The Columbus Worker

Revolutionary News and Analysis from Central Ohio

It was the morning of November 20th – Trans Day of Remembrance and hours after news broke of the Club Q shooting – that we first became aware of the Proud Boys' plan to terrorize the “Holi-Drag Storytime.” This event and the far right’s response to it were slated to take place at 10 a.m. on Saturday...

The Ohio State University deprives its students of reproductive healthcare. These are our demands.

Sign the Petition here.

1. Provide Plan B, on demand and for free.

Emergency contraception (levonorgestrel) is free for University of Cincinnati students at their Women’s Center, while OSU stud...

It was a hot evening in Columbus, Ohio on June 2nd of 2020. That day was the sixth consecutive day of protest as incited by the murder of George Floyd, and the streets of downtown were full of people, though the crowd was still significantly sparser than it had been during the past week. The peopl...

Abortion is More Than a Women's Issue

Although abortion rights do impact the health and safety of women, the abortion ban affects everyone with a uterus, and by extension, all those who have relations with people with uteruses. It is, necessarily, a trans issue. Moreso, access to safe abortions (l...

On May 3rd of this year it was leaked that the Supreme Court intends to overturn Roe vs Wade, a decision that will result in the ban and lead to the criminalization of abortion in at least thirteen U.S. states. This potential ban, in threatening to undo the gains of the second-wave feminist movemen...

The recent Russian invasion of Ukraine has ignited the long-standing imperial antagonisms between the United States and NATO on the one-side and Russia on the other. Central Ohio Revolutionary Socialists calls on all progressive and socialist forces to forge unity behind a set of principles for the...

“The human condition is less illuminated by the situation of privileged humans than by the situation of its oppressed majority, and it is here that we must begin our quest.” -Charles W. Mills, Unwriting and Unwhitening the World (2015)

“Armed with the knowledge of our past, we can with confiden...

"This epoch has gone forever. It has been followed by a new epoch, comparatively more impetuous, full of abrupt changes, catastrophes, conflicts, an epoch that no longer appears to the toiling masses as horror without end but as an end full of horrors."

-Vladimir Lenin, 1915

The recent withd...

On Wednesday, June 30th, a newly formed coalition called Columbus Housing for All hosted a rally outside the Greater Columbus Convention Center to address the housing crisis in Columbus. Organizations involved in the coalition include The Freedom Bloc, Just, the Party for Socialism and Liberation, Y...

June 20th marked an historic day as representatives of the Shawnee returned to their ancestral land at Serpent Mound to reclaim its rightful history and the integrity of their ancestral heritage. The opportunity for the Shawnee to return to Serpent Mound and to teach visitors about the site’s true...