Op-ed
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June 3, 2020 
The virology of capitalism
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, socialists insist that “Capitalism is the Virus!” Such a phrase is not a casual flip of the script or…
coronavirus
Analysis
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June 2, 2020
Ford rewriting labour laws to line the bosses’ pockets
The outbreak of COVID-19 has seen unemployment rates skyrocket and businesses close across Ontario. In response, the government has gone out of its way to…
Interview
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May 29, 2020
Excluded healthcare workers fight back: Join them!
May 15 saw dozens of front-line health workers protest outside a hospital in Toronto, supported by a cavalcade of allies in their cars. They were…
Analysis
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May 27, 2020
Capitalism, Prisons and COVID-19: On ‘Surplus Labour’
Since the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers, legal experts, public health officials, and activists, alongside prisoners and their loved ones, have been publicly advocating…
Analysis
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May 25, 2020
Housing and Homelessness in Covid-19
The global health pandemic has only seen an increase in capitalism’s inhumanity. While Jeff Bezos is on track to becoming the world’s first trillionaire (a…
Feature
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May 20, 2020
Work/life collapse and collective struggle
While the economic fallout from COVID-19 continues, my partner and I are privileged enough to continue working from the safety of our home. This involves…
News
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May 14, 2020
Prison is a death sentence
As COVID-19 wreaks havoc inside prisons across Canada, prison justice activists across the country launched two city-wide solidarity actions in Toronto and Ottawa, denouncing the tragic…
Analysis Arts & culture
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May 14, 2020
CFL bailouts: A trick play
The Canadian Football League is in danger and, therefore, so is Canada. At least, that’s what league commissioner Randy Ambrosie would like to have you…
Analysis
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May 13, 2020
COVID-19 and the right to refuse unsafe work
Throughout the course of the pandemic, the Ontario government has been keen to remove worker control over job sites. We saw it with the override…
Analysis
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May 12, 2020
Now is the moment to expand public services
The events of the past two months have shone a spotlight on the underlying weaknesses of Canada’s crumbling welfare state. Many people in Canada are…
Analysis
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May 12, 2020
Imperialism and COVID-19
We are not in this together. The divisions that run through our society going into the COVID-19 crisis have only been heightened. Racialized workers are…
Interview
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May 11, 2020
Interview: Working in care homes
Spring Magazine recently sat down with two support workers in Vancouver. In part 1 of this interview we discussed the inadequate degree of workplace safety….