The Columbus Worker

This piece is an edited version of a speech originally given by Coco Smyth on November 7th, 2024 at a meeting celebrating the 107th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution. This meeting was hosted by Central Ohio Revolutionary Socialists and People’s Defense Columbus (then known as Rising Tide Col...

John Harris gave this talk on June 16th, 2025 at a workshop sponsored by the Boston May Day Coalition as a way to address strategy and tactics in today’s fight against the raids and deportations. May Day 2006 witnessed the largest nationwide general strike in decades, involving working people in the...

We are excited to announce that CORS has voted unanimously to affiliate with Workers Voice!

Since Central Ohio Revolutionary Socialists became an independent local organization in 2019, we have been committed to building the revolutionary left not just in Columbus, but across the country and the w...

Students at Ohio State University protest the university's preemptive dissolution of the Office of Diversity and Inclusion before right-wing state legislation mandated it.

“We will eventually turn it toxic, as we put all of the various cultural insanities under that brand category. The goal is...

This report is the second part of a series of articles Columbus Worker is republishing detailing the history of the Palestine solidarity movement and the Boycotts, Divestments, and Sanctions (BDS) campaign at OSU over the last decade.

This 2016 piece by Coco Smyth documents and analyzes the 201...

This is the first in a series of articles the Columbus Worker will be republishing covering the over decade-long struggle for Boycotts, Divestment, and Sanctions against Israel at Ohio State University. The Palestine solidarity movement has deep roots at OSU and has had a wealth of experience test...

Israel’s genocidal offensive in Gaza has triggered the largest and most militant expressions of support for Palestine in the United States to date. The Palestine movement has gained huge amounts of traction in the past year in response to heightened awareness of Israel’s brutal occupation and its et...

The period of Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza has initiated a breakthrough for support for Palestine within the United States. The U.S. government’s total bipartisan support for Israel, the advocacy of Zionists, and the ratcheting up of Islamophobia in the last two decades of the “War on Terror” has...

In a review of Beyond Capital: Toward a Theory of Transition by István Mészáros, I briefly mentioned his insights into why capitalism is so extremely wasteful is worthy of separate treatment. The present article probes into that issue.

Mészáros’s study points out that an integral part of capital...

Relief and excitement swept across Ohio once the results of the November 2023 state election poured in. It’s rare in Ohio, or really most of the country, that much of substance is actually at stake on the ballot. We’re all too used to elections where we only get to choose which representative of a c...