on Yemen: Stop Canadian arms sales to Saudi Arabia](https://springmag.ca/war-on-yemen-stop-canadian-arms-sales-to-saudi-arabia) - Canada has placed profits over peace, refusing to halt weapons sales to Saudi Arabia. This refusal constitutes an apathy towards the suffering of Yemenis, and a self-seeking posture towards war. - [Surviving the Nakba: A legacy of displacement](https://springmag.ca/surviving-the-nakba-a-legacy-of-displacement) - As a Palestinian woman from Gaza, I come from a family that survived the Nakba of 1948, a catastrophic event that forced over 700,000 Palestinians from their homes. In the past fifteen months, we have tragically lost entire branches of our family in Israel's ongoing war, a war the International Court of Justice (ICJ) deemed - [Trump, tariffs and the return of the National Question](https://springmag.ca/trump-tariffs-and-the-return-of-the-national-question) - Cross-class nationalism is a dead end for workers, as it encourages us to think of ourselves as “in the same boat” as the bosses, who are the only ones who will profit from a “Buy Canadian” approach. In fact they will likely use the tariffs as an excuse to price gouge their way to super-profits. What we need instead is cross-border solidarity, not cross-class collaboration. - [Big moves at Local 79: Union ready to fight for better wages and stronger public services](https://springmag.ca/big-moves-at-local-79-union-ready-to-fight-for-better-wages-and-stronger-public-services) - Over 30,000 municipal employees, represented by Canadian Public Employees Union (CUPE) Local 79, have been in bargaining with the City of Toronto since their contract expired at the end of December. On January 21, the union held a vote to determine if workers were ready to go on strike to win their demands. The vote had an unprecedented turnout, and a huge majority came out in favour of job action. With this incredibly successful vote, the members of Local 79 have signalled that they are ready to fight for fair wages and stronger public services. - [Amazon's union-busting in Quebec calls for mass organizing](https://springmag.ca/amazon-union-busting-tactics-in-quebec-calls-for-mass-organizing) - Amazon is notorious for its hostility to unions and any type of organizing from its employees. But on January 22 it escalated its anti-worker conduct to a new level when it announced it would be shutting down its Quebec operations over the next few weeks, closing seven facilities and laying off around 2,000 workers. Workers - [For parents going back to Harper’s child care model is not an option](https://springmag.ca/for-parents-going-back-to-harpers-child-care-model-is-not-an-option) - It is worthwhile to revisit the dark days of Canadian child care under Harper in light of increased operator-led activism against the $10-a-day model. In 2022, the federal government launched the Canada-Wide Early Learning and Child Care (CWELCC) program, aiming to provide nation-wide $10 a day daycare by 2025-2026. While not without its flaws, the - [Trade wars and class wars](https://springmag.ca/trade-wars-and-class-wars) - For labour and the left, the trade war awakens long-dormant political questions about nationalism, free trade, and class power. The Left must put forward a clear political alternative to the forces of reaction and profit. - [Make the Ontario election a referendum on Ford’s healthcare crisis](https://springmag.ca/make-the-ontario-election-a-referendum-on-fords-healthcare-crisis) - Doug Ford has yet another pre-election healthcare promise. In 2018 it was “ending hallway medicine,” in 2022 it was “unprecedented hospital capacity,” and now it is “connecting every person to primary care.” But his record shows not only that Ford can’t be trusted to deliver on his promise, but that he is actively undermining healthcare - [Freeland and Carney put capitalists before workers by cutting taxes on the rich ](https://springmag.ca/freeland-and-carney-put-capitalists-before-workers-by-cutting-taxes-on-the-rich) - While Justin Trudeau’s centre-right Liberal government was never as progressive as some suggested, the post-Trudeau Liberals are taking a sharp right turn, especially on the question of how to tax the rich. Banker Mark Carney took time during his campaign launch to attack progressive politics, which he branded as far left: “We can’t achieve our - [Queen’s workers unite to fight for better contracts](https://springmag.ca/queens-workers-unite-to-fight-for-better-contracts) - The administration at Queen’s University is trying to cut funding to academic programs. In response all the bargaining units at the University — including five CUPE units, as well as PSAC 901 and USW 2010 — are joining forces in an historic coordinating bargaining campaign. Together they represent over 5,000 workers including lab technicians, library technicians, food service workers, custodial and trades staff, graduate teaching assistants, and other support staff. - [Unionizing Amazon is a top priority for the working class](https://springmag.ca/unionizing-amazon-is-a-top-priority-for-the-working-class) - Amazon recently shuttered all seven Quebec warehouses, leaving approximately 1,700 workers jobless. This decision followed the recent unionization of the company’s Laval warehouse with the Confédération des Syndicats Nationaux (CSN) in April 2024. Despite Amazon’s contention that the decision stemmed from cost-cutting, workers' advocates asserted that the company was trying to cut the influence of - [School boards are coming for your sick days ](https://springmag.ca/school-boards-are-coming-for-your-sick-days) - Ontario teachers, who signed a new four-year contract last year, will have to start thinking about bargaining sooner rather than later. The flood of articles over the last few months about absenteeism point to a new line of battle in the coming contract negotiations. Gains coming off education workers’ strike In the last contract, we - [Will Poilievre cancel $10-a-day child care?](https://springmag.ca/will-poilievre-cancel-10-a-day-child-care) - With a federal election looming, many Canadians are worried about what will become of the Canada-Wide Early Learning and Child Care (CWELCC) system, otherwise known as $10-per-day child care. Conservative leader, Pierre Poilievre, has not clarified what will become of Canada’s national child care system under a Conservative federal government. This contrasts with his predecessor, - [Big Tech is a big threat to political speech](https://springmag.ca/big-tech-is-a-big-threat-to-political-speech) - Big Tech cannot be a neutral arbiter of what political speech is acceptable or not acceptable. Its quest for profits, ties to governments and class position inevitably shape what they see as political and what is deemed as acceptable. - [Poilievre’s reactionary Palestine position  ](https://springmag.ca/poilievres-reactionary-palestine-position) - With a federal election looming and Poilievre leading in the polls, the time is right for our movement to make sure we’re putting pressure on all of our politicians—especially Poilievre. - [Ford’s hat can’t hide his long list of corporate sellouts](https://springmag.ca/fords-hat-cant-hide-his-long-list-of-corporate-sellouts) - On January 15 Doug Ford was seen at a press conference sporting a hat with the phrase “Canada is not for sale”, which was met with mostly positive responses, as people praised him for taking a stand against Trump’s proposed Canadian tariffs. However, the irony of this hat was not lost on others. Ford’s hat - [No accountability, no justice, no homes: Toronto City Council's approach to encampments](https://springmag.ca/no-accountability-no-justice-no-homes-toronto-city-councils-approach-to-encampments) - 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 changed. This summer the city violently evicted people from Trinity Bellwoods, Alexandra Park and Lamport Stadium. These evictions, widely documented across social media, provoked outrage as hundreds of police and - [Oppose encampment evictions](https://springmag.ca/oppose-encampment-evictions) - On July 26 a No Encampment Evictions rally was held in front of Toronto City Hall demanding that Mayor John Tory and City Council defund the police and fund housing. Violent encampment evictions This rally was organized by Health Providers Against Poverty, Shelter and Justice Housing Network and Toronto Drop-In Network. There were speeches given - [We need pharmacare for all](https://springmag.ca/we-need-pharmacare-for-all) - On February 24 the parliament voted down, by 295 to 32, NDP Peter Julian’s bill C-213 that would have been the first step towards a much needed national pharmacare program. This is not the first time pharmacare has been discussed at a national level. The Liberal party first promised pharmacare in 1997, and it has - [Health workers press Trudeau to deliver on 10 paid sick days](https://springmag.ca/health-workers-press-trudeau-to-deliver-on-10-paid-sick-days) - One of the promises Justin Trudeau made during the federal election was to legislate 10 paid sick days within 100 days of re-election. Trudeau has now been in office for 30 days and has yet to make do on that promise. As Gaibrie Stephen, an emergency physician in Peel and member of the Decent Work - [Pass Bill 8: Ontario workers need 10 paid sick days](https://springmag.ca/pass-bill-8-ontario-workers-need-10-paid-sick-days) - Ontario's three temporary paid sick days are running out at the end of the year. Bill 8 would ensure workers would have access to 10 permanent paid sick days. - [Why socialists should take to TikTok](https://springmag.ca/why-socialists-should-take-to-tiktok) - The process of creating and distributing TikToks is the process of revolutionary journalism. It can be a valuable tool in the arsenal of socialist organizing. - [Overworked and underpaid: CAA workers on strike](https://springmag.ca/overworked-and-underpaid-caa-workers-on-strike) - Workers at five Canadian Automobile Association (CAA) stores in southern Ontario have been on strike since October 29. Workers are striking in London, Waterloo, Kitchener, Cambridge and Guelph over two main issues, workload and pay. Before the strikes CAA tabled a three-year agreement that had no pay increases within the first two years, and then - [Dr. Oetker workers want a bigger slice](https://springmag.ca/dr-oetker-workers-want-a-bigger-slice) - On February 16, 251 workers at the Dr. Oetker plant in London, Ontario went on strike. The workers, members of UFCW Local 175, work in all areas of the plant including general labor, bakery and maintenance. Workers at the plant had unionized with UFCW in 2018. Talks between the union and the company have broken - [Pandemic prescription: Fight for decent work](https://springmag.ca/pandemic-prescription-fight-for-decent-work) - As we enter the 6th wave of COVID, the Ford government has lifted restrictions, watched infections rise and provided no protections for workers. This has especially affected low wage and precariously-employed workers–who are disproportionately women, migrant, racialized and disabled–and who are often the people who have been working on the frontlines throughout the entirety of - [Raise the ODSP rates](https://springmag.ca/raise-the-odsp-rates) - On April 19 Doug Ford was asked if he will raise ODSP (Ontario Disability Support Program) rates, his response was "That's an opportunity to sit down and discuss, for the people unable to work I will always be there to support them but for people able to work the best way to support them is - [Hamilton shows up to say no to fascism!](https://springmag.ca/hamilton-shows-up-to-say-no-to-fascism) - In the early morning of November 9, 2024, a group of masked fascists occupied the corner of King and James in downtown Hamilton outside of Jackson Square, holding a banner that said “MASS DEPORTATIONS NOW,” painted in black stencil lettering. Many of us weren’t surprised. The Steel City is known primarily for its blue collar - [CUPW strike: What comes after state intervention?](https://springmag.ca/cupw-strike-what-comes-after-state-intervention) - As part of Spring Magazine’s coverage of the CUPW strike, Vancouver Spring members visited picket lines in Richmond and Burnaby last month to get workers’ thoughts on the strike and their struggle against Canada Post Management (CPM). We learned a great deal. The workers told us numerous stories detailing CPM’s strategy and tactics throughout the - [Is Canada helping Lebanon or working for the US and Israel?](https://springmag.ca/is-canada-helping-lebanon-or-working-for-the-us-and-israel) - Canada is working to further subordinate Lebanon to US and Israeli dictates. And it’s been doing so for some time. Recently, the Globe and Mail published an article on the importance of Canadian and western support for the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF). Academic Bessma Momani argued: “Investing in the LAF is crucial, not just for - [Global crisis, global rage: Politics in the age of Trump](https://springmag.ca/global-crisis-global-rage-politics-in-the-age-of-trump) - The narrative that the world is shifting irreversibly to the right obscures the fact that how anger is channeled depends on the political ideas and movements available to workers. - [Ford declares war on encampments](https://springmag.ca/ford-declares-war-on-encampments) - Just before the Ontario legislature rose for its winter break, Doug Ford introduced Bill 242, the Safer Municipalities Act, which escalates the ongoing criminalization of unhoused people across Ontario. Introduced on December 12 and carried at first reading, Ford claims that the measures found in Bill 242 will help cities “address and dismantle” encampments across - [Understanding Québec’s Bill 21: Putting secularism in perspective](https://springmag.ca/understanding-quebecs-bill-21-putting-secularism-in-perspective) - In May of 2024, the National Assembly of Québec renewed Bill 21, the ‘secularism law’ that forbids public sector employees from wearing religious symbols while working. Using the Charter’s notwithstanding clause, the Assembly has protected the legislation until 2029. In doing so, it also renewed the endless debate Canada has engaged in since the Bill’s - [Jean-Marie Le Pen: Life and death of a Nazi](https://springmag.ca/jean-marie-le-pen-life-and-death-of-a-nazi) - Jean Marie Le Pen, the most influential French fascist leader since World War 2, died on Tuesday January 7. The same evening, crowds of mostly young people gathered in Paris, Lyon and Marseille to celebrate, to chants of “Bonne Année et Bonne Santé: Jean-Marie is dead!” (Have a good year! Good health to you! Jean-Marie - [2015-2025: Trudeau’s legacy and the rise of Poilievre](https://springmag.ca/2015-2025-trudeaus-legacy-and-the-rise-of-poilievre) - Trudeau's reforms are far outweighed by his failures and his coziness with big business, clearing the way for Poilievre to monopolize anger against the cost of living crisis – but with no plan to support affordable housing or food. - [Macron appoints zombie government in France](https://springmag.ca/macron-appoints-zombie-government-in-france) - Emmanuel Macron has appointed a new Prime Minister, François Bayrou, to attempt to apply the same policies as the recently ousted right-wing former Prime Minister Michel Barnier. The Left Berlin's Phil Butland spoke to Paris activist John Mullen about the current political situation. This interview first appeared in The Left Berlin. It is republished here - [Luigi Mangione should have watched Star Wars](https://springmag.ca/luigi-mangione-should-have-watched-star-wars) - Last week, a masked killer assassinated United Healthcare CEO, Brian Thompson. The reaction from the masses demonstrates the growing divides in society. Now that a suspect, Luigi Mangione, has been named, people are attributing a motive based on the minute details divulged about his life. The main thought that occurred to me, once I finished - [Support the call: Release Filipino union organizer Maoj Maga!](https://springmag.ca/support-the-call-release-filipino-union-organizer-maoj-maga) - On Friday, December 6th, 2024, workers’ organization Worker Solidarity Network, SFU student organization SFPIRG, and Filipino youth organization Anakbayan joined Canada-Philippines Solidarity for Human Rights (CPSHR) to meet with the Philippine Consulate and present an open letter calling for Filipino union organizer Maoj Maga to be released from prison. The petition has so far been - [Spring Radio: A socialist response to Pierre Poilievre, Part 2: Housing (feat. Ricardo Tranjan)](https://springmag.ca/spring-radio-a-socialist-response-to-pierre-poilievre-part-2-housing-feat-ricardo-tranjan) - In this episode of Spring Radio, we sat down with Ricardo Tranjan to discuss the Conservatives' slogan ‘Build the Homes,' versus what the evidence actually tells us about housing in Canada. - [Canada ‘aids’ Palestine by training Palestinian police to repress resistance](https://springmag.ca/canada-aids-palestine-by-training-palestinian-police-to-repress-resistance) - Palestinian Authority (PA) security forces are violently suppressing those opposing Israel’s holocaust in Gaza. Most Canadians are unaware that our country assists them. In recent days Palestinians in occupied Jenin have set up barricades and called a general strike to denounce PA repression. They were responding to PA security forces killing a child named Muhammad - [On the Canada Post picket line: Workers fight for decent jobs and public services](https://springmag.ca/on-the-canada-post-picket-line-workers-fight-for-decent-jobs-and-public-services) - Visiting the picket line solidifies that this fight is bigger than fair wages—it is about defending public sector jobs, good pensions, and rejecting the aggressive push towards precarious and casual work. - [Without Sarah Jama, the NDP risks alienating progressive voters](https://springmag.ca/without-sarah-jama-the-ndp-risks-alienating-progressive-voters) - When Sarah Jama first announced that she was going to run for provincial office, my initial thought was, “The Ontario NDP would be so lucky if Jama joined the legislature. The party would finally push back towards its progressive roots." I was inspired and felt a revitalized sense of confidence in the electoral system as - [France: Macron strengthens fascists, but fall of Barnier opens space for resistance](https://springmag.ca/france-macron-strengthens-fascists-but-fall-of-barnier-opens-space-for-resistance) - Three months after Macron chose a Prime Minister from a party which lost the elections, his government has been brought down by a no-confidence vote put forward by the Left. The July 2024 elections in France gave us a parliament split into three big blocs - the centre-right around Macron, the fascists of the National - [WSIB’s “employer surplus” is injured and ill workers’ deficit](https://springmag.ca/wsibs-employer-surplus-is-injured-and-ill-workers-deficit) - On November 21st, the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB) confirmed that they will be rebating $2.5 billion, with employers receiving the lion’s share of this rebate ($2 billion). The provincial government was quick to say that this would help both workers and employers. However, this does nothing but return money to employers on the - [Media finally reports that many Canadians oppose NATO](https://springmag.ca/media-finally-reports-that-many-canadians-oppose-nato) - A large raucous protest put criticism of Canada’s most damaging international accord back on the public radar. In response to the opening of North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s (NATO) 70th anniversary Parliamentary Assembly in Montreal, 1,500 protested Friday to “Block NATO.” The main banner at the front of the march stated: “Block NATO: Reject Militarism, Imperialism - [The political relevance of Lenin’s "Left-Wing Communism: An Infantile Disorder"](https://springmag.ca/the-political-relevance-of-lenins-left-wing-communism-an-infantile-disorder) - Vladimir Lenin's "Left-Wing Communism: An Infantile Disorder" was written in 1920 amidst the Russian Civil War and with the Bolsheviks in power. Lenin wrote the pamphlet in the lead up to the meeting of the second congress of the Third International, when delegates from all over the world would be coming to Moscow. Lenin’s - [Lessons from Trump’s win that could help us stop Poilievre](https://springmag.ca/lessons-from-trumps-win-that-could-help-us-stop-poilievre) - It’s already two weeks since Trump’s decisive election win, but the battle of interpretation is still raging. Why did more than 76 million people vote for Trump, who won both the popular vote and the Electoral College, despite all the terrible things he has said and done, and threatened to do throughout the election? Many - [Small business BS from Shopify billionaire](https://springmag.ca/small-business-bs-from-shopify-billionaire) - Tobias “Tobi” Lutke, the co-founder and CEO of Shopify, the huge e-commerce company based in Ottawa, Ontario, has been loudly advocating against the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW). He tweeted on November 15, 2024, “This is a bad faith move by the union that discriminates against small businesses in Canada. Disgraceful” in response to - [If it is bad for India to kill ‘terrorists’ abroad, why isn’t it for Israel?](https://springmag.ca/if-it-is-bad-for-india-to-kill-terrorists-abroad-why-isnt-it-for-israel) - What’s good for the goose should be good for the gander. If one follows Justin Trudeau’s logic on Israel, India had the right to assassinate Hardeep Singh Nijjar and other Canadians New Delhi labels “terrorist”. Canadian politicians and media have rightly denounced India’s assassinations in Canada. Recently the RCMP accused Indian diplomats of engaging in - [Anti-racism must be anti-imperialist: why the left should read Gerald Horne](https://springmag.ca/anti-racism-must-be-anti-imperialist-why-the-left-should-read-gerald-horne) - Speaking to an audience in Harlem in December 1964 after returning from his second trip to Africa, Malcolm X drew connections between the struggle against white supremacy in the United States and the struggle against imperialism abroad. “As long as we think that we should get Mississippi straightened out before we worry about the Congo,” - [Involuntary treatment is not care. BC is spearheading its violent rise](https://springmag.ca/involuntary-treatment-is-not-care-bc-is-spearheading-its-violent-rise) - Last month, BC NDP Premier David Eby announced his party would expand prisons and hospital psychiatric wards under the facade of “compassionate, secure care” and “public safety” to involuntarily incarcerate those with various types of brain injuries, adverse mental health experiences, and/or people who use drugs (PWUD). This policy, like other displacement tools, will target - [For-profit operators’ rolling closures are about profits not kids](https://springmag.ca/for-profit-operators-rolling-closures-are-about-profits-not-kids) - Last week for-profit child care operators in Alberta and Ontario participated in a week of rolling closures to protest the Canada-Wide Early Learning and Child Care (CWELCC) agreement, otherwise known as $10-per-day child care. For-profit operators claim that CWELCC undermines quality child care programming and undermines families’ right to choose their preferred childcare provider. The - [Optimism a year into a genocide](https://springmag.ca/optimism-a-year-into-a-genocide) - Every day the world wakes up to new footage of massacres—new stories of horror beyond comprehension shared by the victims of Israeli bombings in Palestine, Lebanon, Syria and Yemen. Every day shows new levels of depravity previously unimaginable, not just real now but seemingly inevitable and broadcast directly to the phones of anyone who wants - [Navigating Palestinian solidarity with the diaspora in an age of cognitive warfare](https://springmag.ca/navigating-palestinian-solidarity-with-the-diaspora-in-an-age-of-cognitive-warfare) - Over the past year, the world has bore witness to an unparalleled level of destruction in Gaza. Israel has bombed residential areas, civilians and critical infrastructure, leaving behind disintegrated bodies buried in rubble and displaced masses. Yet, amid this devastation, there is also celebration — of resistance, of defiance, of martyrdom. Armed militants continue to - [Hundreds gather in Winnipeg, including NDP, to facilitate imprisonment of poor people](https://springmag.ca/hundreds-gather-in-winnipeg-including-ndp-to-facilitate-imprisonment-of-poor-people) - On October 4, a conference was held in Winnipeg called the Retail Secure Manitoba Summit, which according to the website, brought together “business leaders, officials, police, retailers, and community members”—essentially, capitalists, state violence, prosecution, private security, and businesses—with the ostensible objective of combating retail theft. Present at the conference was the NDP leader of Manitoba - [Terrorism designation takes aim at Palestine solidarity](https://springmag.ca/terrorism-designination-takes-aim-at-palestine-solidarity) - Labeling Samidoun a "terrorist entity" is a sign that Pierre Poilievre is successfully pulling the government to the right—and a sign of where free speech for Palestine could go without worker-led mass opposition. - [Spring Radio: One front: The struggle for a free Palestine and labour organizing (feat. Moe Alqasem)](https://springmag.ca/spring-radio-one-front-the-struggle-for-a-free-palestine-and-labour-organizing-feat-moe-alqasem) - This month marks one year since Israel escalated its genocidal actions in Palestine. We sat down with Palestinian community organizer, Spring member, and trade unionist Moe Alqasem to reflect on the past year and what comes next. We also spoke with Taher Dahleh (a member of the Communication Workers of America and the Palestinian Youth - [On Palestine and complacency: “Our humanity can only be realized collectively”](https://springmag.ca/on-palestine-and-complacency-our-humanity-can-only-be-realized-collectively) - The following is a speech delivered by Independent Jewish Voices (IJV) Canada member Jesse Greener at a rally outside the American consulate in Québec City on October 7, 2024. It has been translated into English from French and reprinted with permission. I would like to begin by thanking the organizers for their tireless efforts to - [We (still) need a permanent ceasefire in Gaza](https://springmag.ca/we-still-need-a-permanent-ceasefire-in-gaza) - Blasting people to hell with constant bombing is such unconscionable violence, and we will not remain silent even as their allies, our rulers, criminalize our speech and marches. By Canadian governments supporting the Israeli state’s refusal to share the land, they are forcing all Canadian people to become complicit in allowing such deadly unstoppable war - [IOF soldiers should not be welcomed at York University](https://springmag.ca/iof-soldiers-should-not-be-welcomed-at-york-university) - On September 22, Hillel York, a student group at York University, organized an event off campus called “October 7 Survivor: Hear Their Story and Help Move Forward.” This event featured three speakers, including one Israeli “border observer” (Ariella Ruback) and two IOF soldiers (Eytan Berman and Nadav Levin), to supposedly offer their “powerful testimony” of - [Che Guevara: Revolutionary economist](https://springmag.ca/che-guevara-revolutionary-economist) - Very few socialist figures are as recognizable as Che Guevara. His work as an economist, however, is less recognized. From 1959-1965, Che was the president of the National Bank and worked as the Minister of Industries. In these roles, he overhauled the Cuban economy and expanded socialist economic theory. On the 57th anniversary of his - [Canadian taxes pay envoy to protect pro-Israel billionaires](https://springmag.ca/canadian-taxes-pay-envoy-to-protect-pro-israel-billionaires) - Last Wednesday, protests were held at fifty Indigo stores across the country to oppose its owners’ assistance to non-Israelis who join a military brutalizing Palestinians. In response, the officially named Special Envoy on Preserving Holocaust Remembrance and Combatting Antisemitism Deborah Lyons posted multiple images from different Indigo stores. Lyons noted, “Members of my team and - [Experiences organizing for The General Union in Montreal](https://springmag.ca/experiences-organizing-for-the-general-union-in-montreal) - The General Union’s organization model borrows from social justice unionism, with direct action at the core of our unionization and mobilization efforts. We envision and pursue a reinvigorated approach to organizing un-/under-unionized industries lacking union power, within which workers are organized, politicized, trained, and mobilized, then becoming core members of further unionization campaigns. Labour organization - [Make October red again](https://springmag.ca/make-october-red-again) - The month of October has special significance in the revolutionary calendar. In 1917, it marked a turning point in the Russian Revolution. The October Revolution was the culmination of a months-long struggle between thousands of workers’ councils across Russia, which represented a deeply radical experiment in democracy, and the old regime, which promised reform to - [Israel’s aggression risks regional war](https://springmag.ca/israels-aggression-risks-regional-war) - The only way to de-escalate and avoid catastrophic suffering for millions across the region is an immediate and permanent ceasefire in Gaza and Lebanon alongside a comprehensive arms embargo. - [Residential Schools and the ongoing separation of Indigenous families](https://springmag.ca/residential-schools-and-the-ongoing-separation-of-indigenous-families) - This speech was originally delivered at an anti-racist event hosted by the Fraser Valley Peace Council in July 2021. It has been republished here with permission from Alex Reid, with updated data and references to reflect 2024. I have been asked by a good friend to speak about residential schools here today. This has been - [What is Spring’s Labour Caucus?](https://springmag.ca/what-is-springs-labour-caucus) - Spring’s Labour Caucus is a key site of activity for members in trade unions and/or involved in decent work campaigns. The Caucus meets on a semi-regular basis, depending on the pace of activity, to discuss issues facing the labour and decent work movements and to organize activity around particular workers’ struggles. In recent months, the - [TDSB witch hunt makes a mockery of Truth and Reconciliation](https://springmag.ca/tdsb-witch-hunt-makes-a-mockery-of-truth-and-reconciliation) - In the Ontario government’s latest embarrassing move, the Ministry of Education has launched an investigation into the Toronto District School Board (TDSB) field trip to the Grassy Narrows River Run. An annual tradition in which participants wear blue and march through the streets to raise awareness and demand accountability for the decades-long mercury poisoning of - [The similarities between settler colonialism in Canada and Palestine are unmistakable](https://springmag.ca/the-similarities-between-settler-colonialism-in-canada-and-palestine-are-unmistakable) - We pass a beautiful oasis of houses with children splashing around in a small pool at the foothill of a luscious vineyard. Our driver tells us this is the nearby Israeli settlement. I’m in the backseat with two other international activists. This August, we joined Palestinian families in the West Bank to provide protective presence - [Tim Houston delivers more evictions faster ](https://springmag.ca/tim-houston-delivers-more-evictions-faster) - The fall sitting of the Nova Scotia legislature provided yet another piece of evidence that Tim Houston’s Conservatives are willing to change the law to suit the needs of their rich friends, regardless of the harm it will cause the rest of us. Houston’s government introduced amendments to the Interim Residential Rental Increase Cap Act - [LiUNA members need to hold fanatical pro-Israel leaders to account](https://springmag.ca/liuna-members-need-to-hold-fanatical-pro-israel-leaders-to-account) - The Canadian leadership of Laborers’ International Union of North America (LiUNA) supports an apartheid state committing a holocaust in Gaza. LiUNA Canada’s communications director has become a leading Israel advocate. On September, Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center (FSWC) announced it will honour the LiUNA Director of Public Relations, Marketing and Strategic Partnerships, Victoria Mancinelli at - [College faculty negotiations: The power of a decisive strike mandate ](https://springmag.ca/college-faculty-negotiations-a-strong-strike-mandate-shows-strength) - With unionized Ontario college faculty in the midst of a bargaining round for a new collective agreement, this is a perfect time to discuss the role of a strike mandate in bargaining: what it is, what it isn’t, and why it is absolutely essential for college faculty to secure one. It is time for workers - [The notwithstanding clause faces legal challenge in Saskatchewan](https://springmag.ca/the-notwithstanding-clause-faces-legal-challenge-in-saskatchewan) - On September 23, the Court of King’s Bench in Regina will hear the Government of Saskatchewan’s appeal in a case (Saskatchewan [Minister of Education] v UR Pride Centre for Sexuality and Gender Diversity) relating to the recent Parents’ Bill of Rights. Despite the relative quietness in the media about this upcoming case, it will likely - [CUPE National should represent members, not pro-Israel lobby groups](https://springmag.ca/cupe-national-should-represent-members-not-pro-israel-lobby-groups) - Like many other CUPE members, I have been confused by the actions of my National union since August 21 when the CUPE National Executive Board (NEB) emailed members with news of their non-confidence vote in General Vice President Fred Hahn. We all saw the most recent round of employer-friendly media and politicians smearing Hahn with - [Spring Radio: Political prisoners are a labour issue (feat. Dennise Velasco)](https://springmag.ca/spring-radio-political-prisoners-are-a-labour-issue-feat-dennise-velasco) - In this episode of the Spring Radio podcast, labour organizer and former political prisoner Dennise Velasco discusses the ongoing union organizing in the Philippines as well as the situation for political prisoners such as Maoj Maga, and how these struggles connect to the labour movement, Indigenous self-determination, and other movements in so-called Canada. At Spring’s - [Migrant workers fight back against immigration consultancy scams](https://springmag.ca/migrant-workers-fight-back-against-immigration-consultancy-scams) - Tens of thousands of migrants all over so-called canada are being scammed by immigration consultancies. These consultancies charge prospective migrants fees, sometimes at costs upwards of $300,000, with promises of permanent status. However, upon moving here, migrants are being left without status and without a job, all while these fraudulent companies take their money. On - [Back to the future: Trade union militancy and anti-Communist backlash](https://springmag.ca/back-to-the-future-trade-union-militancy-and-anti-communist-backlash) - Blue Collar Empire: The Untold Story of US Labor’s Global Anti Communist Crusade by Jeff Schuhrke (2024). Have you ever wondered why the labour bureaucracy became sedated, entrenched in business unionism, overly friendly with industry leaders and politicians? Why is it so hostile to the peace movements, and busy suppressing democracy within the rank and - [Homelessness in Halifax worsens, Houston government ignores the crisis](https://springmag.ca/homelessness-in-halifax-worsens-houston-government-ignores-the-crisis) - On Jul 13, 2023, Nova Scotia Minister of Community Services Karla MacFarlane explained how the PC government considers rising homelessness in Halifax a natural occurrence. With such a comment, people should ask what are this government's priorities?. How can a government fix a problem when they do not even recognize it as a problem? Minister - [POSTERS: Blame billionaires, not immigrants!](https://springmag.ca/posters-blame-billionaires-not-immigrants) - Want to help fight the growing anti-migrant sentiment? Download these posters, print them out, and put them up to tell your neighbours: Blame Billionaires, Corporations, and Landlords, NOT Immigrants! - [The eternal presence of Audre Lorde on our path to liberation](https://springmag.ca/the-eternal-presence-of-audre-lorde-on-our-path-to-liberation) - Survival is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde by Alexis Pauline Gumbs. Farrar, Straus and Giroux (2024). Within the diaspora of writings that stemmed from the American civil rights movement and second wave feminism, Audre Lorde’s work remains a distinctive achievement with eternal promise. As Lorde phrased it, “What I leave behind has - [France: Resistance takes off as Macron ignores elections](https://springmag.ca/france-resistance-takes-off-as-macron-ignores-elections) - Emmanuel Macron has named a Prime Minister from the right-wing party that came fourth in June’s elections. Just like Trump, Macron has little respect for democracy. After the victory of the Left against the right and against the fascists in June, and faced with a parliament where the Left alliance, the New Popular Front, won - [The closure of safe consumption sites is a class issue](https://springmag.ca/the-closure-of-safe-consumption-sites-is-a-class-issue) - In recent weeks, the Ford Government made an unexpected announcement to close 10 of 17 Supervised Consumption Sites (SCS) across Ontario, thanks to new zoning regulations regarding proximity to schools and daycares. The likes of Premier Ford and Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre blame those struggling in our communities for the problems created by a capitalist - [Halifax library workers fighting to be treated fairly and put food on their tables ](https://springmag.ca/halifax-library-workers-fighting-to-be-treated-fairly-and-put-food-on-their-tables) - Workers at Halifax Public Libraries (HPL) have been on strike since August 26. Librarians, library technicians/assistants, and administrative, technical and maintenance staff at HPL, represented by Nova Scotia Union of Public Employees (NSUPE) Local 14, are fighting for better wages, more sick time, and equal leave provisions for adoptive parents. Speaking with Christina Covert and - [You can’t scapegoat your way out of a teacher crisis ](https://springmag.ca/you-cant-scapegoat-your-way-out-of-a-teacher-crisis) - In what has become an annual tradition, Quebec Minister of Education, Bernard Drainville announced to the media that there are still 3,858 teaching positions that are unfilled just one week before the new school year begins. There are about 20,000 more students enrolled than last year and the province is facing a serious challenge in - [The attack on Fred Hahn is an attack on all workers](https://springmag.ca/the-attack-on-fred-hahn-is-an-attack-on-all-workers) - The way the attack on Fred Hahn is unfolding could have long-lasting impacts on every worker across the Canadian state. As the working class, our task is clear: defend Fred Hahn! - [Against escalation in the Middle East](https://springmag.ca/against-escalation-in-the-middle-east) - As the genocide in Gaza approaches 11 months, the fear of all out war between Iran (aided by Hezbollah and Houthi forces) and the U.S. (aligned with the West) has become a major talking point. Despite the crocodile tears regarding an escalation in the wider region, North American leaders continue to act in the most - [Teamsters union show bravery amidst corporate and government oppression](https://springmag.ca/teamsters-union-show-bravery-amidst-corporate-and-government-oppression) - Despite the Canadian government’s undemocratic betrayal of workers’ rights in support of the greedy corporations CN Rail and Canadian Pacific Kansas City Rail (CPKC), Teamsters Union continues to be steadfast in their fight for safe and decent work. Contrary to some of the mainstream media’s portrayal of the rail workers’ situation, the workers have not - [France: Macron shows his contempt for democracy ](https://springmag.ca/france-macron-shows-his-contempt-for-democracy) - Seven weeks ago, President Macron’s party was defeated at the parliamentary elections in France, losing over 90 seats (they were already running a minority government before the poll). But Macron has so far refused to nominate a left Prime Minister, despite the fact that the left alliance (New Popular Front) is the largest group of - [The legacy of the Deir Yassin Massacre](https://springmag.ca/the-legacy-of-the-deir-yassin-massacre) - On April 9, 1948, two different Zionist militias, the Irgun and the Lehi, descended on the Palestinian village of Deir Yassin, a small village located about five kilometers west of Al-Quds (known now in Occupied Palestine as “Jerusalem”). The militias systematically went house-to ]-house, dispossessing the entire village and killing an estimated minimum of 107 - [Defend Fred Hahn!](https://springmag.ca/defend-fred-hahn) - The request from the CUPE National Executive Board asking Fred to resign is a serious attack not only on freedom of speech and democracy but on the very essence of union solidarity. - [Spring Radio: Mass uprising in Bangladesh feat. Anu Muhammad](https://springmag.ca/spring-radio-mass-uprising-in-bangladesh-feat-anu-muhammad) - In this episode of the Spring Radio podcast, Bangladeshi economist and public intellectual, Anu Mohammad, discusses the working class nature of the mass uprising in Bangladesh and where the country is headed after ousting an authoritarian government. In Spring’s annual Red October conference, we will be going deeper into the discussion around mass uprisings and - [Who really is unsafe when we abandon Pride?](https://springmag.ca/who-really-is-unsafe-when-we-abandon-pride) - Over the last few years, we have seen a rise in hate targeting marginalized folks including Jewish, Muslim, Palestinian and 2SLGBTQ+ communities among others. Rise in hate Across the country, antisemitic threats are on the rise, just this week a bomb threat was called into multiple Jewish institutions including synagogues and schools. A few months - [Project Magnify: Toronto police’s latest surveillance strategy and the illusion of public support](https://springmag.ca/project-magnify-toronto-polices-latest-surveillance-strategy-and-the-illusion-of-public-support) - On August 1, 2024, the Toronto Police Service (TPS) launched a three month pilot project titled Project Magnify that increased the presence of neighborhood community officers in Divisions 14, 31 and 43. The ostensible purpose of this initiative is to mitigate the rising levels of gun violence in select areas. The main difference, if you - [Yintah: A story of Indigenous resistance ](https://springmag.ca/yintah-a-story-of-indigenous-resistance) - In settler-colonial society, we constantly declare and acknowledge that we reside and gather on the "unceded territory" of Indigenous peoples. But do we ever stop to wonder if our declarations reflect our realities? As its rightful stewards, do Indigenous peoples decide the fate of the land? Yintah, the Hot Docs 2024 Audience Award-winning documentary, exposes - [End of JNF charitable status a big win, little thanks to ‘left’](https://springmag.ca/end-of-jnf-charitable-status-a-big-win-little-thanks-to-left) - Historic. Maybe the biggest victory for Palestinian solidarity activists in Canadian history. The Jewish National Fund of Canada losing its charitable status is a blow to Israel, Zionist groups, and Canada’s establishment. But the grassroots win should embarrass much of the mainstream self-described “left”. In response to the Canada Revenue Agency revoking the openly racist - [Mass uprising in Bangladesh overthrew a dictatorship. Now what?](https://springmag.ca/mass-uprising-in-bangladesh-overthrew-a-dictatorship-now-what) - A revolution led by the masses has succeeded in overthrowing the dictatorship. What comes next? - [The role of media in UK race riots a cautionary tale for Canadian multiculturalism](https://springmag.ca/the-role-of-media-in-uk-race-riots-a-cautionary-tale-for-canadian-multiculturalism) - As fascist-led race riots roiled the United Kingdom earlier this week, mainstream media’s years-long normalization of anti-Muslim and anti-immigrant sentiment has been a crucial factor contributing to the hate-fueled chaos. Built on years of normalized racist rhetoric about immigrants, Muslims and foreigners, the British media’s blatant racism—like much of the Western media class—became even more - [How we can fight the right’s attack on migrants](https://springmag.ca/how-we-can-fight-the-rights-attack-on-migrants) - Over the last few years, there has been a growing anti-immigrant sentiment in Canadian politics. This far-right anti-immigrant sentiment has been captured by the Conservative Party led by Pierre Poilievre. Poilievre has been appealing to Canadian workers by antagonizing migrant workers—a typical divide-and-conquer strategy. Under his leadership, the Conservatives have essentially absorbed the People's Party - [Blame landlords, not migrants, for sky-high rents](https://springmag.ca/blame-landlords-not-migrants-for-lack-of-housing) - On August 1st, Immigration Minister Marc Miller told reporters that his government would not be following through on their promise of a regularization program to give status to all undocumented residents. "Despite the economic imperative, despite the very humanitarian imperative that a broad regularization program presents, it is clear to me that Canadians are not - [Prisoners’ liberation is everyone’s liberation: Prisoners’ Justice Day 2024](https://springmag.ca/prisoners-liberation-is-everyones-liberation-prisoners-justice-day-2024) - Prisoners’ Justice Day 2024 will take place on August 10th. On August 9th at 11:00 am ET, there will be a press conference by Tracking (In)Justice on their YouTube channel to launch the first ever publicly accessible database on deaths in custody across Canada. The following are locations for selected Prisoners' Justice Day events happening - [Album review: "The Fire, The Wolf, The Fang" by Starving Wolves](https://springmag.ca/album-review-the-fire-the-wolf-the-fang-by-starving-wolves) - Starving Wolves, formed in 2015, are a sonic punch-in-the-gut punk outfit from Austin, Texas. Their sound takes a lot of the more traditional hardcore punk ‘sound’—pounding drums and harsh vocals—but the group somehow is able to make it catchy and fill it with memorable hooks. The band itself is an incredibly notable ‘who's-who’ of punk, - [Spring Radio: A socialist response to Pierre Poilievre, Part 1: Justinflation feat. Pam Frache](https://springmag.ca/spring-radio-a-socialist-response-to-pierre-poilievre-part-1-justinflation-feat-pam-frache) - Our latest episode of Spring Radio tackles Pierre Poilievre's views on inflation and his "solutions" for making life more affordable for the working class. - [France: Macron winning no medals for democracy ](https://springmag.ca/france-macron-winning-no-medals-for-democracy) - If you trust the mass media, you will have had the impression that French politics this month is mostly about a bunch of squabbling lefties and a patient, sensible President Macron trying to get them to see sense. Nothing could be further from the truth. Macron’s duet with the far-right As the Olympic ceremony went - [Students rise and revolt in Bangladesh](https://springmag.ca/students-rise-and-revolt-in-bangladesh) - The student-led movement is building popular support across class lines and giving expression to frustration with the current regime. - [Cronyism and corruption: The case for an investigation into Doug Ford’s policies](https://springmag.ca/cronyism-and-corruption-the-case-for-an-investigation-into-doug-fords-policies) - Since 1969, the Ontario Science Centre has stood as a beacon of educational enrichment and a beloved landmark. However, recent decisions by Premier Doug Ford have cast a shadow over its future. Known for its connections to influential developers and a history of prioritising private interests, Ford's policies have repeatedly raised ethical concerns. The closure - [LCBO strike is defending  public services](https://springmag.ca/lcbo-strike-is-defending-public-services) - It has been almost two weeks since the Liquor Control Board of Ontario (LCBO) workers have gone on strike. Their union, the Ontario Public Service Employees Union (OPSEU) is demanding job security for its workers (70 percent of which are casual) and greater assurances against the privatization of alcohol sales. As privatization looms, many of - [Illustrating the Haitian Revolution ](https://springmag.ca/illustrating-the-haitian-revolution) - Toussaint Louverture: The Story of the Only Successful Slave Revolt in History By CLR James, Adapted by Sakina Karimjee and Nic Watts. Verso (2023). CLR James (1902-1989) was a Trinidadian political activist and Marxist writer. One of James’ best known works was The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L’Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution (1938), which detailed - [French elections : Antifascist victory and deep political crisis](https://springmag.ca/french-elections-antifascist-victory-and-deep-political-crisis) - Many thousands of antifascists celebrated all night in rallies around the country on Sunday evening, as the news came through of the second round election results in France. It had been widely feared that the far-right National Rally, led by Marine Le Pen and Jordan Bardella, would be forming a government this week. Instead they - [What’s at stake in the LCBO strike ](https://springmag.ca/whats-at-stake-in-the-lcbo-strike) - We know what the grocery retailers did with bread prices. What do you think they will do when they control alcohol in the province? - [UK election: Tories turfed, Labour’s victory wide but shallow](https://springmag.ca/uk-election-tories-turfed-labours-victory-wide-but-shallow) - After 14 years of Conservative rule, the UK Tories were decisively defeated on July 4. The past 14 years in Britain have been marked by a steep sense of national decline under the Conservative government, beginning with austerity in 2010 and progressing ever more rightwards with Brexit and regressive policies such as the Rwanda deportation - [Fascist breakthrough in first round of elections in France: An anticapitalist perspective](https://springmag.ca/fascist-breakthrough-in-first-round-of-elections-in-france-an-anticapitalist-perspective) - The victory of the Rassemblement national (RN, or National Rally) in the first round of elections in France is a severe setback, and it is not impossible that France will soon have its first fascist head of government since the Nazi occupation: Jordan Bardella. But the Left has also made real advances. This article outlines - [Spring Socialist Network, five years on](https://springmag.ca/spring-socialist-network-five-years-on) - In July 2019, a couple dozen social movement organizers from four different cities launched the Spring Socialist Network and Spring Magazine. Over the last five years, Spring has grown from a tiny organization with an upstart socialist publication to a slightly larger organization with active branches in five cities and a robust publication. The last - [“When we fight, we win:” Baristas in Halifax win fight for union](https://springmag.ca/when-we-fight-we-win-baristas-in-halifax-win-fight-for-union) - After a months-long fight with their employer, workers at Java Blend announced last month that they have been successful in their bid to form a union at the local coffee shop. Workers cast ballots about forming a union a year ago in June 2023, but the ballots remained sealed until last month over disputes about - [One week before elections: The fascists, the New Popular Front, and the crisis in France](https://springmag.ca/one-week-before-elections-the-fascists-the-new-popular-front-and-the-crisis-in-france) - One week before the first round of legislative elections, the Telegraph in London is running headlines about a “nationalist revolution” in France. The situation is changing constantly, with the far-right Rassemblement national (National Rally), led by Marine Le Pen and Jordan Bardella, at 35% in the polls and being predicted to get more seats than - [Just say no to the Ugly Canadian](https://springmag.ca/just-say-no-to-the-ugly-canadian) - Around the world, Canadian mining companies are in disputes with local communities and governments. Last week, Human Rights Watch released a report detailing a string of abuses at Toronto-based Barrick Gold’s North Mara mine. Since February, at least six Tanzanians have been killed there. Between 2006 and 2023 at least 77 were killed around the - [The BC Conservatives are advocating for scholasticide: Why this matters](https://springmag.ca/the-bc-conservatives-are-advocating-for-scholasticide-why-this-matters) - On Monday, June 2, Surrey BC United MLA Elenore Sturko announced her defection to the rival BC Conservative party, shortly after BC United MLA and caucus chair Lorne Doerkson made a similar transition. With the BC Conservatives currently outpolling BC United—the previously dominant 'right-wing' party in the province, and the party of former BC Premier - [Migrants in PEI are fighting a ‘cycle of exploitation’](https://springmag.ca/migrants-in-pei-are-fighting-a-cycle-of-exploitation) - From Canada’s largest cities to smallest provinces, migrants will continue to face exploitation as long as they are denied permanent residency and the equal rights that come with it. - [Fascist nightmare in France: What should anticapitalists do?](https://springmag.ca/fascist-nightmare-in-france-what-should-anticapitalists-do) - It is a historic moment in France. After the far-right National Rally, led by Marine Le Pen, gained 31.4 percent of the votes in the European elections, and President Macron’s party got only half that, Macron dissolved parliament and called a snap election. Early projections, uncertain but scary, predicted a parliament with no overall majority, - [Doug Ford’s booze deal gives public money to CEOs ](https://springmag.ca/doug-fords-booze-deal-gives-public-money-to-ceos) - Ontario Premier Doug Ford is going to spend $225 million to get beer and wine into convenience and grocery stores ahead of schedule. Last week, the Ford government announced that it will pay the multinational owners of the Beer Store to allow “early implementation” of expanded liquor sales. The full details of the plan include - [Pride and solidarity: an interview with Mike Jackson, co-founder of Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners](https://springmag.ca/pride-and-solidarity-an-interview-with-mike-jackson-co-founder-of-lesbians-and-gays-support-the-miners) - Pride holds key lessons for socialists looking to build working class power across movements for justice and liberation today - [Macron will not defend us against Le Pen](https://springmag.ca/macron-will-not-defend-us-against-le-pen) - European elections on June 9 in France handed a major victory to the fascist Marine Le Pen. Her party gained 31.4 percent of votes, as opposed to 23.3 percent five years ago. President Macron’s party got only 14.6 percent. Most observers were shocked when Macron then promptly announced snap parliamentary elections for the end of - [Spring Radio: Lessons from the student encampments for Palestine](https://springmag.ca/spring-radio-lessons-from-the-student-encampments-for-palestine) - The latest episode of Spring Radio features perspectives and insights on Palestine solidarity encampments from Ontario Tech University student Waddah, UCLA student and labour organizer Desmond, and OFL President Laura Walton. - [Prioritizing UBC students means prioritizing workers](https://springmag.ca/prioritizing-ubc-students-means-prioritizing-workers) - Our student union at UBC—the Alma Mater Society (AMS)—is pitting students against workers. In May 2023, through an abrupt decision made by the AMS council without a student referendum, staff were cut off from accessing the food bank. The AMS defended this decision by citing increasing budget and operational concerns. When Sulong heard about this - [Why do Canadians subsidize dispossession of Palestinians?](https://springmag.ca/why-do-canadians-subsidize-dispossession-of-palestinians) - “Taxpayer-subsidized charitable donations may well be Canada’s most important contribution to Palestinian dispossession,” begins a parliamentary petition drawing attention to an underappreciated phenomenon. Registered Canadian charities send over a quarter-billion dollars a year to projects in Israel. Since the federal government introduced deductions for charities in 1967, around $6 billion in subsidized donations have gone - [How Ontario Tech University became the first pro-Palestine encampment in Canada to win ](https://springmag.ca/how-ontario-tech-university-became-the-first-pro-palestine-escapement-in-canada-to-win) - An interview with Waddah, one of the lead student organizers at Ontario Tech University who was part of the campus encampments against the ongoing genocide in Gaza. Ontario Tech University became the first university in so-called Canada to win a deal with their university administration. How are you feeling? And how are the students and - [Class struggle in motion: Building solidarity with TTC workers](https://springmag.ca/class-struggle-in-motion-building-solidarity-with-toronto-transit-workers) - For workers and riders, much is at stake. If workers are able to win, it would result in better service for riders and blunt management’s privatization agenda. A win for workers would also put Ford on the back foot in his fight with the LCBO workers and maybe even cause him to rethink his plans to call a snap election. - [June 1st: A memory of class action](https://springmag.ca/june-1st-a-memory-of-class-action) - Saturday, June 1, 2024 marks the 41st anniversary of Injured Workers’ Day. This year, injured workers and advocates alike will gather across the province to commemorate the day. However, what exactly are they celebrating? Ontario in 1983 On this date in 1983, Ontario was in the throes of long-standing Conservative leadership, having won every election - [Mask off Maersk’s involvement in Israel’s genocide ](https://springmag.ca/mask-off-maersks-involvement-in-israels-genocide) - From May 24 to May 26, thousands of students, workers, organizers, and people of conscience gathered from around the world to attend the People's Conference for Palestine. Convening in Detroit, Michigan, home to one of the largest Arab diasporas in North America, the union town was the perfect host to a weekend brimming with revolutionary - [Zionism hurts Jews, too ](https://springmag.ca/zionism-hurts-jews-too) - A common Zionist belief is that Israel is a safe haven for Jewish people. The origins of Zionism are built around the idea that Jews can only experience safety through establishing a Jewish state. Theodor Herzl, the father of Zionism, conceived of Zionism as a solution to European antisemitism, which he laid out in his - [Building Sudan and Black-Palestinian solidarity](https://springmag.ca/building-sudan-and-black-palestinian-solidarity) - Two states suffering the most from military inflictions of death, displacement and starvation are Sudan and Palestine. Solidarity with the Palestinian people has grown throughout the world and in many situations, activists are making the links with the suffering of other colonized peoples. For example, on Tiotia:ke/Turtle Island the connection to the oppression and exploitation - [COVID-19: Capitalism's pandemic](https://springmag.ca/covid-19-capitalisms-pandemic) - Statement from the International Socialist Tendency: 1. The Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic is generally presented as a “natural disaster”, an “external shock” to the normal functioning of the capitalist system. But this is quite untrue. There have been various novel coronavirus and influenza outbreaks (SARS, MERS, H5N1): epidemiologists warned posed the threat of a global pandemic.. - [Black Lives Matter + A New Occupy = Revolution](https://springmag.ca/black-lives-matter-a-new-occupy-revolution) - My heart celebrated when I read that the Minneapolis city council had committed to fully defunding their police and, more recently, the city of Hamilton had kicked officers out of their schools. Despite all the heckles and fears that this Black Power movement would not result in change, victories came that we hadn’t dared to - [Students, community members establish encampment for Palestine at Queen’s University](https://springmag.ca/students-community-members-establish-encampment-for-palestine-at-queens-university) - This report was prepared by an anonymous student at Queen's University. On May 10, pro-Palestinian students, faculty, staff, and community members of Kingston, Ontario organized a sit-in protest at Queen’s University, calling on the university’s leadership to divest from the ongoing genocide in Palestine. Queen’s encampment The divestment demands include cutting ties with Israeli academic - [From the Yintah to Palestine: A talk by Wet’suwet’en resistance leaders at the UBC encampment](https://springmag.ca/from-the-yintah-to-palestine-a-talk-by-wetsuweten-resistance-leaders-at-the-ubc-encampment) - On Friday, May 10, Sleydo’, Jennifer, and Shaylynn came to speak at the UBC encampment in solidarity with Palestine, and to make the links between the struggle for Indigenous sovereignty on Turtle Island and Palestinian liberation. We wanted to share some of the lessons we learned from them with anyone who couldn’t be there: Sleydo’ - [Manitoba landfill movement: A Decolonial reckoning with how we value knowledge](https://springmag.ca/manitoba-landfill-movement-a-decolonial-reckoning-with-how-we-value-knowledge) - Almost exactly one year ago, on May 5, 2023, known as Red Dress Day, I attended a deeply impactful speech by Susan Tatoosh, Elder, Matriarch, and Leader of the Hupacasath First Nation, during my tenureship at the Vancouver Aboriginal Friendship Centre (VAFCS) on Coast Salish Lands. Her address in the Chief Simon Baker Room—a space - [The rise of people’s tribunals and their importance for national liberation movements](https://springmag.ca/the-rise-of-peoples-tribunals-and-their-importance-for-national-liberation-movements) - On May 17-18, 2024, the International People’s Tribunal (IPT) 2024 will be held in Brussels, Belgium. The tribunal, titled KATARUNGAN: The Filipino People vs. the U.S. government, and the Marcos and Duterte regimes is a quasi-judicial forum that aims to investigate and address alleged war crimes and violations of international humanitarian law committed by the US-supported Marcos - [Voices from the student encampments for Palestine](https://springmag.ca/voices-from-the-student-encampments-for-palestine) - Following the police crackdown on the Gaza Solidarity Encampments at Columbia University and City University in New York City on April 30, students across Turtle Island continue establishing their encampment protests for Palestine. The movement, inspired by the Palestinian struggle, calls for universities to divest from companies profiting from genocide and the occupation of Palestine. - [We are not for sale: A lightning protest at Simon Fraser University](https://springmag.ca/we-are-not-for-sale-a-lightning-protest-at-simon-fraser-university) - A lightning protest met at a downtown public lecture at Simon Fraser University by Enrique Manalo, the Philippine Secretary of Foreign Affairs and the highest ranking state official to visit Vancouver in recent years. About eight members of Filipino organizations from the Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (BAYAN) BC and solidarity groups shouted slogans and displayed placards - [For young people Canada's federal budget is full of empty promises](https://springmag.ca/for-young-people-canadas-federal-budget-is-full-of-empty-promises) - I recently attended the William Macdonald Lecture on Mutual Accommodation, hosted by the Canadian International Council in Toronto. The session, led by Chief Financial Times economist Martin Wolf and Canada's Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland, revolved around two main themes The first was Wolf's new book, The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism, is - [Spring Radio: Solidarity with the people of Sudan feat. Muzan Alneel](https://springmag.ca/spring-radio-solidarity-with-the-people-of-sudan-feat-muzan-alneel) - In this episode of Spring Radio, Spring member Valerie Lannon sits down with Sudanese engineer and Marxist political activist Muzan Alneel to discuss the dire political and humanitarian crisis in Sudan. Muzan walks us through the current political situation, resistance efforts on the ground, and the best way for international allies to express their solidarity. - [Gaza is this generation’s Vietnam War](https://springmag.ca/gaza-is-this-generations-vietnam-war) - In many ways the genocide in Palestine is the Vietnam War of today. Many Canadians under age 30 are incensed, angry and protesting. In cities from Halifax to Vancouver there are weekly rallies and marches. For six months, even over Christmas holidays, the protests against Israel have gone on. True the numbers of Canadians taking - [Donate to the Spring fund drive](https://springmag.ca/donate-to-the-spring-fund-drive) - Over the last year, Spring has continued to organize to build movements. We launched our annual fundraising drive on May Day and we’re asking readers to consider making a donation to help Spring continue this important work. - [Ontario government continues to shortchange students](https://springmag.ca/ontario-government-continues-to-shortchange-students) - On April 26, the Ford government quietly released information on its new funding model for public schools for 2024-2025. The new model is said to “better reflect the purpose of funding and be more understandable for parents” and increased the core education fund for 2024-2025 by $745 million, bringing the total to $28.6 billion. As - [We must hold environment minister Guilbeault accountable for supporting Israeli violence](https://springmag.ca/we-must-hold-environment-minister-guilbeault-accountable-for-supporting-israeli-violence) - As a long-time ecologist, Steven Guilbeault knows we can't overcome the climate crisis without just and equitable rules that apply to everyone no matter where they live on the planet. As a former Greenpeace spokesperson, he knows militarism is extremely ecologically damaging. As a father, Guilbeault knows that killing upwards of 15,000 Palestinian children cannot - [Rethinking finance capital](https://springmag.ca/rethinking-finance-capital) - Maher and Aquanno help bring readers to not only see finance’s historical role in capitalism, but its centrality - [Toronto city council’s fealty to Zionism erodes Canadian democracy](https://springmag.ca/toronto-city-councils-fealty-to-zionism-erodes-canadian-democracy) - On April 4, six councillors in the City of Toronto published a statement reiterating their commitment to upholding the rights and freedoms of pro-Palestine protesters brutalized on the streets by the Toronto Police Services. The unjustified attack on protesters marching to demand the end of a six-month-long genocide that their government is complicit in is - [OECTA deal highlights missed opportunity for Ontario’s teachers](https://springmag.ca/oecta-deal-highlights-missed-opportunity-for-ontarios-teachers) - Ontario's Catholic teachers have ratified a tentative contract deal with the province, covering the next three years. On March 27, the Ontario English Catholic Teachers' Association (OECTA) announced that they had ratified an agreement on central terms for a new contract, while wages would go to an arbitrator. OECTA was the last of the four - [Spring Radio: A socialist analysis of climate change with Matthew Huber](https://springmag.ca/spring-radio-a-socialist-analysis-of-climate-change-with-matthew-huber) - In Spring Radio's latest episode, we sit down with Matthew Huber to discuss the climate crisis from a socialist perspective. - [The socialist case against the carbon tax](https://springmag.ca/the-socialist-case-against-the-carbon-tax) - Carbon taxes gloss over the systemic issues at the heart of the climate crisis, while also providing a major opening for the rightwing to seize on legitimate working class grievances and turn them towards hate. - [Exploring Hindu nationalism's ascent and impact](https://springmag.ca/exploring-hindu-nationalisms-ascent-and-impact) - Twilight Prisoners: The Rise of the Hindu Right and the Fall of India by Siddhartha Deb is a profound exploration of the perilous ascent of Hindu nationalism in India and its implications for the nation's social fabric, political landscape, and economic trajectory. - [Gaza the final nail in ‘Canada as honest broker’ coffin](https://springmag.ca/gaza-the-final-nail-in-canada-as-honest-broker-coffin) - It now seems quaint to call Canada an “honest broker.” Ottawa’s support for Israel’s holocaust in Gaza has made the idea seem absurd. In a recent speech, Avi Lewis repeatedly referenced Canada’s “honest broker” mythology. He noted, “Can this country ever again claim the role of honest broker when Canada continues to sell arms to - [The NDP’s Palestine motion is a step forward. Let’s build on it](https://springmag.ca/the-ndps-palestine-motion-is-a-step-forward-lets-build-on-it) - A single motion is just one step along a much longer journey, not an all-encompassing solution. But this step gets us closer to the movement's long-standing goals. The motion represents a big step forward for the Palestine solidarity movement and a dramatic shift of the terrain for Palestinian liberation. - [BC teachers organize for education on Palestine](https://springmag.ca/bc-teachers-organize-for-education-on-palestine) - At the Annual General Meeting of the British Columbia Teachers’ Federation (BCTF) two weekends ago, teacher delegates passed a historic motion about Palestine. The motion asked the BCTF to push the Ministry of Education to include the Nakba and the military occupation of Gaza and the West Bank in the BC curriculum. The Nakba, which - [Mulroney’s legacy: The most hated PM in Canadian history ](https://springmag.ca/mulroneys-legacy-the-most-hated-pm-in-canadian-history) - From deep government cuts, ushering in free trade and the GST, slashing taxes on the rich and corporations, bringing in the military to assault land defenders at Oka - Mulroney dutifully waged class war on behalf of big business. And he was widely hated for it. - [Tell your MP: We will not forget your complicity in the Second Nakba](https://springmag.ca/tell-your-mp-we-will-not-forget-your-complicity-in-the-second-nakba) - Across the country, week after week, chants of “ceasefire now” ring through the streets as thousands call for an end to Israel’s war on Gaza. From the beginning of the onslaught, Israel weaponized starvation and dehydration, shutting off water and electricity and stopping food from entering the region. The people of Gaza continue to endure - [Halifax Council carries out insidious winter encampment evictions ](https://springmag.ca/halifax-council-carries-out-insidious-winter-encampment-evictions) - August 18, 2021, has become synonymous with the willingness and ability of the Halifax Regional Municipality (HRM) to mobilize large-scale, violent evictions of houseless encampments. On that day, the police laid siege upon the old Spring Garden Library grounds. The police kettled and arrested 24 protestors, pepper-sprayed masses of bystanders (including children), and oversaw the - [Palestinians facing starvation: “We ate the donkey’s corn and barley” ](https://springmag.ca/we-ate-the-donkeys-corn-and-barley) - “We ate the donkey’s corn and barley.” This is what one parent told the reporter from Al-Jazeera about how he fed his starving family, including four children. But those days are long gone. Now, the only thing available is grass. Faraj Abu Naji, of northern Gaza, said, “Planes are dropping aid on northern Gaza, and - [Spring Radio: Migrant Spring & the Fight for Status for All](https://springmag.ca/spring-radio-migrant-spring-the-fight-for-status-for-all) - This episode of Spring Radio is about the Migrant Spring: a campaign pushing for permanent resident status to all undocumented people in Canada. We spoke with Migrant Workers Alliance for Change organizer Sarom Rho about the campaign, why it is so necessary in this moment, and how it connects with the fight for a Free - [To fight imperialism, we must fight for migrant workers](https://springmag.ca/to-fight-imperialism-we-must-fight-for-migrant-workers) - Building internationalist working class movements means eliminating all the divisions imposed on workers by borders. Permanent resident status for all is a fight to do exactly that. - [Regent Park Community Health Centre workers are fighting for better working conditions ](https://springmag.ca/regent-park-community-health-centre-workers-are-fighting-for-better-working-conditions) - Workers' organizing is key to fighting to keep healthcare accessible and public. When workers organize, we can use our collective power to not only demand better from our employers but the healthcare system at large. Healthcare and social service workers know what is best for our clients, and it isn’t greedy bosses and a crumbling healthcare system. Healthcare workers deserve respect; Regent Park Community Health Centre workers demand better. - [Lenin’s principles and practice](https://springmag.ca/lenins-principles-and-practice) - Lenin: Responding to Catastrophe, Forging Revolution by Paul Le Blanc (Pluto, 2023) Paul Le Blanc, a historian and socialist, has spent the better part of his life writing about Lenin. His collection of books has attempted to generalize the authentic tradition of Lenin and the Russian Revolution as he sees it to new generations of - [Fighting the London police with unity, class-consciousness](https://springmag.ca/fighting-the-london-police-with-unity-class-consciousness) - On February 27, dozens of people gathered outside London, Ontario’s city hall in advance of a public participation meeting where council would hear feedback on the city’s proposed multi-year budget. This is the first budget put forward under the Ford government’s anti-democratic “strong mayor” powers, which effectively reduce council to a rubber stamp for the - [Once again, Canada tries to ‘run’ Haiti for US](https://springmag.ca/once-again-canada-tries-to-run-haiti-for-us) - Some people say the definition of insanity is repeating the same action but expecting a different result. In the lead up to the 20th anniversary of a Canadian coup, and two weeks after an illegitimate leader ignored a self-imposed deadline to depart, Ottawa put up $80 million to pay for a foreign intervention into Haiti. - [Halifax demands care over cops](https://springmag.ca/halifax-demands-care-over-cops) - Since October 2023, the Halifax Budget Committee has met three times to discuss proposed budget increases for the Halifax Regional Police (HRP) and RCMP. The proposed 2024-2025 operating budget for Halifax Regional Police is $98,132,100, an increase of $5,787,100 (6.3 percent) over the 2023-2024 HRP budget. This increase will fund more patrol officers, instructors for - [Commemoration not enough: Action needed on workplace deaths](https://springmag.ca/commemoration-not-enough-action-needed-on-workplace-deaths) - Two deaths in a week. Or should I say two murders, in two workplaces. One happened on February 19 at the Irving Shipyard in Halifax. The other took place on a Clearwater Seafoods boat off Mulgrave, near the Canso causeway, on February 22. This week’s deaths At the shipyard, management refuses to spill the beans. - [Spring Radio: Lessons from the Québec Common Front](https://springmag.ca/spring-radio-lessons-from-the-quebec-common-front) - 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 U workers on strike to maintain wages, improve working conditions](https://springmag.ca/york-u-workers-on-strike-to-maintain-wages-improve-working-conditions) - 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. - [Unhoused Halifax residents facing evictions](https://springmag.ca/unhoused-halifax-residents-facing-evictions) - Being homeless should not be criminalized. Our unhoused neighbours are doing what they can to survive, and the last thing they need are NIMBY groups to kick them while they are down. - [Pro-Palestine actions are protesting genocide, not hospitals](https://springmag.ca/pro-palestine-actions-are-protesting-genocide-not-hospitals) - On Monday, February 12th, thousands took to the streets of Toronto to protest Israel’s assault on Rafah, which by then had killed over 75 Palestinians as part of the ongoing genocide in Gaza. The demonstration marched along University Avenue between two destinations: the Israeli consulate and U.S. consulate. Hours later, a video was posted on - [Zionists lead the charge to a more authoritarian Canada](https://springmag.ca/zionists-lead-the-charge-to-a-more-authoritarian-canada) - Israel supporters have become a leading fascist force in Canada. They are pushing to restrict civil liberties, dismantle democratic organizations and increase policing. Zionists politicians banning protests Since I wrote about the phenomenon a month ago, Zionist groups and journalists have deepened their ties to fascist groups and escalated their anti-democratic rhetoric in a bid - [“Every hour without a cease-fire, lives are being lost”: An interview with Jason Whitney and Jamie Macnaughton](https://springmag.ca/every-hour-without-a-cease-fire-lives-are-being-lost-an-interview-with-jason-whitney-and-jamie-macnaughton) - Jason Whitney and Jamie Macnaughton are two punks who have been organizing benefit shows for Palestine in Toronto for the last few months, including one happening this Saturday, February 17, at 2:30pm at the United Steelworkers Hall, 25 Cecil Street. Spring member Autumn Easterbrook sat down with Jason and Jamie to find out why they - [Communities respond to state oppression with solidarity](https://springmag.ca/communities-respond-to-state-oppression-with-solidarity) - Immediate action is necessary to address policing's threat to free speech in Ottawa. - [Selina Robinson, B’nai Brith and colonizer’s history](https://springmag.ca/selina-robinson-bnai-brith-and-colonizers-history) - 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. - [School board responds to staffing shortage with more cuts ](https://springmag.ca/school-board-responds-to-staffing-shortage-with-more-cuts) - This week the Peel District School Board (PDSB) announced to staff that it would be getting rid of all of the contained “communication classes” and eliminating all of the Central Board Office (CBO) teacher positions for the 2024-2025 school year. The closing of the specialized communication classes is being touted as a bold step towards - [Saskatchewan’s pronoun law and Canadian anti-trans sentiment](https://springmag.ca/saskatchewans-pronoun-law-and-canadian-anti-trans-sentiment) - In October 2023, the Saskatchewan Legislature passed the “Parents’ Bill of Rights,” dubbed the “pronoun law” in media. The content of the bill is relatively simple: should a student (under the age of 16) want their teacher(s) to address them by a name or set of pronouns not on their official documentation, they need parental - [Where are liberals driving us?](https://springmag.ca/where-are-liberals-driving-us) - 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?’ The argument of the article is best summed up in its last paragraph: “Canadian institutions have a choice: to transcend political debates, or to be consumed by them. The implosion - ["What draws me to this style is the rage": An interview with Darrel Wojick](https://springmag.ca/what-draws-me-to-this-style-is-the-rage-an-interview-with-darrel-wojick) - Brigata Vendetta might be a new band, but they’re made up of Bay area veterans and play a sound that is sure to please any fan of classic 80s hardcore. The three-piece are launching their debut, This is How Democracy Dies, on February 2nd on Pirate Press Records. Spring's D'Arcy Briggs sat down with Brigata - [Answer to school staffing crisis is better working conditions and student supports](https://springmag.ca/answer-to-school-staffing-crisis-is-better-working-conditions-and-student-supports) - Earlier this month, the Toronto Star published an article called, “A 'crisis' in GTA school staffing shortages is leading to cancelled classes, burnout and mounting pressures. Principals are sounding the alarm”. The article reported on a recent statement by the Ontario Principals’ Council, representing 5,400 principals across the province, meant to sound the alarm “about - [For our nations to live, capitalism must die: From Turtle Island to Palestine](https://springmag.ca/for-our-nations-to-live-capitalism-must-die-from-turtle-island-to-palestine) - As South Africa takes israel, the U.K. and the united states to the International Court of Justice for genocide, canada takes Indigenous people to court for defending their land. On January 12, three of my comrades, Sleydo’ (Wet'suwet'en), Shay (Gitxsan), and Corey Jayohcee (Haudenosaunee) were criminally charged for defending Wet’suwet'en territory that, even by its - [Spring Radio: The Spirit of Revolution](https://springmag.ca/spring-radio-the-spirit-of-revolution) - 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. - [Abella’s support of Israel disappointing, but not surprising](https://springmag.ca/abellas-support-of-israel-disappointing-but-not-surprising) - Retired Justice Rosalie Abella’s recent op-ed in The Globe and Mail takes me back to an encounter I had with her a decade ago—and how disappointing she was. I used to think highly of Justice Rosalie Abella, who in 2021 retired from the Supreme Court of Canada after 17 years on the bench. Forty years - [Community not cops: Defund the Halifax Regional Police](https://springmag.ca/community-not-cops-defund-the-halifax-regional-police) - A group of businesses, organisations, and community members have published an open letter calling on Halifax Regional Council to reject a $5.79 million increase to the Halifax Regional Police (HRP) annual budget. The increase was recommended by the Halifax Board of Police Commissioners - the body that oversees the HRP - and would be a - [Pete’s Frootique workers’ victory is a win for all workers in Nova Scotia ](https://springmag.ca/petes-frootique-workers-victory-is-a-win-for-all-workers-in-nova-scotia) - Pete’s workers show us the power we have as workers to take on the boss and win. - [‘Leave the World Behind’ is a reflection of liberal cynicism and nihilism](https://springmag.ca/leave-the-world-behind-is-a-reflection-of-liberal-cynicism-and-nihilism) - 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 our fear of the other, and so on. A genre that has become increasingly popular in recent years is the apocalypse movie. Examples from the last decade include The Hunger - ["The powerful will always remain loyal to the powerful": An interview with Eevie Echoes](https://springmag.ca/the-powerful-will-always-remain-loyal-to-the-powerful-an-interview-with-eevie-echoes) - Spring member D'Arcy Briggs sat down with musician Eevie Echoes for a wide-ranging interview covering her new album (The Pros and Cons of Being a Wallflower), the Brooklyn music scene, coming out, class war, and mental health under capitalism. The Cons of Being a Wallflower is out on January 10th, 2024 on Ska Punk International. - [Building solidarity with farmers in Punjab: A revolution founded in the land](https://springmag.ca/building-solidarity-with-farmers-in-punjab-a-revolution-founded-in-the-land) - Although India declared independence in 1947, British colonialism and cultural imperialism continue to torment the people and the land. Mainstream thought in India has shifted from community-based values to individualistic and capitalist rhetoric. While India has reached standards of “growth and development” that are prided by countries in the Global North, the State has done - [On Palestine, pinkwashing and conditional queer solidarity](https://springmag.ca/on-palestine-pinkwashing-and-conditional-queer-solidarity) - In 2015, I attended my first Dyke March at Toronto Pride wearing a keffiyeh and holding a hastily-drawn pink sign reading, “Queers Against Israeli Apartheid, No to Pinkwashing, Free Palestine.” To poke any holes in Pride’s façade of inclusivity was (and still is) considered selfish, not the right time and place, a killing of joy. - [Spring Radio: The year in labour struggles and the role of labour journalism](https://springmag.ca/spring-radio-the-year-in-labour-struggles-and-the-role-of-labour-journalism) - 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 2023, and the state of labour journalism. This episode was recorded on the traditional territory of many nations including the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishnabeg, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee, and - [Our voices must rise: A doctor's perspective on solidarity with Gaza](https://springmag.ca/our-voices-must-rise-a-doctors-perspective-on-solidarity-with-gaza) - Wounded child, no surviving family (WCNSF)– a new acronym created by healthcare workers in Gaza; a glimpse of the horrors they are witnessing. With more than 10,000 children killed and 25,000 newly orphaned, a UNICEF spokesperson has said, “This is a war on children.” The catastrophe is indiscriminate and immense. Over 20,000 people have been - [The words of Jesus in red](https://springmag.ca/the-words-of-jesus-in-red) - This article was originally published in the May-June 1991 issue of New Maritimes, a magazine that was published in the 1980s and 90s as a progressive and alternative voice to the mainstream media in the Maritime provinces. And Jesus looked around and said to his disciples, “How hard it will be for those who have - [We all grew up on the NORAD Santa Tracker. But what is NORAD?](https://springmag.ca/we-all-grew-up-on-the-norad-santa-tracker-but-what-is-norad) - When most people of a certain generation hear the abbreviation NORAD, their minds inevitably fill the blanks by adding the words, ‘Santa Tracker.’ But what exactly is NORAD, apart from a Christmas time publicity stunt? - [CUPE 3906 organizing workers and tenants against landlord McMaster University](https://springmag.ca/cupe-3906-organizing-workers-and-tenants-against-landlord-mcmaster-university) - Within the last three weeks, tenants at 10 Bay Street South in Hamilton have organized to demand better living conditions from their landlord. In this case, their landlord is McMaster University, the same public university where they are enrolled as graduate students. McMaster opened 10 Bay Street South this fall as a housing option for - [Spring Radio: Centering Equity in the Fight for Workers’ Power](https://springmag.ca/spring-radio-centering-equity-in-the-fight-for-workers-power) - 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. - [When kids march for Palestine they jeer, but Israel indoctrination OK](https://springmag.ca/when-kids-march-for-palestine-they-jeer-but-israel-indoctrination-ok) - Leaving aside the idea that opposing genocide is “hate”, it’s wildly hypocritical for Israel supporters to complain about kids being indoctrinated at school on the subject. - [Rank and file power needed to push beyond gains in ETFO tentative agreement  ](https://springmag.ca/rank-and-file-power-needed-to-push-beyond-gains-in-etfo-tentative-agreement) - This agreement will give teachers three years to try and build the kind of organization needed to create pressure for a united front of teachers unions like we saw in 2019. - [Building mass action for Palestine solidarity: Lessons from the UK](https://springmag.ca/building-mass-action-for-palestine-solidarity-lessons-from-the-uk) - 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. - [Humanity will not be free until the Palestinians are free](https://springmag.ca/humanity-will-not-be-free-until-the-palestinians-are-free) - 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 freedom have followed the Israeli war in their program of “Mowing the Lawn” before October 7, 2023. We have been horrified and felt helpless by these attempts of Israel to - [Toronto police should target Heather Reisman, not activists](https://springmag.ca/toronto-police-should-target-heather-reisman-not-activists) - If Canada upheld the rule of law, we would expect a police raid on Heather Reisman’s mansion for inducing people to join a foreign military that has just killed 15,000 in Gaza. - [Why CAPE needs a member-led union, now more than ever](https://springmag.ca/why-cape-needs-a-member-led-union-now-more-than-ever) - It has been a whirlwind month for a federal public service union that usually presents itself as a button-up, no-drama professional association. On November 7, 2023, Camille Awada resigned as President of the Canadian Association of Professional Employees (CAPE) in the middle of the most hotly contested national election in the union’s history, purportedly due - [Picketing for Palestine](https://springmag.ca/picketing-for-palestine) - “The Palestine Laboratory” is how Antony Loewenstein, the Australian-German investigative journalist, describes Israel’s practice of using the Occupied Territories as a testing-ground for experimental military hardware and techniques. In the six weeks since the events of October 7th, this practice has only intensified in the Gaza Strip—often in full view of the world. We have - [Spring Radio: The Legacy of OCAP](https://springmag.ca/spring-radio-the-legacy-of-ocap) - 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. - [From renaming Dundas to racial justice](https://springmag.ca/from-renaming-dundas-to-racial-justice) - This is an historic moment in time where Toronto has voted to re-name Dundas Street & Dundas Square. But I do not think we should celebrate as much as we should be diligent and beware of the backlash from those determined to defend their pride in this historical figure. Re-naming is not a meaningless gesture - [Emergency phone zap to demand a ceasefire now - script & slides](https://springmag.ca/emergency-phone-zap-to-demand-a-ceasefire-now-script-slides) - 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 way to add pressure to our elected officials. Get your friends, family or coworkers on zoom to learn more about the demands and call your MPs together. Phone zaps are - [ESG and climate crisis: Why the market won’t save us](https://springmag.ca/esg-and-climate-crisis-why-the-market-wont-save-us) - Mitigating climate change and creating a sustainable future is going to require a massive reorientation of investment toward low-carbon energy alternatives at a scale, intensity and speed never seen before. Despite this, governments and private actors continue to rely on market-based “solutions” to achieve this reorientation. The most common of this has been the popular - [Halifax grocery store workers picket for first contract](https://springmag.ca/halifax-grocery-store-workers-picket-for-first-contract) - Workers at Pete’s Frootique, a specialty, trendy grocery store in Halifax, and their supporters held a spirited and fun rally outside of Pete’s in downtown Halifax on Saturday. They were demanding Sobeys – which owns Pete’s Frootique –seriously bargain with the union for a first collective agreement. The workers won certification for their union, the Service - [Tenants united against corporate landlords: York South-Weston tenants mount Toronto’s largest rent strike ](https://springmag.ca/tenants-united-against-corporate-landlords-york-south-weston-tenants-mount-torontos-largest-rent-strike) - On June 1, 2023, tenants at 33 King Street started a rent strike in response to above-guideline rent increases (AGIs) from their landlord, Dream Unlimited. The group is part of the York Southwest Tenants’ Union and has vowed to strike until reaching an agreement with the landlord. Not long after, other Dream Unlimited tenants living - [Spring Radio: Organizing for a ceasefire and a free Palestine](https://springmag.ca/spring-radio-organizing-for-a-ceasefire-and-a-free-palestine) - In this episode of Spring Radio, we look at the ongoing genocide in Gaza, and the urgent need for a ceasefire and an end to the occupation of Palestine by the Israeli state. - [“Not in My Name:” Halifax Jews and allies rally for a ceasefire](https://springmag.ca/not-in-my-name-halifax-jews-and-allies-rally-for-a-ceasefire) - Adapted from a speech delivered on November 2 at the "Halifax Jews Say Not In Our Name" rally for a ceasefire. Before I start with the presentation for this wonderful rally, in front of Halifax’s historic Public Gardens today, I want to expose the campaign to shut down civil voices here in Halifax and beyond. The chief - [How big does pro-Palestine rally need to be for honest reporting? ](https://springmag.ca/how-big-does-pro-palestine-rally-need-to-be-for-honest-reporting) - On Saturday, over 50,000 marched in Montréal against Justin Trudeau’s role in enabling Israel’s genocidal siege and slaughter in Gaza. I say this confidently having walked from one end of the march to the other and watched overhead drone footage. This was the largest antiwar or international solidarity mobilization in Montréal since the 2003 protests - [To free Palestine we need to disrupt Canada’s complicity ](https://springmag.ca/to-free-palestine-we-need-to-disrupt-canadas-complicity) - We are going to win by building the biggest pan-Canadian day of action for a ceasefire yet on November 12. Bring your friends, your family, your neighbours, the organizations you’re part of. Bring everyone. Because that’s how we’ll build the movement. And that’s how we’ll win a ceasefire, an end to the siege, and a free Palestine - [Palestinians aren’t a threat to Jewish safety](https://springmag.ca/palestinians-arent-a-threat-to-jewish-safety) - In May, I participated in a solidarity delegation to Palestine with the Centre for Jewish Nonviolence (CJNV). Close to 40 Jews from across the US, Canada, and the UK who participated in the delegation went to join in solidarity with the Palestinian people living under occupation. We spent the first week in East Jerusalem/ Al-Quds, - [Understanding the struggle of Myanmar's farmers](https://springmag.ca/understanding-the-struggle-of-myanmars-farmers) - Agriculture is the backbone of the Myanmar economy. Agriculture makes up 32 percent of gross domestic product (GDP), 56 percent of employment, and 21 percent of exports. Not only does it contribute extensively to the country’s GDP, but the agricultural sector is essential for farmers’ income, poverty reduction, and employment. In the context of both - [Mass movement for Palestinian solidarity forces NDP in the right direction](https://springmag.ca/mass-movement-for-palestinian-solidarity-forces-ndp-in-the-right-direction) - The support for Palestine in the wake of Israel’s attack on Gaza continues to grow. Pictures and videos of the destruction and murder of thousands of civilians in Gaza have flooded social media, exposing the lie that the war is against Hamas. Massive demonstrations across the world and huge sit-ins in the United States led - [How do you want to remember yourself during this nightmare?](https://springmag.ca/how-do-you-want-to-remember-yourself-during-this-nightmare) - My life’s belongings were strewn all over the living room; polka dot diaries from when I was twelve, clothing in torn apart black garbage bags, white dusty drywall toppled over everything. I looked outside and there were holes on my street where rusty water mains were revealed. I walked further in disbelief and my friend - [Community mobilizing defeats anti-Palestinian resolution in Brantford](https://springmag.ca/community-mobilizing-defeats-anti-palestinian-resolution-in-brantford) - On Tuesday, October 24, the anti-Palestine resolution that Brantford City Council had previously endorsed unanimously was defeated at a City Council meeting by a vote of 10-1. The crushing defeat of the outrageous resolution is thanks to the incredible show of strength, wisdom, pain, humanity, and leadership by the Palestinian and Muslim communities in Brantford. - [Jews deserve a place free of oppression, Israel isn't that place](https://springmag.ca/jews-deserve-a-place-free-of-oppression-israel-isnt-that-place) - The idea of a Jewish homeland is one steeped in Jewish culture, tradition, and heritage. Hanukkah stories often explicitly invoke the idea of a Jewish homeland and Sukkot is a Jewish holiday celebrating the Jewish pilgrimage that “reaffirms faith in G-D, gratitude for the harvest and the Ingathering of Jews in their Homeland”. One of - [US-Israeli imperialism in Latin America](https://springmag.ca/us-israeli-imperialism-in-latin-america) - The Israeli state was not established outside of imperial interests and the expansion of global capitalist development. It was formed in the name of it. It is imperative to make the distinction that Israel is a part of the American imperialist project, rather than the Zionist lobby dictating American policy. Roots in settler-colonial violence The - [A ‘humanitarian pause’ in Gaza is window dressing to continue butchery ](https://springmag.ca/a-humanitarian-pause-in-gaza-is-window-dressing-to-continue-butchery) - A humanitarian pause is window dressing. It is not about addressing the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, it is about appeasing the growing worldwide outrage at the brutal siege on Gaza. It is public relations and that is why defenders of Israel support it. A temporary pause in the bombing in reality is about facilitating the ongoing assault on Gaza, not about stopping it. - [The Ontario NDP must reinstate Sarah Jama](https://springmag.ca/the-ontario-ndp-must-reinstate-sarah-jama-immediately) - The Ontario NDP must reinstate Sarah Jama immediately. Anything short of her reinstatement is an attack on Palestinians, supporters, and workers everywhere. - [Gaza’s children are our children: Our futures are tied together](https://springmag.ca/gazas-children-are-our-children-our-futures-are-tied-together) - What do you say to children for whom the Red Sea doesn’t part? – Mohammed El-Kurd, poet/writer In a recent interview with SkyNews, the Israeli UK ambassador, Tzipi Hotovely, was asked about her view of Gaza’s humanitarian crisis. Her response was to claim that “there is no humanitarian crisis…” Then, when confronted with pictures of - [Spring Radio: York South-Weston Tenant Union on strike](https://springmag.ca/spring-radio-york-south-weston-tenant-union-on-strike) - In this inaugural episode of Spring Radio, we look at the exploitation of tenants by landlords and the struggle to fight back. We begin by looking at the Canadian housing system and how it's designed to squeeze the working class for the benefit of landlords. Next, we focus in on how one group of tenants—the - [To stop the genocide in Gaza, we need a ceasefire now!](https://springmag.ca/to-stop-the-genocide-in-gaza-we-need-a-ceasefire-now) - Canada’s support for Israel’s war on Gaza emboldens crimes against humanity. We march for a ceasefire and an end to the blockade. We refuse to look away from the threat of annihilation facing 2.3 million people in Gaza. - [Why we must resist the right-wing attack on free speech on Palestine](https://springmag.ca/why-we-must-resist-the-right-wing-attack-on-free-speech-on-palestine) - The attack on Jama and Hahn is just the most high-profile attack on free speech for Palestine. This is unacceptable. Workers have the right to voice solidarity for Palestine. The vitriolic attacks must be challenged. If we can’t defend Hahn and Jama from rightwing attacks over Palestine it will send a chilling message to all workers that we can’t speak up about Palestine either. - [Defend Fred Hahn and Sarah Jama! Defend solidarity with Palestine!](https://springmag.ca/defend-fred-hahn-and-sarah-jama-defend-solidarity-with-palestine) - If we fail to protect Jama and Hahn for speaking up for Palestine, we won’t be able to protect workers or students who are being victimised for showing solidarity with Palestine. - [The choices that made Zionism – and its death toll](https://springmag.ca/the-choices-that-made-zionism-and-its-death-toll) - On June 5, the Israeli army killed one year old Mohammed Tamimi when they indiscriminately opened fire on him and his family who were sitting in a car outside their home. In August 2023, sixteen police officers raided a Palestinian man’s home, beat him, and then branded his face with the Star of David, a - [Canada’s complicity with crimes against humanity in Gaza ](https://springmag.ca/canadas-complicity-with-crimes-against-humanity-in-gaza) - Melanie Joly traveled to Israel to support its genocidal policies in Gaza. The trip will go down as one of the more shameful moments in Canada’s odious anti-Palestinian history. Amidst the brutal siege of Gaza, foreign affairs minister Joly traveled to Israel Friday. After meeting her Israeli counterpart, Eli Cohen, Canada’s top diplomat tweeted, “I reiterated - [Israel reaping the whirlwind of the terror that it has sowed](https://springmag.ca/israel-reaping-the-whirlwind-of-the-terror-that-it-has-sowed) - It has taken decades, but Israel is finally reaping the whirlwind of the violence and terror that it has sowed. Today, European and North American political leaders call the Palestinians “monsters,” “terrorists,” and “sheer evil”—the Palestinians are taken to be the same as Hamas. Hamas, of course, is a political party, the elected leadership of - [York University student unions' statement of solidarity with Palestine](https://springmag.ca/york-university-student-unions-statement-of-solidarity-with-palestine) - Content warning: The following statement has content on genocide and ongoing violence in Palestine. We the undersigned Unions present at York University reaffirm our solidarity with the Palestinian people, within Palestine and the global diaspora, and their ongoing fight against settler-colonialism, apartheid, and genocide. We vehemently condemn all forms of colonial violence and support Indigenous - [Canada supports ethnic cleansing of Palestine: Sarah Jama does not](https://springmag.ca/canada-supports-ethnic-cleansing-of-palestine-sarah-jama-does-not) - In response to the horrific attack committed against Israeli civilians over the weekend and the appalling and ongoing indiscriminate bombing of Gaza by Israel, which together have killed thousands of civilians, Ontario NDP MPP Sarah Jama released a statement with the headline, “A CALL FOR AN IMMEDIATE CEASE FIRE.” Jama’s statement reads: “The generations long - [Working class people not part of Scott Moe’s era of “abundance” ](https://springmag.ca/working-class-people-not-part-of-scott-moes-era-of-abundance) - In the Spring of 2023, Scott Moe was interviewed about Saskatchewan’s current levels of homelessness and unemployment, and the programs in place to address these issues. In a moment of biting irony and political blindness, the Premier compared Saskatchewan residents’ standard of living to that of King Louis XIV of France. Moe is quoted as - [France must end colonial stance towards Morocco ](https://springmag.ca/france-must-end-colonial-stance-towards-morocco) - France is experiencing a major crisis in Africa. This is because of Macron’s policies, which I qualify as ‘Politics of Condescension’. Macron believes that he is the de facto ruler of France’s former colonies. The colonial history of France clouds its judgment vis-à-vis its former colony, thinking it still can control its public policies, ignore - [Secrets of a successful organizer: applying the lessons](https://springmag.ca/secrets-of-a-successful-organizer-applying-the-lessons) - The pandemic, the economic crisis, the climate crisis, are all showing clearly that capitalism does not care about preserving humanity and all that was built over decades. Capitalism only cares about the continuous accumulation of wealth by exploiting labour. The recent upsurge of labour militancy shows workers are refusing to tolerate indecent working conditions, low - [Red October: A conference inspired by revolution](https://springmag.ca/red-october-a-conference-inspired-by-revolution) - Millions of people around the world are yearning for a better world, and getting organized to win it. Join us at Red October, and be part of that historic fight. - [A tale of two teachers’ bargaining strategies: Quebec and Ontario  ](https://springmag.ca/a-tale-of-two-teachers-bargaining-strategies-quebec-and-ontario) - Nine unions affiliated with the Fédération autonome de l’enseignement (FAE), representing 65,500 elementary and secondary school teachers in Quebec have voted in favour of unlimited strike action. The vote won with over 90 percent approval. This stands in stark contrast to the Ontario Secondary School Teachers Federation in Ontario (OSSTF) who voted to enter into - [Conservatives in crisis: Ford’s Greenbelt 180](https://springmag.ca/conservatives-in-crisis-fords-greenbelt-180) - Ford’s capitulation demonstrates the power of collective action and shows the Conservatives are a government in crisis. - [Rights not rescue: sex workers still contend with a fraught legal landscape ](https://springmag.ca/rights-not-rescue-sex-workers-still-contend-with-a-fraught-legal-landscape) - Last week, sex workers and support organizations awoke to a disappointing decision from the Ontario Superior Court of Justice. The case, brought by the Canadian Alliance for Sex Work Law Reform, marked the latest effort to challenge harmful sex work laws in Canada due to parliament’s failure to repeal sex work offences. Heard initially over - [Settlers can, should, and must March for the Land](https://springmag.ca/settlers-can-should-and-must-march-for-the-land) - The settler working class must throw our support behind the Land Alliance. The working class will not be divided. - [International students face precarious housing, institutions and landlords profit](https://springmag.ca/international-students-are-facing-increased-housing-precarity-while-private-institutions-and-landlords-profit) - As a former international student in the UK, the start of the academic year is a reminder of the outrageous ‘overseas student’ fees I had to pay, which are often two to three times that of a domestic student, as well as student debt that I will never fully pay off. Conversations about unregulated tuition - [Ottawa’s history of taking credit for what protest won](https://springmag.ca/ottawas-history-of-taking-credit-for-what-protest-won) - Movement victories in Canada that forced changes to the Canadian government’s policies toward South Africa, Iraq and Chile have been twisted to reinforce the idea that Canadian foreign policy is benevolent. - [All out for Status for All!](https://springmag.ca/all-out-for-status-for-all) - Last weekend, all across the Canadian state, thousands of migrants and supporters hit the streets to demand that Trudeau and the federal government stop dragging their feet and grant permanent resident status to all migrants. Spring reports from a few of the many actions that took place from coast to coast. - [Dear Muslims in Canada: Do not be fooled by anti-trans protests](https://springmag.ca/dear-muslims-in-canada-do-not-be-fooled-by-anti-trans-protests) - On September 20, anti-trans protests will be taking place across the Canadian state under the guise of ‘parents rights’. Muslims in Canada should not join them, and here is why. I am referring to us as “Muslims in Canada” because not everyone identifies as a “Canadian Muslim.” There are many factors at play here: some - [Ocean Breeze tenants organizing against a long history of displacement](https://springmag.ca/ocean-breeze-tenants-organizing-against-a-long-history-of-displacement) - Tenants living in Ocean Breeze Village are determined to fight for their homes, but they’re up against developers with deep pockets and clear political influence. They are also facing down Halifax’s long history of displacing lower income and racialized residents. - [Metro’s ugly move to cut off benefits shows fight for pharmacare is a working-class issue](https://springmag.ca/metros-ugly-move-to-cut-off-benefits-shows-fight-for-pharmacare-is-a-working-class-issue) - In the past year, I’ve had the opportunity to talk to hundreds of people across the country about the need for public, universal drug insurance in the context of the Council of Canadians’ campaign for pharmacare. Labour unions have been key partners in this fight, having spearheaded the struggle for this much needed expansion of - [Working class liberation requires permanent resident status for all](https://springmag.ca/working-class-liberation-requires-permanent-resident-status-for-all) - Permanent resident status for all means that migrant workers would have the same rights and protections that local workers have, which means that they would have more power to resist hyper-exploitation from their bosses. When there is no division in the working class, we can fight together for higher wages and better working conditions for all. - [50 years since the coup in Chile: The shadow lingers as do the lessons](https://springmag.ca/50-years-since-the-coup-in-chile-the-shadow-lingers-as-do-the-lessons) - September 11, 2023 marks an ominous anniversary, fifty-years since a CIA-backed coup overthrew Chile’s democratically elected socialist president Salvador Allende. In office for barely three years, the Unidad Popular government brought through significant reforms and set off an extended period of industrial militancy that threatened the Chilean ruling class enough to embrace a brutal junta, - [Why I am voting no to OSSTF's voluntary binding arbitration proposal](https://springmag.ca/why-i-am-voting-no-to-osstfs-voluntary-binding-arbitration-proposal) - Public education unions need to be working together to defend public education and there is no better time than during bargaining. We shouldn't be breaking ranks in the fight for better working and learning conditions. - [Workers protesting Mississauga industrial bakery to demand payment of  stolen wages](https://springmag.ca/workers-protesting-mississauga-industrial-bakery-to-demand-payment-of-stolen-wages) - Over two dozen workers are entering their third week of protest in front of Live Freely Foods (LFF), an industrial bakery at 6310 Kestrel Road in Mississauga that has withheld tens of thousands of dollars in wages from its workers. On Labour Day, the workers hand-delivered a letter to the directors and owners of the - [French government attacks Muslims again: How will Left opposition hold up?](https://springmag.ca/french-government-attacks-muslims-again-how-will-left-opposition-hold-up) - The secular principle in French schools was established in 1905 to stop the Church from controlling schools and deciding what gets taught in them. It was not meant to ban religious expression among young citizens. These bans are a racist twisting of the secular principle, instituted these last twenty years. They need to be reversed. - [It’s time for Unifor to be back in the CLC](https://springmag.ca/its-time-for-unifor-to-be-back-in-the-clc) - This labour day, Unifor members will be marching in Labour Day parades across the country. Workers are building unity from below, it is high time labour leadership follows. - [Fighting anti-queer and anti-trans hate in Ottawa](https://springmag.ca/fighting-anti-queer-and-anti-trans-hate-in-ottawa) - Since the three-week long occupation of Ottawa’s downtown by the so-called “Freedom Convoy” in January and February of 2022, Ottawa has continued to be plagued by increasing hate crimes and rallies targeting marginalized communities, including Queer and Trans people. The repercussions of the convoy are still palpable in our community. The original convoy participants touted - [Teachers to hold strike votes, but what will it take to win? ](https://springmag.ca/teachers-are-voting-to-strike-what-will-it-take-for-them-to-win) - At the annual Elementary Teachers Federation of Ontario (ETFO) meeting, union President Karen Brown announced that strike votes would be held in schools across the province this fall. Delegates to the meeting greeted this news with a standing ovation. After working without a contract for the last year, seeing the Ford government bargain in bad - [Fighting the real grocery store thieves](https://springmag.ca/fighting-the-real-grocery-store-thieves) - In late August, multiple corporate media outlets circulated pictures supplied to them by the RCMP of two women wanted by police for stealing food items from a Real Canadian Superstore in Nanaimo, BC. Police claim the women stole less than $300 worth of items, but the case was a high priority for them anyway. Never - [TVO workers strike for public broadcasting](https://springmag.ca/tvo-workers-strike-for-public-broadcasting) - On Monday August 21, TVO workers walked off their jobs in an unprecedented strike to fight for public broadcasting for everyone in Ontario. - [Metro workers shut down distribution centres for fair wages ](https://springmag.ca/metro-workers-shut-down-distribution-centres-for-fair-wages) - On August 23, the striking Metro grocery workers’ fight for fair wages moved to round-the-clock secondary picket lines at two Metro distribution warehouses in Toronto. - [True health care for all requires status for all](https://springmag.ca/true-health-care-for-all-requires-status-for-all) - Migrant leader and cancer survivor Kerian Burnett can finally take a breath after the federal government approved her application for health care coverage under the Interim Federal Health Program, but Kerian’s story reveals how the fight for health - and status - for all is a life or death struggle. Kerian’s story: “I had to - [Paper of record tells tall tale of Canada pushing democracy ](https://springmag.ca/paper-of-record-tells-tall-tale-of-canada-pushing-democracy) - Recent omissions in the Globe and Mail have led the paper to make wild foreign policy claims. By failing to mention crucial history, Canada’s ‘paper of record’ is claiming the military spreads the “democratic gospel” in Africa. A recent front page Globe and Mail story headlined “Honduran women risk death and imprisonment as they try to access reproductive - [Brigada Flores Magon gives upbeat and angry anti-capitalist streetpunk on new release](https://springmag.ca/brigada-flores-magon-gives-upbeat-and-angry-anti-capitalist-streetpunk-on-new-release) - Just over a year ago, Rebel Time Records released Immortels, the latest full length from Parisian streetpunk outfit Brigada Flores Magon. The album is an international effort, being co-published or promoted by Machete Records (France), Discos Machete (Mexico), RASH GDL (Mexico), PM Press (USA), Dure Realite (Quebec), RASH USA (USA), SHARP Rio De Janeiro (Brazil), - [What happened to the big UPS strike?](https://springmag.ca/what-happened-to-the-big-ups-strike) - Can a union achieve a “historic victory,” a gamechanger in contract negotiations without an actual strike? The Teamsters claim they have achieved such a victory. On Tuesday, July 25, contract negotiation resumed between the Teamsters and United Parcel Service (UPS) after a two week hiatus. It was a short meeting before both sides posted statements to their - [Safe consumption sites not the source of gun violence](https://springmag.ca/gun-violence-and-the-scapegoating-of-safe-consumption-sites) - On the Friday afternoon of July 7, a gunfight took place at the intersection of Queen and Carlaw in Leslieville. Tragically, 44-year-old Karolina Huebner-Makurat was fatally struck by a stray bullet while waiting at the bus stop on Queen Street. The community grieved; however, the conversation quickly moved to a vilification of the consumption and - [Why anti-racism must be anti-capitalist, and vice versa](https://springmag.ca/why-anti-racism-must-be-anti-capitalist-and-vice-versa) - What is antiracism? And why it means anticapitalism by Arun Kundnani (Verso, 2023) I try to be hopeful. So, allow me to hope that Arun Kundnani’s new book, What is antiracism?And why it means anticapitalism, will be the final nail in the coffin of a counter-productive debate between race-blind anti-capitalism and class-blind anti-racism. The book - [Tenants and climate justice activists confront landlord Dream Unlimited](https://springmag.ca/video-tenants-and-climate-justice-activists-confront-landlord-dream-unlimited) - On July 28, the York South Weston Tenants Union and a coalition of climate justice groups delivered a letter to landlord Dream Unlimited condemning their greenwashing actions and calling on the landlord to withdraw above guideline rent increases, compensate tenants for lost services, and abide by rent control. Since June 1, tenants at 33 King - [Why we all need Metro workers to win](https://springmag.ca/why-we-all-need-metro-workers-to-win) - 3,700 Metro workers are taking on a massive corporation in the fight for higher wages. They voted down a tentative agreement and are out on those picket lines. Those of us that see the importance of their victory have to do our part. - [Metro grocery store workers fighting for decent wages for all](https://springmag.ca/metro-grocery-store-workers-fighting-for-decent-wages-for-all) - Approximately 3,700 Metro workers are on strike for decent wages and equitable benefits. They're struggling against corporate greed for all low-wage workers. - [230 Fightback fighting for housing for working people](https://springmag.ca/230-fightback-fighting-for-housing-for-working-people) - Just south of Dundas East on Sherbourne, you will find a community in Toronto’s Garden District that is facing imminent threat of gentrification – a threat Torontonians know far too well. On Wednesday, July 18, residents and community members arrived at City Hall to meet with the Mayor and discuss the purchase of 214-230 Sherbourne - [Headphones, sidewalks and anti-fascist anthems](https://springmag.ca/headphones-sidewalks-and-anti-fascist-anthems) - The latest split from Union Thugs and Out of System Transfer is perfect for late summer strolls and park picnics with some Marx and Bakunin at your side. - [Transforming Zionist jails into sites of resistance](https://springmag.ca/transforming-zionist-jails-into-sites-of-resistance) - Political prisoners in Palestine are the backbone of the resistance, transforming the occupiers' jails into sites of resistance, political struggle, and cultural production. - [The call to sacrificial love: Rethinking death and solidarity in the new age of biohazard and extermination](https://springmag.ca/the-call-to-sacrificial-love-rethinking-death-and-solidarity-in-the-new-age-of-biohazard-and-extermination) - Amadeo Bordiga, founder of the Communist Party of Italy, wrote a short article in 1961 called “In Janitzio Death is not Scary,” detailing his travels to a small Mexican island and his encounters with the ancestors of the Inca civilization, the Tarascanos. Bordiga provides insight into a view of death that is understood as a - [Violence and resistance in Bolivia](https://springmag.ca/violence-and-resistance-in-bolivia) - Coup: A story of violence and resistance in Bolivia by Linda Farthing and Thomas Becker (Haymarket Books, 2021). Though it has largely vanished from western media, in November 2019 a United States-supported military coup in Bolivia ousted the president, Evo Morales. “We'll coup whoever we want!" tweeted Elon Musk in response to a Twitter user - ["We were not the savages:" An interview with the late Danny Paul](https://springmag.ca/we-were-not-the-savages-an-interview-with-the-late-danny-paul) - Danny Paul, Mi’kmaw elder and author, died one month ago on June 27, 2023. Danny was the author of We Were Not the Savages, a foundational text on the history of settler colonialism and the European invasion of Mi'kma'ki, the ancestral unceded territory of the Mi'kmaq. The following is an excerpt of an interview Danny - [Fear and sorrow in Jenin](https://springmag.ca/fear-and-sorrow-in-jenin) - For two days beginning on July 3, Israeli helicopter gunships pulverized dozens of buildings, storefronts, and homes in Jenin’s refugee camp—an area half a kilometre square with more than 11,000 residents in the Occupied West Bank. Armed drones fired missiles on the Palestinian inhabitants, and many civilians had to run for their lives. Armoured bulldozers and - [Mining ‘ombudsperson’ slags China instead of policing Canadian firms](https://springmag.ca/mining-ombudsperson-slags-china-instead-of-policing-canadian-firms) - In a remarkable betrayal, the Liberals have turned internationalists’ bid for an ombudsperson to curtail Canadian mining abuses abroad into a tool to assist the United States Empire’s bid to contain China’s rise. - [This is a housing crisis, not a refugee crisis](https://springmag.ca/this-is-a-housing-crisis-not-a-refugee-crisis) - Since June 1, the city of Toronto has been turning away refugees from its at-capacity shelter system, referring them to federal programs. Communities are demanding action. - [Strike wave shuts down Hollywood](https://springmag.ca/strike-wave-shuts-down-hollywood) - The boom of massive streaming platforms and the emergence of AI has greatly weakened the take home pay of actors. Now, tens of thousands of actors in the film and television industry have joined writers on the picket lines in a fight against the greed of big studios. - [Long-term care workers show solidarity in struggle](https://springmag.ca/long-term-care-workers-show-solidarity-in-struggle) - On July 8, dozens attended a barbecue hosted by members of CUPE 3224 to show their solidarity with the workers, who are in collective bargaining with their employer. - [The Regina Manifesto at 90: lessons for the Canadian left](https://springmag.ca/the-regina-manifesto-at-90-lessons-for-the-canadian-left) - There was little cause for optimism in Canada in July 1933. Thirty percent of the labour force was out of work. One-fifth of the population was on government relief. And severe drought had turned huge swathes of Prairie farmland into dust. But amid the deprivation and misery of the Great Depression, a new socialist party - [Hydro Ottawa workers burned by understaffing, unsafe work](https://springmag.ca/hydro-ottawa-workers-burned-by-understaffing-unsafe-work) - Almost 400 utility workers have been on strike in Ottawa as they fight for job security and safety. Hydro Ottawa workers, members of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) Local 636, report that they have not heard from Hydro Ottawa president Bryce Conrad in over a month and that Hydro Ottawa has walked away - [Houston government attempts to use health care payments to undermine bargaining power](https://springmag.ca/houston-government-attempts-to-use-health-care-payments-to-undermine-bargaining-power) - If we want a health care system that's there when we need it, we need to build support for health care workers. We can’t let governments continue to underpay and overwork the people that make our health care system run. - [Halifax transit announces indefinite reductions, workers struggle with low wages and unsafe work](https://springmag.ca/halifax-transit-announces-indefinite-reductions-workers-struggling-with-low-wages-and-unsafe-work) - Despite wage increases, Halifax transit workers are still leaving in large numbers. If transit were free for all, we could avoid unnecessary conflict, ensuring the safety of workers while also making transit a public good. - [Building a fighting labour movement in Ottawa](https://springmag.ca/building-a-fighting-labour-movement-in-ottawa) - Building coalitions between unionized and non-unionized workers has never been more important as the Ford government strips away rights and services that affect all working class people. - [Taking on union busting in the entertainment industry](https://springmag.ca/kaking-on-union-busting-in-the-entertainment-industry) - Actors throughout the country have been locked out by union-busting commercial producers since April 2022. But, rank-and-file union members are fighting back. - [Hamilton National Steel Car workers striking for safer working conditions and better wages](https://springmag.ca/strike-by-national-steel-car-workers-in-hamilton-ontario) - Workers at National Steel Car (NSC) in Hamilton, Ontario, represented by United Steelworkers (USW) Local 7135, went on strike on Thursday, June 29. The 1,450 striking workers are calling for safer working conditions, an increase to wages, and a cost of living adjustment as inflation remains high. - [Rae Days: Lessons from the Social Contract 30 years later](https://springmag.ca/rae-days-lessons-from-the-social-contract-30-years-later) - The legacy of the Social Contract is one of betrayal. The NDP sold out its union base to appease capital - pleasing no one in the process. If the NDP is ever elected again in Ontario, unions and social movements should learn that class war won’t diminish, it will intensify. - [Solidarity with dockworkers: no bargaining, no peace!](https://springmag.ca/solidarity-with-dockworkers-no-bargaining-no-peace) - On July 1, over 7000 dockworkers in BC walked off the job after a resounding 99.2% strike vote. But if the federal government wants to break the strike, we have to start showing our solidarity with dockworkers right now. - [The revolutionary life of Clara Zetkin](https://springmag.ca/the-revolutionary-life-of-clara-zetkin) - Clara Zetkin was a leading Marxist thinker and organizer in the late 19th and early 20th century. Her ideas and activism remain relevant to all those who want to take on the far-right and build a working class movement to challenge oppression and dismantle capitalism. - [Canadian exit at Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank all about supporting US Empire ](https://springmag.ca/canadian-exit-at-asian-infrastructure-investment-bank-all-about-supporting-us-empire) - The resignation of the senior Canadian at the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) is a boost to Washington’s bid to undermine the multilateral financial institution. Calling for Canada to withdraw because the bank “serves to increase China’s power” reflects a hypocritical, pro-US Empire, position. Recently Bob Prichard resigned as global communications chief for AIIB. He tweeted, “As - [Rioting across France after police murder teenager](https://springmag.ca/rioting-across-france-after-police-murder-teenager) - As people rise up against police violence in France, there is a need for a broader movement with the confidence to demand that the second police officer involved be arrested, that the police be disarmed, and that fascists be expelled from their ranks. - [We are all we’ve got: Confronting street sweeps in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside ](https://springmag.ca/we-are-all-weve-got-confronting-street-sweeps-in-vancouvers-downtown-eastside) - The #StopTheSweeps coalition has been organizing for nearly 2 years now - bringing together individuals and representatives from the Coalition of Peers Dismantling the Drug War, Defund 604 Network, Pivot Legal Society, VANDU, and the Vancouver Tenants Union to directly confront street sweeps. - [Protest chants as a collective musical habit](https://springmag.ca/protest-chants-as-a-collective-musical-habit) - At the height of the 2011 Egyptian Revolution, phrases like “He leaves, we stay!” were hot on the lips of hundreds of thousands protesting the Hosni Mubarak government. As revolutionaries were chanting those lines in Tahrir Square, Ramy Essam, a musician and activist born two-and-a-half-hours north of Cairo in Mansoura, took notice and sought to - [Halifax-area tenants fight back against eviction ](https://springmag.ca/halifax-area-tenants-fight-back-against-eviction) - Landlords are looking for ways to build their wealth by exploiting the housing needs of workers and their families. But tenants can and must fight back. - [York South-Weston tenants fight back against rent increases](https://springmag.ca/york-south-weston-tenants-fight-back-against-rent-increases) - On June 1, tenants at 33 King Street started a rent strike in response to yet another above-guideline rent increase (AGI). The group is part of the York Southwest Tenants’ Union, and has vowed to strike until reaching an agreement with the landlord. The landlord in question, Dream Unlimited, purchased the building in 2021. They - [Salt Mine workers strike for their jobs in Windsor ](https://springmag.ca/salt-mine-workers-strike-for-their-jobs-in-windsor) - Two hundred and fifty workers at Windsor Salt have been on strike against union busting since February, while Ford sides with scabs and the company. - [Witnessing fascism descend on Jerusalem](https://springmag.ca/witnessing-fascism-descend-on-jerusalem) - Last month I participated in a solidarity delegation to Palestine with the Centre for Jewish Nonviolence (CJNV). There were close to 40 Jews from across the US, Canada, and the UK participating in the delegation and we all came to join in solidarity with the Palestinian people living under occupation. On May 18, while in - [Strike Ready? Perspectives on the U.S. Left, the Teamsters, and UPS](https://springmag.ca/strike-ready-perspectives-on-the-u-s-left-the-teamsters-and-ups) - The process of rebuilding a revolutionary presence in the labor movement will be a long one, but like-minded organizations should discuss those issues that bring us together and those that separate us. Common political work around UPS is a good place to start. - [Toronto's mayoral race: Building on a left opening](https://springmag.ca/torontos-mayoral-race-building-on-a-left-opening) - The mayor’s race offers a chance to defeat the right, but if we really want to advance the left we need to continue organizing beyond the election in the streets and in our workplaces. - [Queer liberation as anti-capitalism](https://springmag.ca/queer-liberation-as-anti-capitalism) - 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. - [Safety for who on the TTC?](https://springmag.ca/safety-for-who-on-the-ttc) - Safety on public transit has become a serious concern for Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) users and a microcosm of the broader ways our governments and systems are failing. In late January 2023, after several highly publicized incidents of violence on Toronto’s transit system, former Mayor John Tory unilaterally announced the deployment of 80 overtime police - [Demanding equality for women workers: Remembering Organized Working Women](https://springmag.ca/demanding-equality-for-women-workers-remembering-the-work-of-organized-working-women-oww) - In the 1970s, women continued to enter the labour force in rising numbers and many of these women became union members for the first time. While more women were now members of trade unions, they were underrepresented in leadership positions and women’s issues continued to be marginalized in the Canadian labour movement. In this context, - [Cops won’t keep Pride safe ](https://springmag.ca/cops-wont-keep-pride-safe) - The rising tide of anti-2SLGBTQIA+ legislation, political scapegoating, and violence has raised concerns about the saftey of Pride events, and of queer and trans attendees. Despite the fact that much of homophobic and transphobic violence is state-sanctioned, many organizations continue to look to police to keep Pride safe. On June 5, 2023, the federal government - [Housing not profits: 230 Fight Back pushing for social housing in Toronto](https://springmag.ca/housing-not-profits-230-fight-back-pushing-for-social-housing-in-toronto) - 230 Sherbourne Street has been a place of struggle for over a decade. Workers, advocates, and the community have been engaged in the struggle to turn the vacant lots and historical houses of 214-230 Sherbourne into social housing. - [Protest war criminal Naftali Bennett's visit to Toronto](https://springmag.ca/protest-war-criminal-naftali-bennetts-visit-to-toronto) - Naftali Bennett, war criminal and the infamous 13th prime minister of the Zionist state, is scheduled to speak in Toronto on June 14 at the Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center’s State of the Union. This event is set to celebrate 75 years since the establishment of the Zionist state through the violent displacement of Palestinians. - [Migrant students fighting injustice: An interview with Lovepreet Singh](https://springmag.ca/migrant-students-fighting-injustice-an-interview-with-lovepreet-singh) - Since May 28, international students facing deportation and their supporters have been holding a 24-hour permanent protest outside the Canada Border Services Agency offices in Mississauga, Ontario. Spring was able to interview Lovepreet Singh, one of the people under threat of deportation, about the protesters’ demands, what these young people are facing, and how others - [The mass strike](https://springmag.ca/the-mass-strike) - When revolution broke out in Russia in 1905, Rosa Luxemburg, who was born in Russian-occupied Poland, decided to leave her home in Germany and go to the heart of the action. This was not an easy journey: she traveled incognito, the only woman and only civilian on a military train (neither heated nor lit, and - [Power struggle between military forces suffocates Sudan's future](https://springmag.ca/power-struggle-between-military-forces-suffocates-sudans-future) - In mid-April, citizens in Sudan as well as Sudanese across the diaspora, woke up to the news that violent clashes had begun between the Sudanese army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in the capital of Khartoum. These two groups had not too long ago shook hands and conspired together to derail the democratic - [Canada is burning: Capitalism stoked the flames](https://springmag.ca/canada-is-burning-capitalism-stoked-the-flames) - Wildfires have burned through the Canadian province of Alberta, the heart of Canada’s lucrative oil and gas industry. More are now tearing across nearly every province in the country. The images of orange and black skies from the thick smoke—which is now billowing across the US border, causing the US National Weather Service to issue - [Killer cops: The murder of Myles Gray](https://springmag.ca/killer-cops-the-murder-of-myles-gray) - Vancouver police officers killed Myles Gray on a hot August day in 2015. They pepper sprayed him, handcuffed him and tied his legs together with a strap, and then beat him to death with batons, fists, kicks, knees, and a choke hold. After the prolonged, murderous assault, the Vancouver Police Union instructed the killer cops - [Migrant youth challenging deportations ](https://springmag.ca/migrant-youth-challenging-deportations) - As Canada prepares to deport hundreds of migrant students who had false admission letters submitted in their student visa applications on their behalf without their knowledge, migrant youth and their supporters have been holding a 24/7, permanent protest outside the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) offices in Mississauga, Ontario. - [Canada's only answer in Ukraine: more weapons, more war](https://springmag.ca/canadas-only-answer-in-ukraine-more-weapons-more-war) - “Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.” - George Orwell The Canadian government recently expanded Operation UNIFIER. The military training mission has been an important element in an escalatory dynamic that needs to be reversed to end the horrors in Ukraine. Alongside a new donation of AIM-9 missiles - [Enough is enough: voices from the march and rally](https://springmag.ca/enough-is-enough-voices-from-the-march-and-rally) - On June 3, thousands of us came together at Toronto City Hall and marched to Queen’s Park to say that Enough is Enough! Attended by so many unions and sponsored by the Ontario Federation of Labour and Justice4Workers, Saturday’s rally became a huge day of action to put workers’ demands front and centre. Valerie from - [After June 3rd, what's next in the fight against Ford?](https://springmag.ca/whats-next-after-june-3rd) - The Enough is Enough campaign presents an opening to build rank and file networks of activists across the province via a shared campaign. It is an opportunity to draw new people into struggle and build real class unity. This is why it should be a top priority for activists inside and outside the labour movement who want to challenge Ford and his big business agenda. - [Nova Scotia wildfires will bring even more hardship for working people](https://springmag.ca/nova-scotia-wildfires-will-bring-even-more-hardship-for-working-people) - Wildfires are burning in several areas of Nova Scotia. A fire near the Halifax-area suburbs of Tantallon, Hammonds Plains, and the historic African Nova Scotian community of Lucasville has resulted in evacuations for 15,000 people. Covering more than 17,000 hectares, the wildfire in the Southwest region of Nova Scotia is the largest fire in Nova - [Enough is Enough: Marching for racial and economic justice](https://springmag.ca/enough-is-enough-marching-for-racial-and-economic-justice) - Racialized workers have always fought against an economic future that offers us nothing. On June 3, we march—inspired by hope and courage, not bitterness and despair. Brick-by-brick, we are building a multi-racial working-class movement with the struggle against oppression at its core. - [What would really make schools safe? ](https://springmag.ca/what-would-really-make-schools-safe) - This past week, anonymous letters from teachers at both Tomken Road Middle School and Homeland Senior Public School in Mississauga have been posted on Twitter and caused a flurry of activity and speculation. School Board officials say they are investigating conditions at both schools, which have been described as “unsafe” and in a “state of - [Racism and class struggle in France today](https://springmag.ca/racism-and-class-struggle-in-france-today) - The mass movement to defend pensions in France has impressed the world, and is one of the biggest mobilizations in Europe on class issues since 1968. Many millions, in hundreds of towns, have been on the streets. Mass strikes and smaller wildcat strikes, occupations, school blockades, direct action and riots have all been part of - [Striking for decent work: Solidarity with Halifax education workers](https://springmag.ca/striking-for-decent-work-solidarity-with-halifax-education-workers) - A win for Nova Scotia's education workers sends a strong message to employers that workers are not going to stand by as our wages are clawed back by greedy landlords and profiteering corporations. - [Healthcare for All: Migrant workers in Nova Scotia need MSI](https://springmag.ca/healthcare-for-all-migrant-workers-in-nova-scotia-need-msi) - Kerian Burnett is a 42-year-old Jamaican mother of six and grandmother of two. She arrived in Nova Scotia in April 2022 to work on a strawberry farm, but she started feeling ill about two months later. In September 2022, she was diagnosed with cervical cancer. Burnett’s employer then let her go due to her illness, - [Fighting ableism at the heart of Halifax education workers’ strike](https://springmag.ca/ableism-at-the-heart-of-halifax-education-workers-fight) - As of May 23, 2023, members of CUPE 5047 have been on strike for nearly three weeks. Educational program assistants (EPAs), Indigenous student support workers, African Nova Scotian support workers, child and youth care practitioners, early childhood educators, and many other school support staff in the Halifax region, all members of CUPE 5047, have been - [Status for All: A day in the life of migrant workers](https://springmag.ca/status-for-all-a-day-in-the-life-of-migrant-workers) - Low-waged migrants come to Canada on employer-tied permits to plant, harvest, produce and package agri-food. The vast majority of these products—from fruits, to flowers, to lobsters, to wines—are for export. Many migrants face employer harassment and abuse; they live in inhumane housing without even basic hygiene or clean drinking water; they are forced to work - [The urgent implication: The life and work of Joe Wallace, revolutionary and poet](https://springmag.ca/the-urgent-implication-the-life-and-work-of-joe-wallace-revolutionary-and-poet) - A Catholic communist decades before the words "liberation theology" were ever thought of. A radical working-class poet long prior to the emergence of others of this tradition to more acclaim on the literary landscape, such as his protegé Milton Acorn. A revolutionary journalist considered so politically dangerous by the government of Mackenzie King that he - [There can be no peace in Sudan without the democratic empowerment of its people](https://springmag.ca/there-can-be-no-peace-in-sudan-without-the-democratic-empowerment-of-its-people) - The US and other Western governments cozied up to the Sudanese coup leaders who have now plunged the country into violent chaos. The only true hope for peace and democracy in Sudan lies with the popular resistance committees that are organizing against war. Over the last month, Sudan has been convulsed with violence as a - [RatetheLandlord.org: Exposing bad landlords](https://springmag.ca/ratethelandlord-org-exposing-bad-landlords) - A new website, ratethelandlord.org, allows tenants to anonymously rate their landlords. Two Ontario residents spent a year building the site in their spare time. Within a week following the site’s launch, 1,000 reviews had already been uploaded. This platform gives tenants more voice in the midst of a housing crisis. The housing crisis and lack - [Visibilizing labour and visualizing new futures: Interview with 2023 Mayworks Festival poster designer Moe Pramanick](https://springmag.ca/visibilizing-labour-and-visualizing-new-futures-interview-with-2023-maywork-festivals-poster-designer-moe-pramanick) - Moe Pramanick is a Sindhi-Bengali visual artist based in Toronto. Spring Magazine caught up with Moe to discuss the role of art in movements, and the revolutionary art practices that inspire her work. You have designed this year’s Mayworks poster titled “All in this together.” What is the concept behind the design ? Moe: What I - [Tenants tackle rent hikes in Toronto's High Park](https://springmag.ca/tenants-tackle-rent-hikes-in-torontos-high-park) - Navigating the private rental market is hellish right now. Demand is outstripping supply, with costs continuing to skyrocket. So there’s really no debate whether there is a need to reinstate rent control during and between tenancies. All levels of government need robust investments for public and non-market housing options as well. While the current situation appears to be a hopeless one, tenant organizing as in the case of LHPTA can leverage renters’ collective power to demand important and necessary changes to their homes. - [Fueling a war in silence: Canada's role in the Yemeni Civil War](https://springmag.ca/fueling-a-war-in-silence-canadas-role-in-the-yemeni-civil-war) - This past March 25 to 27, protests were held across Canada to mark eight years of the Saudi-led intervention in the war in Yemen. Rallies, marches and solidarity actions were held in six cities across the country in objection to Canada's profiting from the war. The war in Yemen has created one of the largest - [Mongolia shows Canadian foreign policy dominated by mining companies](https://springmag.ca/mongolia-shows-canadian-foreign-policy-dominated-by-mining-companies) - An important facet of Canadian foreign policy is advancing the interests of mining companies. In Mongolia it’s largely all Global Affairs Canada does. Canadian ambassador Catherine Ivkoff regularly travels to Canadian-run mines, speaks at international mining conferences, does interviews with mining publications and talks up the sector in various other business and political forums. “We - [The housing market and tenant organizing](https://springmag.ca/the-housing-market-and-tenant-organizing) - Ricardo Tranjan’s new book, “The Tenant Class” will be launched on May 16, 2023. This book illuminates the shadowy angles of housing issues from previous years up until today—from how we talk about the issues, how we label, how we try to break it into all different issues so that no one area or leader - [Cops out of CUPE, cops out of Labour: the CUPE 5089 endorsement of Mark Saunders for Toronto Mayor](https://springmag.ca/cops-out-of-cupe-cops-out-of-labour-the-cupe-5089-endorsement-of-mark-saunders-for-toronto-mayor) - On May 7, CUPE 5089 announced its endorsement of former Toronto Police Service (TPS) chief Mark Saunders for mayor of Toronto. I consider this an act of working class betrayal, and I write this as a former longtime CUPE member—including CUPE 3903 in Toronto, CUPE 4600 in Ottawa, and delegate to the CUPE-Ontario convention. CUPE - [The art and politics of “United for Status”](https://springmag.ca/the-art-and-politics-of-united-for-status) - “Soon you’ll be able to weave anything you want. Anything you can see and anything your heart can imagine. Your very own world.” – from “Witches” by Daisuke Igarashi On Saturday, May 6, the Migrant Rights Network launched the United for Status Migrant Art Exhibition in downtown Toronto. The exhibition, which runs until May 15, - [Solidarity with the Writers Guild of America](https://springmag.ca/solidarity-with-the-writers-guild-of-america) - The WGA is pushing against an ugly production model and fighting to ensure those in the arts can earn a living making the shows and movies we all love to see. - [Benevolent landlords and trickle down apartments: Tim Houston's housing plan](https://springmag.ca/benevolent-landlords-and-trickle-down-apartments-tim-houstons-housing-plan) - You don't have to look too deep to find evidence of Nova Scotia's housing crisis. Every day there are stories from tenants, housing organizations, shelters, and workers about how hard it is to find housing in Nova Scotia. Already in May, a legal service drop in for tenants has had to pause new intakes to - [Someone Lives Here: Interview with Khaleel Seivwright and Taka of new tiny shelter documentary](https://springmag.ca/someone-lives-here-interview-with-khaleel-seivwright-and-taka-of-new-tiny-shelter-documentary) - Long before garnering international attention as a “pandemic-era folk hero,” carpenter Khaleel Seivwright built a tiny insulated shelter in a Toronto park with a painted sign boldly stating “Anyone is Welcome.” It would be the first of many. Winter 2021 was marked by mass COVID-19 outbreaks and evictions, driving Toronto’s existing housing crisis to new - [Rank and file journalism on the shopfloor](https://springmag.ca/rank-and-file-journalism-on-the-shopfloor) - Fighting Times: Organizing on the Front Lines of the Class War by Jon Melrod (PM Press, 2022). Jon Melrod’s Fighting Times: Organizing on the Front Lines of the Class War is an incredible contribution to documenting and generalizing the lessons of class struggle in recent history. Melrod was raised as the son of a lawyer - [Sudan: Revolution in the crossfire](https://springmag.ca/sudan-revolution-in-the-crossfire) - A little over one week ago, on 15 April, a conflict between Sudanese military chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and his deputy Mohammed Hamdan “Hemedti” Dagalo, commander of the so-called Rapid Support Forces (RSF), escalated in Sudan’s governing council, derailing an internationally backed plan for a transition to civilian democracy. Since then, armed fighting has spread - [Striking federal public service workers' fight is our fight](https://springmag.ca/striking-federal-public-service-workers-fight-is-our-fight) - Wages that don’t keep up with inflation. Creeping privatization that threatens job security. And managers who force workers back to the office, despite their having worked effectively at home over the pandemic. These issues—over which federal workers are now on strike—will sound familiar to all Canadians. The Public Service Alliance of Canada’s (PSAC) strike that - [From IWD to May Day: Connecting working women's struggles](https://springmag.ca/from-iwd-to-may-day-connecting-working-womens-struggles) - Last month was the 112th anniversary of the first ever International Working Women’s Day, but it feels as though the “working” part of the global holiday’s title has waned over the years, fading into the background of a holiday that now forefronts womanhood and girl power without the context of class consciousness. By decontextualizing the - [Conservative leader inadvertently right about CBC](https://springmag.ca/conservative-leader-inadvertently-right-about-cbc) - Like a stopped watch that tells the correct time twice a day, Pierre Poilievre is right about Canada’s ‘public’ broadcaster. CBC is a government-funded media outlet that acts as a state, rather than public, broadcaster in its coverage of Canadian foreign policy. Recently the extreme right Conservative party leader asked for Twitter to label CBC a - [After nearly eight years, the BC Coroners' Inquest into police killing of Myles Gray begins](https://springmag.ca/after-nearly-eight-years-the-bc-coroners-inquest-into-police-killing-of-myles-gray-begins) - On a hot August afternoon in 2015, an unknown number of Vancouver police officers killed Myles Gray. The violence they inflicted on him was so vicious and so brutal that the coroner could not pinpoint a singular cause of death—his injuries included a ruptured testicle, a fractured voice box, a broken nose, sternum and eye - [Enough is Enough: Channelling working class outrage](https://springmag.ca/enough-is-enough-channelling-working-class-outrage) - The Enough is Enough campaign allows us to build political relationships with workers beyond our usual networks. Let's seize it! - [Lefty documentaries to watch at Hot Docs 2023](https://springmag.ca/lefty-documentaries-to-watch-at-hot-docs-2023) - Hot Docs, North America’s largest documentary festival, returns to Toronto from April 27–May 7, offering over 200 feature-length and short documentaries in cinemas throughout downtown Toronto and streaming online nationwide from May 5–9, 2023. The festival presents films exploring critical current issues from Canada and around the world, offering free and public screenings as well - [PSAC strikes back against cost of living crisis](https://springmag.ca/psac-strikes-back-against-cost-of-living-crisis) - If we can build mass solidarity for PSAC members, they can strike and win against Trudeau, expose Poilievre, and give confidence to other workers to fight back. - [Making Employment Insurance work for workers](https://springmag.ca/making-employment-insurance-work-for-workers) - In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic made many Canadians eligible for Employment Insurance (EI). For younger workers such as myself, it was the first time they had seen anything resembling a robust EI system. We saw how quickly the government was able to create the CERB program which, while flawed, provided a safety net for millions - [TMU custodial and maintenance workers ready to strike](https://springmag.ca/tmu-custodial-and-maintenance-workers-ready-to-strike) - CUPE local 233, a union of custodial, maintenance, and trades workers at Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU), are set to go on strike as of Monday, April 17. They are fighting for fair pensions and better wages to keep up with the rising cost of living. Pension issues One of the main issues for the workers - [Stop the deportation of international students](https://springmag.ca/stop-the-deportation-of-international-students) - On March 30 the International Youth Student Organization (IYSO) called an emergency rally to draw attention to their situation, as they are threatened with deportation after being victimized by fraud. At least 80 people joined the protest in front of the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada. Two weeks prior, the Canadian government threatened 700 - ["Police threw me off the balcony": Interview with Anthony Marriott](https://springmag.ca/police-threw-me-off-the-balcony-interview-with-anthony-marriott) - When Anthony Marriott was 17 years old he fell from the 11th story balcony of a Scarborough apartment during a police operation. The police officers involved were investigated by the Special Investigations Unit (SIU) which investigates potential wrongdoing by police. The officers were all cleared of wrongdoing, but Anthony Marriott has always maintained that a - [Against democracy: A brief history of CSIS](https://springmag.ca/against-democracy-a-brief-history-of-csis) - If we want to point fingers at who has undermined democracy in Canada, we should look at CSIS, not China. The spy agency has systematically illegally spied on people in Canada, lied to the courts, destroyed evidence, and engaged in entrapment and rendition. - [Accumulation by dispossession: The class violence of encampment evictions](https://springmag.ca/accumulation-by-dispossession-the-class-violence-of-encampment-evictions) - Encampment evictions through police violence are never about housing, safety, or community wellness. The street sweeps and encampment clearances are about control of space for property and profitability. - [Displacement = death](https://springmag.ca/displacement-death) - The City of Vancouver's mass decampment of people sheltering in the Downtown Eastside is just the city's latest assault on poor people. - [Canadian ambassador defends terrorist bombing of blogger](https://springmag.ca/canadian-ambassador-defends-terrorist-bombing-of-blogger) - What do you call it when a Canadian ambassador justifies the placing of a bomb in a café to kill a prominent member of the media and which injures dozens of others? Diplomacy? Last week Canada’s ambassador to the UN excused blowing up a Russian cafe to kill a pro-war commentator. Bob Rae’s statement highlights Ottawa’s escalation of tensions. - [Students, workers and allies condemn #YorkU's firing of Black staff member](https://springmag.ca/students-workers-and-allies-condemn-yorkus-firing-of-black-staff-member) - Fired staff member Lydia Dosu and supporters condemn anti-Black racism at York University and demand reinstatement: "They no longer wanted me to step on campus. After 24 years, I was told to get out immediately." - [Tim Houston ignoring the crisis in child care](https://springmag.ca/tim-houston-ignoring-the-crisis-in-child-care) - Despite the transformational investments that have been committed to child care through the Canada-Nova Scotia Early Learning and Child Care Agreement, parents continue to face high fees and extreme uncertainty about whether they will have access to child care at all. Broken promise on spaces Last month, it was reported that the Houston government failed - [Support child care workers: The struggle at Selwyn](https://springmag.ca/support-child-care-workers-the-struggle-at-selwyn) - Child care workers at Selwyn Community Child Care Centre in Toronto are fighting against poverty wages and stressful conditions to make sure they have what they need to serve families and their community. - [No Trans liberation under capitalism](https://springmag.ca/no-trans-liberation-under-capitalism) - The fight against transphobia is necessary in order to dismantle patriarchal capitalism. Trans liberation allows us to dream of possibilities beyond rigid structural binaries, encouraging transformation and freedom for all. Ultimately, none of us are free until all of us are free. - [Stop Ford's cuts to healthcare for all](https://springmag.ca/stop-fords-cuts-to-healthcare-for-all) - Healthcare funding for the uninsured is an important step towards healthcare for all, and needs to be defended and expanded. Challenging these cuts helps build solidarity with the uninsured, promotes migrant justice, and supports public healthcare. - [Situation in Punjab: Mass arrests and disappearances of Sikh activists](https://springmag.ca/situation-in-punjab-mass-arrests-and-disappearances-of-sikh-activists) - The Indian Government has mobilized over 80,000 police officers to target Sikh activists in the state of Punjab in Northern India. In order to demobilize Sikhs and undermine their right to free speech and expression, the Indian government has cut off the Internet to millions of civilians in Punjab. This crackdown has led to over 200 known arrests, disappearances, and detentions of activists, lawyers, and journalists. - [Canada double standard on military-academic ties to China, US](https://springmag.ca/canada-double-standard-on-military-academic-ties-to-china-us) - Recently the federal government restricted academics from collaborating with Chinese counterparts who have ties to their country’s military. Yet Canadian universities advertise US military grants. At the end of January the Globe and Mail published two front-page stories about Canadian academics collaborating with scientists that have ties to China’s National University of Defence Technology (NUDT). - [TDSB budget cuts will hurt kids: Fight for every job](https://springmag.ca/tdsb-budget-cuts-will-hurt-kids-fight-for-every-job) - One week after a report that showed that students are struggling to access any kind of mental health supports, the TDSB budget shows that it will be cutting 485 school-based jobs. Members of education workers unions and teachers’ unions need to take this opportunity to unite and fight for every job. - [Chris Smalls shares lessons from Amazon Labor Union](https://springmag.ca/chris-smalls-shares-lessons-from-amazon-labor-union) - The goal of organizing is not to get more members, collect more dues, or gain political clout. We organize workers to build a movement strong enough to end bosses' exploitation and abuse of workers. - [The ominous collapse of the Silicon Valley Bank](https://springmag.ca/the-ominous-collapse-of-the-silicon-valley-bank) - Far from being a one off, the failure of SVB reveals systemic problems playing out across the economy. - [Lessons of the anti-war movement: Mass action and labour strategy](https://springmag.ca/lessons-of-the-anti-war-movement-mass-action-and-labour-strategy) - The mass anti-war movement stopped the Canadian government from going to war in Iraq in 2003, and trained a new generation of activists in the process. It showed how ideas change in struggle, that anti-oppression must be at the heart of the movement, and that internationalism must be our guide. The movement also provided lessons in mass action and labour strategy. - [We cannot self-care our way to health and safety](https://springmag.ca/we-cannot-self-care-our-way-to-health-and-safety) - When workers organize together we can win real wage increases, affordable groceries and basic goods, housing for all, and strong public services. Self-care alone will not get us there, but organizing together will. - [Kamloops Residential School survivor sentenced to 28 days in jail for resisting TMX pipeline](https://springmag.ca/kamloops-residential-school-survivor-sentenced-to-28-days-in-jail-for-resisting-tmx-pipeline) - February is one of the coldest months in Kamloops, BC. But that didn’t stop Secwépemc leaders and their supporters from coming out in the cold windy morning to drum and conduct ceremony in front of the Kamloops Court House. On February 22, six land defenders were getting ready to hear their final sentencing carried out - [Reject the reactionary hysteria over China's election interference](https://springmag.ca/reject-the-reactionary-hysteria-over-chinas-election-interference) - While workers are in the midst of a cost of living crisis the political and media establishment in Canada have been busy stoking hysteria about Chinese interference in our elections with next to no evidence. - [Defend Sarah Jama: Don't let them silence pro-Palestinian voices](https://springmag.ca/defend-sarah-jama-dont-let-them-silence-pro-palestinian-voices) - Sarah Jama, the NDP candidate for Hamilton Centre, is being smeared by the right-wing for vocalizing support for Palestinian rights. We must defend Jama and reject the idea that supporting Palestinian rights and criticizing the Israeli government is anti-semitic. - [French strikes over pensions: "On est la" (we are here!)](https://springmag.ca/french-strikes-over-pensions-on-est-la-we-are-here) - French workers continue their strikes and protests against Macron's attack on pensions. - [Sutcliffe's first budget signals era of austerity and privatization for City of Ottawa](https://springmag.ca/sutcliffes-first-budget-signals-era-of-austerity-and-privatization-for-city-of-ottawa) - Newly elected mayor of Ottawa, Mark Sutcliffe tabled his first draft budget earlier this month giving residents a first look at how the next four years might look like. From his $47 million “efficiency” to the public transit capital budget to his property tax cut, a thorough read through the 2023 budget document should make - [Houston sides with landlords as Nova Scotia's housing crisis rages on](https://springmag.ca/houston-sides-with-landlords-as-nova-scotias-housing-crisis-rages-on) - On February 3, 2023 the Nova Scotia government announced some changes to the Residential Tenancies Program. These changes to the regulations under the Nova Scotia Residential Tenancies Act do a few different things, but one of them is conveniently not mentioned at all in the press release: it’s made the process for your landlord to - [Nurses and the fight for strong public services](https://springmag.ca/nurses-and-the-fight-for-strong-public-services) - The nurses fight is a fight for the soul of public services in Ontario and by increasing their confidence to fight and win, we increase positive outcomes for the workers movement in Ontario. Now is the time to do what you can to build solidarity. - [Combatting Poilievre's appeal to union members](https://springmag.ca/combatting-poilievres-appeal-to-union-members) - Poilievre’s polling lead amongst union members results from the frustration with the governing Liberals, the inability of the NDP to offer an alternative and the strategic positioning of Poilievre. This troubling trend speaks to the need for a fighting labour movement outside the confines of parliamentary politics. - [The healthcare crisis is a symptom of precarious work](https://springmag.ca/the-healthcare-crisis-is-a-symptom-of-precarious-work) - The public healthcare system is in crisis, with hospitals that are both overcrowded and understaffed. Governments are pushing privatization but their cure will make the disease worse. The healthcare crisis is a symptom of precarious work—with toxic working conditions that produce illness, low wages that deprive access to treatment, lack of paid sick days that - [The case for universal dental care](https://springmag.ca/the-case-for-universal-dental-care) - Canada has long been an outlier internationally in funding public dental programs. Among countries in the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), Canada ranks second last in its share of public dental spending as a share of total dental spending, ranking even worse than the US. In 2017, only 6% of dental spending came - [Lessons of the anti-war movement: Anti-imperialism and anti-oppression](https://springmag.ca/lessons-of-the-anti-war-movement-anti-imperialism-and-anti-oppression) - This is the third in a four-part series on the anti-war movement of 2003 and the role of labour. The previous article looked at the historic protests of February 15, 2003, which kept Canada out of Iraq, and this article begins to look at the lessons. The mass anti-war movement in 2003 stopped the Canadian - [Beat the Bosses Bootcamp: When we fight, we win!](https://springmag.ca/beat-the-bosses-bootcamp-when-we-fight-we-win) - This weekend, well over two hundred workers from across Ontario and beyond gathered at Toronto Metropolitan University for the Beat the Bosses Bootcamp. The three day conference, organized by Justice for Workers, was a place for organizers to connect, discuss, and learn about how we take on the bosses and win. Through a variety of - [Reject Poilievre's racist fearmongering about Roxham Road](https://springmag.ca/reject-poilievres-racist-fearmongering-about-roxham-road) - Poilievre is scaremongering about refugees at Roxham Road in order to attack the possibility of a sweeping regularization program for migrants. - [Stop Cop City solidarity actions across the U.S. and Canada](https://springmag.ca/stop-cop-city-solidarity-actions-across-the-u-s-and-canada) - After the police murder of a local land defender activists across North America are organizing actions in solidarity with those opposing the construction of Cop City, a proposed large-scale police training facility in Georgia. - [NDP: Better no foreign affairs critic than one backing Western imperialism?](https://springmag.ca/ndp-better-no-foreign-affairs-critic-than-one-backing-western-imperialism) - Would the world be better off if the NDP didn’t have the position of foreign affairs critic? I began thinking about this question after seeing a recent tweet from Heather McPherson calling on the Liberals and Conservatives to get tough on Iran. As the third national party, the supposedly social democratic federal NDP rarely criticizes - [February 15, 2003: When anti-war protests made history](https://springmag.ca/february-15-2003-when-anti-war-protests-made-history) - Twenty year ago the world said no to war. The demonstrations on February 15, 2003 were a turning point for the anti-war movement in Canada. Not only did the movement’s numbers grow, it also forced divisions in the ruling class and ultimately pushed the Liberals to announce Canada would not formally participate in the war on Iraq. - [How labour helped keep Canada out of Iraq in 2003](https://springmag.ca/how-labour-helped-keep-canada-out-of-iraq-in-2003) - This is the first of a four-part series on the anti-war movement of 2003 and the role of labour. This article looks at the context and early organizing that paved the way for the historic protests of February 15, 2003. On a sunny day in June in Calgary more than 20 years ago, a few - [The worst people in the room: McKinsey, the Liberals and the neoliberal state](https://springmag.ca/the-worst-people-in-the-room-mckinsey-the-liberals-and-the-neoliberal-state) - With Justin Trudeau’s popularity in the dumps, unable to provide any meaningful relief to ordinary workers in the face of out of control inflation and increased interest rates, the latest revelation that the government has spent heavily on outside consultants has provided fodder to the right-wing Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives, always frothing at the mouth when - [Spring into socialism](https://springmag.ca/spring-into-socialism) - We are witness to deep inequities embedded into the current system that runs society. Capitalism here and globally is in complete opposition to true democracy and real freedom, and has long proven to be destructive to many albeit beneficial to a privileged few. We are witness to the ecological and economical greed of political leaders - [Myth-busting Ford's healthcare privatization agenda](https://springmag.ca/myth-busting-fords-healthcare-privatization-agenda) - Ford claims that public healthcare is failing of its own accord and that privatization will clear the backlog, complement public healthcare, relieve the pressure on healthcare workers, and support patient health and choice at no cost. But these are all myths that will lead to the further erosion of public healthcare, costing resources and lives. - [Strike alert: PSAC members gearing up for contract fight](https://springmag.ca/strike-alert-psac-members-gearing-up-for-contract-fight) - In response to the cost of living crisis federal public sector workers with PSAC are conducting strike votes for what could be the largest strike against a single employer in Canada’s history. Workers are fighting against privatization, and for fair wages and great autonomy. - [Holding Sri Lanka's Rajapaksa brothers to account](https://springmag.ca/holding-sri-lankas-rajapaksa-brothers-to-account) - In an historic move in January 2023, the Canadian government announced sanctions on Sri Lanka's powerful Rajapaksa brothers, marking the first time that Ottawa has barred any Sri Lankan government officials and the first sanctions anywhere in the world targeting the Rajapaksa clan. For the perpetrators of the 2009 Tamil genocide, the net has closed - [Remembering George Bryant 1932–2022](https://springmag.ca/remembering-george-bryant-1932-2022) - The socialist movement lost a long-time organizer and master builder with the death on December 26, 2022, of George Bryant at the age of 91. George and his life partner, Beatrice Bryant, were influential figures in the Ontario socialist movement from the 1950s. Bea Bryant died in 2016 (see A Life for Socialism). Working from their - ['Proactive policing' and Canada's Scorpions](https://springmag.ca/proactive-policing-and-canadas-scorpions) - On January 7, 2023, five officers from the Memphis Police Department beat Tyre Nichols to death. The officers were members of the department’s proactive policing unit, the ominously named Scorpions. Ahead of the release of the video of the killing, police forces across Canada put out hypocritical statements condemning the killer cops from a force - [Fighting to abolish graduate student tuition fees at Queen's University](https://springmag.ca/fighting-to-abolish-graduate-student-tuition-fees-at-queens-university) - Graduate students are in the midst of a cost of living crisis. In response to their university’s lobbying efforts to halt the Ontario tuition freeze, graduate students from Queen’s University at Kingston are organizing to end graduate tuition fees. Under the banner of PSAC 901, the union that represents Queen’s graduate student workers, ‘The Abolish - [Solidarity with striking workers at Memorial University](https://springmag.ca/solidarity-with-striking-workers-at-memorial-university) - 850 members of Memorial University of Newfoundland Faculty Association are on strike for fairness for contract faculty, more transparency and better wages. Their fight for better working conditions is a fight to make Memorial University better for all students and faculty. - [How guns made the civil rights movement possible](https://springmag.ca/how-guns-made-the-civil-rights-movement-possible) - Many think of the 1960s civil rights movement as one of principled nonviolent resistance to segregation and racism. However, guns and the use of them for self-defense, were an accepted practice in the fight for civil rights. - [Claudia Jones: Intersectional socialist](https://springmag.ca/claudia-jones-intersectional-socialist) - Claudia Jones devoted her life to intertwining struggles against anti-Black racism, sexism, capitalism and imperialism—and for this she was incarcerated, deported, and erased from history - [The fight for decent work in Newfoundland and Labrador](https://springmag.ca/the-fight-for-decent-work-in-newfoundland-and-labrador) - The Workers’ Action Network of Newfoundland and Labrador is building the power to fight for stronger employment standards for all workers. - [Enough is Enough campaign is an opportunity to take on Ford's big business agenda](https://springmag.ca/enough-is-enough-campaign-is-an-opportunity-to-take-on-fords-big-business-agenda) - Ontario is in crisis. The stakes are high. We can't afford inaction, which will only demoralize workers, but open the door to right to push an even more reactionary agenda. We can either roll over and let the bosses win or stand up and say Enough is Enough! - [Rising food insecurity and the cost of living crisis](https://springmag.ca/rising-food-insecurity-and-the-cost-of-living-crisis) - The rise in food insecurity is the result of skyrocketing food prices, rising rents and stagnant incomes. But these are just symptoms of a larger issue, a system that thrives on inequality and benefits a small number of profiteering elites at the expense of the working class. - [Rallying to show another Toronto is possible](https://springmag.ca/rallying-to-show-another-toronto-is-possible) - Hundreds rallied outside Toronto city hall to protest John Tory’s proposed $48.3 million police budget increase. This was part of a month of action put together by a broad coalition of abolitionist and anti-racist organizations concerned with police violence and the hollowing out of social services, organized under the umbrella of “Another Toronto is Possible." - [Free public transit: A path to climate justice](https://springmag.ca/free-public-transit-a-path-to-climate-justice) - We are in the midst of both an environmental crisis and an affordability crisis, which are linked. The solutions on offer, from raising fares to relying on electric cars, don’t solve either problem. But increasing access to public transit is good for all workers, all riders, and the planet. Taking action for free and accessible public transit can win reforms and set us on track for climate justice. - [Decent work and the fight to protect health care](https://springmag.ca/decent-work-and-the-fight-to-protect-health-care) - By continuing to build a movement for decent work, uniting unionized and non-unionized workers, we can support the broader social determinants of health and strengthen the full range of health services—from hospitals to home care. - [We can win status for all migrants](https://springmag.ca/we-can-win-status-for-all-migrants) - Prime Minister Trudeau and all his federal ministers are meeting in Hamilton on Monday, January 23 for their winter cabinet retreat. Migrant workers will be going too. The Status For All campaign is calling for supporters to rally at the retreat to demand the Liberal government keep their promise and create a historic regularization program - [Taking on union corruption from the Left](https://springmag.ca/taking-on-union-corruption-from-the-left) - The left's response to the OPSEU scandal must counter the big business narrative that unions and union leaders are inevitably corrupt. We have to aim to build the confidence and capacity of rank and file members to not only assert themselves in their unions, but to take on the bosses. The best way to prevent union corruption is to build class struggle unionism from below. - [Policing won't address the root causes of gun violence](https://springmag.ca/policing-wont-address-the-root-causes-of-gun-violence) - Structural poverty and racism breed gun violence in our neighbourhoods, and the budget process forces us to ask what truly keeps us safe. We can no longer afford to try to police our way out of this crisis. - [Players' collective action keeps athletes safe](https://springmag.ca/players-collective-action-keeps-athletes-safe) - NFL players have gone from people working multiple jobs and asking for clean clothes to one of the most lucrative jobs in the world, and that occurred primarily through solidarity and union struggle. The doctors that were there for Hamlin were a concession workers fought for, that no billionaire NFL team owner would fork over without absolutely having to. - [Martin Luther King's last fight](https://springmag.ca/martin-luther-kings-last-fight) - King was far more than a dreamer—he was a fighter—and the changes he fought for posed a serious challenge to American capitalism. And we should never forget 1968, when King dared to stand up to what he called, “the giant triplets”: racism, extreme materialism, and militarism. - [We can stop Tory's Toronto police budget increase](https://springmag.ca/we-can-stop-torys-toronto-police-budget-increase) - Torontonians need more money for social services, public transit, and housing, not further increases to the city's already bloated police budget - [How Canada's housing crisis was made](https://springmag.ca/how-canadas-housing-crisis-was-made) - To be alive in 2023 is to live in a time of crisis. Everywhere we turn it seems as if the institutions we have relied on are crumbling around us, as the conditions in labour, healthcare, education, and housing all become untenable. Yet, to borrow a phrase, in capitalism crises are a feature, not a - [Canadian military chief promotes war, arms build up](https://springmag.ca/canadian-military-chief-promotes-war-arms-build-up) - The business of war is very profitable for a few weapons makers and generals who end their careers as high paid shills. Wayne Eyre, Canada’s Chief of Defence Staff, previously called for “the defence industry to go into a wartime footing.” He has claimed that we are at war with China and Russia, who could - [Indonesia's new criminal code: An attack on human rights and marxism](https://springmag.ca/indonesias-new-criminal-code-an-attack-on-human-rights-and-marxism) - In early December, last year, the Indonesian government legislated a new criminal code to replace the old code that the country inherited from its past colonial oppressor, the Dutch. The government has claimed that the legislation of the new criminal code was an effort to "decolonize" Indonesia's criminal justice system from the legacy of the - [Don't staff schools with police](https://springmag.ca/dont-staff-schools-with-police) - Ontario, students and education workers are sounding the alarm that schools are unsafe. Increased school violence is capturing media attention. We must see this violence in the context of decades’ worth of cutbacks that have removed teachers, support staff and resources from our schools. It is unacceptable for government and board officials to blame the disorganization - [Austerity, abandonment and assisted dying in Canada](https://springmag.ca/austerity-abandonment-and-assisted-dying-in-canada) - The notion that someone facing a terminal illness or fatal condition should be able to decide at what point their life should be brought to a close and to opt for ‘death with dignity,’ isn’t one that can be brushed aside. Many of us will find ourselves or someone we love in a situation where - [2022: The whipsaw of struggle](https://springmag.ca/2022-the-whipsaw-of-struggle) - The year ahead will see a stark choice about who pays for the current crisis and opportunities for our side to shape the response. The lessons of 2022 is that change can be imposed from above or can be inspired from below. - [The year in radical arts](https://springmag.ca/the-year-in-radical-arts) - We asked Spring members and writers about their favourite book, music or art of 2022. Last year, we focused on books, but this year we also asked about any other artistic project that really moved them and offered a sharp expression of the political moment. Here are some of the offerings we loved this year. - [The system fails the unhoused: A voice from the frontlines](https://springmag.ca/the-system-fails-the-unhoused-a-voice-from-the-frontlines) - Toronto’s shelter system is intentionally broken, compartmentalized, and individualized. It doesn’t work for those in need and was never meant to. - [Christmas cops and kids: layered policing targeting children](https://springmag.ca/christmas-cops-and-kids-layered-policing-targeting-children) - Layered policing takes many forms. Hallmarks of these programs are partnerships with community, groups, non-profits, and charities. These can soften or downplay the impacts of policing while providing police with some public relations cover. - [Ottawa backs removal of elected Peruvian president despite protests](https://springmag.ca/ottawa-backs-removal-of-elected-peruvian-president-despite-protests) - Many Peruvians have taken to the streets to oppose last week’s removal of elected president Pedro Castillo. Ottawa has supported the ouster of the former teacher and union leader whose government withdrew from the Canada-backed Lima Group. Right-wing coup Since being elected 18 months ago Castillo has been attacked by the media, business elite and - [The integrity of McMaster University is at stake in the CUPE 3906 strike](https://springmag.ca/the-integrity-of-mcmaster-university-is-at-stake-in-the-cupe-3906-strike) - In September of 2011, the former McMaster President published a letter to the entire McMaster community on integrity. In it, integrity was identified as necessary for the future success of McMaster. That letter has been cited several times over the years. I think it is time to talk about integrity again. Integrity as decency, fairness, - [Canadian Hearing Services workers fighting for a fair deal and vital services](https://springmag.ca/canadian-hearing-services-workers-fighting-for-a-fair-deal-and-vital-services) - Julia Dumanian made $311,500 last year. This was a 13 percent raise over the $275,000 she made the previous year, and a 155 percent increase over her starting 2015 salary of $122,276. The organization that Dumanian is in charge of is Canadian Hearing Services (CHS). That’s a lot of money for the head of a - [London conference builds solidarity with Sudanese Revolution](https://springmag.ca/london-conference-builds-solidarity-with-sudanese-revolution) - Trade unionists and revolutionary activists in Sudan and Britain exchanged messages of solidarity, pledging support for each others' struggles at a conference organized by a wide range of unions from both countries on November 6, 2022. The hybrid event brought together around 30 participants in person in London, with around 100 more viewers online. A full - [Pro-Israel lobby grants no mercy to those who apologize](https://springmag.ca/pro-israel-lobby-grants-no-mercy-to-those-who-apologize) - The pro-Israel lobby has done it again. It has seized upon a public speech that criticizes Israel, and brutally attacked the author with a false accusation of anti-Jew hate, inviting a party of pundits to join in a mob-like assault. This is what befell Ottawa-Centre MPP Joel Harden for speaking out against Israel’s human rights - [Democrats, Then Republicans, Smite Rail Labor](https://springmag.ca/democrats-then-republicans-smite-rail-labor) - While Railroad Workers United (RWU) finds it despicable—but not surprising—that both political parties opted to side with Big Business over working people yesterday and vote against the interests of railroad workers—not once, but twice, within hours. We suffered a one-two punch at the hands of, first the Democratic Party; the second served up by the - [NDP foreign affairs critic sides with imperial foreign policy](https://springmag.ca/ndp-foreign-affairs-critic-sides-with-imperial-foreign-policy) - McPherson’s position on Ukraine and dalliance with Irwin Cotler highlight how little difference there is between the parties on foreign policy. Canada’s political and media elites all agree that we are a great moral force that should dictate to the rest of the world. And damn all evidence to the contrary. - [Canada Pension Plan funds war and climate change](https://springmag.ca/canada-pension-plan-funds-war-and-climate-change) - While the CPPIB claims to be dedicated to the best interests of CPPIB contributors and beneficiaries, it would seem based on the recent meeting that the CPPIB is extremely disconnected from the public and operates as a professional investment organization with a commercial, investment-only mandate that fuels war and climate change. - [Bully tactics threaten workers and families at Toronto childcare centre](https://springmag.ca/bully-tactics-threaten-workers-and-families-at-toronto-childcare-centre) - Workers and families at St. Lawrence Co-operative Day Care (SLCDC), a non-profit childcare centre in downtown Toronto, are facing a lockout imposed by the SLCDC Board of Directors. - [Poverty wages for childcare workers jeopardizes $10-per-day childcare](https://springmag.ca/poverty-wages-for-childcare-workers-jeopardizes-10-per-day-childcare) - "I was told by one daycare facility today that parents are waiting over 2 years for spaces. I was told by several daycare facilities in the last several months that I'm still on the waitlist, and the ones I was applying to as a new parent wouldn't have space for my 18-month-old till she is - [A people's history of L.A. in the 60s](https://springmag.ca/a-peoples-history-of-l-a-in-the-60s) - Set the Night on Fire: LA in the Sixties by Mike Davis and Jon Wiener (Verso, 2020) Mike Davis died last month after a long struggle with cancer. For many socialists, Davis’ work documenting working class struggle and urban development, particularly in Los Angeles, inspired and amazed. Davis wrote accessible yet penetrating analysis, which condemned - [Copaganda and layered policing: behind the Vancouver Police social safety net report](https://springmag.ca/copaganda-and-layered-policing-behind-the-vancouver-police-social-safety-net-report) - During the first week of November, the Vancouver Police Department (VPD) once again bumbled clumsily into the world of politics with a social safety net report. Produced by neoliberal Alberta-based tech company HelpSeeker Technologies, it tried to cast shade on social services agencies—and by association the people who access those services—in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside (DTES), - [Academic workers at McMaster fighting for a #BetterMac](https://springmag.ca/academic-workers-at-mcmaster-fighting-for-a-bettermac) - CUPE 3906 is gearing up for potential job action at McMaster University. Representing Teaching Assistants, Research Assistants-in-lieu, Sessional Faculty and Postdoctoral Fellows, the members are challenging years of poor treatment by the university. Spring’s Alex Kerner had a chance to interview the local’s president Chris Fairweather, a Teaching Assistant and PhD Candidate in the School - [U of T workers lead fight for good jobs](https://springmag.ca/u-of-t-workers-lead-fight-for-good-jobs) - Over 700 service workers at the University of Toronto–members of CUPE 3261 – will be in a legal strike position on Monday, November 21, the same day as 55,000 education workers across Ontario are set to walk off the job. The U of T service workers are fighting the contracting out of their jobs. In - [Lessons from the Dal strike](https://springmag.ca/lessons-from-the-dal-strike) - After being on strike for over three weeks, members of Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Local 3912 have returned to work at Dalhousie University. Contract faculty, teaching assistants (TAs), markers, and demonstrators fought for and won significant wage increases across the board. Ellie Weise is a PhD Candidate in the Biology Department at Dal. - [Love and abolition](https://springmag.ca/love-and-abolition) - Abolitionist Intimacies by El Jones (Fernwood, 2022) Abolitionist Intimacies is an urgent intervention against the deportation of stateless Black bodies failed by every level of social services offered in Canada, dehumanization by the carceral state, and examples of the “polite” ways Canada kills Black people with paperwork stopgaps and bureaucratic stalemates. On November 3, El - [Remembering the MacPaps and the working class fight against fascism](https://springmag.ca/remembering-the-macpaps-and-the-working-class-fight-against-fascism) - The members of the MacPap battalion did not fight for king or country, they fought fascism in Spain and demonstrated international working class solidarity. - [Who killed Bill 28? Ontario workers and the threat of a general strike](https://springmag.ca/who-killed-bill-28-ontario-workers-and-the-threat-of-a-general-strike) - Ford’s stunning reversal on Bill 28 shows when the working class unites and fights back it has the power to take on the Conservatives and win. - [Ford's stubborn refusal to legislate paid sick days harms workers](https://springmag.ca/fords-stubborn-refusal-to-legislate-paid-sick-days-harms-workers) - When Premier Ford denies workers paid sick days, he is leaving my community and me behind. Paid sick days are a fundamental right. I need this protection. I am calling on the government to legislate ten permanent paid sick days. - [Student support growing for Dalhousie workers on strike](https://springmag.ca/student-support-growing-for-dalhousie-workers-on-strike) - Dalhousie was back at the bargaining table briefly last week, showing they are concerned about the mounting pressure from students. As long as student and campus solidarity continues to build, workers at Dal will win their fight. - [Labour against the law: How "illegal" strikes gave us workers' rights](https://springmag.ca/labour-against-the-law-how-illegal-strikes-gave-us-workers-rights) - Our rights in the workplace, our rights to organize and have access to basic protections and benefits as workers, are the product of working people taking action – oftentimes in the face of repressive laws and physical violence from the state and employers. - [Go Transit workers to hit picket line as Ontario strike wave grows](https://springmag.ca/go-transit-workers-to-hit-picket-line-as-ontario-strike-wave-grows) - Go Transit workers are set to strike over job security and securing protections against contracting out. They are the latest workers to hit the picket lines. There is an undeniable air of discontent simmering among workers in Ontario - [Workers strike back against Ford](https://springmag.ca/workers-strike-back-against-ford) - On Friday, 55,000 Ontario education workers with CUPE walked off the job in an “illegal” strike. They were joined by OPSEU education workers, who also “illegally” walked off the job. Over 2.1 million students were out of school as school boards were forced to shut down schools. Pickets lines were up outside Conservative MPP offices - [The low-profile approach - a disaster](https://springmag.ca/the-low-profile-approach-a-disaster) - In February 1981, the then president of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW), Jean-Claude Parrot, penned an article in the CUPW publication entitled “The low-profile approach - a disaster”. This article was a critique of other parts of the labour movement that sought not to challenge employers and governments who attacked workers, but to - [Resisting war requires principles and courage](https://springmag.ca/resisting-war-requires-principles-and-courage) - Almost everyone says they oppose war in principle, but few are willing to face the opprobrium that comes with confronting militarist nationalism. A week ago one of Canada's leading antiwar activists protested Canada’s contribution to the US/NATO proxy war with Russia. Tamara Lorincz interrupted a talk by Defence Minister Anita Anand with a sign reading: - [Ford's attack on education workers' rights is a threat to all workers](https://springmag.ca/fords-attack-on-education-workers-rights-is-a-threat-to-all-workers) - The fight for education workers' right to bargain and strike is essential to stopping the attack on public services and reverse the decades long rollback in workers' wages and working conditions. - [Nova Scotia's Residential Tenancies Act is working just fine... for your landlord](https://springmag.ca/nova-scotias-residential-tenancies-act-is-working-just-fine-for-your-landlord) - Nova Scotia's Residential Tenancies Act protects the interests of landlords while leaving tenants with few protections. - [Won't get fooled again](https://springmag.ca/wont-get-fooled-again) - Tens of millions of Brazilian progressives spent the three days before the October 2 general elections in an exalted state of semi-nirvana. Two massive polls (with over 12,000 respondents each) released on Thursday, September 29 and Saturday, October 1 showed ex-President Lula of the Workers’ Party (Partido dos Trabalhadores, PT) with a distinct chance of winning in - [Halifax transit workers are fighting for a better public transit system](https://springmag.ca/halifax-transit-workers-are-fighting-for-a-better-public-transit-system) - Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU) Local 508 represents public transit workers in Halifax and their collective agreement expired over 420 days ago. They are currently negotiating a new contract for better pay, better hours, and better treatment for their members. Shane O’Leary is the president and business agent for ATU Local 508 in Halifax. He has - [Glory: post-colonial struggles in the age of neoliberalism](https://springmag.ca/glory-post-colonial-struggles-in-the-age-of-neoliberalism) - NoViolet Bulawayo uses literature to explore the failings of postcolonial regimes in the age of neoliberalism where the reforms promised during independence struggles became subservient to the economic imperatives of trade agreements, IMF loans, and the privatization of public works. - [BC NDP chooses big business over democracy](https://springmag.ca/bc-ndp-chooses-big-business-over-democracy) - Amidst a worsening climate crisis, thousands flocked to BC NDP leadership candidate and climate activist Anjali Appadurai. The enthusiasm for her campaign reflected that many are both disappointed with the record of the NDP under Premier John Horgan, but still see it as a vehicle for change. Instead of greeting this as an opportunity to - [Get the police out of Moncton schools](https://springmag.ca/get-the-police-out-of-moncton-schools) - Kids are back to school this fall without the same intense COVID-19 measures, however, new measures are being taken in Moncton schools. RCMP officers are now stationed within select high schools in the city. A CBC article published in early September quoted Superintendent Benoit Jolette, the interim commanding officer of the RCMP, who said their - [Hamilton can't afford Loomis](https://springmag.ca/hamilton-cant-afford-loomis) - Andrea Horwath's lackluster campaign has allowed challenger Keanin Loomis to portray his campaign as “new” and “fresh” despite standing for the same old pro-business, anti-worker neoliberal politics that has been dominant over the forty years. - [Ford's catch-up payments leave parents and students further behind](https://springmag.ca/fords-catch-up-payments-leave-parents-and-students-further-behind) - By pulling money away from the public education system, the Conservative's catch-up payment scheme paves the way for privatization and pits the public against education workers fighting for better working and learning conditions. - [Support striking academic workers at Dalhousie University](https://springmag.ca/support-striking-academic-workers-at-dalhousie-university) - Over 1500 precarious academic workers are on strike at Dalhousie University. Workers are hitting the picket line for better wages and working conditions. - [Raising the floor for child care workers](https://springmag.ca/raising-the-floor-for-child-care-workers) - Workers at over twenty childcare centres organized under CUPE 2484 (one of the largest childcare Locals in Ontario representing over 600 childcare workers at twenty-eight centres across the Greater Toronto Area) have entered collective bargaining with their employers. Rather than negotiating as individual workplaces, these early years workers are coordinating their bargaining efforts to build - [The absurd wealth of Canadian billionaire David Thomson](https://springmag.ca/the-absurd-wealth-of-canadian-billionaire-david-thomson) - David Thomson's obscene wealth highlights the absurdity and injustice of the capitalist system. - [If Ford imposes back-to-work legislation, how could we defeat it?](https://springmag.ca/if-ford-imposes-back-to-work-legislation-how-could-we-defeat-it) - For education workers to take on Ford's threats of back-to-work legislation, trade union and decent work activists across the province need to build a united working-class movement in solidarity. - [Oppose Canada's lies and interference in Haiti](https://springmag.ca/oppose-canadas-lies-and-interference-in-haiti) - An important, if rarely mentioned, rule of Canadian foreign policy is the more impoverished a nation, the greater the gap is likely to be between what Canadian officials say and do. The primary explanation for the gap between what’s said and done is that power generally defines what is considered reality. So, the bigger the - [Class struggle and class compromise: The origins of Canadian labour law](https://springmag.ca/class-struggle-and-class-compromise-the-origins-of-canadian-labour-law) - Only an organized and militant rank and file can defend the best of the Wagner Model rights, while building the power to overcome its limitations. The right to strike and organize is not a right given to us in law, it is a right that rank and file workers exercise every time they go on a picket line, whether it is recognized by the law or not. - [Poverty wages still on offer for Nova Scotia child care workers](https://springmag.ca/poverty-wages-still-on-offer-for-nova-scotia-child-care-worker) - Nova Scotia’s politicians will pat themselves on the back for raising ECE’s wages, but the below inflation increases still leaves ECEs earning poverty wages. Parents and child care workers know that paying the frontline staff low wages will prevent our communities from having the universal, public, affordable child care system we all deserve. - [Faultlines for education workers](https://springmag.ca/faultlines-for-education-workers) - Last week, education workers in Ontario gave their union leadership a massive strike vote mandate. Over 45,000 out of the 55,000 members of CUPE’s Ontario School Board Council of Unions (OSBCU) voted 96.5% in favour of striking if the current round of collective bargaining fails. All signs indicate that the Ford government is looking to - [Bus lanes now! Toronto Transit advocates install pop-up bus lane](https://springmag.ca/bus-lanes-now-toronto-transit-advocates-install-pop-up-bus-lane) - Volunteers from the membership-based transit advocacy organization TTCriders gathered outside Dufferin Station early this morning to help City Councillors deliver on a promise they made to their constituents back in 2020: to install bus lanes on five of the busiest routes in the city’s transit network. - [Education workers vote 96% to strike. Here’s how we can help them win](https://springmag.ca/education-workers-vote-96-to-strike-heres-how-we-can-help-them-win) - With a strike deadline possibly weeks away, it’s crucial to use every moment between now and then to build broad public support for Ontario's education workers. If education workers win, we all win, and every other fight with the Ford government will be stronger for it. - [FIFA: suspend Israel, stop sports washing](https://springmag.ca/fifa-suspend-israel-stop-sports-washing) - As we celebrate the excitement of the World Cup, it’s important that we take action to draw attention to Israeli apartheid and its attempts to “sports wash” its image, and that we build solidarity for all Palestinians including soccer players. - [Capitalism won't fix your mental health](https://springmag.ca/capitalism-wont-fix-your-mental-health) - At the beginning of 2020, I suffered a major blow to my mental health. I found myself unable to work, unable to live my life the way I had been, and struggling to keep a positive attitude and carry on functionally as needed. Many were quick to offer me their support, of which I'm eternally - [The radical history of oil workers](https://springmag.ca/the-radical-history-of-oil-workers) - Oil workers extract fossil fuels that are the life-blood of the system. But this work extracts a health toll from workers and surrounding communities, and contaminates the environment. When oil workers have moved into action to challenge these contradictions, they have helped topple regimes, win health and environmental regulations, and imagine a world beyond capitalism and oil. - [The fight for reproductive justice is an abolitionist struggle](https://springmag.ca/the-fight-for-reproductive-justice-is-an-abolitionist-struggle) - Abortion to Abolition: Reproductive Health and Justice in Canada by Martha Paynter (Fernwood, 2022). With the overturning of Roe v. Wade, reproductive rights are coming under increasing attack. However, the mainstream political discourse about reproductive rights and access to abortion too often narrows this discussion in a way that replicates systemic oppression and white supremacy. - [NDP: defend Singh’s Palestine solidarity and withdraw from Canada-Israel Interparliamentary Group](https://springmag.ca/ndp-defend-singhs-palestine-solidarity-and-withdraw-from-canada-israel-interparliamentary-group) - Federal NDP leader Jagmeet Singh is right when he states, “We believe Israel’s illegal occupation of the Palestinian territories is at the centre of the challenges facing the Palestinian and Israeli people.” In response the pro-Israel lobby has smeared him with accusations of anti-Semitism. We need to support Singh’s position on Palestine but also to tell him the NDP needs to withdraw from the Canada-Israel Interparliamentary Group. - [Brazilian elections: Democracy or neofascism](https://springmag.ca/brazilian-elections-democracy-or-neofascism) - The choice is breathtakingly clear in the upcoming elections in the second largest democracy in the Americas: democracy or neofascism. - [Education workers fighting back: Interview with Laura Walton](https://springmag.ca/education-workers-fighting-back-interview-with-laura-walton) - CUPE’s Ontario School Board Council of Unions represents 55,000 education workers in Ontario. They are fighting for higher wages and better working conditions. Currently members are in the midst of a strike vote. Spring recently spoke with Laura Walton, the President of OSBCU - CSCSO, about how education workers are organizing to fight for decent wages and a fair contract. - [There is an opening to win paid sick days in Ontario](https://springmag.ca/there-is-an-opening-to-win-paid-sick-days-in-ontario) - I’ll cut straight to the chase - Ontario still does not have permanent paid sick days. Zero. After a devastating pandemic with thousands of deaths, still NO paid sick days. When the pandemic started, it was right after Doug Ford canceled Ontario’s 2 permanent paid sick days, the effect of which we saw right away - [Indigenous socialism: the life and politics of Howard Adams](https://springmag.ca/indigenous-socialism-the-life-and-politics-of-howard-adams) - “We need to liberate ourselves from the courts, ballot boxes, school system, church, and all other agencies that command us to stay in ‘our colonized place.’ This oppression of the native people is so deeply rooted in the capitalist system that it cannot be completely eliminated without eliminating capitalism itself.” - [The market doesn't care about your grandma](https://springmag.ca/the-market-doesnt-care-about-your-grandma) - The market doesn’t care about any of us. But it surely does not care about your grandma. The people in power insist that the current housing crisis is simply a matter of supply and demand. But throwing money at developers, based on the idea that the market will correct itself, has made the situation much - [Migrant justice challenges ‘precarity at every level’](https://springmag.ca/migrant-justice-challenges-precarity-at-every-level) - September 18 marked an important day for migrants across the country. Migrants and supporters alike are demanding regularization and permanent residency status for all. Some gatherings were marked by speeches and storytelling, marches and petitioning. St. John’s, Newfoundland held a picnic attended by migrant workers, students and local supporters. It was a small group but - [How strikes made the elementary teachers’ union](https://springmag.ca/how-strikes-made-the-elementary-teachers-union) - Class Action: How Ontario’s Elementary Teachers Became a Political Force by Andy Hanson (Between the Lines, 2021) Andy Hanson’s Class Action is an accessible and fascinating explanation of the history of public education in Ontario and the battles that made public elementary teachers into a force in the labour movement. The book follows the development - [Status for All: We are not begging, we are telling](https://springmag.ca/status-for-all-we-are-not-begging-we-are-telling) - Thousands of migrants, advocates, and allies gathered at Christie Pits Park in Toronto on Sunday to demand Status for All. The rally started at 2 PM and it started to rain at about 1:45 PM, but the participants at the rally were undeterred. “I know it’s raining, but that just means you’ll remember today even - [In defence of mapping settler-colonialism](https://springmag.ca/in-defence-of-mapping-settler-colonialism) - Mapping settler-colonialism exposes the links between corporations and governments in perpetuating atrocities, displacement and exploitation at home and abroad. - [Labour and the Global Climate Strike: An interview with Nigel Barriffe](https://springmag.ca/labour-and-the-global-climate-strike-an-interview-with-nigel-barriffe) - For thousands of years, Indigenous Peoples across Turtle Island have cared for and protected the land and water we all rely on. This is especially true in settler-colonial Canada, where Indigenous Peoples have always been at the forefront of the climate justice movement. Two recent examples of this is the work of the Wet’suwet’en People - [Remember the victims of Britain's monarchy and empire](https://springmag.ca/remember-the-victims-of-britains-monarchy-and-empire) - What is the federal government asking us to commemorate when it declared Monday a holiday (for federal public sector workers) to mark Queen Elizabeth II’s death? Monarchy? Empire? Colonialism? Class rule? Genetic determination? Unquestioned reverence for the British monarchy is a slap in the face to Indigenous peoples and denial of Canada’s role in crimes - [Why international students should join the status For all day of action](https://springmag.ca/why-international-students-should-join-the-status-for-all-day-of-action) - Canada has seen an exponential increase in the intake of international students. With a record number of study permits issued in 2021 (450,000), Canada is looking to address labour shortages and at the same time use international students as a source of revenue for its educational institutions. But status and rights are not guaranteed to - [Justice delayed and distorted: Ontario police officers charged for killing 18-month old Jameson Shapiro](https://springmag.ca/justice-delayed-and-distorted-ontario-police-officers-charged-for-killing-18-month-old-jameson-shapiro) - On November 26, 2020, Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) officers shot and killed 18-month-old Jameson Shapiro and his father, William Shapiro (33) in the city of Kawartha Lakes. After almost two years of silence regarding the killings, the Special Investigations Unit (SIU) in Ontario finally announced charges against three of the police officers involved. OPP Constables - [Migrant justice = economic and climate justice](https://springmag.ca/migrant-justice-economic-and-climate-justice) - A united working class, based on migrant justice and Indigenous sovereignty can challenge Canadian borders, bosses, and the climate crisis. - [Royalty and the ruling class](https://springmag.ca/royalty-and-the-ruling-class) - Royalty plays an important part in reinforcing ideas that inequality is natural and of the impossibility of fundamental change. It has no place in a democracy and is anathema to the idea of socialism and equality. - [Status for all migrants now!](https://springmag.ca/status-for-all-migrants-now) - Migrants across Canada are on the verge of achieving a historic victory, as the government considers providing Permanent Resident status to 1.7 million migrants with precarious status - migrants on temporary work, study or refugee claimant permits and undocumented people. - [Canada's exploitation of migrant student workers](https://springmag.ca/canadas-exploitation-of-migrant-student-workers) - Labour migration plays a crucial role in upholding global capitalism. Immigration systems, including the one in Canada, are exploitative and discriminatory by design. Canada’s international student program is one such stream aimed to attract “skilled” labour but in truth, pushes workers into precarious employment. This means migrant student workers have to regularly deal with bad - [Taking the profit out of child care](https://springmag.ca/taking-the-profit-out-of-child-care) - The federal government’s historic funding deals with the provinces to deliver affordable, non-profit child care to parents could mean a massive expansion to public services, the likes of which has not been seen in decades. In the face of this expansion, private operators in Nova Scotia continue to lobby to be able to expand for-profit child care. - [My body is not your capital-producing machine – or is it?](https://springmag.ca/my-body-is-not-your-capital-producing-machine-or-is-it) - There are three basic freedoms: freedom to say NO; freedom to move away; and freedom to change what does not work. Individual freedom requires social support. To say NO, you need others to respect your choice and not force you to obey. To move freely, you need others to support your movement and not erect - [Vigilantes and violence against unhoused people](https://springmag.ca/vigilantes-and-violence-against-unhoused-people) - Threats and violence against unhoused people serve to reinforce property relations and labor markets, which inevitably harm all working-class people. They also serve purposes of further enclosure—establishing community or public spaces as sites of surveillance, policing, and social control. - [Ford has removed profit caps for childcare operators](https://springmag.ca/ford-has-removed-profit-caps-for-childcare-operators) - By removing profit caps and setting more money aside for for-profit childcare operators Doug Ford is undermining $10-per-day childcare. Ford is looking out for the interests of businesses who want to use public money without guaranteeing children quality care and decent wages for childcare workers. - [The anti-colonial roots of the tea workers’ labour struggle in Bangladesh](https://springmag.ca/the-anti-colonial-roots-of-the-tea-workers-labour-struggle-in-bangladesh) - We must raise our voice for restructuring the tea plantation system in Bangladesh. Not out of sympathy for their woes, but in solidarity with their fight for their rights. - [Ontario safety inspectors strike for safety and a fair deal](https://springmag.ca/ontario-safety-inspectors-strike-for-safety-and-a-fair-deal) - The Euroslide is usually a staple of the much-loved CNE, but not this year. Days before the exhibition opened for the first time in two years, the ride broke down, and sent someone to the hospital in the process. Inspecting the Euroslide, along with the other rides at the CNE, is just one of the - [One day under occupation is too long: Message to the United Church of Canada](https://springmag.ca/one-day-under-occupation-is-too-long-message-to-the-united-church-of-canada) - Earlier this year, over 1200 letters were sent to the Canadian Council of Churches and its members asking them to join with Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and B’Tselem in naming Israeli apartheid. But neither the United Church of Canada, nor the couple dozen members of the Canadian Council of Churches, provided responses. It would - [Stop the repression of students, teachers and trade unionists in Sri Lanka!](https://springmag.ca/stop-the-repression-of-students-teachers-and-trade-unionists-in-sri-lanka) - The following is an urgent appeal for solidarity. Please forward to student, education, and trade union organizations. Students, teachers, and trade unionists in Sri Lanka are facing a growing campaign of repression by the government amidst the country’s worst economic crisis in decades. Since March 2022, the island nation has been rocked by mass protests - [Statement regarding Vancouver police's 5th murder in 2022](https://springmag.ca/statement-regarding-vancouver-polices-5th-murder-in-2022) - Released from the territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) First Nations. On the morning of Monday, August 22, the Vancouver Police Department (VPD) murdered someone, again. The police presence in the DTES has lost any veneer of “public safety.” This is the reality for residents of the Downtown Eastside (DTES), who - [People, not the police, forced Ford's reversal on police powers](https://springmag.ca/people-not-the-police-forced-fords-reversal-on-police-powers) - The push back sprang from below, after years of movements fighting for racial and economic justice. People want paid sick days, not policing. - [Tamil and Sinhala people ignore each other’s struggles at our peril](https://springmag.ca/tamil-and-sinhala-people-ignore-each-others-struggles-at-our-peril) - Sri Lanka’s political and economic crisis is rooted in the decades long state project of neoliberalism and genocide directed at Tamils. The new protest movement in Sri Lanka has created a laboratory for radical self-organization from below that can challenge anti-Tamil chauvinism and the ruling class. - [The Collectives](https://springmag.ca/the-collectives) - There is no such thing as individual. There are only groups, collectives, communities, societies. Nature is collective. Body is collective—a community of organs. What we eat is labour of the collective. What we wear is labour of the collective. We breathe in collectivity of air. We walk on collectivity of earth. We dive in collectivity - [Break the back of Bill 124](https://springmag.ca/break-the-back-of-bill-124) - Unions have an opportunity to put the Tories on their back foot and break the back of Bill 124. This can unite workers across sectors, and push back on the broader privatization agenda. The time is now to build the confidence of workers to take on the Tories and fight for higher wages. - [Truth to the Powerless shines as critical foreign policy analysis](https://springmag.ca/truth-to-the-powerless-shines-as-critical-foreign-policy-analysis) - Official Canadian foreign policy supports empire and corporate interests, but you’d never know that if you rely on the dominant media or government pronouncements. Then along comes Pitasanna Shanmugathas, Ryan Ellis and a team of filmmakers with Truth to the Powerless: An Investigation into Canada's Foreign Policy. The six-part series explores Canada’s role in - [Homes not cops needed at Hastings](https://springmag.ca/homes-not-cops-needed-at-hastings) - “White saviourism turns people into projects; trauma and personal stories into fundraising campaigns; communities and marginalized groups into lucrative ‘causes.’ Justice sees people in the fullness of their humanity, and fights to uphold their inherent dignity and worth at all costs.” Olivia Alaso’s words start this article because when it comes to how we behave - [I can't work if I can't breathe: why Labour must support Black Lives Matter](https://springmag.ca/i-cant-work-if-i-cant-breathe-why-labour-must-support-black-lives-matter) - The police killing of George Floyd early in the COVID-19 pandemic highlighted two forms of anti-Black racism: police brutality in the streets, and the lack of protections in the workplace. Black workers have been on the frontlines of the pandemic while being denied essential protections, resulting in higher rates of infections, hospitalizations and deaths. The - [Starbucks unionizing: workers brewing change](https://springmag.ca/starbucks-unionizing-workers-brewing-change) - Despite significant pushback from the corporation, the unlikely yet sweeping success of the Starbucks unions proves what strong movements can do. - [How can we build class struggle unionism?](https://springmag.ca/how-can-we-build-class-struggle-unionism) - Class Struggle Unionism is a vital book that lays out a very clear and specific criteria for those of us interested in strengthening the ability of the labour movement to fight and win. - [Demanding justice for Grassy Narrow](https://springmag.ca/demanding-justice-for-grassy-narrow) - Indigenous youth and leaders from Grassy Narrows First Nation (in northwestern Ontario) travelled 1,700 km to speak at a rally outside the legislature at Queen’s Park in Toronto on July 21. The 50 activists were joined by hundreds of supporters. Toxic colonialism This rally was held to mark the ongoing poisoning that happened on their - [B'nai Brith's lawsuit attacks campus free speech, student democracy](https://springmag.ca/bnai-briths-lawsuit-attacks-campus-free-speech-student-democracy) - On Wednesday B’nai Brith announced a lawsuit against McGill University, Student Society of McGill University (SSMU) and student group Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights (SPHR). The apartheid lobby group is angry that undergraduate students were asked to vote in March on whether they supported Palestinian rights. Their press release openly states their objective is to - [Uber’s “innovation” is a cutthroat war on workers’ rights](https://springmag.ca/ubers-innovation-is-a-cutthroat-war-on-workers-rights) - Last month, a former lobbyist for transportation company Uber leaked over 124,000 confidential documents to the Guardian that reveal the lengths to which the company went to push for the re-writing of laws protecting workers and the public in jurisdictions across the world. Launched in 2009, Uber started providing so-called “ride-sharing” services in some US - [WIPB extension shows the need for 10 permanent paid sick days](https://springmag.ca/wipb-extension-shows-the-need-for-10-permanent-paid-sick-days) - In the middle of the seventh wave and under pressure from the decent work movement, the Ford government announced another extension of the Worker Income Protection Benefit (WIPB). But by simply extending the deadline without adding paid sick days, the government is diluting paid sick days until they finally cut them again. But if the movement can force the government to provide temporary and inadequate paid sick days, it can also make them permanent and adequate. - [Hundreds rally in Toronto against Israeli annexation plans](https://springmag.ca/hundreds-rally-in-toronto-against-israeli-annexation-plans) - Over two hundred people rallied in downtown Toronto on Saturday to oppose Israel’s attempt to annex large portions of the West Bank. The rally was organized by a broad coalition of community, labour, faith, and social justice activists, with Palestine House as the lead organization. Hammam Farah and Suzanne Weiss were co-M.C.s of the rally. - [The dangerous rise of Pierre Poilievre](https://springmag.ca/the-dangerous-rise-of-pierre-poilievre) - The politics of Pierre Poilievre are a very major threat but they are also a symptom of societal crisis and the lack of a fighting response on the left. Poilievre won’t wait for the next election to start spreading his poison. - [How to be a socialist organizer](https://springmag.ca/how-to-be-a-socialist-organizer) - Being a socialist organizer means building the confidence, capacity and leadership in those around you to engage in struggle. It means being a militant where you are at. - [Crash course: Musk’s deadly drive for profit](https://springmag.ca/crash-course-musks-deadly-drive-for-profit-) - Far from a radical innovator, Elon Musk is just another capitalist who lies, exploits, and endangers people in the quest to turn a profit. - [Sudan’s decades of resistance](https://springmag.ca/sudans-decades-of-resistance) - June 30 is the 33rd anniversary of dictator Omar al-Bashir’s 1989 coup that overthrew the existing elected government. Since 1956, when Sudan won independence from the British empire, the people have suffered a series of dictatorships, yet they have always fought back. Three years ago a popular uprising ousted Bashir and established what was supposed - [Uprooting Canada: A review of 'Capitalism & Dispossession'](https://springmag.ca/uprooting-canada-a-review-of-capitalism-dispossession) - 'Capitalism & Dispossession: Corporate Canada at Home and Abroad' examines case studies of colonial atrocities that are not incidental failures of Canadian capitalism, but are coordinated operations vital to the functioning of the Canadian state. - [The profit-price spiral](https://springmag.ca/the-profit-price-spiral) - Faced with high inflation the ruling class is driving us into a recession and fomenting unemployment in order to preserve profits. To justify this they fear monger about workers’ wages leading to a wage-price spiral. This is simply a diversion from the fact that capitalists are out to protect their profits. - [How the CIA sabotaged African independence](https://springmag.ca/how-the-cia-sabotaged-african-independence) - White Malice: The CIA and the Covert Recolonization of Africa by Susan Williams (Public Affairs, 2021) There is no denying that many countries in Africa face major challenges. Hunger, unemployment, lack of electricity, poor governance, poor healthcare and corruption are major obstacles for many African nations. Solving these problems requires looking at the root of - [Repressing the homeless in the Halifax region](https://springmag.ca/repressing-the-homeless-in-the-halifax-region) - The politics of housing is a struggle between the rich and the rest of us - [Galen Weston: Pandemic profiteer](https://springmag.ca/galen-weston-pandemic-profiteer) - Galen Weston is a symptom of a system that puts profits before people. It is time to not only curb the power of billionaires but to end the system that produces them. - [Understanding the infant formula crisis](https://springmag.ca/understanding-the-infant-formula-crisis) - The baby formula shortage is the result of large corporations putting profits before the needs of infants and their parents. - [Ford raises the rent, after freezing wages](https://springmag.ca/ford-raises-the-rent-after-freezing-wages) - The Ford government allowing landlords to raise rent by 2.5 percent when tenants are continuing to struggle sends a clear message about the ruling class’s priorities: profit over all else. - [James P. Cannon and the revolutionary socialist tradition](https://springmag.ca/james-p-cannon-and-the-revolutionary-socialist-tradition) - James P. Cannon and the Emergence of Trotskyism in the United States, 1928-38 by Bryan D. Palmer (Brill, 2021) James P. Cannon and the Emergence of Trotskyism in the United States, 1928-38 is the latest installment in Canadian historian Bryan D. Palmer’s study of the titular US revolutionary socialist leader. This decades-long project’s first book-length product, James - [Workers striking back against inflation ](https://springmag.ca/workers-striking-back-against-inflation) - While the bosses try to blame workers for inflation, the rising cost of of living is leaving workers with no other choice but to organize and fight. - [Workers' rights and the fight for climate justice](https://springmag.ca/workers-rights-and-the-fight-for-climate-justice) - Low-wage workers have been hit hardest by the pandemic, they were the first to lose their jobs and most likely to get COVID. A new survey shows that workers in the most precarious jobs, who are disproportionately racialized, are directly dealing with the impacts of the worsening climate crisis. Spring Magazine spoke with Jen Kostuchuk - [Doug Ford: Don't cut paid sick days again](https://springmag.ca/doug-ford-dont-cut-paid-sick-days-again) - One of Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s first actions in his first term was to cut paid sick days, which fuelled the spread of COVID-19. Ford then promised “the best paid sick days in North America” but only provided three temporary days. Now one of his first actions during his second term is to let these days expire at the end of this month, which amounts to cutting paid sick days a second time. - [Smashing the cult of Churchill](https://springmag.ca/smashing-the-cult-of-churchill) - Churchill is a symbol for the continued project of imperialism, colonialism and capitalist rule. Underneath the charming and quirky portrayals we are fed in the media lies a politician who supported almost every reactionary cause of his day and whose crimes in service of the empire extended across the globe. - [For trade unions international solidarity means rejecting the IHRA definition of antisemitism ](https://springmag.ca/for-trade-unions-international-solidarity-means-rejecting-the-ihra-definition-of-antisemitism) - Trade unions must reject the IHRA definition of antisemitism. Defending the legitimate criticism of the Israeli occupation means upholding international solidarity, a core principal of the union movement. - [Cancel Canada Day](https://springmag.ca/cancel-canada-day) - Settler-colonialism has been and remains central to the ruling class project in Canada. The state and capitalism were founded upon the violent and genocidal dispossession of Indigenous peoples and rely on the continued oppression of Indigenous peoples and exploitation of their land. - [Canada Day: A history of colonization and resistance](https://springmag.ca/canada-day-a-history-of-colonization-and-resistance) - The history of Canada Day has been one of colonization through different phases, but Indigenous peoples have continued to expose this ongoing history, assert their sovereignty and build solidarity. - [Are Ontario workers paid or paying to be sick at work?](https://springmag.ca/are-ontario-workers-paid-or-paying-to-be-sick-at-work) - Growing up, I could not remember my mother taking time off work when she was sick as a labourer in the manufacturing industry. As the sole income earner in a single-family household, my mother often pushed her body to the brink. There was no room in her life for sickness. She would frequently say that - [Canada to spend billions on NORAD so US can rule the world](https://springmag.ca/canada-to-spend-billions-on-norad-so-us-can-rule-the-world) - NORAD makes Canada a junior partner to US militarism and imperialism. If Canada was truly a force for good in the world, a peacekeeper and adherent of a rules based international order, Ottawa would withdraw from NORAD, rather than spend billions more strengthening it. - [The class war of interest rates](https://springmag.ca/the-class-war-of-interest-rates) - Dramatic headlines such as ‘Global markets plunge as Fed mulls biggest rate rise in decades’ are no longer surprising. Yet, the onset of the present inflationary crisis was initially met with a far more subdued reaction by policy makers and the media. A year ago, we were being told that ‘Inflationary pressures in the global economy - [The Halifax Workers' Action Centre](https://springmag.ca/the-halifax-workers-action-centre) - The Spring podcast spoke with Lisa Cameron, an organizer with the Halifax Workers' Action Centre, about the issues workers face in Nova Scotia, from wage theft to unjust termination. The Halifax Workers' Action Centre not only helps workers fights against bad bosses on an individual basis, but tries to build the collective power of workers - [Toronto police report shows the obvious: Systemic anti-Black racism](https://springmag.ca/toronto-police-report-shows-the-obvious-systemic-anti-black-racism) - The disproportionate policing of Black Torontoians across the city shows what many have known for a long-time: that anti-Black racism is not incidental to the TPS, it’s built in. - [Building a united front for Indigenous sovereignty](https://springmag.ca/building-a-united-front-for-indigenous-sovereignty-interview-with-skyler-williams) - "Whenever we assert our collective rights to the Canadian state, our sovereignty seems to get lost in the public debate. Sovereignty means we were here for thousands of years before colonization, and any legitimate claim to reconciliation must account for that question of our relationship to the Land. " - [The expansion of policing and social control in Toronto](https://springmag.ca/the-expansion-of-policing-and-social-control-in-toronto) - On June 11, 2022, Toronto Mayor John Tory and Toronto Police Service (TPS) Chief James Ramer held a public session at North York’s 31 Division to share details on the expansion of the city’s Neighbourhood Community Officer Program (NCOP) for the first time. The mayor and police are pushing the expanded NCOP as a model - [Justice for Palestine means banning Israel from FIFA](https://springmag.ca/justice-for-palestine-means-banning-israel-from-fifa) - FIFA wants to be fair. It says as much in its mandate: FIFA exists to govern football and to develop the game around the world. Since 2016, the organisation has been fast evolving into a body that can more effectively serve our game for the benefit of the entire world. The new FIFA is modernising - [Capitalism in crisis: World Bank report paints grim picture](https://springmag.ca/capitalism-in-crisis-world-bank-report-paints-grim-picture) - The World Bank outlines the crisis conditions enveloping global capitalism. The question before us is who will pay for the coming recession. - [Divest now: BC teachers voted, now demanding change](https://springmag.ca/divest-now-bc-teachers-voted-now-demanding-change) - “We did it!” says Kim Benson, Sea to Sky Teacher and BCTF Divest Now Campaign organizer. “Now we need to ensure the next steps are taken to actually divest the Teachers’ Pension Plan.” The BC Teachers Federation (BCTF), with 49,000 members, resolved at the March 2022 AGM to divest our pension from all oil and gas - [Another Ford majority means building a fighting left](https://springmag.ca/another-ford-majority-means-building-a-fighting-left) - This election has been a wake-up call. If we are going to take on the big business lobby and advance the struggles for a better world, we need to get to work in building the mass movements and campaigns that will make that possible. - [Stopping Canadian mining companies and the governments that support them](https://springmag.ca/stopping-canadian-mining-companies-and-the-governments-that-support-them) - The Prospectors & Developers Association of Canada (PDAC) is a non-profit organization funded by the mining industry. It holds its annual convention in Toronto and the is the world’s biggest mining convention. It’s been taking place for 85 years, and about 25,000 people attend, with representation from both corporate and government sectors. In recent years - [The struggle for prison abolition](https://springmag.ca/the-struggle-for-prison-abolition) - For socialists fighting for an alternative, abolition is the only way forward. But what does it actually mean to abolish prisons? How can socialists achieve this? And what does the world without prisons look like? - [Don’t be fooled by Ford ](https://springmag.ca/dont-be-fooled-by-ford-) - Do you remember the Berenstain Bears series? When I was in kindergarten, the teacher was reading one of the beloved fables, The Berenstain Bears and the Truth – the one about the kids breaking the lamp after tossing a soccer ball around inside. They were specifically told not to while Mama Bear was out, and - [The climate can’t afford Ford](https://springmag.ca/the-climate-cant-afford-ford) - We are heading into the Ontario election on the brink of ecological and societal collapse. Another four years of Ford will worsen both the climate crisis and strengthen the right-wing, but it is up the movements outside the legislature to provide real solutions. Climate crisis and political reaction As biodiversity plummets worldwide due to rising - [Good riddance Kenney](https://springmag.ca/good-riddance-kenney) - After receiving only 51% of the UCP vote, Jason Kenney has stepped down as one-term Premier of Alberta. Kenney’s foreboding political death was clear to many Albertans as the United Conservative Party’s approval ratings steadily plunged throughout the past two years of COVID-19. Internal criticism from within his party over the use of (albeit minimal) - [Doug Ford, the Tamil struggle is not for sale](https://springmag.ca/doug-ford-the-tamil-struggle-is-not-for-sale) - Thirteen years ago, I was among tens of thousands in Toronto’s Tamil community who protested the war in Sri Lanka. I remember waking up on Mother’s Day that year to the horrific news that an all-night artillery barrage killed nearly 1,000 people in a single night. After weeks of candlelight vigils, letter-writing campaigns and petitioning, - [Ford's Bill 124 is an attack on women workers](https://springmag.ca/fords-bill-124-is-an-attack-on-women-workers) - Bill 124 must be challenged, and not just in the courts. If it is allowed to stand, Ford will continue to illegally infringe on public sector workers’ rights to collectively bargain, which disproportionately impacts women workers. - [Capitalism, climate change and the rising cost of food](https://springmag.ca/capitalism-climate-change-and-the-rising-cost-of-food) - Spring Magazine spoke with Alyssa Gerhardt, a Sociologist and PhD candidate at Dalhousie University about the rising cost of food. Gerhardt co-authored the 2021 Canada Food Price Report. Gerhardt highlights how capitalism, the climate crisis, and the rising cost of living are all interconnected. - [A vote for Ford is a vote for COVID](https://springmag.ca/a-vote-for-ford-is-a-vote-for-covid) - After six waves and more than two years of COVID-19, the Ontario election on June 2 should be a referendum on Premier Doug Ford’s pandemic response. Based on his record a vote for Ford is a vote for COVID, but the Liberals are no alternative. - [The struggle against reaction: The global implications of the Philippine election](https://springmag.ca/the-struggle-against-reaction-the-global-implications-of-the-philippine-election) - When Filipinos ousted the late dictator, Ferdinand Marcos Sr., after 21 years of dictatorship and 17 years of martial Law, the Filipino masses pledged to say no more to Ferdinand Marcos through the calls of "Never Again to Martial law!". In recent times, the call, "Never Again to Martial law!" was yet again used when - [Remembering the Abortion Caravan](https://springmag.ca/remembering-the-abortion-caravan) - In 1970, a caravan of vehicles hung with coat hangers carried a coffin to Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau’a residence at Parliament hill on Mother’s Day weekend, 1970. The original 17 women who started in Vancouver had grown to over 4,000 and journeyed from across the country to protest restrictive and discriminatory abortion laws. In light - [Scarborough queer artists challenging oppression through art](https://springmag.ca/scarborough-queer-artists-challenging-oppression-through-art) - সাবধান / SHABDHAN (“careful”) is a collaborative artwork by queer Bangladeshi artists L. Akhter and namrata. Part of the Mayworks Festival, the installation and accompanying poem is displayed at the easternmost Scarborough subway station, central to the homes, workplaces, and lives of South Asian migrant and marginalized people. Spring spoke to the artists to understand - [Dying for affordable housing](https://springmag.ca/dying-for-affordable-housing) - "I've applied for medically assisted death (MAiD) essentially...because of abject poverty." Those are the words of Denise (a pseudonym to protect her identity), a 31-year-old Toronto woman who uses a wheelchair and whose story of seeking medically assisted death after being denied access to affordable housing was brought forth by CTV. Denise lives with Multiple - [Understanding the crypto crash  ](https://springmag.ca/understanding-the-crypto-crash) - On its own, the crypto crash is unlikely to trigger a wider economic meltdown. But the conditions which caused the crash — the pullback of easy money policies by the capitalist class to control inflation — could easily result in a recession. If that happens, a central question of our time of crisis is sure to reemerge: who will foot the bill? - [Revolutionary journalism](https://springmag.ca/revolutionary-journalism) - What is the role of journalism in revolutionary change? Spring Magazine spoke with Hossam El-Hamalawy--a journalist, photographer, and member of the Egyptian Revolutionary Socialists--about revolutionary journalism, the role of social media, and prospects for socialism in the 21st century. Traditional media, including on the left, is often based on small numbers of journalists producing content - [How the Teamsters won: Socialists in the 1934 Minneapolis truckers' strike](https://springmag.ca/how-the-teamsters-won-socialists-in-1934-minneapolis) - Revolutionary Teamsters: The Minneapolis Truckers' Strikes of 1934 by Bryan D. Palmer (Haymarket, 2016) The spectre of socialism is haunting the ruling class. Increasingly used to invoke fear and hatred by both the right and centre, recent polls show that nearly 4 in 10 Americans prefer socialism to capitalism. The figure is roughly 50% per cent - [Thousands march in Toronto on Nakba Day](https://springmag.ca/thousands-march-in-toronto-on-nakba-day) - On May 15, Palestinians mark Nakba Day ("the catastrophe" in Arabic), to remember the mass expulsion of Palestinians that accompanied the creation of the state of Israel. Yesterday, thousands marched through the streets of Toronto demanding the right of all Palestinians to return to their homeland, and justice for slain journalist Shireen Abu Akleh. Historic - [Understanding the Israeli occupation’s apartheid regime](https://springmag.ca/understanding-the-israeli-occupations-apartheid-regime) - The apartheid regime of Israel's occupation is a feature of settler-colonialism. It is sustained by three criteria: expanding illegitimate borders through the annexation of land, violence against the native population, and Jewish ethnic exclusiveness and supremacy. - [State repression in the Philippines: Free the Angat 2!](https://springmag.ca/state-repression-in-the-philippines-free-the-angat-2) - John Griefen Arlegui (age 20) and Reynaldo Remias Jr. (age 24), also known as “The Angat 2”, are two political prisoners in the Philippines, detained for their activism among the urban poor. They were organizers in the Pandi, Bulacan occupation, where 6000 homes were occupied and defended in 2017. In 2019, they were kidnapped at - [Ontario’s childcare deal is bad for workers and parents](https://springmag.ca/ontarios-childcare-deal-is-bad-for-workers-and-parents) - Ontarians have been waiting with baited breath for more than a year for Ford to finally sign off on a deal with the federal government to establish $10/day childcare. Having finalized the deal in late March, after most provinces signed during the summer of 2021, the Ford government’s foot-dragging was done under the onus of - [How global McCarthyism shaped the world](https://springmag.ca/how-global-mccarthyism-shaped-the-world) - The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade & the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World by Vincent Bevins (Public Affairs: 2020) As debates rage about the origins of the conflict in Ukraine, calls for no-fly zones and sending arms to fight back against the attacks from Russia, there is intense discussion about the role and - [Killings of unhoused people by Canadian cops: Policing as poor bashing](https://springmag.ca/killings-of-unhoused-people-by-canadian-cops-policing-as-poor-bashing) - Police are state instruments of class violence, and are indispensable to the maintenance of capitalism. There are few ways in which that violence is deployed more forcefully, viciously, and regularly than against unemployed and unhoused people. This is not surprising given that the function of policing is to protect property, maintain property relations and to - [How housewives organized against inflation](https://springmag.ca/how-housewives-organized-against-inflation) - RADICAL HOUSEWIVES is a play about the struggles of Toronto housewives in the 1930s and 1940s for lower food prices, and about the weight of the Cold War that brought them down. It is being presented at the 2022 Mayworks Festival by The Toronto Workers' Theatre Group (part of the Toronto Workers' History Project. Spring - [NDP fails those who want peaceful solutions to conflict in Ukraine](https://springmag.ca/ndp-fails-those-who-want-peaceful-solutions-to-conflict-in-ukraine) - Those across Canada who would like to support a progressive political party working for peaceful solutions to military conflicts are being pushed out of the New Democratic Party. Instead of advocating for diplomacy, the NDP has long pressed for conflict with Russia. They’ve consistently supported measures that escalate tensions in Ukraine and have prodded the - [How do we defeat Doug Ford?](https://springmag.ca/how-do-we-defeat-doug-ford) - With less than a month to go before the June 2 election Ford is leading in the polls. To change this we need to build strong movements that raise people’s expectations, put workers and racialized communities’ needs front and centre and aim to shift the political terrain to the left. - [Defying back to work legislation: What it will take to revitalize the labour movement](https://springmag.ca/defying-back-to-work-legislation-what-it-will-take-to-revitalize-the-labour-movement) - Roland Schmidt is a postal worker and 2nd term president of CUPW local 730 in Edmonton, Alberta. He is currently a candidate for 3rd National Vice-President in CUPW elections taking place May 6, 2022. A CUPW activist for close to two decades, Roland was a key leader in the 2011 Edmonton local overtime refusal actions, - [Building rank-and-file power at Canada Post](https://springmag.ca/building-rank-and-file-power-at-canada-post) - Roland Schmidt is a postal worker and 2nd term president of CUPW local 730 in Edmonton, Alberta. He is currently a candidate for 3rd National Vice-President (Organizing) in CUPW elections taking place May 6th, 2022. A CUPW activist for close to two decades, Roland was a key leader in the 2011 Edmonton local overtime refusal - [Labour for the environment](https://springmag.ca/labour-for-the-environment) - By empowering workers we can create a world where the exploitation of people and the environment is not the backbone of our social or economic system. - [May Day: Calling all workers](https://springmag.ca/may-day-calling-all-workers) - This May Day is much more than an annual celebration where workers take the opportunity to get together. It’s a key event for the labour movement, for green jobs, for decent work, for access to unions, for justice for workers, and also for climate justice. It’s a chance to connect with other workers who have - [Abolitionists all out for May 1!](https://springmag.ca/abolitionists-all-out-for-may-1) - The murder of George Floyd by the Minneapolis Police Department in 2020 sparked a global wave of resistance to policing and prisons. This was not new to those who have spent decades organizing against the carceral state, but for others, the idea of abolition arrived in the public discourse for the first time. The defunding - [Building the May 1 province-wide action in Ontario](https://springmag.ca/building-may-1-action) - The pandemic has supersized inequality and inequity in Ontario. In the May Day tradition of fighting for a better world, we should aim to use this May Day to fight for a better Ontario for all, to boost the confidence of all those wanting to fight back against the bosses and the politicians who are fomenting racism and putting profits before people. - [Everyone needs a home: Tenant organizing and the fight for affordable housing](https://springmag.ca/everyone-needs-a-home-tenant-organizing-and-the-fight-for-affordable-housing) - The housing market has become increasingly hoarded and monopolized by capitalists doing everything in their power to extract as much as they can from as many as they can. For the average worker there will be two capitalists in their lives holding power over us - our boss and our landlord. The most effective way - [Fighting for a workers first agenda in Ontario](https://springmag.ca/fighting-for-a-workers-first-agenda-in-ontario) - The Spring Podcast spoke with labour activist Elise Lee Lai about how labour is approaching the upcoming election in Ontario. Lee Lai outlines the most pressing issues facing the labour movement in the province and how trade unions are organizing for May 1 day of action to put forward a workers first agenda. - [Overcoming the housing crisis in Halifax](https://springmag.ca/overcoming-the-housing-crisis-in-halifax) - The housing crisis in the Halifax Regional Municipality (HRM) has gotten significantly worse throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. According to the latest Rental Market Report from the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC), the rental vacancy rate in the HRM dropped to 1% in 2021, down from 1.9% in 2020. As of April 12, there are - [From climate reforms to climate justice revolution](https://springmag.ca/from-climate-reforms-to-climate-justice-revolution) - The Liberal government's climate plan, released this March, shows the failure of the status quo and the urgency of mass change. As Atiya Jaffar from 350.org wrote: "Once again, this government has delivered a climate plan that doesn’t line up with the science. Justin Trudeau and Stephen Guilbeault are still acting like we have decades, - [Freeland speech disrupted over war escalation, military spending](https://springmag.ca/freeland-speech-disrupted-over-war-escalation-military-spending) - On Monday I interrupted Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland at a press conference to ask if she’s a warmonger. I criticized her for devoting half a billion dollars in last week’s budget for new weapons to fight Russia. I also questioned her support of NATO expansion and failure to support the Minsk accords for a - [Lessons from the 2021 New Brunswick strike](https://springmag.ca/lessons-from-the-2021-new-brunswick-strike) - In the fall of 2021, thousands of public sector workers in New Brunswick, unionized with CUPE, went on strike demanding an increase in pay and fair treatment. They took on Blaine Higgs’ Conservative government and won. Ten of the eleven CUPE locals have reached an agreement with the Torie government in NB. Some agreements led - [What we learned from corresponding with prisoners](https://springmag.ca/what-we-learned-from-corresponding-with-prisoners) - Write On! Supporting Prisoners through Correspondence, is a group of students, workers and residents of Canada (primarily in Ontario) who, since 2019, offer support to people incarcerated in Canada. We answer prisoners' letters and respond to their requests for different kinds of information. As of March 2022, we have responded to around 450 letters. Many - [To be a worker is to be exploited](https://springmag.ca/to-be-a-worker-is-to-be-exploited) - The relationship between workers and bosses is built on exploitation. Depending on your point of view this statement may seem like an obvious truism or a dubious over generalization. While no one seriously denies that some workers are exploited by unscrupulous bosses, it is accepted by many that workers with good jobs—those lucky enough to make - [Oppose Canada’s increased military spending](https://springmag.ca/oppose-canadas-increased-military-spending) - While the ruling class tells us our 'security' will come from rallying behind them in the defensive patriotism of camps and blocs, we need to reject this and counter it with a project of international solidarity that can build ties between social movements and peoples across borders, recognizing that “There is no greater security than peace.” - [Del Duca’s regional living wage plan is a step backwards for Ontario’s workers](https://springmag.ca/del-ducas-regional-living-wage-plan-is-a-step-backwards-for-ontarios-workers) - We shouldn’t embrace Del Duca's vague regional living wage promise that in practice will trade off gains of social programs for wages, divide rather than unite workers, and allow employers to exploit a more fractured ESA. We need to keep building the decent work movement, to fight for a $20 minimum wage in every region and stronger employment standards for all. - [The slap of toxic masculinity](https://springmag.ca/the-slap-of-toxic-masculinity) - "Violence is never the path to follow unless destruction is the goal." I've always heard the first 5 words of this phrase, but never along with last 5 words: "unless destruction is the goal." Many realize this in theory, but how many realize it in the heat of the moment. At the Oscars, Will Smith - [McGill students' adoption of the Palestine Solidarity Policy is a historic victory](https://springmag.ca/mcgill-students-adoption-of-the-palestine-solidarity-policy-is-a-historic-victory) - On March 21, the Palestine Solidarity Policy was overwhelmingly approved by the undergraduate students of McGill University in the Winter 2022 Referendum, garnering a 71 per cent “yes” vote. The policy mandates the Students’ Society of McGill University (SSMU) to campaign for McGill University to condemn Canary Mission and other surveillance against Palestinian students, as well as boycott and divest from corporations or - [The revolutionary life of Alexandra Kollontai](https://springmag.ca/the-revolutionary-life-of-alexandra-kollontai) - Alexandra Kollontai’s life and ideas remain a key source of inspiration for all those fighting for women’s liberation and socialism. - [Stop funding killer transit police](https://springmag.ca/stop-funding-killer-transit-police) - All policing is violence, and all forces kill. This includes private police and security guards, as I have documented previously. It also includes transit police, even if these forces and their violence receive even less attention than do the municipal, provincial, and federal forces (which themselves get off too easily). Sadly, there have been growing - [We don't need capitalism's Metaverse](https://springmag.ca/we-dont-need-capitalisms-metaverse) - From virtual reality concerts to workplace meetings, Meta’s (formerly known as Facebook) Metaverse is a bid to stake out and monopolise a new digital frontier to redefine social relations. This overhyped vision pitched by Mark Zuckerburg last fall is an attempt to create, control and monetize new digital spaces. While it is unclear what the - [Get Canada out of NATO](https://springmag.ca/get-canada-out-of-nato) - Those who want peace and who are opposed to the military-industrial complex must call for Canada to get out of NATO. - [Justice for Jared](https://springmag.ca/justice-for-jared) - Content Warning: Police killing of an Indigenous man and use of dogs as weapons. On July 8, 2021, RCMP officers surrounded Jared (Jay) Lowndes in a Tim Horton’s parking lot in Campbell River, B.C. A police dog was sent in to scare and attack him. Lowndes, a proud member of the Laksilyu (Small Frog) House - [Opposing the war in Yemen: Labour Against the Arms Trade](https://springmag.ca/opposing-the-war-in-yemen-labour-against-the-arms-trade) - March 26, 2022 marks seven years of the war in Yemen. The war has killed over a quarter of a million people. Over 4 million people have been displaced and 70% of the population, including 11.3 million children, are in desperate need of humanitarian assistance. Spring Magazine spoke with Simon Black of Labour Against the Arms Trade about the war in Yemen and Canada’s role in the conflict. - [Stop criminalizing encampments!](https://springmag.ca/stop-criminalizing-encampments) - This morning, the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP) set up 15 tents in front of Toronto City Hall as Mayor John Tory watched directly above from his office. Community members saw the mayor perched above them and demanded that he meets them downstairs to answer for the unfolding housing crisis. City councillors were forced to - [Building solidarity with Palestine on campuses](https://springmag.ca/building-solidarity-with-palestine-on-campuses) - On March 16, 2022 Spring Magazine hosted a roundtable discussion on how do we build solidarity with Palestine on campuses? This discussion panel looked at the history, achievements, challenges, and opportunities for building campus based movements in support of Palestine. It featured organizers Laura Khoury, Yara Shoufani and Hossam Sleiman who had all been part - [Indigenous woman still jailed after two years without a trial](https://springmag.ca/indigenous-woman-still-jailed-after-two-years-without-a-trial) - Binesi Ogichidaa is an outspoken advocate for Prison abolition and the rights of Indigenous Women. She is an organizer with Fund our Communities Defund the Police, which meets weekly outside Metro Toronto Police Headquarters. Binesi is a residential school survivor, a Sixties Scoop Survivor, and a human trafficking survivor. I interviewed her about her daughter who - [Latin America and the theory of permanent revolution](https://springmag.ca/latin-america-and-the-theory-of-permanent-revolution) - Permanent Revolution in Latin America by John Roberts and Jorge Martín (Wellred Books, 2018) Latin America holds a special place in the political imagination of socialists throughout the world. Colonialism and imperialism have deeply gouged into the veins of the continent, enslaving and exploiting its people and resources. However, its history is rich with struggle. - [Stop the police persecution of Land Defenders](https://springmag.ca/stop-the-police-persecution-of-land-defenders) - Defender from the Mishkeegogamang First Nation north of Thunder Bay has lived in Toronto for decades and is an Indigenous leader. He was arrested on January 30, 2022 for allegedly taking part in a solidarity action with Wet’suwet’en on November 21, 2021 in Toronto. - [“Stay home if you are sick” means nothing without paid sick days](https://springmag.ca/stay-home-if-you-are-sick-means-nothing-without-paid-sick-days) - I saw an ad by the federal government this morning that said, “Omicron is a superspreader. Stay home if you are sick.” With little action to make this a possibility for the majority of people, it is a tired oversimplification of our situation two years into a pandemic. Seeing this sentiment yet again, this time - [Ford's Bill 88 delivers for Uber](https://springmag.ca/fords-bill-88-delivers-for-uber) - If we want to seriously address workers’ rights in the gig economy, the first thing we need to do is ensure workers have access to the full rights and benefits that are afforded to other workers under the Employment Standards Act. Anything short of this leaves gig workers behind and threatens to erode employment standards for all workers. - [Sudan’s resistance: Charting the future](https://springmag.ca/sudans-resistance-charting-the-future) - The Sudanese military seized control of the country through its coup on October 25, 2021. Ever since, there have been weekly mass opposition demonstrations in spite of deadly state repression. Local Resistance Committees work with unions and demand-based organizations around the “3 No’s” regarding the military- - No negotiations, no partnerships and no legitimacy. Instead - [Arrêtez la guerre en Ukraine](https://springmag.ca/arretez-la-guerre-en-ukraine) - La Russie a violé la souveraineté de l’Ukraine en les envahissant directement. Cette évidente agression devrait être vertement dénoncée. A ceci, pays OTAN ont répondu en assemblant des troupes le long des frontières des pays avoisinant l’Ukraine, en envoyant plus d’armes et en augmentant des sanctions envers la Russie. Qui est à blâmer, et comment - [Capitalism: Myth, illusions and realities](https://springmag.ca/capitalism-myth-illusions-and-realities) - The capitalist system, based as it is on exploitation, is controlled by a ruling class that can’t acknowledge the realities of its irrational and crisis-ridden system. The working class, who make up the great majority, can’t challenge this system with the ideas of the class that exploits them. An understanding of the society we live in is required before we can change it and, in that regard, the analysis of the workings of a capitalist economy that Marx and Engels provided is more vital today than ever before. - [Not another Marcos: People Power and ongoing resistance in the Philippines](https://springmag.ca/not-another-marcos-people-power-and-ongoing-resistance-in-the-philippines) - This year marks the 36th Anniversary of the EDSA People Power Revolution, a historical uprising of the masses who ousted the late Ferdinand Marcos’ longstanding dictatorship and restored democracy to the Filipino people. On February 25, 1986, days after Marcos’ controversial win during the 1986 Snap Election, millions of Filipinos–including farmers, labourers, youth activists, journalists, - [Against the current of war](https://springmag.ca/against-the-current-of-war) - While there is widespread revulsion of war, support for Ukrainian refugees and opposition to Russian oligarchs, these genuine sentiments are being driven rightward by our ruling class and corporate media. - [Ukraine no-fly zone ‘could lead to end of human civilization’](https://springmag.ca/ukraine-no-fly-zone-could-lead-to-end-of-human-civilization) - Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is a terrible violation of international law that is likely to have deleterious consequences for years to come. But escalating the conflict through a no-fly zone will only make it worse. It could lead to a cataclysmic nuclear war. - [What next for the Left following the 'freedom convoy'](https://springmag.ca/what-next-for-the-left-following-the-freedom-convoy) - Facing a growing alt- and far-right in Canada fueled by two years of opposition to vaccines and public health mandates, the Left needs to critically assess the “freedom convoy,” and where to go from here. - [Indigenous governance is the answer to the climate crisis](https://springmag.ca/indigenous-governance-is-the-answer-to-the-climate-crisis) - The following are excerpts from an episode of The Red Nation Podcast, where Wing Chief Sleydo’ and Jen Wickham of Cas Yikh House in Gidimt’en Clan of the Wet’suwet’en Nation discuss the ongoing struggle at Gidimt’en Checkpoint against the Coastal GasLink pipeline and RCMP invasions on unceded Wetʻsuwetʻen territory. It is shared with permission from - [Civil liberties stop where profit begins](https://springmag.ca/civil-liberties-stop-where-profit-begins) - We don't need more repressive state powers to be enshrined in legislation to fight the far-right. What we need is for the state to stop using the power it already possesses to repress land defenders and workers and to start actually putting people before profits. - [Afghanistan reveals legacy of Canadian imperialism](https://springmag.ca/afghanistan-reveals-legacy-of-canadian-imperialism) - The past 20 years in Afghanistan show that imperial rule is never temporary and never leads to freedom, and that the best hope lies in challenging imperialism and supporting self-determination. As Malalai Joya explained, “No democracy arises from a military occupation.” - [Fight Ford: Build the March 6 Activist Assembly](https://springmag.ca/fight-ford-build-the-march-6-activist-assembly) - The OFL's March 6th activist assembly is an opportunity for the left to build rank and file networks and take on Doug Ford's big business agenda. - [Gig greed: A race to the bottom](https://springmag.ca/gig-greed-a-race-to-thebottom) - I used to think that ‘gig’ referred to gigabytes, and gig workers were mostly app-based drivers and food deliverers. Not so! A ‘gig’ is any job that lasts a specific period of time. Gig work includes contract or project-based work, freelance work, and temporary work. Also called a ‘side-hustle,’ gig jobs are now the only - [Stop the war in Ukraine](https://springmag.ca/stop-the-war-in-ukraine) - Russia violated Ukraine’s sovereignty by engaging in an outright invasion of Ukraine. This naked aggression should be roundly denounced. NATO countries have responded by assembling troops along the borders of neighbouring states, sending more arms and increasing sanctions. Who is to blame, and what is the way out? The West sees Russia as the aggressor. - [This Side of Glory: Biography of a Black Panther](https://springmag.ca/this-side-of-glory-biography-of-a-black-panther) - David Hilliard’s autobiography tells the story of the rise and fall of the Black Panther Party (BPP) and provides some incredible lessons for those trying to organize for change today. - [Reaction to Haitian strike exposes Liberal lie on ‘feminist foreign policy’](https://springmag.ca/reaction-to-haitian-strike-exposes-liberal-lie-on-feminist-foreign-policy) - A government truly committed to a “feminist foreign policy” would support Haitians striking to boost their 70-cents-per-hour wage. But thus far Canadian officials have responded to the workers’ action by paying a celebratory visit to a sweatshop and ignoring protests repressed by Canadian-funded police. Canadian sweatshops and police funding At the start of last week - [Invoking the Emergencies Act is a dangerous mistake](https://springmag.ca/invoking-the-emergencies-act-is-a-dangerous-mistake) - This article was originally published at Passage. It didn’t take tens of thousands of deaths to do it. It didn’t take an uneven federal pandemic response. It didn’t even take the most depraved conditions of human suffering within institutions in multiple provinces. It didn’t take floods in Quebec, Alberta, or British Columbia, a heatwave in - [Social media and the left](https://springmag.ca/social-media-and-the-left) - A global pandemic, an unprecedented worldwide economic crisis, and an upsurge in protests for racial justice has raised the stakes for the left in terms of how we organize. While mass protests and in-person actions are resuming, in all likelihood until we have a vaccine much of how we communicate and organize will be online - [Nina Simone: Artist and revolutionary](https://springmag.ca/nina-simone-artist-and-revolutionary) - Remembered as an artist and civil rights activist who had a profound impact on the history of music and the political scene of her time, Nina Simone’s commitment to Marxism, revolution, and radical change are just as relevant today. The artist Nina Simone was born Eunice Waymon in 1933 in Tryon, North Carolina to a - [Students win historic BDS victory at U of T](https://springmag.ca/students-win-historic-bds-victory-at-uoft) - On Wednesday, February 16, members of the University of Toronto Students’ Union, the second largest student union in Canada, made history by passing a major divestment resolution. This is another win for the global BDS movement in solidarity with Palestine. - [Workers in Nova Scotia demand justice](https://springmag.ca/workers-in-nova-scotia-demand-justice) - Two years into the pandemic - with all the risks of unsafe work conditions, lost pay, and job precarity continuing to fall disproportionately on low-income workers - the Fight for $15 and Fairness Nova Scotia officially relaunched as Justice for Workers Nova Scotia in late January 2022. The Justice for Workers NS spokesperson Suzanne MacNeil - [To defeat Ford we need to put workers first](https://springmag.ca/to-defeat-ford-we-need-to-put-workers-first) - Doug Ford’s Conservative government has failed the people of Ontario. At every stage of the pandemic Ford has put profits before people, with dire consequences for Ontarians. Ford campaigned on a promise to stand up for the “little guy” against the elites. But once elected he aggressively pushed a big business agenda, making cuts to - [How we blocked the convoy in Ottawa](https://springmag.ca/how-we-blocked-the-convoy-in-ottawa) - "It would be difficult to overstate just how angry people here are about this occupation. People are fed up, and the aura that has surrounded the occupation since it rolled into town has now been broken." - [Love, solidarity and bell hooks](https://springmag.ca/love-solidarity-and-bell-hooks) - Love, politics, and the relation between the two have long been subject to debate on the left. Communist philosopher Alain Badiou argues against the conflation of love and politics, asserting that politics is the site of struggle, the collective, and enemies, while love is sharing and between individuals. Che Guevara in contrast wrote in Socialism - [History teaches don’t normalize military clearing protest camps](https://springmag.ca/history-teaches-dont-normalize-military-clearing-protest-camps) - Leftists should categorically reject the idea of deploying the military to disperse right-wing anti-vaccine protesters. Talk of using the Canadian Forces (CF) to dislodge the truck convoy in Ottawa is dangerous and will inevitably come back to harm unions, First Nations and social movements. In a recent Globe and Mail column headlined “How Canadian law - [Fighting for a people’s Green New Deal](https://springmag.ca/fighting-for-a-peoples-green-new-deal) - A People’s Green New Deal by Max Ajl (Pluto Press, 2021) Climate change is no longer a niche subject that climate scientists argue about in academic texts. In fact, it hasn’t been so for quite a while, seemingly giving us enough time to implement real solutions to the climate crisis. But thus far there has - [Freedom convoy is steering pandemic response to the right](https://springmag.ca/freedom-convoy-is-steering-pandemic-response-to-the-right) - We have to reject winnowing the entire COVID debate down to punitive powers of mandates and lockdowns and focus on building broad campaigns that speak to issues faced by workers. To do otherwise is to leave the door open for the rightwing to pull the entire debate to the right and strengthen the hand of the bosses. - [Why Canada is at the centre of global mining atrocities](https://springmag.ca/why-canada-is-at-the-centre-of-global-mining-atrocities) - It is Canada’s absence of regulatory mechanisms for the industry that allows mining companies to cause harm on a systemic level across the globe. - [Fighting climate capitalism with Fridays For Future](https://springmag.ca/fighting-climate-capitalism-with-fridays-for-future) - The climate crisis is the biggest existential threat on the planet and it is driven by a capitalist system that exploits people and nature for profits. A youth-led global climate strike movement, Fridays For Future, began to mobilize in 2018 to demand urgent action on climate justice. In this episode, we are joined by activists - [Black workers matter: The life and politics of Bayard Rustin](https://springmag.ca/black-workers-matter-the-life-and-politics-of-bayard-rustin) - Bayard Rustin, has been largely written out of history—for being gay, a socialist, and a war resister. Now, as movements for social and economic equality rise again, his life and politics have a new relevance. - [The pandemic sentences prisoners to endless COVID lockdowns](https://springmag.ca/the-pandemic-sentences-prisoners-to-endless-covid-lockdowns) - Prisons have always been a public health crisis for communities made vulnerable by racialized policing. But now they represent a public health crisis for us all. If we are serious about ending the pandemic, we ignore the mass prisoner releases at our own peril. - [Ontario colleges and the real (meddling) third party](https://springmag.ca/ontario-colleges-and-the-real-meddling-third-party) - Of the numerous misconceptions about unions, one of the most prominent and problematic is what’s known as the ‘third party fallacy’. According to this fallacy, you have two parties—employees and management—going about their business in peace and harmony, only to have this meddling third party—‘the union’—stick its nose into things and cause trouble. However, there - [The rise and fall of the Black Panther Party](https://springmag.ca/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-black-panther-party) - The Black Panther Party faced an incredible challenge, trying to grow into an organization that could lead a movement against capitalism, imperialism and racism, against a state set on destroying them. To this day, their 10-point program stands as a set of ideas and concrete demands that would eliminate racism and challenge the capitalist system to its very core. - [Paid sick days need government legislation and employer enforcement](https://springmag.ca/paid-sick-days-need-government-legislation-and-employer-enforcement) - Not only has the Ontario government provided paid sick days that are less than adequate in number and only temporary in duration, but they have structured this policy to place the burden on workers to find out about their rights rather than make it the responsibility of employers. As a result, essential workers are continuing - [Black feminist thought: Lessons from the 1970s](https://springmag.ca/black-feminist-thought-lessons-from-the-1970s) - Over 40 years later, this text remains essential reading for anyone serious about building a multi-racial, international, working-class movement that could actually challenge rule by the one percent. - [Lest we forget the Ottawa Initiative on Haiti](https://springmag.ca/lest-we-forget-the-ottawa-initiative-on-haiti) - Nineteen years ago today the Canadian government hosted a meeting that significantly impacted two decades of Haitian politics. Jean Chretien’s Liberals organized an international gathering to discuss overthrowing Haiti’s elected government, re-creating the Haitian military and placing the country under UN trusteeship. Thirteen months after the “Ottawa Initiative on Haiti” meeting, President Jean-Bertrand Aristide and - [How do we put the movement in the labour movement?](https://springmag.ca/how-do-we-put-the-movement-in-the-labour-movement) - A strike, an occupation or even a political campaign is only as strong as the rank and file make it. - [Myth-busting the housing crisis](https://springmag.ca/myth-busting-the-housing-crisis) - The housing crisis is clear: people are living in their relatives’ garages, or in the subway, or outdoors in parks, or on sidewalks. The solution needs to address how ruthless landlords and real estate companies, backed by unfair government housing policies, pushed them there and denied their humanity. This requires taking on the myths that fuel the housing crisis. - [The role of the JNF in greenwashing Israeli settler-colonialism](https://springmag.ca/the-role-of-the-jnf-in-greenwashing-israeli-settler-colonialism) - By planting trees atop Indigenous villages, uprooting endemic agriculture, and blocking Palestinians’ access to extremely scarce water sources, the Jewish National Fund plays a key role in the uprooting and desecration of Palestinian land and livelihoods. - [Gig workers deserve real labour rights, not backroom deals](https://springmag.ca/gig-workers-deserve-real-labour-rights-not-backroom-deals) - Less than 12 hours after co-sponsoring a labour-led discussion on the rights of gig workers, United Food and Commercial Workers Canada (UFCW) announced it had come to a deal with Uber to represent 100,000 of its workers. While many of the details of the five-year agreement are murky, the basic outline is clear. UFCW will - [It's one world or no world](https://springmag.ca/its-one-world-or-no-world) - The emergence of yet another COVID variant and a surge of new infections and restrictions have people wondering if this pandemic will ever end. We’ve known how to stop infectious disease transmission for over a century. The problem is that our profit-driven society is structured to a) promote the spread of infectious diseases and b) block effective - [Ontario workers need paid sick days, CERB, and status for all](https://springmag.ca/ontario-workers-need-paid-sick-days-cerb-and-status-for-all) - Entering year three of the pandemic, case counts have exploded, admissions to hospitals are rising, ICUs are filling up and our public services are at their breaking point. Workers are breaking their backs and risking their health to churn out profits and sustain an illusion of “normalcy.” No paid sick days, no testing, no PPE - [COVID and widening wealth inequality](https://springmag.ca/covid-and-widening-wealth-inequality) - At the same time as the pandemic caused 100 million people worldwide to fall into extreme poverty, the world’s billionaires enjoyed their highest increases in wealth on record. Between March of 2020 and July 2021, billionaires gained $5.5 trillion collectively, a 68% increase from the previous year. Additionally, the combined global wealth of billionaires has - [Neither nationalist borders nor liberal globalization will stop COVID-19](https://springmag.ca/neither-nationalist-borders-nor-liberal-globalization-will-stop-covid-19) - Covid has shattered many worlds, and it can shatter the neoliberal credo that there is no alternative. But only if we are courageous enough to reject to liberalism and nationalism, and embrace internationalism. - ['We're (not) all in this together'](https://springmag.ca/were-not-all-in-this-together) - When we eventually take off our masks and realize who is responsible for our survival, an honest person will know that it was front-line workers, often lacking a decent wage, paid sick days and job security who must get (and take) the credit. - [Police raids on Wet'suwet'en blockades: ‘Rule of law’ is the rule of capital](https://springmag.ca/police-raids-on-wetsuweten-blockades-rule-of-law-is-the-rule-of-capital) - Blockades, far from “undermining the rule of law and the administration of justice,” are actually about reaffirming Indigenous law and administering climate justice. - [When will Canada admit its Venezuela coup failed?](https://springmag.ca/when-will-canada-admit-its-venezuela-coup-failed) - Three-years ago Juan Guaidó declared himself president of Venezuela in a Caracas park. The same day Canadian foreign minister Chrystia Freeland formally recognized the little-known opposition politician. In subsequent days Canadian diplomats boasted to reporters that they played an important role in uniting large swaths of the Venezuelan opposition behind the plan to ratchet up - [Omicron, schools and Ford's failure](https://springmag.ca/omicron-schools-and-fords-failure) - The Ontario government's handling of the education system during the pandemic has been roundly critized by parents, educators and students for failing to adequately fund and plan for safer schools. Too often parents and educators have been left in the dark about the government's ever-changing plans. As Ontario schools open up for in class learning - [Bell, let’s talk about the prison industrial complex](https://springmag.ca/bell-lets-talk-about-the-prison-industrial-complex) - If Bell wants to get serious about mental health, it has to talk about the prison industrial complex and the direct role it plays in it. - [Against carceral unionism: Abolition and transit safety](https://springmag.ca/against-carceral-unionism-abolition-and-transit-safety) - Police are straight up class enemies. Modern policing emerged with capitalism as a crucial weapon of capital against the working class. Its purpose is, as it always has been, to repress working class movements and resistance, to secure conditions of exploitation and accumulation for capital, and to reinforce racism and settler colonialism. Yet some working-class - [Kwanzaa, Black Power and socialism](https://springmag.ca/kwanzaa-black-power-and-socialism) - Kwanzaa was created during the Black Power movement of the 1960’s. The holiday rapidly increased to become mainstream, and is now observed by millions of Black folks around the world between December 26 and January 1. People of African descent interested in honoring our heritage have embraced Kwanzaa. I believe it caught on with millions - [Revisiting 'The Marrow Thieves': dystopia in the age of failed reconciliation](https://springmag.ca/revisiting-the-marrow-thieves-dystopia-in-the-age-of-failed-reconciliation) - Dimaline’s narrative tells a powerful story of Indigenous resistance as community bands together to resist corporate and colonial intrusion, propelling a resurgent narrative by reclaiming ground erased by colonialism. - [How do we build unity on the left?](https://springmag.ca/how-do-we-build-unity-on-the-left) - We build unity through struggle, not from statements or abstract declarations of unity, but by collectively working on shared projects that advance the working class. - [Class, covid and the economy in 2022](https://springmag.ca/class-covid-and-the-economy-in-2022) - The pandemic has increased inequality and inequities in our society and around the globe. What kind of world we build coming out of the pandemic will be shaped by the struggles over who is forced to burden the costs. - [#KeepSouheilHome: Oppose double punishment](https://springmag.ca/keepsouheilhome-oppose-double-punishment) - While the pandemic has been a never-ending nightmare for us all, it has been more intense for those of us with incarcerated loved ones. Knowing that many incarcerated and unhoused people are being abandoned by the government’s pandemic response, Souheil Benslimane is moved to action. You can find them on their bike around Ottawa, delivering - [Students and Halifax's housing crisis](https://springmag.ca/students-and-halifaxs-housing-crisis) - In early October 2021, Nova Scotia’s Conservative Premier Tim Houston announced rent increases in the province would be capped at 2 percent. The rent cap will last until December 31, 2023, or until the provincial state of emergency has ended. This came as a surprise to the party’s critics and supporters alike as the Premier - [The housing market isn't broken, it's extractive by design](https://springmag.ca/the-housing-market-isnt-broken-its-extractive-by-design) - Core Development Group, a Canadian corporate landlord which has primarily focussed on condo development announced plans recently to buy $1 billion worth of single-family homes to use as rental properties. Core Development plans to purchase single-family homes in eight Ontario cities initially, but plan to expand further in the future. The currently targeted cities include - [Omicron was an avoidable disaster](https://springmag.ca/omicron-was-an-avoidable-disaster) - The rapid spread of the Omicron variant was predictable and preventable, and the fact that it is happening rests squarely on the business lobby and our governments and media, which have put profits before people. - [Don't look down on 'Don't look up'](https://springmag.ca/dont-look-down-on-dont-look-up) - At this point, it is tough to say too much more about Adam McKay’s latest movie Don’t Look Up. For the few who haven’t heard about it or watched it, the film uses a comet heading toward Earth as a metaphor for climate change, with the scientists who discovered it desperately trying to warn the - [What is going on with inflation?](https://springmag.ca/what-is-going-on-with-inflation) - Anyone who has gone to the grocery store this year has noticed the prices of basic food items are going up. For many people in Canada, especially those just making ends meet, this rise in everyday prices is a concern. By November of 2021 the year-over-year inflation rate in Canada soared to 4.7%. This is - [The Burhan-Hamdok deal will not stabilize Sudan](https://springmag.ca/the-burhan-hamdok-deal-will-not-stabilize-sudan) - On December 19, people across Sudan took to the streets to mark the anniversary of the revolution that toppled longtime President Omar al-Bashir in 2019 and once again reaffirm their rejection of the army’s insistence to stay in power. The demonstration was part of a series of protest actions held regularly since October 25, when - [What we read in 2021](https://springmag.ca/what-we-read-in-2021) - As we approach the end of 2021, and look forward to some holiday reading, Spring socialists share their favourite reads of the past year. Beautiful World, Where Are You: A Novel Review by Mina Rajabi Sally Rooney's Beautiful World, Where Are You (2021) had a lot to live up to after her highly successful first - [Boric’s victory in Chile is a blow to the far-right](https://springmag.ca/borics-victory-in-chile-is-a-blow-to-the-far-right) - Gabriel Boric, the left wing candidate in Chile’s runoff presidential election, has decisively won the vote and will become the youngest Chilean president and the most radical since Salvador Allende. He defeated fascist-wannabe and Pinochet admiring Jose Antonio Kast by almost twelve percentage points. What many predicted would be a very tight result, with dirty - [How casual workers won paid sick days at UofT](https://springmag.ca/how-casual-workers-won-paid-sick-days-at-uoft) - Casual workers at the University of Toronto, represented by United Steelworkers local 1998, recently won two paid sick days. Spring Magazine spoke with Colleen Burke (USW 1998 President), and Gabriele Simmons (USW 1998 Casual Unit Organizer and member of the Bargaining Committee) about how they organized to win paid sick days during the pandemic, and - [Race underpins Ford government’s pandemic response to paid sick days](https://springmag.ca/the-denial-of-paid-sick-days-poses-a-public-health-crisis-but-that-the-lives-of-racialized-workers-continue-to-be-at-risk-is-hardly-an-emergency-for-ford) - Over the last 24 months of the pandemic, I have watched my family and friends, Black and racialized people, forced onto the front lines of risk as they care for the sick, pack our grocery bags, and prepare our meals. They were transformed into essential workers by the pandemic but denied essential protections like paid - [MNFC announces shelter closure after staff apply to unionize](https://springmag.ca/mnfc-announces-shelter-closure-after-staff-apply-to-unionize) - The Mi’kmaw Native Friendship Centre (MNFC) homeless shelter in Halifax will be closing its doors at the end of December according to Pam Glode Desrochers, Executive Director of the MNFC, in an internal memo given to staff on Monday December 13. Glode Desrochers announced the decision to shelter staff after they submitted a union application - [Take the profit out of long-term care](https://springmag.ca/take-the-profit-out-of-long-term-care) - 4,000 people have died in Ontario’s long-term care homes during the pandemic so far, often in conditions so deplorable that the Canadian Armed Forces suggested that residents were dying at higher rates of dehydration and malnutrition than of COVID-19. As residents were relegated to rooms covered in feces, surrounded by days-worth of dirty food trays, - [Ford’s pandemic response fuels COVID inequity](https://springmag.ca/fords-pandemic-response-fuels-covid-inequity) - From border control to lockdowns, and from staying home sick to getting vaccinated and tested for COVID—Ford’s entire pandemic plan ignores inequities that preceded the pandemic. The result has been to fuel COVID inequities—scapegoating migrants, policing essential workers, sending sick workers to work, and keeping vaccines and tests out of the hands of those who need them most. - [Fund communities not police](https://springmag.ca/fund-communities-not-police) - Policing is a powerful tool of capitalism. For more than a century, the ruling class has used it as a way to protect property and profit. True to the system that created it, policing has been a tool to tear our communities apart by further pitting us against each other – all to guard the - [Trudeau’s wants to buy more fighter jets than Harper](https://springmag.ca/trudeaus-wants-to-buy-more-fighter-jets-than-harper) - A startling about-face on fighter jets highlights the Liberals deference to Lockheed Martin’s influence. After aggressively criticizing the Harper government’s plan to buy 65 F-35s, Trudeau’s Liberals have paved the way to buy 88 of the controversial stealth weapons of mass destruction. During the 2015 election campaign Justin Trudeau slagged the Conservatives as “unhealthily attached - [Make the $20 minimum wage an election issue](https://springmag.ca/make-the-20-minimum-wage-an-election-issue) - Last week Ontario’s NDP came out in support of a $20 minimum wage. This is an important opportunity for the entire labour movement and the left to intervene in next year’s election. But with the business backlash already beginning we can’t wait until the June election, we need to organize now. - [The right click: NFTs and capitalism’s speculative frenzy](https://springmag.ca/the-right-click-nfts-and-capitalisms-speculative-frenzy) - While NFTs are new, they represent something that is not. This commodification of our digital life is more than just a fad: it is a speculative frenzy that has its roots in capitalism’s contradictory economic recovery. - [Why unions should fight for paid sick days for all](https://springmag.ca/why-unions-should-fight-for-paid-sick-days-for-all) - At this moment fighting for employer-paid sick days for all is an opportunity for the union movement to raise standards for all workers while also exposing the Tories and the bosses' cruel agenda. There is much to gain for unions and little to lose. - [Stop the cuts to Toronto transit](https://springmag.ca/stop-the-cuts-to-toronto-transit) - There is no excuse for a big bustling city like Toronto to not have a thriving public transit system. The TTC should be an affordable world-class system as it has been routinely touted to be. But funding cuts are catastrophic for a large city under the immense burden of surviving through this deadly pandemic, threatening - [Why socialists write](https://springmag.ca/why-socialists-write) - For socialists writing is not about demonstrating superior knowledge, it is about trying to make the best ideas from the past and present accessible and relevant. And in the process of doing so helping to build an organized socialist relationship. - [Why do socialists read?](https://springmag.ca/why-do-socialists-read) - There is a long tradition of socialists hosting reading groups. There is almost just as old a joke about socialists thinking they can change the world with their five friends who they read Marx’s Capital with. So why is the socialist movement so often associated with small reading groups in basements, bookshops and coffee shops? - [2021: The crises are not going away](https://springmag.ca/2021-the-crises-are-not-going-away) - The existing inequities and inequalities heading into the crisis, that were already driving a wave of mass movements, have been supercharged. - [One year since farmers’ protest in India: Victory, solidarity, and continued resistance](https://springmag.ca/one-year-since-farmers-protest-in-india-victory-solidarity-and-continued-resistance) - Modi's repeal of the three farm laws is a victory for farmers and for the working class of India. But it is also a victory for everyone across the world who stood in solidarity with the farmers. - [From BC to Ontario: The fight for 10 paid sick days continues](https://springmag.ca/from-bc-to-ontario-the-fight-for-10-paid-sick-days-continues) - In Ontario the Conservatives declared themselves to be “working for workers” while yet again voting against paid sick days. While in BC, workers have won 5 permanent and employer-paid sick days, but the NDP government refused to provide 10. Both are signs of the movement pushing governments to provide rhetorical support or partial gains for workers, and the movement can continue towards winning 10 paid sick days for all. - [The fight for paid sick days in BC](https://springmag.ca/the-fight-for-paid-sick-days-in-bc) - We need to build a big campaign where people feel ownership of the campaign and its tactics. That’s the kind of campaign that shifts the terrain of debate, and makes the legislation of 10 paid sick days seem like common sense. That’s how we win. - [How to save the world from financialization](https://springmag.ca/how-to-save-the-world-from-financialization) - Stolen is a valuable contribution for those thinking about how to move beyond capitalism and what an alternative economics could look like. - [The case for paid sick days](https://springmag.ca/the-case-for-paid-sick-days) - Paid sick days have been a central issue during the pandemic, with labour advocates and health experts calling for at least 10 paid sick days to curb the spread of infection. Jurisdictions across the globe have moved to provide this essential protection, including Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau promising 10 paid sick days for federal - [Ford’s Bill 27 doesn’t work for workers](https://springmag.ca/fords-bill-27-doesnt-work-for-workers) - Over the last several months Doug Ford’s Conseravtive government in Ontario has been busy trying to give itself a makeover. Ontarians were treated to a flurry of government announcements this fall about temp workers, gig workers, injured workers and the minimum wage. Ford and his labour minister Monte McNaughton have been extremely keen to be - [Running on fumes: The Canadian economy, speculation and debt.](https://springmag.ca/running-on-fumes-the-canadian-economy-speculation-and-debt) - Near the beginning of the pandemic, the Canadian economy — and the workers on which it depends — experienced a quiet crisis. For decades, mountains of private debt had been building up while the country’s economy ticked on. Not just debt caused by credit-fueled consumer spending, but corporate and private debt too have amassed as - [Striking New Brunswick workers defeat Higgs](https://springmag.ca/striking-new-brunswick-workers-defeat-higgs) - As of Monday over 22,000 CUPE NB workers are back at work. After being on strike for over two weeks the workers are in the midst of voting on an agreement for wage demands and pension plans. Forcing Higgs into this deal is no small win for workers. Tentative deal reached CUPE Locals from 1190, - [What was radical unionism?](https://springmag.ca/what-was-radical-unionism) - Radical Unionism: The Rise and Fall of Revolutionary Syndicalism by Ralph Darlington (Haymarket, 2013) Ralph Darlington’s Radical Unionism: The Rise and Fall of Revolutionary Syndicalism is a valuable piece of revolutionary history and a useful read for anyone trying to get a good sense of the dominant radical labour traditions of the last 150 years. - [New Brunswick workers strike back at Higgs' wage suppression](https://springmag.ca/new-brunswick-workers-strike-back-at-higgs-wage-suppression) - 22,000 public service workers in New Brunswick are on strike. The school bus drivers, custodians, mechanics, healthcare workers in rehabilitation and therapy, educational support staff, transportation and infrastructure workers and community college workers that took to the picket lines on October 29 are members of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE). Striking frontline workers - [Oppose the coup in Sudan: Draft resolution](https://springmag.ca/oppose-the-coup-in-sudan-draft-resolution) - In 2019, Sudan’s mass democratic uprising toppled the country’s dictator, Omar al-Bashir, and secured a power-sharing agreement between civilian leaders and the military with the promise of elections for a new government. The military has reneged on that pledge and carried out a coup on October 25, 2021, killing protesters and arresting activists across the - [Freedom warriors](https://springmag.ca/freedom-warriors) - The whole world’s army battalions were called to military offensive action with the same deep fear of annihilation reverberating through every nation. But it was Indigenous & African Americans most of all who entered the world wars brave and tall before being forced to, thousands volunteered for the call Having to fight and defend - [Indigenous sovereignty and workers’ power, not COP26 will stop the climate crisis](https://springmag.ca/indigenous-sovereignty-and-workers-power-not-cop26-will-stop-the-climate-crisis) - We can’t afford to wait on the empty promises made at COP26. We need mass movements to fight for and support Indigenous sovereignty. And we need to build a reinvigorated working class movement to fight for climate solutions that put people before profits. - [Make childcare a public good](https://springmag.ca/make-childcare-a-public-good) - Only by making childcare a public good can we ensure women’s ability to equally participate in public life, give every child the right to access early childhood education, and give childcare workers decent wages and working conditions. The childcare crisis We are experiencing a childcare crisis across the country and in Ontario. Although the pandemic - [Eight suggestions for the new NDP foreign affairs critic](https://springmag.ca/eight-suggestions-for-the-new-ndp-foreign-affairs-critic) - As Heather McPherson settles in as new NDP foreign affairs critic here are some suggestions on how to pressure the government to improve Canadian foreign policy. 1. Call on the Trudeau government to withdraw public support from mining companies responsible for significant abuses abroad. 2. Call on the Liberals to immediately withdraw from the Lima - [Higgs attacks workers’ rights during NB strike](https://springmag.ca/higgs-attacks-workers-rights-during-nb-strike) - Since the start of the strike by 22,000 public sector workers in New Brunswick, on October 29, there have been picket lines in almost every central location you can find within the province. From Fredericton to Moncton to Miramichi, the energy that the hundreds of thousands of CUPE workers are bringing to their fight for - [Earth to Houston, minimum wage jobs are real jobs](https://springmag.ca/earth-to-houston-minimum-wage-jobs-are-real-jobs) - Yesterday in the Nova Scotia legislature the newly-elected Progressive Conservative Premier Tim Houston stated that he will not raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour. He then insinuated that minimum wage jobs “are not real jobs”. This came just after NS NDP leader Gary Burrill discussed the issue of low wages in the province - [Ford forced to $15 three years after cuts](https://springmag.ca/ford-forced-to-15-three-years-after-cuts) - The winning of a $15 minimum wage is the product of years of organizing. This shows how we can win reforms by campaigning, even under right wing governments. But we will need to redouble our organizing efforts to win the stronger employment standards and higher wages that Ontario workers desperately need in our post-pandemic world. - [Socialists and the fight for climate justice](https://springmag.ca/socialists-and-the-fight-for-climate-justice) - "We cannot simply build isolated utopias while the rest of the world burns, nor can we wait for the slow process of reformist reform to kick in. We cannot simply heal our individual trauma, nor can we consume better to save the environment. We cannot vote harder and place all our hope in a few - [Toronto's housing double standard](https://springmag.ca/torontos-housing-double-standard) - Toronto city council recently deferred a housing framework for legalized multiple-tenant housing (MTH) presented by planning staff. Spring Magazine’s Loretta Fisher spoke with a long-time housing policy change activist who is also planning staff for MTH framework. They prefer to remain anonymous. What does the deferral indicate about council’s stated commitment to a safe pandemic - [Stop the coup in Sudan: Voices of resistance](https://springmag.ca/stop-the-coup-in-sudan-voices-of-resistance) - Immediately following the recent military coup in Sudan, an emergency solidarity rally was held in Toronto on October 26. Spring Magazine spoke with one of the young organizers, Leena Badri, who is a Sudanese student at the University of Toronto, a writer, and a political activist who is passionate about global acts of revolution, and - [In the 1930s, Canadian socialists championed beautiful public housing](https://springmag.ca/in-the-1930s-canadian-socialists-championed-beautiful-public-housing) - Almost a century ago, Canadian socialists advanced a vision for cities built in the interest of people, not profit, that included gorgeous public housing. We should look to their ideas to learn how we can revitalize public life. - [Paid sick days now!](https://springmag.ca/paid-sick-days-now) - The Liberals were re-elected on this promise, and this can’t wait. Justin Trudeau needs to translate words into action: immediately mandate 10 paid sick days for federally regulated workers, and convene the provinces and territories to develop a national action plan for similar legislation across the country. And provincial governments, from BC and Ontario to the rest of provinces and territories, need to follow. - [Squid Game’s macabre depiction of survival under capitalism](https://springmag.ca/squid-games-macabre-depiction-of-survival-under-capitalism) - “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 iconic) scenes of the show, but this short sketch that takes place on a subway platform in the first episode of the hit show Squid Game sets the thematic stage - [Strategies and tactics in the Sudanese revolution](https://springmag.ca/strategies-and-tactics-in-the-sudanese-revolution) - The necessity of a political leadership representing subjugated classes is a main lesson we bring with us from 2019, while we rebuild our revolutionary organizations. We have to decline the non-principled coalitions that lead us to abandon our strong alliance with the workers. - [Marxism or moralism: Ideas to change the world](https://springmag.ca/marxism-or-moralism-ideas-to-change-the-world) - A moralistic approach to social transformation is not only incapable of building the power to win, it can unconsciously reproduce a ruling class perspective about social change. We need ideas that can help us understand our world in order to transform it. - [The Black Panther Party: A graphic novel history](https://springmag.ca/the-black-panther-party-a-graphic-novel-history) - The Black Panther Party: A Graphic Novel History is an essential primer for those wanting to learn more about the most radical political forces from the 1960s, to understand the political debates that were had and continued to be had regarding how we overcome/destroy white supremacy and capitalism. - [The opposite of defunding: The RCMP contract and further looting of communities](https://springmag.ca/the-opposite-of-defunding-the-rcmp-contract-and-further-looting-of-communities) - While calls to defund police have spread across Canada, police budgets have actually been growing, often substantially. Police have deployed a range of fear campaigns and copaganda exercises—from claiming crime rates are rising while they are falling, to demonizing unhoused people, to focusing on low-level and harmless activities like graffiti. They have also used layered - [The new wave in the Palestinian liberation movement](https://springmag.ca/the-new-wave-in-the-palestinian-liberation-movement) - The struggle for a free Palestine has been ongoing since the Zionist project displaced millions of Palestinians from their homeland in 1948 to create the settler-colonial state of Israel. A youth-led resurgence in the movement is shifting the conversation surrounding Palestinian liberation. Spring talked to Tara Alami, an organizer with Palestinian Youth Movement to understand - [Canadian fighter jets purchase fuels racism](https://springmag.ca/canadian-fighter-jets-purchase-fuels-racism) - Undoing centuries of racism requires looking at major government purchases through the lens of whether or not they challenge, or reinforce, existing structural power imbalances. For example, would spending billions of dollars on 88 new fighter jets reinforce white supremacy? To answer that question, one must look at history and current affairs. Racism in the military - [Remembering Robert Devet: The Tyrant’s Foe, The People’s Friend](https://springmag.ca/remembering-robert-devet-the-tyrants-foe-the-peoples-friend) - 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 of longtime local social movement journalist Robert Devet, who was the publisher and editor of the Nova Scotia Advocate. Devet passed away suddenly and unexpectedly on September 27 at the - [A reflection on 'A free people: independence, laïcité and inclusion' by Benoît Renaud](https://springmag.ca/a-free-people-a-socialist-approach-to-quebec-sovereignty) - Un peuple libre: Indépendance, laïcité et inclusion by Benoit Renaud (Écosociété, 2020) Un peuple libre by Benoit Renaud, published by Écosociété publishers in 2020, is an inquiry into what a progressive and independent Québec would look like. Renaud’s book develops some of the independence arguments sketched in Eric Martin’s Un pays en commun. Socialisme et indépendance - [Message to Trudeau: Stop Canada’s support for the war on Tigray](https://springmag.ca/message-to-trudeau-stop-canadas-support-for-the-war-on-tigray) - Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has branded himself and his foreign policy as environmentally conscious and feminist. But one of the biggest recipients of Canadian development assistance is the government of Ethiopia, which has launched a brutal war on the Tigrayan people—a war which has specifically targeted women, and from which Canadian mining companies are - [Housing deferred is justice denied](https://springmag.ca/housing-deferred-is-justice-denied) - On October 1, Toronto City Councilors were finally supposed to vote on the planned initiative for regulated multiple-tenant affordable housing. But voting was once again called off, and won’t be brought up for a vote again until next year. Deferring this decision means at least another half year of low-income tenants being forced out of - [The Palestinian Authority: A comprador’s fading dominion](https://springmag.ca/the-palestinian-authority-a-compradors-fading-dominion) - The Palestinian National Authority was born out of a political marriage between the failed Palestinian leadership’s state-building path and Israel’s imperialist-colonial agenda overseen by the United States. The Palestinian Authority has increasingly become a barrier to Palestinian national liberation. - [The Pandora Papers show how a corrupt system functions](https://springmag.ca/the-pandora-papers-show-how-a-corrupt-system-functions) - The Pandora Papers shine a light on the international networks used by corporations and the global elite to avoid taxes and accrue their wealth. These revelations may not be surprising, but they should be infuriating. The Pandora Papers are so named because, as the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) report puts it, “the ancient - [Will vaccine mandates end the pandemic?](https://springmag.ca/will-vaccine-mandates-end-the-pandemic) - 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. - [MANifesto makes a pinky swear](https://springmag.ca/manifesto-makes-a-pinky-swear) - MANifesto have just released their debut album, Pinky Swear, envisioned around the idea of increasing inclusivity and to promote Rainbow Railroad, an organization very dear to them, with a wish to bring visibility and fundraising to the most disenfranchised of the global queer population. MANifesto, a self-described ManBand, presents a collection of 12 pop gems, - [Politics over organization: the Leninist tradition](https://springmag.ca/politics-over-organization-the-leninist-tradition) - When the German Social Democratic Party voted to support war credits in the Reichstag in 1914, supporting the German ruling class’ drive to war, it rejected not just the Second International’s formal position on imperialist war it rejected the core principles of international socialism and working class solidarity. Rosa Luxemburg explained this betrayal in 1915 - [More cops won't stop rape on campus](https://springmag.ca/more-cops-wont-stop-rape-on-campus) - On September 17 over 9000 students at Western University protested against a wider culture of rape and misogyny on campus. These protests were a direct response to allegations that thirty or more students were drugged and/or assaulted during this year’s orientation week. Students at Western University expressed outrage with rape culture on campus, demanding accountability - [215 children: Canada's settler-colonial violence](https://springmag.ca/7945) - Residential schools entrenched neglect, forced labour, physical assault, and sexual abuse--unleashing cycles of trauma that Indigenous communities still endure today. - [Decolonizing Canada’s education system](https://springmag.ca/decolonizing-canadas-education-system) - A radical theory of educational reform is meaningful only if it is attached to the social relations of production. Under the present conditions schools can do little to improve society in general. However, they can become relevant if they are involved in the forces of decolonization. - [End the legacy of residential schools: Honour the treaties](https://springmag.ca/end-the-legacy-of-residential-schools-honour-the-treaties) - Myeengun Henry, former Chief and respected Elder from Deshkan Ziibiing (Chippewas of the Thames) First Nation, talks about residential school victims and the failure of the Canadian government to live up to signed treaties. - [The NDP should oppose Canadian imperialism in Haiti](https://springmag.ca/the-ndp-should-oppose-canadian-imperialism-in-haiti) - While Canadians emerge frustrated from an election that didn’t produce any change, the Canadian government continues to deny democracy for Haitians in order to stifle change. On Thursday Madame Boukman tweeted, “international law bars foreign embassies from meddling in the internal affairs of nations. But in Haiti, a group of ambassadors from the US, France, - [Filipinos across Canada say never again to martial law](https://springmag.ca/filipinos-across-canada-say-never-again-to-martial-law) - Last week hundreds of Filipino migrants, organizations and solidarity groups across Canada gathered to commemorate the global action to honour the victims of the Marcos and Duterte bloody regimes and continue to demand justice for them and their families. This year marks the 49th year since the dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos declared martial law via - [The great COVID business bailout](https://springmag.ca/the-great-covid-business-bailout) - From CEWS, CEBA, CERS and industry specific bailouts to a policy of cheap money and central bank bond purchasing the Canadian state has intervened to make the rich richer. - [The Indian Farmers’ protest - Spring Podcast](https://springmag.ca/the-indian-farmers-protest-spring-podcast) - Farmers in India have been protesting against neoliberal agricultural bills since November 2020. These bills are poised to increase privatization in India’s agriculture sector and push small farmers into further precarity. 42.6% of workers in India are employed in agriculture, many of whom are small and marginal farmers, migrant workers, or landless labourers. Since the - [Legalize multi-tenant housing](https://springmag.ca/legalize-multi-tenant-housing) - The following is a deputation delivered to City Councillors ahead of the October 1 vote on the proposal to legalize multi-tenant housing. I was relieved to hear that an affordable housing alternative, specifically, multiple tenant homes are on the horizon to finally give low and middle wage workers some hope to live with dignity. But - [Stop the climate crisis: Uproot colonial capitalism](https://springmag.ca/stop-the-climate-crisis-uproot-colonial-capitalism) - The climate crisis is not the future anymore, it is the present. The climate crisis is a global public health issue that is killing people every day. Indigenous peoples and people of colour are disproportionately affected by climate change, and naturally, the mainstream does not pay attention to the struggles of racialized communities. Attention is - [Gritty Nurse podcast exposes pandemic profiteering](https://springmag.ca/gritty-nurse-podcast-exposes-pandemic-profiteering) - Two medical professionals who have been raising the alarm on pandemic profiteering are Amie Varley and Sarah Fung. Nurses by training, they’ve started a podcast called The Gritty Nurse, where they examine healthcare practice and policy from an inside perspective. - [Trudeau’s failed majority is an opportunity for the Left](https://springmag.ca/trudeaus-failed-majority-is-an-opportunity-for-the-left) - Movements will be key to keep pressure on the Liberals and NDP to implement the best policies possible and build the power needed to fight the bosses and build a better world. - [The Canadian election and human rights in Kashmir](https://springmag.ca/the-canadian-election-and-human-rights-in-kashmir) - During #Exln44, several hundred people from across Canada have pledged to be in touch with candidates from all parties in almost one-third of the federal electoral ridings about the grave situation in Kashmir. These constituents have been asking what candidates will do if elected, to ensure that Canada holds India accountable for its settler-colonization happening - [Twenty years of Stop the War](https://springmag.ca/twenty-years-of-stop-the-war) - In 2001, shortly after the 9/11 attacks on U.S. soil, the Stop the War Coalition emerged in the UK to resist the coming 'War on Terror' advanced by the US and its allies. The organization has remained a central force in the fight against imperialism and war ever since, helping stage some of the largest - [Reactionaries rising: The threat of the PPC](https://springmag.ca/reactionaries-rising-the-threat-of-the-ppc) - 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. - [Defunding the police - Spring Podcast](https://springmag.ca/defunding-the-police-spring-podcast) - The call to defund the police became a defining moment in the political history of Turtle Island during 2020. In Canada, people took to the streets after the murder of George Floyd in the U.S., and the deaths of Regis Korchinski-Pacquet and Ejas Choudry in Ontario, both of whom were experiencing a mental health episode - [The housing crisis is caused by capitalism, not 'foreign investors'](https://springmag.ca/capitalism-not-foreign-investors-is-causing-the-housing-crisis) - 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 thousands of deaths caused by the global pandemic, 569 people have died as a result of the heat waves that destroyed whole towns across the country this summer. On their own, - [Canadian arms are fuelling the humanitarian crisis in Yemen](https://springmag.ca/canadian-arms-are-fuelling-the-humanitarian-crisis-in-yemen) - In late September of 2020, the United Nations Human Rights Council declared Canada one of the parties energizing the war in Yemen by continuing to deal arms to Saudi Arabia. Yemen is currently in the midst of what Shireen Al-Adeimi, a Yemeni-Canadian academic, describes as the “world’s worst humanitarian crisis.” According to UN reports, in - [The burning case for a Green New Deal](https://springmag.ca/the-burning-case-for-a-green-new-deal) - Naomi Klein’s This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs the Climate was published in 2014 in the lead up to the massive People’s Climate March. Her latest book, On Fire: the Burning Case for a Green New Deal, was published in the lead up to the historic climate strikes of September 20-27. The timing is not coincidental: - [2001 to 2021: 20 years of imperialism and resistance](https://springmag.ca/2001-to-2021-20-years-of-imperialism-and-resistance) - 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. - [The federal election and the left - Spring Podcast](https://springmag.ca/the-federal-election-and-the-left-spring-podcast) - 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: why? What does an early election mean? What issues are at its core? What is at stake and should socialists even care? David Bush, a contributor to Spring Magazine, joins - [Introducing the Spring Podcast](https://springmag.ca/introducing-the-spring-podcast) - 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 movements. Hosted by Laura Conrod, the Spring Podcast will feature movement organizers and discuss key questions facing our movements from a socialist perspective. The podcast can be found wherever you - [Class conflict over COVID](https://springmag.ca/class-conflict-over-covid) - Over the 20th century, life expectancy rose and medical advances virtually eliminated deadly diseases such as smallpox, leprosy, and polio. We were assured that, in time, economic development and medical science would enable everyone to live longer, healthier lives. This has not happened: life expectancy is falling, old infectious diseases are resurfacing, and entirely new - [Transitioning with harmony: The neoliberal project in Sudan](https://springmag.ca/transitioning-with-harmony-the-neoliberal-project-in-sudan) - It has been almost three years since millions of Sudanese women and men marched the streets demanding a new reality that reaches beyond their immediate struggles of violence and poverty to a call for freedom, peace and justice. This was the Sudanese revolution of December 2018 which ended Omar al- Bashir’s 30 year dictatorship. Two - [BDS and Palestinian liberation](https://springmag.ca/bds-and-palestinian-liberation) - Boycott, divestment, and sanction campaigns against Israeli and international corporations complicit in the ethnic cleansing, displacement, and institutionalized subjugation of Palestinians is not only a morally sound course of action, but is an increasingly pressing political necessity. - [Haiti: From colonial debt to reparations](https://springmag.ca/haiti-from-colonial-debt-to-reparations) - 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 superpower, prioritizing “property rights” over human rights, racial capitalism, a sellout by “light skinned” local bourgeoisie and the way our past haunts the present are all part of the story. - [O’Toole is no friend of workers](https://springmag.ca/otoole-is-no-friend-of-workers) - The left and labour shouldn’t undersell the threat of O’Toole's “pro-worker” appeal. To fight O’Toole and the corporate agenda we need more than the status quo, we need campaigns and movements fighting for bold alternatives that are rooted in and speak to the working class. - [The federal election and the fight for paid sick days](https://springmag.ca/the-federal-election-and-the-fight-for-paid-sick-days) - The election provides an opportunity to amplify the movement for paid sick days across the country and build momentum after the election. - [The third dose: Vaccine imperialism is dooming millions](https://springmag.ca/the-third-dose-vaccine-imperialism-is-dooming-millions) - Facing the rapid spread of the Delta variant and the lack of access to vaccines, many poorer nations are in dire straits. Yet, rich nations are planning to roll out booster shots while continuing to block efforts to waive vaccine patents that would allow other countries to produce their own vaccines. - [Fairy Creek, the NDP and Indigenous sovereignty](https://springmag.ca/fairy-creek-the-ndp-and-indigenous-sovereignty) - The 2021 federal election has spurred a sense of optimism among supporters of the New Democratic Party hoping for electoral gains when votes are tallied on September 20. Opposition to Trudeau’s neoliberalism and fear of Erin O’Toole’s Conservative Party present something of a possibility for the NDP. In addition, in a year marked by the - [Wealth tax: How do we take on billionaires?](https://springmag.ca/wealth-tax-how-do-we-take-on-billionaires) - If workers in Canada are ever going to get win in a wealth tax, let alone challenge the entrenched interests of billionaires it is going to be because the organized power of the working class won’t accept anything else. - [The fiction of CERB fraud](https://springmag.ca/the-fiction-of-cerb-fraud) - The labeling of CERB overpayments as fraud willfully distorts the issue. At the start of lockdown the message was clear, CERB was emergency aid for people in need of it. - [Socialists and the federal election](https://springmag.ca/socialists-and-the-federal-election) - Whichever party wins this election, the problems of Canadian capitalism will not disappear, especially those that have been accentuated by the COVID-19 pandemic. - [From pandemic to uprising: Lessons from the Winnipeg general strike](https://springmag.ca/from-pandemic-to-uprising-lessons-from-the-winnipeg-general-strike) - In 1918 the world was rocked by a global pandemic. Doctors were stumped by how to treat this mysterious virus that was killing patients. Masks were worn, people quarantined, families were torn apart by death and illness. One year into the pandemic, North America was rocked again, this time as the masses took to the - ['I don't want anyone to get left behind': An interview with Paul Taylor](https://springmag.ca/i-dont-want-anyone-to-get-left-behind-an-interview-with-paul-taylor) - Paul Taylor is a long-time anti-poverty and social justice activist in Toronto and the federal New Democratic Party candidate in Parkdale-High Park. Paul recently talked to Spring Magazine's Loretta Fisher about his activism, what shaped his politics, and his decision to run in the federal election. Listen to the full interview here. A shorter, edited - [Doctor's orders: Make paid sick days permanent and employer-paid](https://springmag.ca/doctors-orders-make-paid-sick-days-permanent-and-employer-paid) - Spring Magazine spoke with emergency physician Gaibrie Stephen about why all workers need permanent and employer-paid sick days. - [Anti-capitalist strategy and the question of organization](https://springmag.ca/anti-capitalist-strategy-and-the-question-of-organization) - No matter how much times passes, or how often history is declared to have ended, the debate over socialist strategy and organization always returns. This foundational question appeared in embryo at the very start of the workers' movement in the nineteenth century and was raised explicitly by Lenin when he described his perspective as "tactics-as-plan" - [A win for gig workers is a win for the working class](https://springmag.ca/a-win-for-gig-workers-is-a-win-for-the-working-class) - The goal of gig economy companies is to roll back workers rights. Fighting misclassification, fighting for gig workers' rights means empowering the entire working class. - [Making sense of the protests in Cuba](https://springmag.ca/making-sense-of-the-protests-in-cuba) - In the last few weeks, Cubans have poured out into the streets in relatively large numbers denouncing scarce access to food, medicine, and other necessities in the country. While turnout was perhaps small compared to mass demonstrations in other Latin American countries, it was nonetheless significant for a country where protest is effectively illegal and - [Code red for capitalism](https://springmag.ca/code-red-for-capitalism) - Our individual ‘choices’ didn’t get us here, the system did. The extractive nature baked into capitalism makes it impossible for any meaningful changes to occur so long as we are stuck in a system that puts profits before people. - [Halifax encampment raids show we need homes not cops](https://springmag.ca/halifax-encampment-raids-show-we-need-homes-not-cops) - The Halifax Regional Police's violent eviction of encampments takes place amidst a housing crisis. The newly elected premier is pro-landlord and pro-developer. The actions of the HRM and the HRP on Wednesday offer a glimpse of what many more people could face. - [Elizabeth Smith-McCrossin, reactionary girlboss extraordinaire strikes again](https://springmag.ca/elizabeth-smith-mccrossin-reactionary-girlboss-extraordinaire-strikes-again) - Elizabeth Smith-McCrossin (ESM), local “girlboss” in Cumberland County, Nova Scotia, has a well known history of racist, anti-worker, and anti-queer actions. So, you can imagine my surprise when I saw this poster: At first glance, I thought this was a Pride event put on by ESM herself, what with her logo and the language of - [Reclaiming, renewing and transforming feminism](https://springmag.ca/reclaiming-renewing-and-transforming-feminism) - Take Back the Fight: Organizing Feminism for the Digital Age by Nora Loreto (Fernwood, 2020) As Canada’s so-called “feminist” prime minister prepares to announce a federal election, Nora Loreto’s second book provides the perfect antidote to a campaign that will no doubt throw around “feminism” like a political football. Published almost a year ago, Take - [Canada undermines Haitian democracy: déjà vu all over again](https://springmag.ca/canada-undermines-haitian-democracy-deja-vu-all-over-again) - The assassination of President Jovenel Moïse last month reflected the disintegration of Haitian politics after a decade of foreign intervention that empowered the right-wing PHTK party. A broad group of Haitian political actors, la Commission pour la recherche d’une solution à la crise, is seeking to form a consensus government that would remain in place - [The police cannot be reformed](https://springmag.ca/the-police-cannot-be-reformed) - Police enforce laws, not justice. Under capitalism, the basic legal framework is designed to protect private property and facilitate profit accumulation, not to meet human needs or ensure genuine equality. ## Pages - [Home](https://springmag.ca/) - [RESOURCES: Take action for a better world!](https://springmag.ca/spring-resources) - On this page, you can find Spring resources that you can take into your neighbourhood, community, and workplace to get organized in the fight for a better world. Fund public services, not war! POSTERS You can find our "Fund education/childcare/housing/healthcare, not war!" posters by clicking here. 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You could also visit Spring's Facebook page for more information. - [Checklists](https://springmag.ca/checklists) - How to build an audience around you 1) Think about all the people you interact with politically: Spring members, people in other organizations you’re a part of, people you have political conversations with, co-workers, etc. These people are your “audience.” 2) Think about how you interact with them: at organizing meetings, in discussion or reading - [Ten years after the Egyptian Revolution](https://springmag.ca/ten-years-after-the-egyptian-revolution) - Spring Magazine is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting. Topic: Ten years after the Egyptian Revolution Time: Jan 24, 2021 02:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada) Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81837263926?pwd=eGNoMlppRHZJT3R2dk5WeDJIYjdsUT09 Meeting ID: 818 3726 3926 Passcode: 810007 One tap mobile +15873281099,,81837263926#,,,,810007# Canada +16473744685,,81837263926#,,,,810007# Canada Dial by your location +1 587 328 1099 Canada - [Forms](https://springmag.ca/forms) - To express interest in Spring's BIPOC leadership program, please complete this form. To request technological support from Spring, please complete this form. - [Proposal for Spring Leadership Development Pilot Project 2020-21](https://springmag.ca/proposal-for-spring-leadership-development-programme-2020) - Context Spring is growing relatively quickly and there exists an urgency in sharing existing knowledge quickly in order to equip as many members as possible with the traditions of socialism from below. In this regard, students and workers are important audiences for socialist ideas and leadership development. However, as a new organization Spring is not - [Spring into our second year](https://springmag.ca/spring-into-our-second-year) - By the Coordinating Committee: Krisna S, Jesse M, Valerie L, Peter H, Pam F, Lisa D, James C, Dave B The Spring Socialist Network was founded on June 30, 2019 with 25 members, including a coordinating committee of 3, a social media committee of 6, and no paid staff. A year later we have 50 - [Spring convention 2020 documents](https://springmag.ca/spring-convention-2020-documents) - Internal documents Spring into our second year What is Spring's Coordinating Committee? Proposals In memoriam: Sarah Hegazi Socialist Solidarity Fund Proposal for Spring Leadership Development Programme 2020 Proposal to amend the 'What Unites Us' document Articles "A triple crisis" by Joseph Choonara - [Proposal to amend the 'What Unites Us' document](https://springmag.ca/proposal-to-amend-the-what-unites-us-document) - This is the proposed new text: As an organization, we must always strive to centre the lived experiences of Black people, Indigenous people, and peoples of colour. And we reject those critiques of capitalism that try to reduce racism to merely a symptom of the system. We understand that the way that racialized people experience - [In memoriam: Sarah Hegazi Socialist Solidarity Fund](https://springmag.ca/in-memoriam-sarah-hegazi-socialist-solidarity-fund) - Proposal In memoriam: Sarah Hegazi Socialist Solidarity Fund Each calendar year, the Coordinating Committee will allocate up to $5,000 to the Sarah Hegazi Socialist Solidarity Fund. Any member or group of members in good standing may apply for some or all of these funds for any purpose that advances the cause of international revolutionary socialism. - [What is Spring's Coordinating Committee?](https://springmag.ca/what-is-springs-coordinating-committee) - By the Coordinating Committee: Krisna S, Jesse M, Valerie L, Peter H, Pam F, Lisa D, James C, Dave B When Spring was founded a year ago, the membership created a three-person leadership team, the "Coordinating Committee," which was tasked with implementing the collective, democratic decisions of the membership and with dealing with the day-to-day - [Spring convention 2020](https://springmag.ca/spring-convention-2020) - Agenda To register, please click here. To read the convention documents, please click here. Friday, August 14, 2020 Co-facilitated by Loretta Fisher and Valerie Lannon 6pm to 6:15pmWelcome to convention 2020Introduced by Loretta Fisher and Valerie Lannon 6:15pm to 7:30pmCapitalism, oppression, and the world economyIntroduced by Mina Rajabi Paak and David Bush 7:30pm to 7:45pmBreak - [Convention](https://springmag.ca/convention) - Spring convention 2020 - [Internal documents](https://springmag.ca/internal-documents) - Spring convention 2020 documents - [Thank you!](https://springmag.ca/webinar) - Thank you for joining today's Spring webinar, COVID-19: Who will pay for the crisis? Here are some next steps you can take following the webinar: Donate to the #JusticeForRegis campaign Regis's sister, Renee Beals, has organized a GoFundMe campaign to support the family's struggle for justice. To make a donation, please click here. Call Doug - [Printable](https://springmag.ca/printable) - Please download, print, and customize the #JusticeForRegis printable for the webinar on May 30: COVID-19: Who will pay for the crisis? Download - [Facilitator's script](https://springmag.ca/chairing-script) - The following is a sample script that may be used by Spring members when facilitating meetings on Zoom or otherwise online. Please feel free to edit, adapt, or update as needed. (1) Welcome and brief introduction Welcome, everyone, to this meeting hosted by Spring Magazine and the Spring Socialist Network. 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With leaders like Zohran Mamdani in New York and Avi Lewis in Canada, - [Vancouver Reading & Discussion Group: "Indigenous Socialism: The life and politics of Howard Adams"](https://springmag.ca/event/vancouver-reading-discussion-group-indigenous-socialism-the-life-and-politics-of-howard-adams-2) - Join Spring’s Vancouver branch reading and discussion group on Saturday, July 18, 11am over Zoom! We will be continuing our discussion of Spring’s new publication, “Indigenous Socialism: The life and politics of Howard Adams," focusing on Chapters 3 and 4. Whether you've already read it cover-to-cover or you're just joining us for the first time, - [London Spring meeting](https://springmag.ca/event/london-spring-meeting-13) - Are you a socialist in the London area looking to get organized? Join Spring’s London meeting on Saturday, July 25, 11:00m at Innovation Works (201 King St)! We will be discussing the current political terrain, reporting back from the last month of activity, and organizing to support local campaigns and struggles. All are welcome. Let’s organize together! - [International Anti-War Conference: Report-back from the Canadian delegation](https://springmag.ca/event/international-anti-war-conference-report-back-from-the-canadian-delegation) - Over 3,000 people attended the International Anti-War Conference in London, UK from June 19 to 20. The conference discussed building a coordinated global anti-war movement that can challenge the rise of the new militarism and the explosion of defence spending that is coming at the expense of social programs and public services. It also discussed - [Halifax Spring meeting](https://springmag.ca/event/halifax-spring-meeting-14) - Join the Spring Socialist Network’s Kjipuktuk/Halifax branch organizing meeting on Monday, July 20 at 5:30pm, happening at Bus Stop Theatre Co-op (2203 Gottingen St)! The meeting will take place in the Community Room (access via the entrance on Maitland St). We will be creating a banner that our branch will be able to use at upcoming actions and - [Ottawa Spring meeting](https://springmag.ca/event/ottawa-spring-meeting-21) - Do you live in Ottawa? Are you interested in socialism and want to build strong local movements? Join us for our Ottawa Spring Meeting on Saturday, July 18, 11am at Atelier d’innovation sociale (95 Clegg St)! We will be discussing socialism and how we can be part of building strong social movements in Ottawa. This meeting - [Toronto Spring meeting](https://springmag.ca/event/toronto-spring-meeting-27) - Join Spring’s Toronto chapter organizing meeting on Friday, July 24, 6pm at 720 Spadina Ave, Room 221! We will be discussing key political issues as well as socialist strategy and tactics, building winning campaigns, and how to be effective socialist organizers in movements. This meeting is open to all Spring members in the GTA and anyone - [Spring Educational Series: Socialists and the fight for liberation](https://springmag.ca/event/spring-educational-series-socialists-and-the-fight-for-liberation) - Join Spring for a talk and discussion, "Socialists and the fight for liberation," on Sunday, July 5, 1pm ET / 10am PT / 2pm AT over Zoom. Socialism is most widely known as a movement for fighting class oppression under capitalism. But fighting for a world where everybody is free means taking on more than - [London Spring meeting](https://springmag.ca/event/london-spring-meeting-12) - *PLEASE NOTE THE NEW TIME FOR THIS EVENT* Are you a socialist in the London area looking to get organized? Join Spring’s London meeting on Saturday, June 27, 11:00 am at Innovation Works (201 King St)! We will be discussing the current political terrain, reporting back from the last month of activity, and organizing to support local campaigns - [Toronto Book and Bake Sale](https://springmag.ca/event/toronto-book-and-bake-sale-2) - Mark your calendars for Sunday, July 19, 11am to 2pm at 720 Spadina Ave, #221 for Spring's Toronto Book and Bake Sale! The deals will be outrageous, the ambience intoxicating and the baked goods divine. We'll have used, rare and out-of-print heat from the history of the socialist tradition and beyond. Be there and eat a lemon - [PHONE ZAP: Support striking OPSEU workers!](https://springmag.ca/event/phone-zap-support-striking-opseu-workers-4) - Join Spring on Monday, June 29th at 7pm for a phone zap to support striking OPSEU workers! Over 4,000 social service workers across Ontario are currently either on strike or locked out. These workers are fighting for back pay for Bill 124 (which still hasn’t been given to workers in the sector), better funding for - [Hamilton Spring meeting](https://springmag.ca/event/hamilton-spring-meeting-18) - Do you live in Hamilton and want to engage in socialist organizing? Join Spring’s Hamilton contingent at our organizing meeting on Wednesday, June 24, 7pm at Hamilton Artists Inc (155 James St N). Please note the location change. We will be discussing strategies to continue organizing in the Hamilton area with respect to Palestine solidarity and - [PHONE ZAP: Support striking OPSEU workers!](https://springmag.ca/event/phone-zap-support-striking-opseu-workers-3) - Join Spring on Wednesday, June 17th at 7pm for a phone zap to support striking OPSEU workers! Over 4,000 social service workers across Ontario are currently either on strike or locked out. These workers are fighting for back pay for Bill 124 (which still hasn’t been given to workers in the sector), better funding for - [Ottawa Spring meeting](https://springmag.ca/event/ottawa-spring-meeting-20) - Do you live in Ottawa? Are you interested in socialism and want to build strong local movements? Join us for our Ottawa Spring Meeting on Saturday, June 27, 11am at Atelier d’innovation sociale (95 Clegg St)! We will be discussing socialism and how we can be part of building strong social movements in Ottawa. This meeting - [Montréal Spring meeting | Montréal réunion Spring](https://springmag.ca/event/montreal-spring-meeting-montreal-reunion-spring-12) - *La version française suit.* Are you a socialist in the Montréal area looking to get organized? Join Spring’s Montreal meeting on Thursday, June 25, 6:30pm at Espace des possibles dans La Petite-Patrie au Rez-de-Jardin, 1052 rue Beaubien Est! We will be discussing socialism, Spring’s politics, and recent political events. Let’s organize together. All are welcome! - [Halifax postering run: Fund public services, not war!](https://springmag.ca/event/halifax-postering-run-fund-public-services-not-war) - Join Spring's Kjipuktuk/Halifax branch on Sunday, June 14, 11am as we put up our "Fund Education, Housing, Healthcare, and Childcare, Not War" posters around the city! Mark Carney's austerity budget is devastating social programs through cuts, but the money is there to fund the services that we need to survive and thrive: in the billions - [Halifax Spring Meeting](https://springmag.ca/event/halifax-spring-meeting-13) - Join the Spring Socialist Network’s Kjipuktuk/Halifax branch organizing meeting on Wednesday, June 24th at 6pm, happening at Bus Stop Theatre Co-op (2203 Gottingen St)! The meeting will take place in the Community Room (access via the entrance on Maitland St). We will be discussing pressing political issues and strategizing about how we can build the power to oppose - [Spring Educational Series: Why the working class?](https://springmag.ca/event/spring-educational-series-why-the-working-class) - Join Spring for a talk and discussion, “Why the working class?” taking place on Sunday, June 21 over Zoom at 10am PT / 1pm ET / 2pm AT. Workers produce all the world’s wealth, but have no control over what’s produced, how it’s produced, or how it’s distributed. That’s because the capitalist system is controlled by a tiny elite - [PHONE ZAP: Support striking OPSEU workers!](https://springmag.ca/event/phone-zap-support-striking-opseu-workers-2) - Join Spring on Wednesday, June 3rd at 6:30pm for a phone zap to support striking OPSEU workers! Over 4,000 social service workers across Ontario are currently either on strike or locked out. These workers are fighting for back pay for Bill 124 (which still hasn’t been given to workers in the sector), better funding for - [Toronto Spring Meeting](https://springmag.ca/event/toronto-spring-meeting-26) - Join Spring’s Toronto chapter organizing meeting on Friday, June 19, 6pm at 720 Spadina Ave, room 221! We will be discussing key political issues as well as socialist strategy and tactics, building winning campaigns, and how to be effective socialist organizers in movements. This meeting is open to all Spring members in the GTA and anyone - [Phone Zap: Support striking OPSEU workers](https://springmag.ca/event/phone-zap-support-striking-opseu-workers) - Join Spring on Friday, May 29 at 12pm for a phone zap to support striking OPSEU workers! Over 4,000 social service workers across Ontario are currently either on strike or locked out. These workers are fighting for back pay for Bill 124 (which still hasn't been given to workers in the sector), better funding for - [Mississauga Spring meeting: "What can we learn from the B.C. teachers' illegal strike of 2005?"](https://springmag.ca/event/mississauga-spring-meeting-what-can-we-learn-from-the-b-c-teachers-illegal-strike-of-2005) - Join Spring’s Mississauga organizing meeting on Friday, June 5, 6pm at the Peel Educators’ Centre at 6435 Edwards Blvd! Our main discussion will focus on lessons from the B.C. teachers' illegal strike of 2005 as Ontario's teachers head towards a potential strike of their own. We are pleased to welcome a guest speaker for this - [Hamilton film screening: "Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat"](https://springmag.ca/event/hamilton-film-screening-soundtrack-to-a-coup-detat) - Spring Hamilton is hosting a film screening of the movie "Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat" (2024) for our annual Spring Fund Drive! This event will be held at Solidarity Place (51 Adair Ave S) on Thursday, May 28th at 7 pm. This venue is wheelchair accessible. This event will have pizza and refreshments. Funds are - [Hamilton Spring meeting](https://springmag.ca/event/hamilton-spring-meeting-17) - Do you live in Hamilton and want to engage in socialist organizing? Join Spring’s Hamilton contingent at our organizing meeting on Wednesday, May 27, 7pm at Solidarity Place (51 Adair Ave S). We will be discussing strategies to continue organizing in the Hamilton area with respect to Palestine solidarity and the anti-war movement, housing access, and - [Toronto Spring meeting: "Public service workers fight back against Ford"](https://springmag.ca/event/toronto-spring-meeting-25) - Join Spring’s Toronto chapter organizing meeting on Friday, May 22, 6pm at 720 Spadina Ave, room 221! We will be discussing key political issues as well as socialist strategy and tactics, building winning campaigns, and how to be effective socialist organizers in movements. Our main discussion will centre the many public sector workers (social service workers, - [Vancouver Reading & Discussion Group: "Indigenous Socialism: The life and politics of Howard Adams"](https://springmag.ca/event/vancouver-reading-discussion-group-indigenous-socialism-the-life-and-politics-of-howard-adams) - Join Spring’s Vancouver branch reading and discussion group on Saturday, May 30, 1pm taking place at Trout Lake Beach! This meeting will be taking place on the unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) peoples. We will be introducing and discussing the first two chapters of Spring's new publication, "Indigenous Socialism: - [Spring Educational Series: What is Revolutionary Socialism?](https://springmag.ca/event/spring-educational-series-what-is-revolutionary-socialism) - Join Spring for a talk and discussion, "What is Revolutionary Socialism?" taking place on Sunday, May 31 over Zoom at 10am PT / 1pm ET / 2pm AT. Many movements, parties, and people throughout history have called themselves socialist. Socialism has come to be identified in the popular imagination with so many things; social democratic - [Halifax book launch - "Indigenous Socialism: The life and politics of Howard Adams"](https://springmag.ca/event/halifax-book-launch-indigenous-socialism-the-life-and-politics-of-howard-adams) - Join Spring's Halifax Branch for a launch of our new booklet on the life and thought of Métis Marxist and leader of the Red Power Howard Adams, taking place on Sunday, May 24, 2pm at the Maritime Conservatory of Performing Arts (6199 Chebucto Road). Books will be available for purchase. Please wear a mask. - [London Spring meeting](https://springmag.ca/event/london-spring-meeting-11) - Are you a socialist in the London area looking to get organized? Join Spring’s London meeting on Saturday, May 23, 1:00 pm at Innovation Works (201 King St)! We will be discussing the current political terrain, reporting back from the last month of activity, and organizing to support local campaigns and struggles. All are welcome. Let’s organize together! - [Halifax Spring meeting](https://springmag.ca/event/halifax-spring-meeting-12) - Join the Spring Socialist Network’s Kjipuktuk/Halifax branch organizing meeting on Wednesday, May 6th at 6pm, happening at Bus Stop Theatre Co-op (2203 Gottingen St)! The meeting will take place in the Community Room (access via the entrance on Maitland St). We will be discussing pressing political issues and strategizing about how we can build the - [Montréal Spring meeting | Montréal réunion Spring](https://springmag.ca/event/montreal-spring-meeting-montreal-reunion-spring-11) - *La version française suit.* Are you a socialist in the Montréal area looking to get organized? Join Spring’s Montreal meeting on Thursday, May 21, 6:30pm at Espace des possibles dans La Petite-Patrie, 6450 av Christophe-Colomb! We will be discussing socialism, Spring’s politics, and recent political events. Let’s organize together. All are welcome! Êtes-vous un socialiste - [Ottawa Spring meeting](https://springmag.ca/event/ottawa-spring-meeting-19) - Do you live in Ottawa? Are you interested in socialism and want to build strong local movements? Join us for our Ottawa Spring Meeting on Saturday, May 16, 11am at Atelier d’innovation sociale (95 Clegg St)! We will be discussing socialism and how we can be part of building strong social movements in Ottawa. This meeting - [Vancouver Spring meeting](https://springmag.ca/event/vancouver-spring-meeting-16) - **PLEASE NOTE: The time of this event has changed from 1pm to 10am, and the meeting has been moved to online over Zoom. Join Spring’s Vancouver branch organizing meeting on Sunday, April 26, 10am PT online over Zoom! This meeting is open to members and non-members who are interested in socialist organizing. Whether you’re a Spring member or - [London Spring meeting](https://springmag.ca/event/london-spring-meeting-10) - Are you a socialist in the London area looking to get organized? Join Spring’s London meeting on Saturday, April 18, 1:00 pm at Innovation Works (201 King St)! We will be discussing the current political terrain, reporting back from the last month of activity, and organizing to support local campaigns and struggles. All are welcome. Let’s organize together! - [Mississauga Spring meeting](https://springmag.ca/event/mississauga-spring-meeting) - Join Spring’s Mississauga organizing meeting on Friday, April 10, 6pm at the Peel Educators' Centre at 6435 Edwards Blvd! This meeting is open to all Spring members in the GTA and anyone who is interested in getting involved with Spring. Doors will be open for light refreshments at 5:30pm and the meeting starts at 6:00pm. - [Ottawa Spring meeting](https://springmag.ca/event/ottawa-spring-meeting-18) - Do you live in Ottawa? Are you interested in socialism and want to build strong local movements? Join us for our Ottawa Spring Meeting on Saturday, April 18, 11am at Atelier d’innovation sociale (95 Clegg St)! We will be discussing socialism and how we can be part of building strong social movements in Ottawa. This meeting - [Montréal Spring meeting | Montréal réunion Spring](https://springmag.ca/event/montreal-spring-meeting-montreal-reunion-spring-10) - *La version française suit.* Are you a socialist in the Montréal area looking to get organized? Join Spring’s Montreal meeting on Saturday, April 11, 6:30pm at Espace des possibles dans La Petite-Patrie au Rez-de-Jardin, 1052 Rue Beaubien E. We will be discussing socialism, Spring’s politics, and recent political events. Let’s organize together. All are welcome! - [Hamilton Spring meeting](https://springmag.ca/event/hamilton-spring-meeting-16) - Do you live in Hamilton and want to engage in socialist organizing? Join Spring’s Hamilton contingent at our organizing meeting on Wednesday, April 29, 7pm at Solidarity Place (51 Adair Ave S). We will be discussing strategies to continue organizing in the Hamilton area with respect to Palestine solidarity and the anti-war movement, housing access, and - [Toronto Spring meeting](https://springmag.ca/event/toronto-spring-meeting-24) - Join Spring’s Toronto chapter organizing meeting on Friday, April 17, 6pm at 720 Spadina Ave, room 221! We will be discussing key political issues as well as socialist strategy and tactics, building winning campaigns, and how to be effective socialist organizers in movements. This meeting is open to all Spring members in the GTA and anyone - [Ottawa Spring meeting - Socialism from Below: Lessons from Ella Baker and the Civil Rights Movement](https://springmag.ca/event/ottawa-spring-meeting-socialism-from-below-lessons-from-ella-baker-and-the-civil-rights-movement) - Do you live in Ottawa? Are you interested in socialism and want to build strong local movements? Join us for our Ottawa Spring Meeting on Sunday, March 22, 11am at Atelier d’innovation sociale (95 Clegg St)! This meeting will feature a discussion on civil rights activist Ella Baker and what socialists can learn from her work - [London Spring meeting](https://springmag.ca/event/london-spring-meeting-9) - Are you a socialist in the London area looking to get organized? Join Spring’s London meeting on Saturday, March 21, 1:00 pm at Innovation Works (201 King St)! We will be discussing the current political terrain, reporting back from the last month of activity, and organizing to support local campaigns and struggles. All are welcome. Let’s organize together! - [Toronto Spring meeting: Getting organized to stop the war](https://springmag.ca/event/toronto-spring-meeting-23) - **Please note the new date for this event** Join Spring’s Toronto chapter organizing meeting on Wednesday, March 18, 6pm at 720 Spadina Ave, #221! Our main discussion will focus on getting organized to stop the war and building a mass, working-class anti-war movement with the power to stop our government from supporting the war on - [Toronto: Anti-War Art Build](https://springmag.ca/event/toronto-anti-war-art-build) - Join Spring's Toronto chapter this Friday at 5:00 pm at 720 Spadina Ave, Room 221, to make anti-war signs and paint banners for International Women's Day rally on March 6th. On Saturday, March 7 at 10:30 am, we will be joining workers across Toronto/GTA to march in the International Women's Day rally. We want to - [Emergency phone action: Stop the bombing of Iran!](https://springmag.ca/event/emergency-phone-action-stop-the-bombing-of-iran) - Prime Minister Mark Carney and Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre have openly backed the illegal US attacks on Iran, despite widespread opposition here and around the world. Join us for an emergency phone action on Monday, March 9 at 7:30pm ET / 8:30pm AT / 4:30pm PT where we’ll come together on Zoom to phone the - [Halifax Spring meeting](https://springmag.ca/event/halifax-spring-meeting-11) - Join the Spring Socialist Network’s Kjipuktuk/Halifax branch organizing meeting on Thursday, March 19th at 6pm, happening at Bus Stop Theatre Co-op (2203 Gottingen St)! The meeting will take place in the Community Room (access via the entrance on Maitland St). We will be discussing pressing political issues and strategizing about how we can build the - [Hamilton Spring meeting](https://springmag.ca/event/hamilton-spring-meeting-15) - Do you live in Hamilton and want to engage in socialist organizing? Join Spring’s Hamilton contingent at our organizing meeting on Wednesday, March 25, 7pm at Solidarity Place (51 Adair Ave S). We will be discussing strategies to continue organizing in the Hamilton area around building the anti-war movement, housing access, and other pressing local issues. - [Stop bombing Iran: Why we urgently need a mass anti-war movement](https://springmag.ca/event/stop-bombing-iran-why-we-urgently-need-a-mass-anti-war-movement) - EMERGENCY MEETING • via Zoom • THIS TUESDAY STOP BOMBING IRAN! WHY WE URGENTLY NEED A MASS ANTI-WAR MOVEMENT THIS COMING TUESDAY NIGHT Tuesday, March 3rd: 7:30 pm ET | 8:30 pm AT | 4:30 pm PT REGISTER: bit.ly/stopbombingiran A Public Forum via Zoom featuring speakers including: Nastaran Yadollahi CUPE Local 79 (in personal capacity) - [Montréal Spring meeting | Montréal réunion Spring](https://springmag.ca/event/montreal-spring-meeting-montreal-reunion-spring-9) - *La version française suit.* Are you a socialist in the Montréal area looking to get organized? Join Spring’s Montreal meeting on Thursday, March 26, 6:30pm at Espace des possibles (La Petite-Patrie), room 206, 6450 av. Christophe-Colomb. We will be discussing socialism, Spring’s politics, and recent political events. Let’s organize together. All are welcome! Êtes-vous un - [Halifax Spring meeting](https://springmag.ca/event/halifax-spring-meeting-10) - Join the Spring Socialist Network’s Kjipuktuk/Halifax branch organizing meeting on Thursday, February 26th at 6pm, happening at Bus Stop Theatre Co-op (2203 Gottingen St)! The meeting will take place in the Community Room (access via the entrance on Maitland St). We will be discussing pressing political issues and strategizing about how we can build the - [Vancouver Spring meeting](https://springmag.ca/event/vancouver-spring-meeting-15) - Join Spring’s Vancouver branch organizing meeting on Sunday, March 1, 10:30am PST happening online on Zoom! Whether you’re a Spring member or just someone interested in discussing how socialists can develop effective tactics and winning strategies, you are invited to join us for discussion! Register for the meeting by clicking here. See you there! - [Hamilton Spring meeting](https://springmag.ca/event/hamilton-spring-meeting-14) - Do you live in Hamilton and want to engage in socialist organizing? Join Spring’s Hamilton contingent at our organizing meeting on Wednesday, February 25, 7pm at Solidarity Place (51 Adair Ave S). We will be discussing strategies to continue organizing in the Hamilton area with respect to Palestine solidarity and the anti-war movement, housing access, and - [London Spring meeting](https://springmag.ca/event/london-spring-meeting-8) - Are you a socialist in the London area looking to get organized? Join Spring’s London meeting on Saturday, February 21, 1:00 pm at Innovation Works (201 King St)! We will be discussing the current political terrain, reporting back from the last month of activity, and organizing to support local campaigns and struggles. All are welcome. Let’s organize together! - [Halifax Spring meeting](https://springmag.ca/event/halifax-spring-meeting-9) - **PLEASE NOTE: This meeting has been moved online.** Join the Spring Socialist Network’s Kjipuktuk/Halifax branch organizing meeting on Sunday, February 1st at 2pm, happening on Zoom! We will be discussing pressing political issues and strategizing about how we can build the power to oppose oppression and take on the bosses. This meeting is open to - [Montréal Spring meeting | Montréal réunion Spring](https://springmag.ca/event/montreal-spring-meeting-montreal-reunion-spring-8) - *La version française suit.* Are you a socialist in the Montréal area looking to get organized? Join Spring’s Montreal meeting on Thursday, February 19, 6:30pm at Espace des possibles (La Petite-Patrie), room 206, 6450 av. Christophe-Colomb. We will be discussing socialism, Spring’s politics, and recent political events. Let’s organize together. All are welcome! Êtes-vous un - [Toronto Spring meeting](https://springmag.ca/event/toronto-spring-meeting-22) - Join Spring’s Toronto chapter organizing meeting on Friday, February 20, 6pm at 720 Spadina Ave, room 221! We will be discussing key political issues as well as socialist strategy and tactics, building winning campaigns, and how to be effective socialist organizers in movements. This meeting is open to all Spring members in the GTA and anyone - [Hamilton Spring meeting](https://springmag.ca/event/hamilton-spring-meeting-13) - Do you live in Hamilton and want to engage in socialist organizing? Join Spring’s Hamilton contingent at our organizing meeting on Wednesday, January 28, 7pm at Solidarity Place (51 Adair Ave S). We will be discussing strategies to continue organizing in the Hamilton area with respect to Palestine solidarity and the anti-war movement, housing access, and - [London Spring meeting](https://springmag.ca/event/london-spring-meeting-7) - Are you a socialist in the London area looking to get organized? Join Spring’s London meeting on Saturday, January 24, 1:00 pm at Innovation Works (201 King St)! We will be discussing the current political terrain, reporting back from the last month of activity, and organizing to support local campaigns and struggles. All are welcome. Let’s organize together! - [Toronto Spring meeting: "Socialism from Below: An introduction to the politics of the Spring Socialist Network"](https://springmag.ca/event/toronto-spring-meeting-socialism-from-below-an-introduction-to-the-politics-of-the-spring-socialist-network) - Looking to get involved in the fight for a better world? Want to get more politically active in the new year? Curious about the Spring Socialist Network? Come to Spring’s Toronto branch meeting, “Socialism from Below: An introduction to the politics of the Spring Socialist Network,” taking place on Friday, January 23rd, 6pm at 720 Spadina - [Vancouver Spring meeting](https://springmag.ca/event/vancouver-spring-meeting-14) - Join Spring’s Vancouver branch organizing meeting on Sunday, January 18, 1pm at the Vancouver Public Library Kensington Branch (1428 Cedar Cottage Mews)! This meeting will be taking place on the unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) peoples. We will be discussing current events and reporting back from local activity. This meeting is open to - [Montréal Spring meeting | Montréal réunion Spring](https://springmag.ca/event/montreal-spring-meeting-montreal-reunion-spring-7) - *La version française suit.* Are you a socialist in the Montréal area looking to get organized? Join Spring’s Montreal meeting on Thursday, January 8, 6:30pm at Espace des possibles (La Petite-Patrie), 1052 Rue Beaubien Est au Rez-de-Jardin. We will be discussing socialism, Spring’s politics, and recent political events. Let’s organize together. All are welcome! Êtes-vous - [Ottawa Spring holiday party](https://springmag.ca/event/ottawa-spring-holiday-party) - Join Spring's Ottawa chapter for an evening of socialist socializing at our holiday party, taking place on Tuesday, December 16, 6pm at Deacon Brodies Pub (247 Elgin St)! Enjoy food, drinks, and conversation among like-minded people. Members and non-members welcome! - [Spring Hamilton movie night](https://springmag.ca/event/spring-hamilton-movie-night) - Please join Spring's Hamilton chapter for a movie night on Wednesday, December 17th @ 7 pm at Solidarity Place (51 Adair Ave S). We will be watching the film The Time that Remains (2009) by Elia Suleiman. This event is Pay What You Can (PWYC) with all proceeds going towards the Hamilton Encampment Support Network. - [Toronto Spring holiday party](https://springmag.ca/event/toronto-spring-holiday-party-2) - Join Spring’s Toronto chapter on Friday, December 12 at 6pm for an evening of socialist socializing at Paupers Pub (539 Bloor St W, 2nd floor)! There will be trivia, drinks, food, and plenty of conversation. Members and non-members welcome! - [Ottawa Spring meeting](https://springmag.ca/event/ottawa-spring-meeting-17) - **Please note the new date for this event. We apologize for the last-minute rescheduling.** Do you live in Ottawa? Are you interested in socialism and want to build strong local movements? Join us for our Ottawa Spring Meeting on Saturday, December 6, 11am at Atelier d’innovation sociale (95 Clegg St)! We will be discussing socialism and - [Vancouver postering run: Blame Billionaires, Not Immigrants!](https://springmag.ca/event/vancouver-postering-run-blame-billionaires-not-immigrants) - Join Spring's Vancouver branch as we put up posters from our "Blame Billionaires, Not Immigrants" series on Sunday, December 7 at 1pm! As CEOs, landlords, and billionaires make our lives harder, it's essential that we push back against the racist scapegoating of migrants for the problems caused by capitalist greed. By putting up posters, we - [Vancouver Spring meeting](https://springmag.ca/event/vancouver-spring-meeting-13) - Join Spring’s Vancouver branch organizing meeting on Sunday, November 30, 1pm PST at the Vancouver Public Library Kensington Branch (1428 Cedar Cottage Mews)! This meeting will be taking place on the unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) peoples. We will be reading chapters 6-8 of the John Rees pamphlet “Strategy and Tactics.” Whether you’re a - [London Spring meeting](https://springmag.ca/event/london-spring-meeting-6) - Are you a socialist in the London area looking to get organized? Join Spring’s London meeting on Saturday, November 22, 1:00 pm at Innovation Works (201 King St)! We will be discussing the current political terrain, reporting back from the last month of activity, and organizing to support local campaigns and struggles. All are welcome. Let’s organize together! - [Montréal Spring meeting | Montréal réunion Spring](https://springmag.ca/event/montreal-spring-meeting-montreal-reunion-spring-6) - *La version française suit.* Are you a socialist in the Montréal area looking to get organized? Join Spring’s Montreal meeting on Thursday, November 13, 6:30pm at Espace des possibles (La Petite-Patrie), Room 206, 6450 av. Christophe-Colomb. We will be talking about an intro to socialism, Spring’s politics and discussing how we can build a workers’ - [Montréal Spring meeting | Montréal réunion Spring](https://springmag.ca/event/montreal-spring-meeting-montreal-reunion-spring-6) - *La version française suit.* Are you a socialist in the Montréal area looking to get organized? Join Spring’s Montreal meeting on Thursday, November 13, 6:30pm at Espace des possibles (La Petite-Patrie), Room 206, 6450 av. Christophe-Colomb. We will be talking about an intro to socialism, Spring’s politics and discussing how we can build a workers’ - [Ottawa Spring Meeting](https://springmag.ca/event/ottawa-spring-meeting-16) - Do you live in Ottawa? Are you interested in socialism and want to build strong local movements? Join us for our Ottawa Spring Meeting on Saturday, November 1st, 11am at Atelier d’innovation sociale (95 Clegg St)! We will be discussing socialism and how we can be part of building strong social movements in Ottawa. This meeting - [Montréal film screening: "The Leader" (2019)](https://springmag.ca/event/montreal-film-screening-the-leader-2019) - Spring Montréal is hosting a screening of the anime “The Leader: Karl Marx” (2019) for our annual Spring Fund Drive! This event will be hosted at Brique par Brique (633 Beaumont Ave, Montréal, Québec, H3N 1V7) on Saturday, October 18th at 7pm. The space is wheelchair accessible and there will be snacks. This event is Pay What You Can - [London Spring meeting](https://springmag.ca/event/london-spring-meeting-5) - Are you a socialist in the London area looking to get organized? Join Spring’s London meeting on Saturday, October 18, 1:00 pm at Innovation Works (201 King St)! We will be discussing the current political terrain, reporting back from the last month of activity, and organizing to support local campaigns and struggles. All are welcome. Let’s organize together! - [Toronto Spring meeting](https://springmag.ca/event/toronto-spring-meeting-21) - Join Spring’s Toronto chapter organizing meeting on Friday, November 21, 6pm at Trinity-St. Paul’s United Church (427 Bloor St W)! We will be discussing key political issues as well as socialist strategy and tactics, building winning campaigns, and how to be effective socialist organizers in movements. This meeting is open to all Spring members in the - [Vancouver Spring Reading & Discussion Group](https://springmag.ca/event/vancouver-spring-reading-discussion-group) - Join Spring's Vancouver branch for a socialist reading and discussion group on Saturday, October 11, 11am PT over Zoom! We will be reading chapters 4 and 5 of the John Rees pamphlet "Strategy and Tactics." Whether you're a Spring member or just someone interested in discussing how socialists can develop effective tactics and winning strategies, come join - [Montréal Spring meeting | Montréal réunion Spring](https://springmag.ca/event/montreal-spring-meeting-montreal-reunion-spring-5) - *La version française suit.* Are you a socialist in the Montréal area looking to get organized? Join Spring’s Montreal meeting on Saturday, September 13, 11:30am at Maison de l’amitié (Room 14) at 120 Duluth Ave E. We will be talking about an intro to socialism, Spring’s politics and discussing how we can build a workers’ - [Red October: A Conference of Socialist Ideas in Action](https://springmag.ca/event/red-october-a-conference-of-socialist-ideas-in-action-3) - Save the date for Spring’s third annual conference, “Red October: A Conference of Socialist Ideas in Action,” taking place October 24-26 at the Toronto Metropolitan University Student Centre in downtown Toronto (55 Gould Street). Our three-day conference will include discussions on building worker power, fighting the right, international solidarity, and more. Join us for a full - [Hamilton Spring meeting](https://springmag.ca/event/hamilton-spring-meeting-12) - Do you live in Hamilton and want to engage in socialist organizing? Join Spring’s Hamilton contingent at our organizing meeting on Wednesday, November 19, 7pm at Solidarity Place (51 Adair Ave S). We will be discussing strategies to continue organizing in the Hamilton area with respect to Palestine solidarity and the anti-war movement, housing access, and - [Hamilton Spring meeting](https://springmag.ca/event/hamilton-spring-meeting-11) - **Please note the new time for this meeting!** Do you live in Hamilton and want to engage in socialist organizing? Join Spring’s Hamilton contingent at our organizing meeting on Wednesday, September 17, 7pm at Solidarity Place (51 Adair Ave S). We will be discussing strategies to continue organizing in the Hamilton area with respect to Palestine - [Montréal Spring Park Social | Rassemblement social Spring Montréal](https://springmag.ca/event/montreal-spring-park-social-rassemblement-social-spring-montreal) - *La version français suit* Join Spring's Montréal branch for a park social on Saturday, August 23 at 11am! We will be meeting at Parc Jarry in the northeast corner by the gazebo (where we'll also take cover if it happens to rain). Come meet like-minded people and discuss socialist politics in a casual, relaxed environment! - [Ottawa Spring meeting](https://springmag.ca/event/ottawa-spring-meeting-15) - Do you live in Ottawa? Are you interested in socialism and want to build strong local movements? Join us for our Ottawa Spring Meeting on Saturday, September 27th, 11am at Atelier d’innovation sociale (95 Clegg St)! We will be discussing socialism and how we can be part of building strong social movements in Ottawa. This meeting - [Toronto Spring meeting](https://springmag.ca/event/toronto-spring-meeting-20) - Join Spring’s Toronto chapter organizing meeting on Friday, October 3, 6pm at Trinity-St. Paul’s United Church (427 Bloor St W)! We will be discussing key political issues as well as socialist strategy and tactics, building winning campaigns, and how to be effective socialist organizers in movements. This meeting is open to all Spring members in the - [Toronto Spring meeting](https://springmag.ca/event/toronto-spring-meeting-19) - Join Spring’s Toronto chapter organizing meeting on Friday, September 12, 6pm at Trinity-St. Paul’s United Church (427 Bloor St W)! We will be discussing key political issues as well as socialist strategy and tactics, building winning campaigns, and how to be effective socialist organizers in movements. This meeting is open to all Spring members in the - [Hamilton Spring Pub Night](https://springmag.ca/event/hamilton-spring-pub-night) - Are you a socialist in the Hamilton area looking to meet like-minded people? Join Spring’s Hamilton chapter for a pub night on Friday, August 22nd, 6:30pm at The Judge (25 Augusta St)! We’ll be talking and socializing over drinks and pub fare. There is no expectation or requirement that anybody drink. All are welcome! See - [Toronto Book and Bake Sale](https://springmag.ca/event/toronto-book-and-bake-sale) - You are invited to Spring's Toronto Book and Bake Sale, happening on Sunday, August 17, 11am - 2pm, 720 Spadina Ave, 2nd floor. Anyone that has attended in the last couple of years knows that this sale rocks. We have gotten a huge influx of used titles, many of them quite rare. Lots of left-wing - [Halifax Spring picnic social](https://springmag.ca/event/halifax-spring-picnic-social) - Looking to talk local politics and socialism in a relaxed environment? Join Spring's Halifax/Kjipuktuk chapter for a picnic social at Needham Park on Saturday, August 23, 2pm-4pm! We will be meeting near the playground at the park for snacks, refreshments, and conversation. All are welcome! See you there! - [Vancouver Book & Bake Sale](https://springmag.ca/event/vancouver-book-bake-sale) - Come grab some leftist books at great prices, yummy baked goods, and handmade jewellery and screen prints at Spring’s Vancouver Book and Bake Sale, happening between 11am-3pm at John Hendry Park (Trout Lake) on Sunday August 24th, 2025. Proceeds support the Spring 2025 Fund Drive. See you there! - [London Spring meeting](https://springmag.ca/event/london-spring-meeting-4) - Are you a socialist in the London area looking to get organized? Join Spring’s London meeting on Saturday, August 23rd, 1:00 pm at Innovation Works (201 King St)! We will be discussing the current political terrain, reporting back from the last month of activity, and organizing to support local campaigns and struggles. All are welcome. Let’s organize together! - [Ottawa Spring meeting](https://springmag.ca/event/ottawa-spring-meeting-14) - Do you live in Ottawa? Are you interested in socialism and want to build strong local movements? Join us for our Ottawa Spring Meeting on Saturday, August 23, 11am at Atelier d’innovation sociale (95 Clegg St)! We will be discussing socialism and how we can be part of building strong social movements in Ottawa. This meeting - [Vancouver Spring meeting](https://springmag.ca/event/vancouver-spring-meeting-12) - Join Spring’s Vancouver branch organizing meeting on Sunday, September 21, 2pm PST at the Vancouver Public Library Kensington Branch (1428 Cedar Cottage Mews)! This meeting will be taking place on the unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) peoples. We will be discussing how to build a mass anti-war movement that can oppose a war on - [Toronto Spring meeting](https://springmag.ca/event/toronto-spring-meeting-18) - Join Spring’s Toronto chapter organizing meeting on Friday, August 8th, 6pm at Trinity-St. Paul’s United Church (427 Bloor St W)! We will be discussing key political issues as well as socialist strategy and tactics, building winning campaigns, and how to be effective socialist organizers in movements. This meeting is open to all Spring members in the - [Halifax Spring pub social](https://springmag.ca/event/halifax-spring-pub-social) - Are you a socialist in the Kjipuktuk/Halifax area? Are you looking to meet like-minded people? Join Spring's Halifax chapter for a pub social on Monday, July 28, 6:30pm at the Lion's Head Tavern (3085 Robie St)! We'll be talking and socializing over drinks and pub fare. All are welcome! See you there! - [Spring Halifax presents: A discussion with David Camfield](https://springmag.ca/event/spring-halifax-presents-a-discussion-with-david-camfield) - Join Spring's Halifax chapter on Monday, July 21st, 6:30pm AT / 5:30pm ET / 2:30pm PT over Zoom for our discussion with David Camfield, author of "Red Flags: A Reckoning with Communism for the Future of the Left." In advance of this event, we encourage people to listen to David’s podcast (Victor's Children) where he - [Hamilton film screening: "The Encampments" (2025)](https://springmag.ca/event/hamilton-film-screening-the-encampments-2025) - Spring Hamilton is hosting a film screening of the movie "The Encampments" (2025) for our annual Spring Fund Drive! This event will be held at Solidarity Place (51 Adair Ave S, Hamilton, ON, L8H 1B5) on July 17th at 6pm. This venue is wheelchair accessible. Following the screening, there will be speakers from the McMaster Encampment, - [Montréal Spring meeting | Montréal réunion Spring](https://springmag.ca/event/montreal-spring-meeting-montreal-reunion-spring-4) - *La version française suit.* Are you a socialist in the Montréal area looking to get organized? Join Spring’s Montreal meeting on Saturday, July 26th, 11:00am at Maison de l’amitié (Room 14) at 120 Duluth Ave E. We will be talking about an intro to socialism, Spring’s politics and discussing how we can build a workers’ - [London Spring meeting](https://springmag.ca/event/london-spring-meeting-3) - Are you a socialist in the London area looking to get organized? Join Spring’s London meeting on Saturday, July 19, 1:00 pm at Innovation Works (201 King St)! We will be discussing the current political terrain, reporting back from the last month of activity, and organizing to support local campaigns and struggles. All are welcome. Let’s organize together! - [Spring Labour Caucus: Workers and defending free speech for Palestine](https://springmag.ca/event/spring-labour-caucus-workers-and-defending-free-speech-for-palestine) - Join Spring's Labour Caucus on Sunday, July 13 at 5pm ET / 2pm PT / 6pm AT over Zoom for this discussion on how workers can defend free speech for Palestine. As Palestine solidarity has come under attack, so have people's livelihoods. Those who speak out against Israel's genocide in Gaza risk retaliation in the - [Toronto Spring meeting](https://springmag.ca/event/toronto-spring-meeting-17) - Join Spring’s Toronto chapter organizing meeting on Friday, July 11th, 6pm at Trinity-St. Paul’s United Church (427 Bloor St W)! We will be discussing key political issues as well as socialist strategy and tactics, building winning campaigns, and how to be effective socialist organizers in movements. This meeting is open to all Spring members in the - [Hamilton Spring meeting](https://springmag.ca/event/hamilton-spring-meeting-10) - Do you live in Hamilton and want to engage in socialist organizing? Join Spring’s Hamilton contingent at our organizing meeting on Wednesday, July 16th, 6 pm at Solidarity Place (51 Adair Ave S). We will be discussing strategies to continue organizing in the Hamilton area with respect to Palestine solidarity and the anti-war movement, housing access, - [Vancouver Spring meeting](https://springmag.ca/event/vancouver-spring-meeting-11) - Join Spring’s Vancouver branch organizing meeting on Sunday, July 6th, 1pm PST at the Vancouver Public Library Kensington Branch (1428 Cedar Cottage Mews)! This meeting will be taking place on the unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) peoples. We will be discussing how to build a mass anti-war movement that can oppose a war on - [Toronto Spring Karaoke Fundraiser](https://springmag.ca/event/toronto-spring-karaoke-fundraiser-2) - It's that time of the year! Spring Toronto Branch's ANNUAL KARAOKE FUNDRAISER🪩🎤 7PM: Snacks 8PM: Singing Let's put the SOCIAL in socialist and FUN in Fund Drive! Important details: $10 entry or PWYC (includes one raffle ticket) $2 per song or $5 for 3 songs $5 for one raffle ticket or $10 for 3 tickets - [Halifax Spring meeting](https://springmag.ca/event/halifax-spring-meeting-8) - Join the Spring Socialist Network’s Kjipuktuk/Halifax branch organizing meeting on Wednesday, June 25th at 6:30pm, happening at the Bus Stop Theatre (Community Room), 2203 Gottingen St! We will be discussing pressing political issues and strategizing about how we can build the power to oppose oppression and take on the bosses. This meeting is open to all - [London Spring meeting](https://springmag.ca/event/london-spring-meeting-2) - Are you a socialist in the London area looking to get organized? Join Spring’s London meeting on Saturday, June 21st, 1:00 pm at Innovation Works (201 King St)! We will be discussing the current political terrain, reporting back from the last month of activity, and organizing to support local campaigns and struggles. All are welcome. Let’s organize together! - [Hamilton Spring meeting](https://springmag.ca/event/hamilton-spring-meeting-9) - **Please note the change in date for this event.** Do you live in Hamilton and want to engage in socialist organizing? Join Spring’s Hamilton contingent at our organizing meeting on Wednesday, June 25th, 6 pm at Solidarity Place (51 Adair Ave S). We will be discussing strategies to continue organizing in the Hamilton area with respect - [Montréal Spring meeting | Montréal réunion Spring](https://springmag.ca/event/montreal-spring-meeting-montreal-reunion-spring-3) - *La version française suit.* Are you a socialist in the Montréal area looking to get organized? Join Spring’s Montreal meeting on Thursday, June 26th, 6:30 pm at Maison de l'amité (Room 14) at 120 Duluth Ave E. We will be talking about an intro to socialism, Spring’s politics and discussing how we can build a - [Ottawa Spring meeting](https://springmag.ca/event/ottawa-spring-meeting-13) - Do you live in Ottawa? Are you interested in socialism and want to build strong local movements? Join us for our Ottawa Spring Meeting on Saturday, June 14, 11am at Atelier d’innovation sociale (95 Clegg St)! We will be discussing socialism and how we can be part of building strong social movements in Ottawa. This meeting - [vancouver Spring meeting](https://springmag.ca/event/vancouver-spring-meeting-10) - Join Spring’s “vancouver” branch organizing meeting on Sunday, June 8th, 1pm PST at the Vancouver Public Library Kensington Branch (1428 Cedar Cottage Mews)! We will be discussing the political landscape, reporting back from the last month of activity, and organizing to support movements and struggles happening in our area. This meeting is open to members and non-members - [Halifax Spring meeting](https://springmag.ca/event/halifax-spring-meeting-7) - Join the Spring Socialist Network’s Kjipuktuk/Halifax branch organizing meeting on Thursday, May 22nd at 6:30pm, happening at Glitter Bean Café (5896 Spring Garden Rd)! We will be discussing pressing political issues and strategizing about how we can build the power to oppose oppression and take on the bosses. This meeting is open to all Spring members in - [Montréal Spring meeting | Montréal réunion Spring](https://springmag.ca/event/montreal-spring-meeting-montreal-reunion-spring-2) - *La version française suit.* Are you a socialist in the Montréal area looking to get organized? Join Spring’s Montreal meeting on Thursday, May 29th, 6:30 pm at 3516 Park Ave at the QPIRG-McGill Alternative Library. We will be talking about an intro to socialism, Spring’s politics and discussing how we can build a workers’ response - [Ottawa Spring meeting](https://springmag.ca/event/ottawa-spring-meeting-12) - Do you live in Ottawa? Are you interested in socialism and want to build strong local movements? Join us for our Ottawa Spring Meeting on Saturday, May 17, 11am at Atelier d’innovation sociale (95 Clegg St)! We will be discussing socialism and how we can be part of building strong social movements in Ottawa. This meeting - [London Spring meeting](https://springmag.ca/event/london-spring-meeting) - Are you a socialist in the London area looking to get organized? Spring is organizing our first ever meeting in London, Ontario! Join Spring’s London meeting on Saturday, May 24th, 1:00 pm at Innovation Works (201 King St). We will be talking about an intro to Spring’s politics, debriefing the federal election and discussing how - [Hamilton Spring meeting](https://springmag.ca/event/hamilton-spring-meeting-8) - Do you live in Hamilton and want to engage in socialist organizing? Join Spring’s Hamilton contingent at our organizing meeting on Wednesday, May 21st, 6 pm at Solidarity Place (51 Adair Ave S). We will be discussing strategies to continue organizing in the Hamilton area with respect to Palestine solidarity, housing access, and other pressing local - [vancouver Spring meeting](https://springmag.ca/event/vancouver-spring-meeting-9) - Join Spring’s “vancouver” branch organizing meeting on Wednesday, May 7th, 6:30pm PST over Zoom! We will be discussing the political landscape, reporting back from the last month of activity, and organizing to support movements and struggles happening in our area. Click here to register. See you there! - [Toronto Spring meeting](https://springmag.ca/event/toronto-spring-meeting-16) - Join Spring’s Toronto chapter organizing meeting on Friday, June 20th, 6pm at Trinity-St. Paul's United Church (427 Bloor St W)! We will be discussing key political issues as well as socialist strategy and tactics, building winning campaigns, and how to be effective socialist organizers in movements. This meeting is open to all Spring members in - [Toronto Spring meeting](https://springmag.ca/event/toronto-spring-meeting-15) - Join Spring’s Toronto chapter organizing meeting on Friday, May 23rd, 6pm at Trinity-St. Paul's United Church (427 Bloor St W)! We will be discussing key political issues as well as socialist strategy and tactics, building winning campaigns, and how to be effective socialist organizers in movements. This meeting is open to all Spring members in - [Spring Labour Caucus](https://springmag.ca/event/spring-labour-caucus-14) - Join the Spring Labour Caucus on Sunday, April 13 at 5pm ET / 6pm AT / 2pm PT over Zoom for this meeting of socialists in the labour movement. We will be talking about how we can be effective organizers in our trade unions and how we can build a fighting labour movement, including how we can - [Montréal Spring meeting | Montréal réunion Spring](https://springmag.ca/event/montreal-spring-meeting-montreal-reunion-spring) - *La version française suit.* Are you a socialist in the Montréal area looking to get organized? Spring is organizing our first ever meeting in Montréal/Tiohtià:ke! Join Spring’s Montreal meeting on Thursday, April 10th, 6:30 pm at 3516 Park Ave at the QPIRG-McGill Alternative Library. We will be talking about an intro to socialism, Spring’s politics - ['vancouver' Spring meeting](https://springmag.ca/event/vancouver-spring-meeting-8) - Let's organize together! Spring's 'vancouver' branch organizing meeting, "Trade wars, elections, & the rise of the right: Building a working class response," is happening on Saturday, April 5, 1pm at St. Margaret's Cedar Cottage Church! As the title suggests, this month we will be discussing the current political terrain given Trump's tariff threats, emerging contradictions, - [Ottawa Spring meeting](https://springmag.ca/event/ottawa-spring-meeting-11) - Do you live in Ottawa? Are you interested in socialism and want to build strong local movements? Join us for our Ottawa Spring Meeting on Saturday, April 19, 11am at Atelier d’innovation sociale (95 Clegg St)! We will be discussing socialism and how we can be part of building strong social movements in Ottawa. This meeting - [Toronto Spring meeting](https://springmag.ca/event/toronto-spring-meeting-14) - Join Spring’s Toronto chapter organizing meeting! We will be discussing key political issues as well as socialist strategy and tactics, building winning campaigns, and how to be effective socialist organizers in movements. This meeting is open to all Spring members in the GTA and anyone who is interested in getting involved with Spring. This is - [Hamilton Spring meeting](https://springmag.ca/event/hamilton-spring-meeting-7) - Do you live in Hamilton and want to engage in socialist organizing? Join Spring’s Hamilton contingent at our organizing meeting on Wednesday, April 23rd, 6 pm at Solidarity Place (51 Adair Ave S). We will be discussing strategies to continue organizing in the Hamilton area with respect to Palestine solidarity, housing access, and other pressing local - [Hamilton Spring meeting](https://springmag.ca/event/hamilton-spring-meeting-6) - Do you live in Hamilton and want to engage in socialist organizing? Join Spring’s Hamilton contingent at our organizing meeting on Wednesday, March 19th, 6 pm at Solidarity Place (51 Adair Ave S). We will be discussing strategies to continue organizing in the Hamilton area with respect to Palestine, housing access, and other pressing local issues. - [Halifax Spring meeting](https://springmag.ca/event/halifax-spring-meeting-6) - Join the Spring Socialist Network’s Kjipuktuk/Halifax branch organizing meeting on Tuesday, March 4th at 6:30pm, happening at Glitter Bean Café (5896 Spring Garden Rd)! We will be discussing pressing political issues and strategizing about how we can build the power to oppose oppression and take on the bosses. This meeting is open to all Spring members in - [vancouver Spring meeting](https://springmag.ca/event/vancouver-spring-meeting-7) - Let’s organize together! Mark your calendars for our March organizing meeting in so-called vancouver where we take a look at the bigger picture of how to strengthen our movements. We meet the first week of every month, and alternate between in-person and online. For this March, we are in-person at Vancouver Public Library Kensington Branch - [Ottawa Spring meeting](https://springmag.ca/event/ottawa-spring-meeting-10) - Do you live in Ottawa? Are you interested in socialism and want to build strong local movements? Join us for our Ottawa Spring Meeting on Saturday, March 15, 11am at Atelier d’innovation sociale (95 Clegg St)! We will be discussing socialism and how we can be part of building strong social movements in Ottawa. This meeting - [Ottawa postering: Blame Billionaires, Not Immigrants!](https://springmag.ca/event/ottawa-postering-blame-billionaires-not-immigrants) - Join Spring's Ottawa Chapter for postering run of our "Blame Billionaires, Not Immigrants" posters! As the cost of living rises and life gets more precarious, the ruling class is working overtime to deflect the blame to migrants instead of their own greed. But migrants aren't the ones hiking up rent, or making record profits off - [Toronto Spring meeting](https://springmag.ca/event/toronto-spring-meeting-13) - Join Spring’s Toronto chapter organizing meeting! We will be discussing key political issues as well as socialist strategy and tactics, building winning campaigns, and how to be effective socialist organizers in movements. This meeting is open to all Spring members in the GTA and anyone who is interested in getting involved with Spring. This is - [Spring Labour Caucus - Trade Wars: A working class response](https://springmag.ca/event/spring-labour-caucus-13) - **Please note the updated time for this event.** Join the Spring Labour Caucus on Sunday, February 9th at 3pm ET / 4pm AT / 12pm PT over Zoom for our public discussion, "Trade Wars: A working class response." Donald Trump's tariff threats are part of a rapidly escalating trade war between the US and Canada, as - [vancouver Spring meeting](https://springmag.ca/event/vancouver-spring-meeting-6) - Join Spring's "vancouver" branch organizing meeting on Thursday, February 6th, 6pm PST over Zoom! We will discuss plans for the upcoming months, with a particular focus on how to connect our struggles here in so-called canada with the struggles of workers around the world: from Palestine to Turtle Island to the Philippines! Click here to - [Ottawa Spring meeting](https://springmag.ca/event/ottawa-spring-meeting-9) - Do you live in Ottawa? Are you interested in socialism and want to build strong local movements? Join us for our Ottawa Spring Meeting on Saturday, February 15, 11am at Atelier d’innovation sociale (95 Clegg St)! We will be discussing socialism and how we can be part of building strong social movements in Ottawa. This meeting - [Hamilton Spring meeting](https://springmag.ca/event/hamilton-spring-meeting-5) - Do you live in Hamilton and want to engage in socialist organizing? Join Spring’s Hamilton contingent at our organizing meeting on Wednesday, February 19, 6 pm at Solidarity Place (51 Adair Ave S)! We will be discussing strategies to continue organizing in the Hamilton area with respect to Palestine, housing access, and other pressing local issues. - [Halifax Spring meeting - Global Crisis, Global Rage: Politics in the age of Trump](https://springmag.ca/event/halifax-spring-meeting-global-crisis-global-rage-politics-in-the-age-of-trump) - Join Spring's Halifax chapter on Friday, January 31 at 7pm for our talk and discussion, "Global Crisis, Global Rage: Politics in the age of Trump." Trump’s re-election represents a huge challenge for the left, but it also brings opportunities. Millions of people around the world, including in the United States and Canada, are desperate for - [Hamilton Spring meeting](https://springmag.ca/event/hamilton-spring-meeting-4) - Do you live in Hamilton and want to engage in socialist organizing? Join Spring’s Hamilton contingent at our organizing meeting on Wednesday, January 22, 6 pm at Solidarity Place (51 Adair Ave S)! We will be discussing strategies to continue organizing in the Hamilton area with respect to Palestine, housing access, and other pressing local issues. - [Toronto film screening: "Union" with special guest Chris Smalls](https://springmag.ca/event/toronto-film-screening-union-with-special-guest-chris-smalls) - Join Spring Magazine on March 4th at Innis Town Hall for a screening of the Oscar short-listed documentary, “Union”! “Union” follows workers at Amazon’s JFK8 fulfillment centre in Staten Island as they undertake an historic drive to win a union at their warehouse. The screening will be followed by an audience Q&A with Chris Smalls, a co-founder - [Ottawa Spring meeting](https://springmag.ca/event/ottawa-spring-meeting-8) - Do you live in Ottawa? Are you interested in socialism and want to build strong local movements? Join us for our Ottawa Spring Meeting on Saturday, January 18, 11am at Atelier d'innovation sociale (95 Clegg St)! We will be discussing socialism and how we can be part of building strong social movements in Ottawa. This meeting - [Gaza, Lebanon, & Syria: What's next in the region?](https://springmag.ca/event/gaza-lebanon-syria-whats-next-in-the-region) - Join Spring's Ottawa chapter on Thursday, December 19 at 7pm for our discussion, Gaza, Lebanon, & Syria: What's next in the region? On the heels of the last year of an unfolding genocide in Gaza and Israeli aggression and killing in Lebanon, the fall of the Assad regime in Syria adds intensity to an already intense - [Toronto Spring meeting](https://springmag.ca/event/toronto-spring-meeting-12) - Join Spring’s Toronto chapter organizing meeting! We will be discussing key political issues as well as socialist strategy and tactics, building winning campaigns, and how to be effective socialist organizers in movements. This meeting is open to all Spring members in the GTA and anyone who is interested in getting involved with Spring. This is - [Toronto Spring meeting](https://springmag.ca/event/toronto-spring-meeting-11) - Join Spring’s Toronto chapter organizing meeting! We will be discussing key political issues as well as socialist strategy and tactics, building winning campaigns, and how to be effective socialist organizers in movements. This meeting is open to all Spring members in the GTA and anyone who is interested in getting involved with Spring. This is - [Spring Winter Convention 2025: Opening session](https://springmag.ca/event/spring-winter-convention-2025-opening-session) - Join Spring on Friday, January 3rd at 7pm ET / 8pm AT / 4pm PT over Zoom for the opening session of our annual winter Convention. This session is open to members and non-members and will focus on the political terrain that lies ahead of us as socialists, followed by a Q & A / discussion session where - [Hamilton Spring meeting](https://springmag.ca/event/hamilton-spring-meeting-3) - Do you live in Hamilton and want to engage in socialist organizing? Join Spring’s Hamilton contingent at our organizing meeting on Wednesday, December 18th, 6 pm at Solidarity Place (51 Adair Ave S). We will be discussing strategies to continue organizing in the Hamilton area with respect to Palestine, housing access, and other pressing local - [Ottawa Spring social](https://springmag.ca/event/ottawa-spring-social) - Join Spring's Ottawa chapter for an evening of socializing on Friday, November 22, 7:00pm at Deacon Brodies Pub (247 Elgin St)! Whether you're a seasoned socialist or just looking to meet like-minded people, all are welcome! We'll see you there! - [Toronto Spring holiday party](https://springmag.ca/event/toronto-spring-holiday-party) - Join Spring's Toronto chapter on Friday, December 13 at 6pm for an evening of socialist socializing at Pauper's Pub (539 Bloor St W, 2nd floor)! There will be trivia, drinks, food, and plenty of conversation. Members and non-members welcome! - [vancouver Spring meeting](https://springmag.ca/event/vancouver-spring-meeting-5) - We are stronger when we are organized! Join our monthly organizing meeting in so-called vancouver where we discuss key political issues. We meet the first week of every month, and alternate between in-person and online. For this December, we are online! The meeting will be taking place over Zoom on Sunday, December 1 at 1:00pm. - [Halifax Spring meeting - "Fascism: What it is and how to fight it"](https://springmag.ca/event/halifax-spring-meeting-fascism-what-it-is-and-how-to-fight-it) - Today, "fascism" is a word used to describe everything - government regimes, individual people, and even specific rules and policies. But what makes something truly "fascist?" What can we gain from understanding the classical, scientific definition of fascism and its history? And most importantly, what can we learn from fascism's past that will help us - [Ottawa Spring meeting](https://springmag.ca/event/ottawa-spring-meeting-7) - Do you live in Ottawa? Are you interested in socialism and want to build strong local movements? Join us for our Ottawa Spring Meeting on Saturday, November 16th, 11am at 233 Gilmour St! We will be discussing socialism and how we can be part of building strong social movements in Ottawa. This meeting is open to - [Hamilton Spring meeting](https://springmag.ca/event/hamilton-spring-meeting-2) - Do you live in Hamilton and wish to engage in socialist organizing? Join Spring’s Hamilton contingent at our organizing meeting this Wednesday, November 20th @ 6 pm at Solidarity Place, 51 Adair Ave S, Hamilton, ON. We will be discussing strategies to continue organizing in the Hamilton area with respect to Palestine, housing access, and - [Hamilton Spring meeting](https://springmag.ca/event/hamilton-spring-meeting) - Do you live in Hamilton and wish to engage in socialist organizing? Join Spring’s Hamilton contingent at our organizing meeting this Wednesday, October 16th @ 6 pm at Solidarity Place, 51 Adair Ave S, Hamilton, ON. We will be discussing strategies to continue organizing in the Hamilton area with respect to Palestine, housing access, and - [vancouver Spring meeting](https://springmag.ca/event/vancouver-spring-meeting-4) - Let’s organize together! Mark your calendars for our monthly organizing meeting in so-called vancouver where we take a look at the bigger picture of how to strengthen our movements. We meet the first week of every month, and alternate between in-person and online. For this November, we are in-person! We meet at Vancouver Public Library - [UPDATED: vancouver art build for Palestine](https://springmag.ca/event/updated-vancouver-art-build-for-palestine) - UPDATE: Dennise Velasco had a last-minute scheduling conflict! So we will come together for this conversation on another date in the future: stay tuned! We are still gathering this Sunday, September 29th from 11am-3pm at St. Margaret’s Cedar Cottage (1530 E 22nd Ave, Vancouver, BC, V5N 2P1) to make signs and banners for the October - [Spring Labour Caucus](https://springmag.ca/event/spring-labour-caucus-12) - Join the Spring Labour Caucus on Sunday, September 29 at 12pm ET / 1pm AT / 9am PT over Zoom for this meeting of socialists in the labour movement. We will be talking about how we can be effective organizers in our trade unions and how we can build a fighting labour movement, including how we can - [vancouver Spring organizing meeting](https://springmag.ca/event/vancouver-spring-organizing-meeting-3) - Mark your calendars! Join our monthly organizing meeting in so-called vancouver where we take a look at the bigger picture of our movements together. We meet the first week of every month, and alternate between in-person and online. For this October, we are online! We will begin the meeting reviewing a reading (this meeting it - [Reading Group: "Palestine: A Socialist Introduction"](https://springmag.ca/event/reading-group-palestine-a-socialist-introduction) - Spring Socialist Network's vancouver Branch is beginning a reading group for the book Palestine: A Socialist Introduction, edited by Sumaya Awad and brian bean. Get your copy for free at Haymarket Books! We are meeting four times, every other Thursday, from 6pm-8pm PT, starting October 24th. OCTOBER 24TH Part 1: Circumstances Given and Transmitted from - [Toronto Spring meeting](https://springmag.ca/event/toronto-spring-meeting-10) - Join Spring’s Toronto chapter organizing meeting! We will be discussing key political issues as well as socialist strategy and tactics, building winning campaigns, and how to be effective socialist organizers in movements. This meeting is open to all Spring members in the GTA and anyone who is interested in getting involved with Spring. This is - [Toronto Spring meeting](https://springmag.ca/event/toronto-spring-meeting-9) - Join Spring’s Toronto chapter organizing meeting! We will be discussing key political issues as well as socialist strategy and tactics, building winning campaigns, and how to be effective socialist organizers in movements. This meeting is open to all Spring members in the GTA and anyone who is interested in getting involved with Spring. This is - [Hamilton film screening: "Pride" (2014)](https://springmag.ca/event/hamilton-film-screening-pride-2014) - Join Spring's Hamilton branch on Saturday, September 28 at 7:00pm for a screening of PRIDE, an amazing film about challenging prejudice while building working class solidarity. In the midst of the 1984 British Miners strike, LGBTQ activists mobilized support for the fight against Thatcher, forcing the union members to rethink their own ideas about how - [Red October: A Conference of Socialist Ideas in Action](https://springmag.ca/event/red-october-a-conference-of-socialist-ideas-in-action-2) - The world is in crisis. From the genocide in Gaza to the rise of the far-right and their anti-immigrant agenda, it is as clear as ever we need to join together and strategize to build working class unity and power. We need to fight for a socialist alternative. Spring’s second annual conference, "Red October: A - [Phone Zap for Halifax Public Library workers](https://springmag.ca/event/phone-zap-for-halifax-public-library-workers) - Join us Thursday, September 5 at noon for a phone zap in support of striking Halifax Public Library workers! Library workers are on the front lines supporting our communities and they need our support. As the housing crisis deepens and more people need access to free resources and safe spaces, libraries have become more important - [Emergency Phone Zap: Defend Fred Hahn!](https://springmag.ca/event/emergency-phone-zap-defend-fred-hahn) - ☎ Tonight at 8pm ET / 9pm AT / 5pm PT, join our emergency phone zap to defend Fred Hahn! CUPE Ontario President Fred Hahn is under attack for his unwavering commitment to Palestine solidarity. Join this emergency phone zap & email blast to help organize support for Fred, to defend union democracy and international - [Ottawa Spring meeting](https://springmag.ca/event/ottawa-spring-meeting-6) - Do you live in Ottawa? Are you interested in socialism and want to build strong local movements? Join us for our Ottawa Spring Meeting on Sunday, August 25th, 11am at 224 Cooper St (first floor). We will be discussing socialism and how we can be part of building strong social movements in Ottawa. This meeting is - [Ottawa Spring meeting](https://springmag.ca/event/ottawa-spring-meeting-5) - Do you live in Ottawa? Are you interested in socialism and want to build strong local movements? Join us for our Ottawa Spring Meeting on Sunday, September 22nd, 11am at 224 Cooper St (first floor). We will be discussing socialism and how we can be part of building strong social movements in Ottawa. This meeting is - [Spring Convention: Socialist organizing in 2024](https://springmag.ca/event/spring-convention-socialist-organizing-in-2024) - Join Spring on Friday, August 16 at 7pm ET / 8pm AT / 4pm PT over Zoom for the opening session of our annual summer Convention, “Socialist organizing in 2024: Building workers’ power to confront war, climate change, & economic crisis.” This session is open to members and non-members and will focus on the political terrain that lies ahead of - [Toronto: Spring Field Day](https://springmag.ca/event/toronto-spring-field-day) - Spring is holding its first ever field day! Join us on Saturday, August 31 at Trinity Bellwoods (near the Dundas and Crawford entrance) from 2 to 7pm! This is a chance for us to come together as a community for an afternoon of family-friendly fun. There will be soccer, frisbee golf, tug-of-war, cornhole, bracelet making, - [Toronto Spring meeting](https://springmag.ca/event/toronto-spring-meeting-8) - Join Spring’s Toronto chapter organizing meeting! We will be discussing key political issues as well as socialist strategy and tactics, building winning campaigns, and how to be effective socialist organizers in movements. This meeting is open to all Spring members in the GTA and anyone who is interested in getting involved with Spring. This is - [vancouver: Workers' Wellness tabling and discussion](https://springmag.ca/event/vancouver-workers-wellness-tabling-and-discussion) - With rising living costs, stagnant wages, intense heatwaves, and the ongoing pandemic, there is so much understandable concern at the intersection of health and work. Do you face any of these issues? Join us at 7pm on August 19th to talk about our personal experiences with the lack of adequate paid sick days, neglect of - [vancouver Spring organizing meeting](https://springmag.ca/event/vancouver-spring-organizing-meeting-2) - Spring's vancouver Branch's next in-person meeting is Thursday, September 5th 5:30pm-7:30pm at VPL Kensington Branch 🗓️. As always, masks are mandatory and KN95s are provided ♡ Before then, our monthly meeting for August is online Friday, August 16th from 4pm-6pm, but this is a Spring-wide organizing meeting including all our branches! If you would like - [Ottawa film screening: Land and Freedom (1995)](https://springmag.ca/event/ottawa-film-screening-land-and-freedom-1995) - Join Spring Ottawa on Friday, July 26th for a special screening of Ken Loach's 1995 film "Land and Freedom". This is a free screening. Film starts at 8:30pm at 224 Cooper Street. Land and Freedom is a film about the Spanish Revolution and the role of the international brigades in the fight against fascism. - [vancouver: Postering in solidarity with migrants](https://springmag.ca/event/vancouver-postering-in-solidarity-with-migrants) - Join our vancouver Spring Chapter in postering the neighbourhood with messages of working class solidarity with migrants! We're meeting at Kingcrest Park, Thursday, July 25th at 6pm. Look for the Blame Billionaires not Immigrants posters to find us! We will also be learning about how to support victims of The Promised Land Consultancy (TPLC). TPLC - [Ottawa Spring organizing meeting](https://springmag.ca/event/ottawa-spring-organizing-meeting-5) - Do you live in Ottawa? Are you interested in socialism and want to build strong local movements? Join us for our Ottawa Spring Meeting on Sunday, July 21st, 11am at 224 Cooper St (first floor). We will be discussing socialism and how we can be part of building strong social movements in Ottawa. This meeting - [Reading group: "The Red in the Rainbow" by Hannah Dee](https://springmag.ca/event/reading-group-the-red-in-the-rainbow-by-hannah-dee) - Join Spring for this four-part reading group of "The Red in the Rainbow" by Hannah Dee! This inspiring story of the fight for sexual liberation travels across continents and centuries, uncovering a radical struggle including the Stonewall riots in 1969 and the mass movement against Apartheid South Africa that achieved the first inclusion of 2SLGBTQIA+ - [vancouver Spring Meeting](https://springmag.ca/event/vancouver-spring-meeting-3) - We must be united to win, and to be united, we must organize! Join us at our monthly Spring Organizing Meeting where we make plans for growing the movement for Palestinian liberation, Indigenous sovereignty, disability justice, abolition, migrant justice, housing for all, 2SLGBTQIA+ justice, workers’ power, and the end of capitalism! Be a part of - [Hamilton Spring Picnic Fundraiser!](https://springmag.ca/event/hamilton-spring-picnic-fundraiser) - Join Spring's Hamilton chapter for a picnic and fundraiser! We will be talking about Part 1 of the book "Palestine: A Socialist Introduction." The e-book is free from Haymarket Press (available here) so pick it up, read the first three chapters and come to talk about how Israel was created and the movement it spurred - [Memorial and picnic in honour of Sarah Hegazi](https://springmag.ca/event/memorial-and-picnic-in-honour-of-sarah-hegazi) - You are invited to join Spring on Sunday, July 14 at 12pm as we celebrate the life and legacy of our dear comrade, Sarah Hegazi. We will be meeting at Sarah's mural in downtown Toronto (511 Church St) for a memorial before heading to Barbara Hall Parkette (519 Church St) for a picnic. Please bring - [Toronto Spring meeting](https://springmag.ca/event/toronto-spring-meeting-7) - Join Spring’s Toronto chapter organizing meeting! We will be discussing key political issues as well as socialist strategy and tactics, building winning campaigns, and how to be effective socialist organizers in movements. This meeting is open to all Spring members in the GTA and anyone who is interested in getting involved with Spring. This is - [vancouver Book and Bake Sale](https://springmag.ca/event/vancouver-book-and-bake-sale) - Get some leftist books for great deals, have some delicious baked goods, and enjoy some rad music and conversation in the park at our Book and Bake Sale, taking place on Sunday, July 28, 1pm-5pm at Kingcrest Park! All this is in support of Spring's 2024 Fund Drive. We will be there all afternoon, so just drop by! - [vancouver Film Screening: Pride (2014)](https://springmag.ca/event/vancouver-film-screening-pride-2014) - In honour of Pride month, the Spring "vancouver" Branch is screening the film PRIDE (2014) about how Queer and Trans activists stood up for low-income mine workers and helped change their situation in the strike! Learn how we can come together and support one another even when we may have different experiences, because no matter - [Ottawa Spring Meeting](https://springmag.ca/event/ottawa-spring-meeting-4) - Do you live in Ottawa? Are you interested in socialism and want to build strong local movements? Join us for our Ottawa Spring Meeting on Sunday, June 23rd at Minto Park, 102 Lewis Street We will be discussing socialism and how we can be part of building strong social movements in Ottawa. This meeting is open - [Spring's Toronto book, bake and garage sale](https://springmag.ca/event/springs-toronto-book-bake-and-garage-sale) - You are invited to Spring's Toronto book, bake and garage sale. Saturday, July 6th, 11am - 2pm, 720 Spadina Ave #202. We will be selling lots left-wing books for great deals, as well as baked goods, clothes and other knick knacks in support of our fund drive. Come to browse, eat or just hang out! - [Toronto Spring meeting](https://springmag.ca/event/toronto-spring-organizing-meeting-15) - Join Spring’s Toronto chapter organizing meeting! We will be discussing key political issues as well as socialist strategy and tactics, building winning campaigns, and how to be effective socialist organizers in movements. This meeting is open to all Spring members in the GTA and anyone who is interested in getting involved with Spring. This is - [Ottawa Spring Meeting](https://springmag.ca/event/ottawa-spring-meeting-3) - Do you live in Ottawa? Are you interested in socialism and want to build strong local movements? Join us for our Ottawa Spring Meeting on Sunday, May 26th at 12:30pm at Happy Goat Coffee (326 Elgin St)! We will be discussing socialism and how we can be part of building strong social movements in Ottawa. - [Spring Strike Solidarity School](https://springmag.ca/event/spring-strike-solidarity-school) - Join the Spring Labour Caucus on Sunday, June 2nd, 12pm ET / 1pm AT / 9am PT for our Strike Solidarity School! Workers are fighting back against the big business agenda. 2023 saw a dramatic increase in the number of strikes across the Canadian state. Public and private sector workers are fighting for better wages, - [vancouver Spring Meeting](https://springmag.ca/event/vancouver-spring-meeting-2) - Join us on Sunday, June 2 at 1pm over Zoom for our vancouver chapter organizing meeting! We meet on the first weekend of every month, alternating betwen in-person and online. This month we’re online! Join us in making real plans toward Palestinian liberation, disability justice, abolition, Indigenous sovereignty, migrant rights, housing for all, 2SLGBTQIA+ rights, - [Toronto Pride Film Screening](https://springmag.ca/event/toronto-pride-film-screening) - On June 14, join Spring Magazine and the Canadian Labour International Film Festival in Toronto for this special Pride Month-screening of the award-winning 2014 film, Pride. Pride tells the inspiring true story of Lesbians & Gays Support the Miners (LGSM), a queer solidarity campaign in England that built support for miners and their families in - [Vancouver Spring Meeting](https://springmag.ca/event/vancouver-spring-meeting) - Come join Spring as we talk about organizing around workers’ solidarity, freeing Palestine, abolition, Black liberation, Indigenous sovereignty, migrant rights, disability justice, housing for all, 2SLGBTQIA+ equality and how all of these fights and more intersect with one another! We will meet at the Coal Harbour Community Centre (480 Broughton St, Vancouver) on Saturday, March - [Spring Karaoke Night fundraiser!](https://springmag.ca/event/spring-karaoke-night-fundraiser) - It’s true: socialists can have fun! 🤩 Join Spring’s Toronto chapter on Friday, May 10th for a Karaoke Night fundraiser! Challenge comrades to friendly song battles, connect with other socialists, and fundraise to keep our publication going! Snacks and socializing at 6pm; karaoke at 8pm. Entry: $5 or PWYC $2 per song or $5 for - [Toronto Spring organizing meeting](https://springmag.ca/event/toronto-spring-organizing-meeting-14) - Join Spring’s Toronto chapter organizing meeting! We will be discussing key political issues as well as socialist strategy and tactics, building winning campaigns, and how to be effective socialist organizers in movements. This meeting is open to all Spring members in the GTA and anyone who is interested in getting involved with Spring. This is - [Toronto Spring Organizing Meeting](https://springmag.ca/event/toronto-spring-organizing-meeting-13) - Join Spring’s Toronto chapter organizing meeting! We will be discussing key political issues as well as socialist strategy and tactics, building winning campaigns, and how to be effective socialist organizers in movements. This meeting is open to all Spring members in the GTA and anyone who is interested in getting involved with Spring. This is - [Ottawa Spring Meeting](https://springmag.ca/event/ottawa-spring-meeting-2) - Do you live in Ottawa? Are you interested in socialism and want to build strong local movements? Join us for our Ottawa Spring Meeting on Sunday, April 21st at 1:00pm at Atelier D’Innovation, 95 Clegg Street! We will be discussing socialism and how we can be part of building strong social movements in Ottawa. We - [vancouver Spring Meeting & Banner Making!](https://springmag.ca/event/vancouver-spring-meeting-banner-making) - On Sunday, May 5, 1pm at the VPL Kensington Branch, join us in being a part of on-the-ground action toward Palestinian liberation, disability justice, abolition, Indigenous sovereignty, migrant justice, housing for all, 2SLGBTQIA+ justice, workers' power, and the end of capitalism! We will be discussing how all of us are taking part in movements of - [Spring Labour Caucus](https://springmag.ca/event/spring-labour-caucus-11) - Join the Spring Labour Caucus on Sunday, April 28 at 5:00pm ET / 2:00pm PT / 6:00pm AT over Zoom for this meeting of socialists in the labour movement. We will be talking about how we can be effective organizers in our trade unions and how we can build a fighting labour movement, including how - [vancouver: Postering for Palestine & Sudan](https://springmag.ca/event/vancouver-postering-for-palestine-sudan) - In honour of Sudan Action Weekend April 13th-15th, we are postering for Palestine and Sudan on Sunday, April 14 at 11:00am! Come out and join us in ornamenting the streets of so-called vancouver with messages of solidarity! Bring a friend! We will be meeting in front of Bon Cafe at 33rd & Main Street, "vancouver"! - [Picket Visit: Sheraton Vancouver Airport Hotel](https://springmag.ca/event/picket-visit-sheraton-vancouver-airport-hotel) - Workers at Sheraton's Vancouver Airport Hotel have been ON STRIKE for over nine months! Come out this Saturday and join them on the picket line to support their powerful stand off fighting against some of the biggest billionaires of so-called canada: the Lalji family. See you on March 30th at 10:00am! Meet at King Edward - [vancouver Spring Organizing Meeting](https://springmag.ca/event/vancouver-spring-organizing-meeting) - Join us on Sunday, April 7 at 1pm over Zoom for our vancouver chapter organizing meeting! We meet on the first weekend of every month, alternating betwen in-person and online. This month we’re online! Join us in making real plans toward Palestinian liberation, disability justice, abolition, Indigenous sovereignty, migrant rights, housing for all, 2SLGBTQIA+ rights, - [Ottawa Spring Meeting](https://springmag.ca/event/ottawa-spring-meeting) - Do you live in Ottawa? Are you interested in socialism and want to build strong local movements? Join us for our Ottawa Spring Meeting on Sunday, March 17th at 1:00pm at Atelier D'Innovation, 95 Clegg Street! We will be discussing socialism and how we can be part of building strong social movements in Ottawa. We - [Toronto Spring Meeting](https://springmag.ca/event/toronto-spring-meeting-5) - Join Spring’s Toronto chapter organizing meeting! We will be discussing key political issues as weel as socialist strategy and tactics, building winning campaigns, and how to be effective socialist organizers in movements. This meeting is open to all Spring members in the GTA and anyone who is interested in getting involved with Spring. This is - [Toronto Spring Meeting](https://springmag.ca/event/toronto-spring-meeting-6) - Join Spring’s Toronto chapter organizing meeting! We will be discussing key political issues as weel as socialist strategy and tactics, building winning campaigns, and how to be effective socialist organizers in movements. This meeting is open to all Spring members in the GTA and anyone who is interested in getting involved with Spring. This is - [Hamilton Spring Socialist Network Meet & Greet](https://springmag.ca/event/hamilton-spring-socialist-network-meet-greet) - Frustrated at a world of war, genocide, and an economy that only benefits the rich? If you live in Hamilton or the surrounding area, join the Spring Socialist Network on Sunday, March 3rd at 2pm for a meet and greet with like-minded socialists in the region. The meet and greet will take place at the - [Ottawa Spring Organizing Meeting](https://springmag.ca/event/ottawa-spring-organizing-meeting-4) - Do you live in Ottawa? Are you interested in socialism and want to build strong local movements? Join us for our Ottawa Spring Meeting on Saturday, February 17th at 11:00am at 95 Clegg Street! We will be discussing socialism and how we can be part of building strong social movements in Ottawa. We will also - [Halifax Organizing Meeting](https://springmag.ca/event/halifax-organizing-meeting-2) - Join the Spring Socialist Network’s Kjipuktuk/Halifax branch organizing meeting on Thursday, February 8th at 5pm, happening at Veith House (3115 Veith St)! We will be discussing pressing political issues and strategizing about how we can build the power to oppose oppression and take on the bosses. This meeting is open to all Spring members in - [Lessons from the Québec Common Front](https://springmag.ca/event/lessons-from-the-quebec-common-front) - Join Spring on Sunday, February 25 at 5:00 pm ET / 2:00pm PT / 6:00pm AT for a conversation with Benoit Renaud, a Québec education worker and socialist, about lessons we can learn from the Québec labour movement. In November and December, over half a million workers in Québec went on strike for 11 days - [Toronto Spring Organizing Meeting](https://springmag.ca/event/toronto-spring-organizing-meeting-12) - Join Spring’s Toronto chapter organizing meeting! We will be discussing key political issues as well as Palestinian liberation, socialist strategy and tactics, building winning campaigns, and how to be effective socialist organizers in movements. This meeting is open to all Spring members in the GTA and anyone who is interested in getting involved with Spring. - [Ottawa Spring Organizing Meeting](https://springmag.ca/event/ottawa-spring-organizing-meeting-3) - Do you live in Ottawa? Are you interested in socialism and want to build strong local movements? Join us for our Ottawa Spring Meeting on Saturday, January 20th at 11:00am, on the second floor of the NAC (1 Elgin St). We will be discussing socialism and how we can be part of building strong social - [Spring Reading Group: Teamster Rebellion](https://springmag.ca/event/spring-reading-group-teamster-rebellion) - Join Spring's Labour Caucus for a reading group and discussion of Farrell Dobbs' classic book, "Teamster Rebellion." The book chronicles the 1934 union organizing and activity of Teamsters Local 574 in Minnesota, of which Dobbs was a key rank-and-file leader. In the face of fierce strikebreaking efforts, repression, and brutal police violence, the workers organized - [Nova Scotia Phone Zap](https://springmag.ca/event/nova-scotia-phone-zap) - In solidarity with the call from the Atlantic Canadian Palestinian Society to do Mass Call Mondays, the Halifax branch of Spring is hosting a lunchtime phone zap on Monday, January 8 at noon. Join us in calling on our elected provincial & federal officials to demand an arms embargo on Israel and a permanent ceasefire - [Spring Toronto Holiday Party](https://springmag.ca/event/spring-toronto-holiday-party) - Happy holidays, comrades! Join us on Friday, December 15th for our Toronto Spring Holiday Party at Paupers Pub, 539 Bloor Street West, 2nd floor, 6pm. This is a chance to connect with people in Spring and supporters. We will have our annual trivia contest. All are welcome! - [Spring Labour Caucus](https://springmag.ca/event/spring-labour-caucus-10) - Join the Spring Labour Caucus for this meeting of socialists in the labour movement. We will be discussing how to build rank and file support for Palestine solidarity. As workers continue to face reprisal and backlash for expressing their support for Palestine, we need to build strong rank and file bases within our unions to - [Nova Scotia Phone Zap for a Permanent Ceasefire!](https://springmag.ca/event/nova-scotia-phone-zap-for-a-permanent-ceasefire) - On Thursday, November 30 at noon AT, join us for a Nova Scotia phone zap demanding a permanent #CeasefireNOW 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 way to add pressure to our elected officials. We will all - [Spring Ottawa Art Build](https://springmag.ca/event/spring-ottawa-art-build) - OTTAWA: Come join us this Friday at 6:30 to help us make banners and signs for the ‘National March on Ottawa for Palestine’. Snacks and supplies will be provided but feel free to bring any materials you’d like to use!! Friday, Nov 24, 6:30pm 233 Gilmour St., 6th floor boardroom - [Building mass action for Palestine solidarity: Lessons from the UK](https://springmag.ca/event/building-mass-action-for-palestine-solidarity-lessons-from-the-uk) - 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. Shabbir Lakha - [Toronto Spring Meeting](https://springmag.ca/event/toronto-spring-meeting-4) - Join Spring’s Toronto chapter organizing meeting! We will be discussing key political issues as well as socialist strategy and tactics, building winning campaigns, and how to be effective socialist organizers in movements. This meeting is open to all Spring members in the GTA and anyone who is interested in getting involved with Spring. This is - [Spring Ottawa Organizing Meeting](https://springmag.ca/event/spring-ottawa-organizing-meeting) - Do you live in Ottawa? Are you interested in socialism and want to build strong local movements? Join us for our Ottawa Spring Meeting on Sunday, November 19th at 10:30am at Equator Coffee at the NAC (1 Elgin St). We will be discussing socialism and how we can be part of building strong social movements - [Palestine Solidarity Materials-Making Party (Toronto)](https://springmag.ca/event/palestine-solidarity-materials-making-party-toronto-2) - Join Spring’s Toronto chapter to make signs for Palestine! The Ceasefire NOW! Toronto action will be taking place on Sunday at 1pm. Join us before the action begins to make signs, staple placards, and prepare other materials to make our support and solidarity with visible! Afterwards, we will travel together to the march (Nathan Phillips - [Spring Labour Caucus](https://springmag.ca/event/spring-labour-caucus-9) - Join the Spring Labour Caucus for this meeting of socialists in the labour movement. We will be talking about how we can be effective organizers in our trade unions and how we can build a fighting labour movement. We will be discussing the lessons from workers’ struggles during this ongoing “Red Hot Labour Fall” and - [Ceasefire NOW: How can we stop the genocide in Gaza? - Toronto Meeting](https://springmag.ca/event/toronto-spring-organizing-meeting-11) - Join the Toronto chapter of Spring for this urgent meeting about how we can build the power to stop the unfolding genocide in Gaza. We will be hearing from three speakers, followed by an organizing discussion. The speakers: *Dania Majid, Palestinian activist, lawyer with the Arab-Canadian Lawyers Association *Suzanne Weiss, Holocaust survivor, author, activist *James - [Spring Reading Group - Palestine: The Case for Revolution](https://springmag.ca/event/spring-reading-group-palestine-the-case-for-revolution) - Join Spring on Sunday, November 5 at 7pm ET / 4pm PT / 8pm AT over Zoom for a reading group discussion on Anne Alexander's article, "Ending apartheid in Palestine: The case for a revolutionary strategy." With the Palestinian working class having to organize under constant violence for decades at the hands of the perpetually - [Palestine Solidarity Materials Making Party (Toronto)](https://springmag.ca/event/palestine-solidarity-materials-making-party-toronto) - Join Spring's Toronto chapter on Saturday, November 4 at 10am to make signs for Palestine! On Saturday afternoon, the 100K March for Gaza will be taking place in Toronto as part of the National Day of Action for Palestine. Join us before the action begins to make signs, staple placards, and prepare other materials to - [Ottawa Spring Organizing Meeting](https://springmag.ca/event/ottawa-spring-organizing-meeting-2) - Do you live in Ottawa? Are you interested in socialism and want to build strong local movements? Join us for our Ottawa Spring Meeting on Sunday, October 29th at 12:00 pm at Happy Goat Coffee, 145 Main Street. We will be discussing socialism and how we can be part of building strong social movements in - [Spring Labour Caucus Meeting](https://springmag.ca/event/spring-labour-caucus-meeting) - Join the Spring Labour Caucus for this meeting of socialists in the labour movement. We will be talking about how we can be effective organizers in our trade unions and how we can build a fighting labour movement. We will be discussing the lessons from workers’ struggles during this past "Red Hot Labour Summer" and - [Toronto Spring Meeting](https://springmag.ca/event/toronto-spring-organizing-meeting-10) - Join Spring’s Toronto chapter organizing meeting! We will be discussing key political issues as well as socialist strategy and tactics, building winning campaigns, and how to be effective socialist organizers in movements. This meeting is open to all Spring members in the GTA and anyone who is interested in getting involved with Spring. This is - [Red October: A Conference of Socialist Ideas in Action](https://springmag.ca/event/red-october-a-conference-of-socialist-ideas-in-action) - The world is burning, public services are being gutted, the far-right is emboldened and working-class people are struggling to make ends meet. Now more than ever, we need to join together and strategize to build working class unity and power. We need to fight for a socialist alternative. Spring is proud to announce "Red October: - [Halifax Organizing Meeting](https://springmag.ca/event/halifax-organizing-meeting) - Join the Spring Socialist Network’s Kjipuktuk/Halifax branch organizing meeting. We will be discussing pressing political issues and strategizing about how we can build the power to oppose oppression and take on the bosses. This meeting is open to all Spring members in the HRM and anyone who is interested in getting involved with Spring. This - [Ottawa Spring Meeting](https://springmag.ca/event/ottawa-spring-organizing-meeting) - Do you live in Ottawa? Are you interested in socialism and want to build strong local movements? Join us for our Ottawa Spring Meeting on Sunday, September 24th at 12:00 pm at Happy Goat Coffee, 145 Main Street. We will be discussing socialism and how we can be part of building strong social movements in - [Toronto Spring Picnic](https://springmag.ca/event/toronto-spring-picnic) - Join Spring's Toronto chapter for our annual summer picnic on Saturday, September 2nd, at 2pm at Christie Pits! We will have games, snacks, books, music, and (of course) socialism! All are welcome for a joyful afternoon of conversation and politics. See you there! - [Ottawa Spring Meet-Up](https://springmag.ca/event/ottawa-spring-meet-up) - Do you live in Ottawa? Are you interested in socialism and want to build strong local movements? Join us for our first Ottawa Spring Meetup on Sunday, August 6th at 11:00 am at Art House, 555 Somerset W. We will be discussing socialism and how we can be part of building strong social movements in - [Halifax Postering Action: Healthcare for All](https://springmag.ca/event/halifax-postering-action-healthcare-for-all) - Join Halifax Spring members on Sunday to poster in support of the Healthcare for All Campaign with No One is Illegal - Halifax. Migrant workers need access to healthcare! - [Toronto Spring Organizing Meeting](https://springmag.ca/event/toronto-spring-organizing-meeting-9) - Join Spring’s Toronto chapter organizing meeting! We will be discussing key political issues as well as socialist strategy and tactics, building winning campaigns, and how to be effective socialist organizers in movements. This meeting is open to all Spring members in the GTA and anyone who is interested in getting involved with Spring. This is - [Spring's Social, Book and Bake Sale](https://springmag.ca/event/springs-social-book-and-bake-sale) - Join Spring for a book sale with baked goods and socializing. We will be selling a lot of classic books for great deals, as well as cookies, brownies, and other treats in support of our fundraising campaign. Come to browse, eat or just hang out! If you want to do some baking for the cause, - [What's a general strike? Can we make it happen? - Toronto Spring Meeting](https://springmag.ca/event/toronto-spring-meeting-3) - Join Spring’s Toronto chapter for a discussion of key political issues as well as socialist strategy and tactics. The rapid escalation that took place from Bill 28’s introduction on October 31 to its defeat just one week later shows that labour is actually capable of harnessing its resources and energy on extremely short notice. In - [Spring Pan-Canadian Organizing Meeting](https://springmag.ca/event/spring-pan-canadian-organizing-meeting) - This year, workers have been fighting back against the bosses and striking for decent wages and better working conditions. Come strategize and discuss how we can continue to strike back against the bosses and advance the fight for racial justice, Indigenous sovereignty and build effective movements. This meeting is open to all Spring members and - [Secrets of a Successful Organizer: Spring Reading Series](https://springmag.ca/event/secrets-of-a-successful-organizer-spring-reading-series) - Spring Labour Caucus is hosting a reading group of Labor Notes' book "Secrets of a Successful Organizer". This books is about how to fight back where you work and win and is relevant to anyone who wants to build workers' power and mass movements. To get a copy of the book, DM us or email - [Halifax Spring Meeting](https://springmag.ca/event/halifax-spring-meeting-5) - Join the Spring Socialist Network’s Kjipuktuk/Halifax chapter organizing meeting. We will be discussing pressing political issues and strategizing about how we can build the power to oppose oppression and take on the bosses. This meeting is open to all Spring members in the HRM and anyone who is interested in getting involved with Spring. This - [Harvesting Freedom: Halifax Reading Group](https://springmag.ca/event/harvesting-freedom-halifax-reading-group) - Are you interested in learning about the hidden exploitation in Canada's food systems and how the most exploited farm workers are leading the fight for fair working conditions? This month, Spring's Halifax's book club is discussing Gabriel Allahdua and Edward Dunsworth's new book, "Harvesting Freedom: The Life of a Migrant Worker in Canada." This event - [Halifax Spring Meeting](https://springmag.ca/event/halifax-spring-meeting-4) - Join the Spring Socialist Network’s Kjipuktuk/Halifax chapter organizing meeting. We will be discussing pressing political issues and strategizing about how we can build the power to oppose oppression and take on the bosses. This meeting is open to all Spring members in the HRM and anyone who is interested in getting involved with Spring. This - [Toronto Spring Karaoke Fundraiser](https://springmag.ca/event/toronto-spring-karaoke-fundraiser) - It's true: socialists can have fun! 🤩 Join Spring's Toronto chapter on Friday, May 19 for a Karaoke Night fundraiser! Challenge comrades to friendly song battles, connect with other socialists, and fundraise to keep our publication going! Snacks and socializing at 6pm; Karaoke at 8pm Entry: $5 or PWYC $2 per song or $5 for - [Toronto Spring Meeting](https://springmag.ca/event/toronto-spring-organizing-meeting-8) - Join Spring’s Toronto chapter organizing meeting! We will be discussing key political issues as well as socialist strategy and tactics, building winning campaigns, and how to be effective socialist organizers in movements. This meeting is open to all Spring members in the GTA and anyone who is interested in getting involved with Spring. This is - [Halifax Spring Meeting](https://springmag.ca/event/halifax-spring-meeting-3) - Join the Spring Socialist Network’s Kjipuktuk/Halifax chapter organizing meeting. We will be discussing pressing political issues and strategizing about how we can build the power to oppose oppression and take on the bosses. This meeting is open to all Spring members in the HRM and anyone who is interested in getting involved with Spring. This - [Toronto Spring Organizing Meeting](https://springmag.ca/event/toronto-spring-organizing-meeting-7) - Join Spring’s Toronto chapter organizing meeting! We will be discussing key political issues, including immigration status for all and defending public services, as well as socialist strategy and tactics, building winning campaigns, and how to be effective socialist organizers in movements. This meeting is open to all Spring members in the GTA and anyone who - [Spring Labour Caucus](https://springmag.ca/event/spring-labour-caucus-8) - Join us for this meeting of socialists in the labour movement. With public services across the country under attack, we will be discussing how labour activists can organize to defend and expand public services and raise the floor for all workers, unionized and not. We will also be discussing the "Paint the Province Pink" campaign - [Toronto Spring Meeting](https://springmag.ca/event/toronto-spring-meeting-2) - You are invited to the Spring Socialist Network’s Toronto meeting on Thursday, March 9th, at 6:00pm. We will be discussing building solidarity with Ontario's nurses defending public healthcare, the Status for All campaign, the fight for decent work and effective socialist strategies. This meeting is open to all Spring members in the GTA and anyone - [Solidarity Beyond Bars: Halifax Reading Group](https://springmag.ca/event/solidarity-beyond-bars-halifax-reading-group) - Please join the Spring Socialist Network’s reading group to read and discuss Solidarity Beyond Bars: Unionizing Prison Labour. We will be meeting on Sunday, February 11 at 1 pm to discuss the book. Asaf Rashid, one of the book’s authors and a Halifax local, will join us for part of the discussion. From the publisher’s - [Halifax Spring Meeting](https://springmag.ca/event/halifax-spring-meeting-2) - Join the Spring Socialist Network’s Kjipuktuk/Halifax chapter organizing meeting. We will be discussing pressing political issues and strategizing about how we can build the power to oppose oppression and take on the bosses. This meeting is open to all Spring members in the HRM and anyone who is interested in getting involved with Spring. This - [Toronto Spring Meeting](https://springmag.ca/event/toronto-spring-meeting) - Join the Toronto Spring organizing meeting. We will be discussing pressing political issues and strategizing about how we can build the power to oppose oppression and take on the bosses. This meeting is open to all Spring members in the GTA and anyone who is interested in getting involved with Spring. This is an in-person - [Toronto Spring Organizing Meeting](https://springmag.ca/event/toronto-spring-organizing-meeting-6) - Join the Toronto Spring organizing meeting. We will be discussing pressing political issues and strategizing about how we can build the power to oppose oppression and take on the bosses. This meeting is open to all Spring members in the GTA and anyone who is interested in getting involved with Spring. This is an in-person - [Spring Labour Caucus](https://springmag.ca/event/spring-labour-caucus-7) - Join us for this meeting of socialists in the labour movement. We will be talking about how we can be effective organizers in our trade unions and how we can build a fighting labour movement. We will be discussing the lessons from workers' struggles 2022 and the opportunities to build a fighting working class in - [2023 Spring Winter Convention](https://springmag.ca/event/12414) - Join us for the Spring Socialist Network 2023 Winter Convention. We will be looking back at 2022, learning from the year of struggles, assessing our work and discussion how we can prepare to fight and organized in the year to come. The convention will take place on Saturday, January 7, 2023 from: - 12:00 noon - [Spring Holiday Party](https://springmag.ca/event/spring-holiday-party) - Celebrate the holidays with Spring! We will be hosting a holiday celebration on Sunday, December 11 at 3pm EST, taking place over Zoom and in-person. Join us for refreshments, trivia, and a look back at all we've accomplished over the last year. All are welcome! For Zoom: please email info@springmag.ca for the link. For in-person: - [Spring Halifax Reads: "Gentrification Is Inevitable and Other Lies"](https://springmag.ca/event/spring-halifax-reads-gentrification-is-inevitable-and-other-lies) - Join the Spring Socialist Network’s reading group to read and discuss Leslie Kern’s “Gentrification Is Inevitable and Other Lies.” We will be meeting on December 12, at 5-7 pm, at 6208 Quinpool Road, Unit 102. What does gentrification look like? Is it a process that replaces one community with another? Who does it affect the - [Strike Back: How can workers win against the Ford government? - Toronto Spring Meeting](https://springmag.ca/event/toronto-spring-organizing-meeting-5) - Join Spring’s Toronto chapter organizing meeting. We will be discussing pressing political issues and strategizing about how we can build the power to oppose oppression and take on the bosses. This meeting is open to all Spring members in the GTA and anyone who is interested in getting involved with Spring. This is an in-person - [Spring Materials-Making Party](https://springmag.ca/event/spring-materials-making-party) - Join Spring for a materials-making party! We will be meeting on Sunday, November 6, 10am EST to make a banner for upcoming actions. Light refreshments will be served. All are welcome! The event will be held at 720 Spadina Ave, Suite #202, Toronto, ON. We ask everyone to wear a mask. See you there! - [From solidarity to strike: How can we help workers win? - Spring Labour Caucus](https://springmag.ca/event/from-solidarity-to-strike-how-can-we-help-workers-win-spring-labour-caucus) - From solidarity to strike: How can we help workers win? A strategy discussion hosted by the Spring Labour Caucus. In the midst of a cost of living crisis, workers are taking action to demand better. Governments and bosses across the country are looking to make workers pay for the crisis. Education workers are on strike - [Spring Organizing Meeting (Pan-Canadian)](https://springmag.ca/event/spring-organizing-meeting-pan-canadian-2) - Join Spring's pan-Canadian organizing meeting! This is an organizing meeting to strategize and discuss how we can fight back against the bosses and advance the fight for racial justice, Indigenous sovereignty and build effective movements. This meeting is open to all Spring members and those interested in Spring across the Canadian state. Email us at - [Halifax Spring Meeting](https://springmag.ca/event/halifax-spring-meeting) - Join the Spring Socialist Network’s Kjipuktuk/Halifax chapter organizing meeting. We will be discussing pressing political issues and strategizing about how we can build the power to oppose oppression and take on the bosses. We will be discussing the Dalhousie strike, the education workers' strike in the valley and more. This meeting is open to all - [Building Solidarity with Ontario’s Education Workers: Spring Labour Caucus](https://springmag.ca/event/spring-labour-caucus-6) - 55,000 education workers in Ontario are fighting for higher wages and better working conditions. Education workers with CUPE voted 96.5% for a strike if needed. With a strike deadline possibly weeks away, it’s crucial that we use every moment between now and then to build broad public support for education workers and their demands, and - [Toronto Spring Organizing Meeting](https://springmag.ca/event/toronto-spring-organizing-meeting-4) - Join Spring’s Toronto chapter organizing meeting. We will be discussing pressing political issues and strategizing about how we can build the power to oppose oppression and take on the bosses.This meeting is open to all Spring members in the GTA and anyone who is interested in getting involved with Spring. This is an in-person meeting. - [Halifax Spring Organizing Meeting](https://springmag.ca/event/halifax-spring-organizing-meeting-2) - Join the Spring Socialist Network's Kjipuktuk/Halifax chapter organizing meeting. We will be discussing pressing political issues and strategizing about how we can build the power to oppose oppression and take on the bosses. This meeting is open to all Spring members in the HRM and anyone who is interested in getting involved with Spring. This - [Halifax Spring Organizing Meeting](https://springmag.ca/event/halifax-spring-organizing-meeting-2) - Join the Spring Socialist Network's Kjipuktuk/Halifax chapter organizing meeting. We will be discussing pressing political issues and strategizing about how we can build the power to oppose oppression and take on the bosses. This meeting is open to all Spring members in the HRM and anyone who is interested in getting involved with Spring. This - [Spring Reading Group: "Climate Change as Class War: Building Socialism on a Warming Planet"](https://springmag.ca/event/spring-reading-group-climate-change-as-class-war-building-socialism-on-a-burning-planet-2) - Join Spring on Wednesday, October 5, 7pm EDT for the third session of our reading group on Matthew T. Huber’s “Climate Change as Class War: Building Socialism on a Warming Planet.” Huber’s book argues that despite capitalism’s vital role in causing the urgent climate crisis we now face, the climate movement finds itself more appealing - [Spring Reading Group: "Climate Change as Class War: Building Socialism on a Warming Planet"](https://springmag.ca/event/spring-reading-group-climate-change-as-class-war-building-socialism-on-a-burning-planet) - Join Spring on Wednesday, September 7, 7pm EDT for the first session of our reading group on Matthew T. Huber's "Climate Change as Class War: Building Socialism on a Warming Planet." Huber's book argues that despite capitalism's vital role in causing the urgent climate crisis we now face, the climate movement finds itself more appealing - [Spring Reading Group: "Climate Change as Class War: Building Socialism on a Warming Planet"](https://springmag.ca/event/spring-reading-group-climate-change-as-class-war-building-socialism-on-a-warming-planet) - Join Spring on Wednesday, September 21, 7pm EDT for the second session of our reading group on Matthew T. Huber’s “Climate Change as Class War: Building Socialism on a Warming Planet.” Huber’s book argues that despite capitalism’s vital role in causing the urgent climate crisis we now face, the climate movement finds itself more appealing - [Spring Organizing Meeting (Pan-Canadian)](https://springmag.ca/event/spring-organizing-meeting-pan-canadian) - This is an organizing meeting to strategize and discuss how we can fight back against the bosses and advance the fight for racial justice, Indigenous sovereignty and build effective movements. This meeting is open to all Spring members and those interested in Spring across the Canadian state. Email us at info@springmag.ca for the link. - [Toronto Spring Organizing Meeting](https://springmag.ca/event/toronto-spring-organizing-meeting-3) - Join Spring’s Toronto chapter organizing meeting. We will be discussing pressing political issues and strategizing about how we can build the power to oppose oppression and take on the bosses. This meeting is open to all Spring members in the GTA and anyone who is interested in getting involved with Spring. This is an in-person - [Toronto Spring Picnic Social](https://springmag.ca/event/toronto-spring-picnic-social) - Join the Spring Socialist Network in Toronto for a picnic on Sunday, August 28th 2:00 pm at Christie Pits. This is a great chance to meet other members of the Spring Socialist Network in the Toronto area, talk politics and break bread. If you're a socialist and want to be organized, let's talk! This is - [Spring Labour Caucus](https://springmag.ca/event/spring-labour-caucus-5) - Join us for this meeting of socialists in trade unions. We will be talking about how to be a socialist at work, strategies for activating and engaging union members, and what opportunities we have to build a fighting labour movement. Email info@springmag.ca for the Zoom link. - [Toronto Spring Organizing Meeting](https://springmag.ca/event/toronto-spring-organizing-meeting-2) - Join Spring’s Toronto chapter organizing meeting. We will be discussing pressing political issues and strategizing about how we can build the power to oppose oppression and take on the bosses. This meeting is open to all Spring members in the GTA and anyone who is interested in getting involved with Spring. This is an in-person - [Toronto Spring Socialist Social](https://springmag.ca/event/toronto-spring-socialist-social) - The Toronto chapter of the Spring Socialist Network is hosting a social! This is a chance for people in the GTA involved in Spring, who support Spring, or who want to get involved to meet-up and socialize. This social takes place after the first day of Spring's online convention (August 6th and 7th). All are - [Is Revolution Possible? Lessons from Sudan, Philippines, & Sri Lanka](https://springmag.ca/event/is-revolution-possible-lessons-from-sudan-philippines-sri-lanka) - Revolution seems to be on the horizon after popular uprisings in Sudan, the return of the Marco dynasty in the Philippines, and tens of thousands of people taking over the streets in Sri Lanka. Massive hikes in inflation, unemployment, and fuel shortages mark the immediate crisis of capitalism in these countries as people struggle against - [Hamilton Spring Organizing Meeting](https://springmag.ca/event/hamilton-spring-organizing-meeting) - Join Spring's Hamilton chapter organizing meeting. We will be discussing pressing political issues and strategizing about how we can build the power to oppose oppression and take on the bosses. This meeting is open to all Spring members in the Hamilton area and anyone who is interested in getting involved with Spring. Meeting is on - [Whose Labour? Whose Organizing? Socialism and the Racialized Working Class](https://springmag.ca/event/whose-labour-whose-organizing-socialism-and-the-racialized-working-class) - NOTE: This event has been rescheduled to Friday, July 22 due to the Rogers outage on our previous date of Friday, July 8. Discussions about the working class have a tendency to make assumptions about who the average worker is; namely, a white, straight, cisgender male breadwinner working in a unionized industry. This tendency erases - [Halifax Spring Organizing Meeting](https://springmag.ca/event/halifax-spring-organizing-meeting) - Join Spring’s Kjipuktuk/Halifax chapter organizing meeting. We will be discussing pressing political issues and strategizing about how we can build the power to oppose oppression and take on the bosses. This meeting is open to all Spring members in the HRM and anyone who is interested in getting involved with Spring. This is an in-person - [Toronto Spring Organizing Meeting](https://springmag.ca/event/toronto-spring-organizing-meeting) - Join Spring's Toronto chapter organizing meeting. We will be discussing pressing political issues and strategizing about how we can build the power to oppose oppression and take on the bosses. This meeting is open to all Spring members in the GTA and anyone who is interested in getting involved with Spring. This is an in-person - [Spring reading group: "Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fatphobia"](https://springmag.ca/event/spring-reading-group-fearing-the-black-body-the-racial-origins-of-fatphobia-3) - Spring is excited to announce the third session of our reading group for Sabrina String’s book, “Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fatphobia.” String argues that the contemporary ideal of slenderness is, at its very core, racialized and racist. Indeed, it was not until the early twentieth century, when racialized attitudes against fatness - [Towards Abolition Democracy: Socialism, State Violence, and Anti-Imperialism](https://springmag.ca/event/towards-abolition-democracy-socialism-state-violence-and-anti-imperialism) - In the fight for social justice, movements have treated the state as both an object of criticism and terrain of struggle for power. Socialist and radical movements have had to navigate the contradiction of routine state violence, imperialism, and surveillance while recognizing that the working class often demands the state provide social welfare, particularly in - [Spring Organizing Meeting](https://springmag.ca/event/spring-organizing-meeting-6) - This is an organizing meeting to strategize and discuss how we can fight back against the bosses and advance the fight for racial justice, Indigenous sovereignty and build effective movements. Email us at info@springmag.ca for the link. - [Ontario Election Debrief - What's next for the left?](https://springmag.ca/event/ontario-election-debrief-whats-next-for-the-left) - Join Spring as we debrief after the election and discuss what is next for the left. This event will be on Zoom Email us at info@springmag.ca for the Zoom link. - [Spring May Day Materials Making Session](https://springmag.ca/event/spring-may-day-materials-making-session) - Join Spring to prepare materials for May Day! We will be creating banners, signs and other materials for our May 1st province-wide day of action for a workers first agenda. We will be meeting at the Workers Action Center. - [Spring Organizing Meeting](https://springmag.ca/event/spring-organizing-meeting-5) - This is an organizing meeting to strategize and discuss how we can fight back against the bosses and advance the fight for racial justice, Indigenous sovereignty and build effective movements. Please email us at info@springmag.ca for the link. - [Spring Reading Group: “Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fatphobia”](https://springmag.ca/event/spring-reading-group-fearing-the-black-body-the-racial-origins-of-fatphobia-2) - Spring is excited to announce our reading group for Sabrina String’s book “Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fatphobia.” As socialists we hope to address the presence of fatphobia in leftist spaces and begin a conversation regarding fatphobia as a race, class, and gender issue. In our second session of the reading group - [Lessons from Combahee: Black feminism, socialism, and oppression today](https://springmag.ca/event/lessons-from-combahee-black-feminism-socialism-and-oppression-today) - In the fight for justice today, it has been vital to understand how gender, race, class, sexuality, and ability condition our economic exploitation and shape our identities. How do different forms of oppression interact to shape our experience of capitalism? What is identity politics’ role in our fight to build socialism? How do we confront - [Spring Campus Caucus](https://springmag.ca/event/spring-campus-caucus-3) - Spring members and supporters who attend or work on campus are welcome to attend this meeting. This meeting is a chance to talk about and strategize about how to build and organize for social justice on campus. Please email info@springmag.ca for the Zoom link. - [Spring Labour Caucus](https://springmag.ca/event/spring-labour-caucus-4) - Join us for this meeting of socialists in trade unions. We will be talking about how to be a socialist at work, strategies for activating and engaging union members, and what opportunities we have to build a fighting labour movement. Please email info@springmag.ca for the Zoom link. - [Spring Organizing Meeting](https://springmag.ca/event/spring-organizing-meeting-4) - This is an organizing meeting to strategize and discuss how we can fight back against the bosses and advance the fight for racial justice, Indigenous sovereignty and build effective movements. Email us at info@springmag.ca for the Zoom link. - [Spring’s Nova Scotia Organizing Meeting](https://springmag.ca/event/springs-nova-scotia-organizing-meeting-4) - Join the Spring Socialist Network’s Nova Scotia organizing meeting. We will be discussing how to build campaigns fighting for workers’ rights, climate justice, racial justice, Indigenous sovereignty and housing justice. This meeting is open to all Nova Scotia members of Spring and those interested in getting involved. Email us at info@springmag.ca for the Zoom link. - [Spring Labour Caucus](https://springmag.ca/event/spring-labour-caucus-3) - Join us for this meeting of socialists in trade unions. We will be talking about how to be a socialist at work, strategies for activating and engaging union members, and what opportunities we have to build a fighting labour movement. Please email info@springmag.ca for the Zoom link. - [Spring Organizing Meeting](https://springmag.ca/event/spring-organizing-meeting-3) - This is an organizing meeting to strategize and discuss how we can fight back against the bosses and advance the fight for racial justice, Indigenous sovereignty and build effective movements. Email us at info@springmag.ca for the Zoom link. - [Spring Reading Group: "Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fatphobia"](https://springmag.ca/event/spring-reading-group-fearing-the-black-body-the-racial-origins-of-fatphobia) - Spring is excited to announce our reading group for Sabrina String’s book “Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fatphobia.” As socialists we hope to address the presence of fatphobia in leftist spaces and begin a conversation regarding fatphobia as a race, class, and gender issue. The reading group will take place in three - [How do we build solidarity with Palestine on campuses?](https://springmag.ca/event/how-do-we-build-solidarity-with-palestine-on-campuses) - 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 at the history, achievements, challenges, and opportunities for building campus based movements in support of Palestine. The roundtable will feature current and past campus based organizers: Laura Khoury, Yara Shoufani, - [The Second Wave of Uprising in Sudan: Revolutionaries Speak](https://springmag.ca/event/the-second-wave-of-uprising-in-sudan-revolutionaries-speak) - 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 Sudan, which overthrew longtime President Omar al-Bashir, was the earliest of a second-wave of uprisings that has swept from Algeria to Iraq, reigniting the hope of the 2011 revolutions in - [Capitalism: A Socialist Introduction](https://springmag.ca/event/capitalism-a-socialist-introduction) - 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. Understanding *how* capitalism works (or doesn't), where it came from, and its internal weaknesses and contradictions is a key part of the struggle to overthrow it. Join this discussion for - [Spring Labour Caucus](https://springmag.ca/event/spring-labour-caucus-2) - Join us for this meeting of socialists in trade unions. We will be talking about how to be a socialist at work, strategies for activating and engaging union members, and what opportunities we have to build a fighting labour movement. Email info@springmag.ca for Zoom link. - [Spring Campus Caucus](https://springmag.ca/event/spring-campus-caucus-2) - Spring members and supporters who attend or work on campus are welcome to attend this meeting. This meeting is a chance to talk about and strategize about how to build and organize for social justice on campus. Please email info@springmag.ca for the Zoom link. - [Spring’s Nova Scotia Organizing Meeting](https://springmag.ca/event/springs-nova-scotia-organizing-meeting-3) - Join the Spring Socialist Network’s Nova Scotia organizing meeting. We will be discussing how to build campaigns fighting for workers’ rights, climate justice, racial justice, Indigenous sovereignty and housing justice. This meeting is open to all Nova Scotia members of Spring and those interested in getting involved. Email us at info@springmag.ca for the Zoom link. - [How do we build a fighting labour movement?](https://springmag.ca/event/how-do-we-build-a-fighting-labour-movement) - Workers are facing a serious challenge with the rise of omicron. How can the labour movement fight back? How can workers challenge the power of the business lobby, take on the Ford agenda and build real power? Join Spring Magazine for this discussion about how we can build a fighting labour movement in Ontario. This - [Spring Nova Scotia reading group: Capitalism & Disability](https://springmag.ca/event/spring-nova-scotia-reading-group-capitalism-disability) - Join Spring Nova Scotia members on Thursday, January 27th a 6:30pm AST, as we discuss the book "Capitalism and Disability" by Marta Russell. This will be online. So grab your favourite hot drink, a cozy blanket, and join us for an enthralling discussion! We will be discussing sections 1, 4 and 5. For a copy - [Spring Labour Caucus](https://springmag.ca/event/spring-labour-caucus) - Join us for this meeting of socialists in trade unions. We will be talking about how to be a socialist at work, strategies for activating and engaging union members, and what opportunities we have to build the Ontario Federation of Labour's province-wide action on Sunday, May 1. Please email info@springmag.ca for the Zoom link. Suggested - [Spring Organizing Meeting](https://springmag.ca/event/spring-organizing-meeting-2) - This is an organizing meeting to strategize and discuss how we can fight back against the bosses and advance the fight for racial justice, Indigenous sovereignty and build effective movements. Please email us at info@springmag.ca for the Zoom link. - [Spring Campus Caucus](https://springmag.ca/event/spring-campus-caucus) - Spring members and supporters who attend or work on campus are welcome to attend this meeting This meeting is a chance to talk about and strategize about how to build and organize for social justice on campus. Please email info@springmag.ca for the Zoom link - [Spring Organizing Meeting](https://springmag.ca/event/spring-organizing-meeting) - This is an organizing meeting to strategize and discuss how we can fight back against the bosses and advance the fight for racial justice, Indigenous sovereignty and build effective movements. This meeting is open to all from across Turtle Island. Please email us at info@springmag.ca for the link - [Spring Socialist Network - 2022 Winter Convention](https://springmag.ca/event/spring-socialist-network-2022-winter-convention) - Join us for the Spring Socialist Network 2022 Winter Convention. We will be looking back at 2021, learning from the year of struggles, 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, - [Spring Decent Work Meeting & Year in Review](https://springmag.ca/event/spring-decent-work-meeting-year-in-review) - Join us Spring for this meeting focused on Decent work organizing. We will be discussing fighting for paid sick days, stronger income supports, a higher minimum wage and supporting workers taking workplace action. The second half of the event we will do a year in review of Spring and our 2021 holiday trivia! Email info@springmag.ca - [Anti-racism, Indigenous sovereignty and solidarity - Spring organizing meeting](https://springmag.ca/event/anti-racism-indigenous-sovereignty-and-solidarity-spring-organizing-meeting-2) - This is a meeting to talk through our perspectives and organize around Anti-racism, Indigenous sovereignty & Solidarity. This is a meeting for members of the Spring Socialist Network, a pan-Canadian organization of socialists, but others are welcome to join. Email info@springmag.ca for the zoom link. - [Indigenous Sovereignty and Socialism reading group, part 3](https://springmag.ca/event/indigenous-sovereignty-and-socialism-reading-group-part-3) - Join Spring Magazine as we discuss Indigenous Sovereignty and Socialism by Valerie Lannon and Jesse McLaren. First published in 2019, the text engages the historic and continuing relationship between movements for Indigenous sovereignty and the struggle for socialism. As settlers, the authors have attempted to compile in a single accessible publication all the major contributions - [Spring’s Nova Scotia Organizing Meeting](https://springmag.ca/event/springs-nova-scotia-organizing-meeting-2) - Join the Spring Socialist Network’s Nova Scotia organizing meeting. We will be discussing how to build campaigns fighting for workers’ rights, climate justice, racial justice, Indigenous sovereignty and housing justice. This meeting is open to all Nova Scotia members of Spring and those interested in getting involved. Email us at info@springmag.ca for the Zoom link - [Sudan Resists the Coup: Organizing Solidarity with Sudan's Revolutionaries](https://springmag.ca/event/sudan-resists-the-coup-organizing-solidarity-with-sudans-revolutionaries) - 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 with the promise of elections for a new government. The military has reneged on that pledge and carried out a coup, arresting activists across the country. The people have now - [Spring's Campus Caucus](https://springmag.ca/event/springs-campus-caucus-2) - Spring members and supporters who attend or work on campus are welcome to attend this meeting This meeting is a chance to talk about and strategize about how to build and organize for social justice on campus. Please email info@springmag.ca or the Zoom link - [Spring Decent Work Organizing Meeting](https://springmag.ca/event/spring-decent-work-organizing-meeting-8) - 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! Please DM us or email us at info@springmag.ca for the link - [Afghanistan: 20 years of war, occupation and resistance](https://springmag.ca/event/afghanistan-20-years-of-war-occupation-and-resistance) - 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 and occupation. In recent weeks, the US and its allies were driven out of Afghanistan in an unprecedented defeat for US imperialism. Join Spring socialists for a panel discussion, as - [Viva Palestina! A Roundtable Discussion on Palestinian National Liberation](https://springmag.ca/event/viva-palestina-a-roundtable-discussion-on-palestinian-national-liberation) - 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 leading Palestinian and solidarity activists: Issam Yamani, Nadia Shoufani, Chandni Desai, Moe Alqasem, and Tara Alami. The roundtable will cover a wide range of questions, including: Is Oslo still relevant? - [Anti-racism, Indigenous sovereignty and solidarity - Spring organizing meeting](https://springmag.ca/event/anti-racism-indigenous-sovereignty-and-solidarity-spring-organizing-meeting) - This is a meeting to talk through our perspectives and organize around Anti-racism, Indigenous sovereignty & Solidarity. This is a meeting for members of the Spring Socialist Network, a pan-Canadian organization of socialists, but others are welcome to join. Email info@springmag.ca for the zoom link - [Indigenous Sovereignty and Socialism reading group, part 2](https://springmag.ca/event/indigenous-sovereignty-and-socialism-reading-group-part-2) - Join Spring Magazine as we discuss Indigenous Sovereignty and Socialism by Valerie Lannon and Jesse McLaren. First published in 2019, the text engages the historic and continuing relationship between movements for Indigenous sovereignty and the struggle for socialism. As settlers, the authors have attempted to compile in a single accessible publication all the major contributions - [Spring's Nova Scotia Organizing Meeting](https://springmag.ca/event/springs-nova-scotia-organizing-meeting) - Join the Spring Socialist Network's Nova Scotia organizing meeting. We will be discussing how to build campaigns fighting for workers' rights, climate justice, racial justice, Indigenous sovereignty and housing justice. This meeting is open to all Nova Scotia members of Spring and those interested in getting involved. Email us at info@springmag.ca for the Zoom link - [Federal election debrief: What next for the left?](https://springmag.ca/event/federal-election-debrief-what-next-for-the-left) - Save the date! Whatever the outcome of the federal election, there will be implications for the left, labour, and social movements. Join Spring socialists for this post-election debrief and strategy discussion. Email info@springmag.ca for the Zoom link - [Spring's Campus Caucus](https://springmag.ca/event/springs-campus-caucus) - As universities and colleges open back up for in-person activity Spring is hosting campus caucus for all university/college workers and students who are members of Spring or are interested in getting involved. This meeting is a chance to talk about and strategize about how to build and organize for social justice on campus. Email info@springmag.ca - [Taking on Nova Scotia’s Tories and fighting for socialism](https://springmag.ca/event/taking-on-and-nova-scotias-tories-and-fighting-for-socialism) - Join this meeting with the Spring socialist network and allies to discuss how to get organized for housing, healthcare, decent work and social justice in the wake of the recent Nova Scotia provincial election. The discussion will focus on key issues and campaigns in Halifax and across the province that could bridge the urban-rural divide, - [Indigenous Sovereignty and Socialism reading group, part 1](https://springmag.ca/event/indigenous-sovereignty-and-socialism-reading-group-part-1) - Join Spring Magazine as we discuss Indigenous Sovereignty and Socialism by Valerie Lannon and Jesse McLaren. First published in 2019, the text engages the historic and continuing relationship between movements for Indigenous sovereignty and the struggle for socialism. As settlers, the authors have attempted to compile in a single accessible publication all the major contributions - [Spring Decent Work Organizing Meeting](https://springmag.ca/event/spring-decent-work-organizing-meeting-7) - 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 us at info@springmag.ca for the Zoom link - [Book Launch: Take Back the Fight: Organizing Feminism for the Digital Age](https://springmag.ca/event/book-launch-take-back-the-fight-organizing-feminism-for-the-digital-age) - Join Spring Magazine and The City & The City Books to hear journalist, author, and activist Nora Loreto talk about her latest book, Take Back the Fight: Organizing Feminism for the Digital Age. Loreto's book discusses the state of modern feminism in Canada and argues that feminists must organize to take back feminism from politicians, - [Spring's Toronto Labour Day Picnic](https://springmag.ca/event/springs-toronto-labour-day-picnic) - Join the Spring Socialist Network for a Labour Day picnic on September 6th at 2:00 pm at Bickford Park in Toronto. This is a great chance to meet other members of the Spring Socialist Network in the Toronto area, talk politics and break bread. If you're a socialist and want to be organized, let's talk! - [Anti-Racism, Indigenous Sovereignty & Solidarity - Spring Organizing Meeting](https://springmag.ca/event/anti-racism-indigenous-sovereignty-solidarity-spring-organizing-meeting-4) - This is a meeting to talk through our perspectives and organize around Anti-racism, Indigenous sovereignty & Solidarity. This is a meeting for members of the Spring Socialist Network, a pan-Canadian organization of socialists, but others are welcome to join. Email info@springmag.ca for the zoom link. - [From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation reading group](https://springmag.ca/event/from-blacklivesmatter-to-black-liberation-reading-group-2) - Join Spring Magazine as we read and discuss Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor’s book From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation. “The eruption of mass protests in the wake of the police murders of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri and Eric Garner in New York City have challenged the impunity with which officers of the law carry out violence against - [Spring Socialist Network 2021 Convention](https://springmag.ca/event/spring-socialist-network-2021-convention) - The Spring Socialist Network's 2020 Convention will be held over three days (August 7th & 8th). The convention is a chance for Spring to take a step back, discuss the political context, assess the movements we are part of and the state of our organization. The Spring Socialist Network is a membership based socialist organization - [Spring Lunch & Learn: Chairing for Social Justice](https://springmag.ca/event/spring-lunch-learn-chairing-for-social-justice) - Effective meetings need an effective chair to keep us all on task, encourage participation and make our meetings a success. Join Spring for a lunch and learn about how to be an effective chair for social justice. This workshop will outline best practices and tips for chairing for both online and in-person meetings. Register for - [From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation reading group](https://springmag.ca/event/from-blacklivesmatter-to-black-liberation-reading-group) - Join Spring Magazine as we read and discuss Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor’s book From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation. “The eruption of mass protests in the wake of the police murders of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri and Eric Garner in New York City have challenged the impunity with which officers of the law carry out violence against - [Spring Lunch & Learn: Using Tik Tok for Social Justice](https://springmag.ca/event/spring-lunch-learn-using-tik-tok-for-social-justice) - Join Spring for our lunch & learn looking at how we can use Tik Tok for social justice. Are you new to Tik Tok or interested in joining and want to figure out how to use Tik Tok effectively to advance left wing politics, amplify campaigns and build an audience? Join us as we give - [Reading Group: From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation](https://springmag.ca/event/reading-group-from-blacklivesmatter-to-black-liberation) - Join Spring Magazine as we read and discuss Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor’s book From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation. “The eruption of mass protests in the wake of the police murders of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri and Eric Garner in New York City have challenged the impunity with which officers of the law carry out violence against Black people - [Winning Paid Sick Days in BC](https://springmag.ca/event/winning-paid-sick-days-in-bc) - The BC NDP has promised to introduce permanent paid sick days starting on January 1, 2022. No specific number has been introduced. Join members of Spring, The Worker Solidarity Network, frontline healthcare workers, and more, for a discussion on how we win paid sick days that are universal, adequate, employer- paid, and accessible. Speakers: Dr. - [Spring Decent Work Organizing Meeting](https://springmag.ca/event/spring-decent-work-organizing-meeting-6) - 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/508619243797051/ Email us at info@springmag.ca for the Zoom link - [Anti-Racism, Indigenous Sovereignty & Solidarity - Spring Organizing Meeting](https://springmag.ca/event/anti-racism-indigenous-sovereignty-solidarity-spring-organizing-meeting-3) - This is a meeting to talk through our perspectives and organize around Anti-racism, Indigenous sovereignty & Solidarity. This is a meeting for members of the Spring Socialist Network, a pan-Canadian organization of socialists, but others are welcome to join. Email info@springmag.ca for Zoom link. - [How do we build winning campaigns? Socialist strategy and the united front](https://springmag.ca/event/how-do-we-build-winning-campaigns-socialist-strategy-and-the-united-front) - As socialists we want to build a better world. And changing the world starts with the fight for reforms in the here and now. We recognize that capitalism can't be gradually reformed into socialism, but the fight for reforms are essential to build the capacity and confidence for a revolutionary transformation. So how should socialist - [Spring Lunch and Learn with the Canadian Association of Labour Media](https://springmag.ca/event/spring-lunch-and-learn-with-the-canadian-association-of-labour-media) - Join Spring for a brief orientation to the Canadian Association of Labour Media (CALM), featuring Nora Loreto. Spring is a member of CALM and they have all sorts of resources, from toolkits for effective podcasting to chairing Zoom meetings, that can help make us more effective organizers and communicators. The Canadian Association of Labour Media - [Reading Group: From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation](https://springmag.ca/event/reading-group-from-blacklivesmatter-to-black-liberation-reading-group) - Join Spring Magazine as we read and discuss Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor’s book From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation. “The eruption of mass protests in the wake of the police murders of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri and Eric Garner in New York City have challenged the impunity with which officers of the law carry out violence against - [Anti-Racism, Indigenous Sovereignty & Solidarity - Spring Organizing Meeting](https://springmag.ca/event/anti-racism-indigenous-sovereignty-solidarity-spring-organizing-meeting-2) - This is a meeting to talk through our perspectives and organize around anti-racism, Indigenous sovereignty & solidarity. This is a meeting for members of the Spring Socialist Network, a pan-Canadian organization of socialists, but others are welcome to join. Email us info@springmag.ca for the Zoom link. - [Policing Black Lives: Reading group with Robyn Maynard](https://springmag.ca/event/policing-black-lives-reading-group-with-robyn-maynard) - Join Spring Magazine as we read and discuss Robyn Maynard's book Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to Present with the author herself! Robyn Maynard will join the call to answer questions and discuss the book we have been studying. "Delving behind Canada’s veneer of multiculturalism and tolerance, Policing Black Lives traces - [Reading Group: Policing Black Lives](https://springmag.ca/event/7741) - Join Spring Magazine as we read and discuss Robyn Maynard's book Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to Present. "Delving behind Canada’s veneer of multiculturalism and tolerance, Policing Black Lives traces the violent realities of anti-blackness from the slave ships to prisons, classrooms and beyond. Robyn Maynard provides readers with the first - [Spring Decent Work Organizing Meeting](https://springmag.ca/event/spring-decent-work-organizing-meeting-5) - 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/322962582582482 Email info@springmag.ca to register for the meeting. - [No Life Like It: A Tribute to the Revolutionary Activism of Ernie Tate](https://springmag.ca/event/no-life-like-it-a-tribute-to-the-revolutionary-activism-of-ernie-tate) - We warmly welcome you to join us for a tribute to the life, activism and legacy of Ernie Tate (1934-2021). Ernie Tate believed capitalism is a cruel and unjust system that has to be changed. Ernie was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland in 1934 and emigrated to Canada in 1955. As a Marxist, union activist - [Reading Group: Policing Black Lives](https://springmag.ca/event/reading-group-policing-black-lives-3) - Join Spring Magazine as we read and discuss Robyn Maynard's book Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to Present. "Delving behind Canada’s veneer of multiculturalism and tolerance, Policing Black Lives traces the violent realities of anti-blackness from the slave ships to prisons, classrooms and beyond. Robyn Maynard provides readers with the first - [Tamil Eelam, National Liberation, and Socialism: A Conversation with Tamil and Sinhalese Activists](https://springmag.ca/event/tamil-eelam-national-liberation-and-socialism-a-conversation-with-tamil-and-sinhalese-activists) - 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 who survived the 2009 genocide remain dispossessed as the state builds Sinhalese settlements through the Tamil homeland. What are the prospects for freedom and building a movement for Tamil self-determination? - [Spring Phone Zap for Paid Sick Days!](https://springmag.ca/event/spring-phone-zap-for-paid-sick-days) - 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 - [Anti-Racism, Indigenous Sovereignty & Solidarity - Spring Organizing Meeting](https://springmag.ca/event/anti-racism-indigenous-sovereignty-solidarity-spring-organizing-meeting) - This is a meeting to talk through our perspectives and organize around Anti-racism, Indigenous sovereignty & Solidarity. 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/1057882294737443 Email info@springmag.ca us for the zoom link - [Reading group: Policing Black Lives](https://springmag.ca/event/reading-group-policing-black-lives) - Join Spring Magazine as we read and discuss Robyn Maynard's book Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to Present. Delving behind Canada’s veneer of multiculturalism and tolerance, Policing Black Lives traces the violent realities of anti-blackness from the slave ships to prisons, classrooms and beyond. Robyn Maynard provides readers with the first comprehensive - [Spring Decent Work Organizing Meeting](https://springmag.ca/event/spring-decent-work-organizing-meeting-4) - 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](https://springmag.ca/event/indigenous-sovereignty-anti-racism-solidarity-spring-organizing-meeting-3) - 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 - [Revolutionary Journalism](https://springmag.ca/event/revolutionary-journalism) - 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 - [Spring Socialist Network Spring Convention](https://springmag.ca/event/spring-socialist-network-spring-convention) - 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 - [Spring Decent Work Organizing Meeting](https://springmag.ca/event/spring-decent-work-organizing-meeting-3) - 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/ Email us at info@springmag.ca for the Zoom link - [Indigenous Sovereignty, Anti-Racism, & Solidarity - Spring Organizing Meeting](https://springmag.ca/event/indigenous-sovereignty-anti-racism-solidarity-spring-organizing-meeting-2) - 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 - [Farmers' Protest: Resistance & Repression in India](https://springmag.ca/event/farmers-protest-resistance-repression-in-india) - 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 - [Getting organized for revolution](https://springmag.ca/event/getting-organized-for-revolution) - 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. - [Spring Decent Work Organizing Meeting](https://springmag.ca/event/spring-decent-work-organizing-meeting-2) - 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 - [Indigenous Sovereignty, Anti-Racism, & Solidarity - Spring Organizing Meeting](https://springmag.ca/event/indigenous-sovereignty-anti-racism-solidarity-spring-organizing-meeting) - 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 - [Building power: Centering anti-racism and anti-oppression practice](https://springmag.ca/event/building-power-centering-anti-racism-and-anti-oppression-practice) - 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 - [Socialists and Elections: What Brings Change?](https://springmag.ca/event/socialists-and-elections-what-brings-change) - 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 - [Reading group: Crisis & Resistance in Lebanon](https://springmag.ca/event/reading-group-crisis-resistance-in-lebanon) - 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/ Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81955067526?pwd=eTdXUERacUw0VmphVGh4bWtRTFNQdz09 Meeting ID: 819 5506 7526 Passcode: 075817 One tap mobile +12042727920,,81955067526#,,,,*075817# Canada +14388097799,,81955067526#,,,,*075817# Canada Find your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kcAzI69n84 - [Ten years after the Egyptian Revolution](https://springmag.ca/event/ten-years-after-the-egyptian-revolution) - 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. - [Spring Decent Work Organizing Meeting](https://springmag.ca/event/spring-decent-work-organizing-meeting) - 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. - [Spring into 2021 - Spring Socialist Network Winter Convention](https://springmag.ca/event/spring-into-2021-spring-socialist-network-winter-convention) - 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 - [Spring into the Holidays - Social](https://springmag.ca/event/spring-into-the-holidays-social) - 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 Please email info@springmag.ca us for the - [Revolution Time وقت الثورة](https://springmag.ca/event/revolution-time-وقت-الثورة) - 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 - [Why the international working class?](https://springmag.ca/event/why-the-international-working-class) - 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 - [The state is not neutral: Canada’s violent history of genocide and oppression](https://springmag.ca/event/5380) - 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 - [NDP Re-elected: What Does This Mean For Our Fight for Reforms?](https://springmag.ca/event/ndp-re-elected-what-does-this-mean-for-our-fight-for-reforms) - 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 - [Capitalism: How the economy works (or doesn’t)](https://springmag.ca/event/capitalism-how-the-economy-works-or-doesnt) - 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 - [West Coast Reading Group: What's Class got to do With it?](https://springmag.ca/event/west-coast-reading-group-whats-class-got-to-do-with-it) - 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 - [Universal Basic Income: Should the left support it?](https://springmag.ca/event/universal-basic-income-should-the-left-support-it) - 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 - [Online reading group: We need socialist organization](https://springmag.ca/event/online-reading-group-we-need-socialist-organization) - 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 - [Online Reading Group: The Age of Surveillance Capitalism - PT. 3](https://springmag.ca/event/online-reading-group-the-age-of-surveillance-capitalism-pt-3) - 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 - [West Coast Reading Group: Marxism & Oppression](https://springmag.ca/event/west-coast-reading-group-marxism-oppression) - 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, - [Solidarity trip to 1492 Land Back Lane](https://springmag.ca/event/solidarity-trip-to-1492-land-back-lane) - 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 - [Socialism in the Park](https://springmag.ca/event/socialism-in-the-park) - Join the Hamilton Spring Socialists for a meet-up on August 6th at 6:30 pm, where we will be talking about who we are and what we do. If you're a socialist and want to be organized, let's talk! See you there! RSVP via Facebook - [Online reading group: Socialist journalism](https://springmag.ca/event/online-reading-group-socialist-journalism) - 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 - [Online Reading Group: The Age of Surveillance Capitalism - PT. 2](https://springmag.ca/event/online-reading-group-the-age-of-surveillance-capitalism-pt-2) - 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 1 (Chapters 1 - 6) - [Online Reading Group: The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff](https://springmag.ca/event/online-reading-group-the-age-of-surveillance-capitalism-by-shoshana-zuboff) - 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 - [West Coast Reading Group: Who do the Police Serve and Protect?](https://springmag.ca/event/west-coast-reading-group-who-do-the-police-serve-and-protect) - 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 government on all levels to defund and abolish policing. What would this mean for our communities? What is the role of policing today? Do the police serve and protect all - [Online reading group: Abolish the police](https://springmag.ca/event/online-reading-group-abolish-the-police) - 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 Toronto) have turned into an uprising against police violence and anti-Black racism. The movement is pressing cities and institutions across the country to punish killer cops and defund police departments. - [West Coast Reading Group: Racism, Oppression, and Revolution](https://springmag.ca/event/west-coast-reading-group-racism-oppression-and-revolution) - 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. What does Marxism say about the role of the police under capitalism, and what would society look like with no police? Is this an attainable goal? What are the prospects - [Online Reading Group: Basic Income and Socialist Strategy](https://springmag.ca/event/online-reading-group-basic-income-and-socialist-strategy) - 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 - [Covid 19: Who will pay for the crisis?](https://springmag.ca/event/covid-19-who-will-pay-for-the-crisis) - As the global crisis unfolds, the capitalist class is scrambling to restart the economy and resume the business of profit-making. And as the economy is opened up, the temporary measures designed to support workers are coming under increasing attack from big business and their representatives in government. Workers everywhere face an uncertain future. What are the challenges - [Vancouver Reading Group: Revolution in the 21st Century](https://springmag.ca/event/vancouver-reading-group-revolution-in-the-21st-century) - Many around the world have seen the 21st century as a time of struggle, change, and revolution. People all over are fighting back against austerity agendas, climate catastrophe, and all forms of oppression. The question, then, is how do rebuild society in a way that is truly democratic and equitable? Join Spring for a - [COVID, Crime & Capitalism - Webinar](https://springmag.ca/event/covid-crime-capitalism-webinar) - 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 and working class people are criminalized by laws, from immigration laws and work restrictions, to social distancing laws and stigmatization, etc and how these pre-existing problems have been intensified by - [Online reading group: Rosa Luxemburg's Reform or Revolution](https://springmag.ca/event/online-reading-group-reform-or-revolution) - 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 the German Social Democratic Party, and founder of The Spartacus League. Though was only 47 years old, when she was murdered during the German Revolution, her contribution to Marxist political - [Vancouver Reading Group: What do we do after Bernie?](https://springmag.ca/event/vancouver-reading-group-what-do-we-do-after-bernie) - Expectations for Bernie Sanders were sky high only a few weeks ago. These expectations were dashed as the Democratic Party establishment lined up behind Joe Biden, sweeping Super Tuesday and effectively ending the Sanders run for president. Sanders ran a campaign that championed working class demands like Medicare for All, a Green New Deal and - [How do we build tenant power during a pandemic?](https://springmag.ca/event/how-do-we-build-tenant-power-during-a-pandemic) - 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 to make ends meet and the emergency income relief put forward by the government is not enough. Millions are faced with prospect of being unable to pay their rent or - [Reading group: Capitalism, the State & Socialist Strategy](https://springmag.ca/event/reading-group-capitalism-the-state-socialist-strategy) - 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 this mean for socialists in their fight for a more humane system? Amid the COVID-19 crisis, whole industries are begging for public money, governments are telling businesses what to make, - [The Healthcare Crisis: Why workers' rights are key to confronting the pandemic](https://springmag.ca/event/the-healthcare-crisis-why-workers-rights-are-key-to-confronting-the-pandemic) - As the COVID-19 pandemic continues many are asking how do we flatten the curve and fight the virus? Instead of empowering people to self-isolate at home and to reduce transmission in the workplace, and instead of following successful strategies from other countries like expanding testing and hospital capacity, governments are blaming ordinary people for spreading - [Webinar: COVID 19 & capitalism: Rights not repression](https://springmag.ca/event/webinar-covid-19-capitalism-rights-not-repression) - 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 parties - are championing state measures that subsidize corporations and landlords without safeguarding the well-being of workers and renters. How do we respond to the "solutions" and "demands" that are - [Online reading group: The economy, the pandemic and the state](https://springmag.ca/event/online-reading-group-the-economy-the-pandemic-and-the-state) - 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 of a worldwide public health catastrophe. Already 929,000 people filed for EI last week and this number is likely to rise. There will be much talk about shared sacrifice, about - [COVID-19: A Socialist Response](https://springmag.ca/event/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 face of a biological crisis. The global pandemic shows governments' around the world are prioritizing the interests of corporations and the stock market, while leaving working class people to deal - [Toronto book club: Indigenous sovereignty, ecosocialism & social change](https://springmag.ca/event/book-club-indigenous-sovereignty-ecosocialism-social-change) - Join us to discuss some articles. All welcome, read what you can but it will be worth it whether you can read all of it or none of it. Suggested articles: Marx and the Indigenous: https://monthlyreview.org/2020/02/01/marx-and-the-indigenous/ The Ecosocialist views of Karl Marx: https://climateandcapitalism.com/2019/06/16/ecosocialist-views-of-karl-marx-kohei-saito/ Bonus: Podcast Audio and Transcript: Our history is the future with Nick - [Chile: Is Revolution Possible?](https://springmag.ca/event/chile-is-revolution-possible) - What started off as a protest against a transit fare hike last October soon exploded into a mass movement demanding nothing short of a reckoning with Chile's neoliberal elite. Join the Spring Socialists for this discussion about where the movement came from, its prospects for radical transformation, and its implications for struggles everywhere. Introduction by - [Branch planning meeting: Toronto](https://springmag.ca/event/branch-planning-meeting-toronto) - Join us for a branch planning meeting in Toronto. Agenda: Climate justice activity Decent work activity - [Discussion: What would it take to stop a war on Iran?](https://springmag.ca/event/what-would-it-take-to-stop-a-war-on-iran) - How do we build a vibrant anti-war movement? What can we learn from the movement against the Iraq War? Can we make the links to the fight for climate justice and decent work? Join this conversation about what we can do to oppose war and imperialism. Speakers: Saman Tabasinejad: Iranian-Canadian Congress James Clark: Toronto Coalition - [Reading group: The Two Souls of Socialism](https://springmag.ca/event/reading-group-the-two-souls-of-socialism) - Join us for a discussion of Hal Draper's classic pamphlet, "The Two Souls of Socialism." The purpose of this discussion is to review the various manifestations of "socialism"--from social democracy, to Stalinism, to revolutionary socialism from below. Speaker: Faiz Ahmed: Spring Magazine Recommended reading: "The Two Souls of Socialism" by Hal Draper "The rank-and-file strategy: - [Film screening: The Murder of Fred Hampton](https://springmag.ca/event/film-screening-the-murder-of-fred-hampton) - Fifty years ago, in the early hours of December 4, 1969, a police raid ended the life of 21-year-old Black Panther Party leader, Fred Hampton. According to the Southside Weekly, ”A barrage of police bullets struck him in his sleep as he lay beside his pregnant fiancé, Akua Njeri, who survived. Another occupant, Black Panther - [Spring into the holidays!](https://springmag.ca/event/979) - Join the Spring socialists at the Rhino this Friday the 13th to celebrate a year of revolutionary organizing, activism -- and Sagittarii! We've already made reservations, but RSVP in advance so we can make sure we have enough seats for everyone! 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