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.
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…
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…
The second week of May showed starkly the depths of hostility, even contempt, directed at drug users across the Lower Mainland of so-called British Columbia….
“When society places hundreds of proletarians in such a position that they inevitably meet a too early and an unnatural death, one which is quite…
Spring Magazine interviewed Baba Aye about #EndSARS, the movement against police brutality in Nigeria. He is a trade unionist and co-convener of the Coalition for…
Black Lives Matter-Toronto (BLMTO) mobilized an arts based direct action, stopping traffic at the intersection of Bay and College in front of Toronto Police headquarters…
The End of Policing by Alex S. Vitale (Verso, 2020). “At root, they fail to appreciate that the basic nature of the law and the…
A few years ago, I was attending a black church in Toronto, and I took pride in attending a place of worship founded in the…
