At an online press conference on April 16, frontline workers gave first-hand accounts about why precarious employment is a health hazard for workers and the…
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to spread around the world, frontline workers here in Canada are increasingly worried about their own safety, the health of…
The current health and economic crisis is intensifying the everyday crisis of mothering under capitalism. We can learn from mothers who are navigating the 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…
Maria is a social worker at a drop-in centre for homeless women, located in an Ontario city. Women who use the shelter are typically experiencing…
“With the patient’s body considered to be under attack (“invasion”), the only treatment is counterattack. The controlling metaphors…drawn not from economics but from the language…
The speed and severity of the economic crash occurring in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic has outstripped anyone’s wildest predictions. Large parts of the…
Hundreds of people across three working-class neighbourhoods on the border of East York and West Scarborough, Crescent Town, Teesdale and Goodwood Park, organized a collective…
Spring Magazine spoke with Iman Ahmed, a global health specialist, about COVID-19 from an international health perspective. All opinions expressed are personal and do not…
Like most, I’ve been caught up in the cogs of capitalism. And judging from many stories of others around the world, I know capitalism sucks…
Apparently there is an alternative. The events of the past few weeks make it obvious that the mantra of neoliberalism – the idea that there…
Two emergency orders by Ontario’s Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care have outlined temporary measures that administrators of hospitals and nursing homes may utilize to…
