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    Assembling a digital dystopia

    The Ontario Landlord and Tenant Board’s “digital-first” hearing model is silencing tenants and helping landlords evict them.

    by Yodit Edemariam and Michael Lawler – 21 min read

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    Desire path

    by Andi Vicente – 2 min read

    A photo essay on displacement, grief, and Land Back in the Philippines

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    Birth control and reproductive justice

    by Hannah Dwyer – 15 min read

    Hormonal birth control has long been a feminist symbol of choice, but without other options, is it truly a choice?

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    “Health is capitalism’s vulnerability”

    by Megan Linton – 10 min read

    An interview with Beatrice Adler-Bolton on her new book “Health Communism: A Surplus Manifesto”

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    2022 Writing in the Margins contest winners

    by Sophie Jin – 2 min read

    We’re excited to announce the winners and honourable mentions of our 12th annual Writing in the Margins contest!

  • A prisoner at Guelph Correctional Centre flexes his bicep. He is prying apart jaws of steer skulls at work for Better Beef Ltd., a private company operating on prison grounds. He is inside the factory and wearing an apron and a hairnet.
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    The case for a prisoners’ union

    by Jordan House and Asaf Rashid – 5 min read

    Organizing prisoner workers is the first step toward abolishing prisons.

  • Magazine

    A Marxist reader for disorienting times

    by Kate Jacobson – 6 min read

    A reading list to help leftists face the conditions within which we organize without consolation or despair. 

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    Cause of death

    by Mary Fairhurst Breen – 5 min read

    Sophie didn’t mean to die. She had simply arrived at the point where she was prepared to try anything to feel better.

Current Issue

March/April 2023

Ontario's housing tribunal and it's new digital dystopia. Plus: a conversation on health communism, the dark side of birth control and its implications for reproductive justice, an argument for unionizing prisoner workers, and the winners of 2022 Writing in the Margins contest.

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