The Columbus Worker
Revolutionary News and Analysis from Central Ohio
“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...
The Central Ohio Revolutionary Socialists are proud to announce the launch of a new local publication, The Columbus Worker.
Our mission is to bring a local voice to the working and oppressed classes of Central Ohio. We aim to provide a platform for activists to discuss and debate contemporary str...
The following book review was originally published in the Winter of 2020 issue of New Politics
Review of August Nimtz, Marxism versus Liberalism: Comparative Real-Time Political Analysis (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. 310pp.)
In a recent interview for the Minneapolis Interview Project...
The following book review was originally published by New Politics on November 28th, 2020
Review of Terrell Carver, Engels Before Marx (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020)
Friedrich Engels, born 200 years ago on November 28, 1820, has been termed the ‘first Marxist’ in some commentaries and histories...
Much has been said about the supposed “eurocentrism” of Marxism. Yet little is known about the Baku Congress. Colonized peoples played an enormous role in the communist movement in Lenin’s time.
As Pranav Jani rightly points out, even highly regarded left scholars such as Edward Said, Frederic Ja...
As uprisings spread across the United States, there has been a lot of discussion about property destruction and militant resistance to the police. Are these tactics a legitimate expression of the struggle, or are they a product of undercover action by police provocateurs, white supremacists, or outs...
Since the early days of modern socialism, the movement has been concerned with how to use bourgeois elections in service of the working class. The starting point of socialist electoral strategy has been the need to forge class independence. Early revolutionary leaders such as Karl Marx and Friedrich...
