Spring Magazine

The following presents a snapshot of Cuban society during the Che Guevara Volunteer Work Brigade’s visit in May 2026. Singing “The Internationale” together with sugarcane...

The post Cuba: Solidarity against the US blockade first appeared on Spring.

On Saturday, October 24, parents, teachers, students, and concerned Ontarians gathered at five separate rallies across the province to show support for public funding of...

The post Rank-and-file voices from the Ontario day of action for public education first appeared on Spring.

Barbara Kopple’s latest film, Union Town, opens with a series of burn-ins about the staggering number of packages that “are delivered” and food deliveries that...

The post Review: Union Town depicts the fight workers face today first appeared on Spring.

On Saturday, October 17, workers and their supporters gathered outside two different “Nail Fix in the 6ix” locations — one in Scarborough and the other...

The post Workers demand $70,000 in wages stolen by Toronto nail salon first appeared on Spring.

I remember the first time I learned about Abu Ghraib in detail and being stunned at what a lacklustre aftermath took place. I felt a...

The post Review: Once Upon a Time In The Middle East first appeared on Spring.

Across Ontario this summer, people have been standing up against the Ford government’s destruction of our communities. Supporting Grassy Narrows First Nation, in their 60...

The post Why the climate movement needs to show up for education workers first appeared on Spring.

Against Tech Oligarchy: Worker Resistance in the World’s Most Powerful Industry by JS Tan & Clarissa Redwine (Haymarket Books, 2026) A firsthand account of worker...

The post REVIEW: Against Tech Oligarchy: Worker Resistance in the World’s Most Powerful Industry first appeared on Spring.

Rioting is the voice of the unheard, and is completely inevitable once a spark of revolt arrives after months and years of austerity, extreme police...

The post Is France burning down? The French revolt, rioting and the radical left first appeared on Spring.

More than 300,000 public sector workers across Ireland took strike action for 24 hours on Wednesday, 14 October, in a dispute over pay and living...

The post Ireland’s public sector workers go on national strike first appeared on Spring.

Scarlett Gillespie, also known as Jelena Vermilion, is a 33-year-old trans woman and founder of the Sex Workers’ Action Program (SWAP), and is running for...

The post Scarlett for mayor of Hamilton: Housing, community safety, and working class solidarity first appeared on Spring.

In the second episode of our mini-series on organized labour, Spring Radio takes a look at how some of the lessons learned in the previous...

The post Spring Radio: Education workers and the fight for decent public education first appeared on Spring.

In 2026, the Toronto Queer Film Festival is celebrating ten years of bringing 2SLGBTQIA+ filmmaking to Toronto, with radical roots and a focus on amplifying...

The post The Festival that’s been bringing radical queer film-making to Toronto for 10 years first appeared on Spring.

Hundreds of thousands of  people have taken to the streets of Spain to fight back against intolerable increases in housing prices. One precipitating event was...

The post Spaniards take to the streets over housing crisis: an eyewitness account first appeared on Spring.

Child care workers at Ideal Child Service Group (ICSG), which operates five child care locations across Toronto, were locked out by their employer on October...

The post Child care workers locked out by employer and forgotten by government first appeared on Spring.

Midwives in Ontario have been fighting for equitable pay and fundamental labour rights for decades. But the Ministry of Health has continually denied them fair...

The post The ongoing denial of midwives’ labour rights first appeared on Spring.

It’s almost time for Spring’s fourth annual conference, “Red October: A conference of socialist ideas in action.” Taking from place Friday, October 30 to Sunday,...

The post RESOURCES: Help us build Red October! first appeared on Spring.

Tuesday, October 6, saw vibrant mass demonstrations in dozens of French towns, as five of the nation’s six main trade union confederations mobilized in support...

The post France: Workers mobilize to support student revolt first appeared on Spring.

NAZA, the new documentary by Yuval Abaraham and Rachel Szor, is a movie about Israelis. Their previous movie — the critically acclaimed No Other Land...

The post Eichmann in Tel-Aviv: NAZA and the banality of evil first appeared on Spring.

As CUPE and the four Ontario teachers’ unions announce their plans for strike votes in November, CUPE-OSBCU, the union representing 57,000 Educational Assistants, caretakers, office...

The post Ontario education workers: CUPE says no work-to-rule, will strike on day one first appeared on Spring.