Spring Magazine

A magazine of socialist ideas in action

[Kimiko Shibata 🦋 @ESL_fairy]

A YES vote does not mean that I want to walk away from my students. Quite the opposite. I want to fight for the conditions that allow me to give them the education they deserve.

#OntEd

[Astro Praxis 🥞 @astro_praxis]

Indonésie. Les ouvriers du plus grand site d'extraction de nickel au monde (plus de 100 000 ouvriers) organisent des manifestations et maintenant un blocage pour exiger un contrat équitable.

[John Clarke @JohnClke]

'However, abolishing the #IndianAct is not necessarily a step toward ending #colonialism. The debate is not only about whether to abolish the Indian Act, but about who has the authority to decide what replaces it.'
https://t.co/gqPzL7xP3K

[Spring Magazine @springmagca]

@internet_paolo Because giving money to people to spend on market without regulating the market or providing a controlled access to cheap goods will ultimately have less impact. Why public services are better than cash in pocket.

[Spring Magazine @springmagca]

Students at college and University campuses across Ontario protested the Ford government's attack on education. Students are fighting against cuts to OSAP, underfunding in the sector, and an attack on student services and student unions. Enough is enough, Ford has to go!

[Spring Magazine @springmagca]

Let’s help PIPSC embrace the labour movement.

PIPSC can mobilize members by more assertively challenging Carney’s austerity agenda. PIPSC can choose solidarity with other labour organizations and movements

https://t.co/7PNxiAiwhh

[Elementary Teachers of Toronto @ElemTeachersTO]

❌ Private jets
❌ Luxury mega spas
❌ $350,000 salaries to “supervisors”

Hearing this government talk about balanced budgets would be funny if it wasn’t hurting our children’s future

[Spring Magazine @springmagca]

The sharp upturn in class struggle continues in France, with school students and workers demanding more for ordinary people and far less for bankers and billionaires.

https://t.co/56c06fwg1C

[Spring Magazine @springmagca]

Big support for education workers at schools across the GTA. Fund our education system! #onted #ontedunited

[Elementary Teachers of Toronto @ElemTeachersTO]

Powerful #RedForEd Walk-In at Dorset Park PS today. Teachers and education workers came together to stand up for the public education our children deserve.

Our message is clear: Smaller class sizes. More supports for students. Fully funded public education.

When families, educators, and communities stand together, we build the power to win the schools our children deserve.

This is what building union power looks like! ✊🏾

#RedForEd #WalkIn #FundOurSchools #SmallerClasses #ETT #PublicEducation #BuildingUnionPower

[Spring Magazine @springmagca]

The Indian Act should not define the future of Indigenous peoples, and neither should the federal government.

https://t.co/7rBAs7c96K

[Spring Magazine @springmagca]

"There’s been a lot of false promises made by this government, and our kids are suffering" #onted #onpoli #ontedunited

https://t.co/WEODj297e2

[𝕃𝕦𝕔𝕚𝕒𝕟𝕠 𝕃𝕦𝕝𝕫 @altrella_l]

Demonstrations have begun in several German cities; in the video, protesters in Berlin are calling for funds to be directed toward education and social services rather than weapons.

[Spring Magazine @springmagca]

Day 2 of our Red October Conference is underway! https://t.co/BLpsnq6pKP

#RedOct26

[evan @evanj_hamont]

excellent discussion on building our power as working people at @springmagca’s opening rally for Red October! #redoct26

[Spring Magazine @springmagca]

Opening panel of Red October is underway #RedOct26

[L'Espresso @espressonline]

Tangenziale Est occupata a Milano per lo sciopero generale Usb. Cortei e proteste anche a Torino, Bologna e Napoli. A Roma scontri tra manifestanti e polizia. Al centro della mobilitazione salari, carovita e opposizione al riarmo

[Spring Magazine @springmagca]

Red October starts tonight with the opening rally, "World on fire: Workers, students, resistance, and revolution"

Doors open at 6:30pm! Please wear Red & Purple!

Tickets: https://t.co/BLpsnq6pKP

🗓Friday Oct 30th - Nov 1st
📍TMU Student Centre in downtown Toronto

[Alex Colston @re_colston]

NEW: On Friday, dockworkers at 111 ports in 22 countries and regions on five continents will stop work in a coordinated strike against war, according to the most recent information from the organizing unions.

More than 25 dockworkers’ unions have now signed on, from Marseille to Mumbai, Hamburg to Montevideo, Melbourne to Oakland. Days ago the count stood at about 100 ports in 17 countries, and that figure doesn’t include the dozens of unions in other sectors that have pledged support. Their demand is simple: no weapons and no military cargo through their ports. Nearly everything the world ships passes through the docks, and without the workers who load and unload it, nothing moves.

In France, the main dockers’ union says the country’s ports will be 95% shut. Italy, India, Greece and Turkey face 24-hour strikes, and Morocco and Cyprus will see stoppages of up to two hours, with rallies planned in port cities around the world. In Greece, metalworkers, ship-repair workers and young people are joining the dockers, and in the US, ILWU Local 10 is striking in Oakland and San Francisco. The unions are working from the Istanbul Declaration, signed in May, with each one deciding for itself how to take part. They are also fighting for their own jobs, against cuts from automation and for contracts, raises, shorter hours and safety.

The unions point to escalating wars in Ukraine and the Middle East and the danger of a generalized war. They condemn Israel’s new crimes in Hebron, carried out with the backing of the US, NATO and the EU. Israel’s lockdown of the city is now in its sixth day, with more than 3,000 Palestinians displaced, according to the UN. Palestinian unions have endorsed Friday’s action.

In Italy, the fight has spilled beyond the docks. The union USB has called for a nationwide general strike. Last night, the Italian government ordered transport workers back on the job last night. USB said it would defy the order and accept the steep penalties.

The unions are calling on workers and young people everywhere to stand with the dockworkers, saying “Ports for peace and the peoples, not launching pads for war.”

I’m reporting from Calabria, Italy, and I will be in Genoa tomorrow ahead of the strike to report on the ground during the mobilzation.

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

🇷🇸 “We owe our viewers an apology.”

A day after Serbia’s student-led movement defeated Aleksandar Vučić’s ruling party in a historic election, regional public broadcaster Radio Television of Vojvodina (RTV) opened Monday’s evening news with an extraordinary admission.

“For years, we failed to fulfill our duty. We kept silent, turned a blind eye, reported events one-sidedly and failed to ask necessary questions. We owe our viewers an apology,” anchor Goran Eror said, reading a statement from RTV employees.

The broadcaster acknowledged years of one-sided, uncritical reporting. The editor-in-chief of its main television channel resigned the same day.