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Have you seen Markiplier’s new movie? This article isn’t about that. Not quite, at least. The double feature after the film was quite the politcal scare.

The tactic of salting industries with union workers was a topic of heavy debate at the latest YDSA conference. It stems from a misunderstanding about what the working class is and limits the organizational power of the YDSA by allienating workers from their own condition.

Faculty Senate has drafted a petition of no confidence in Chancellor Doug Girod and CFO Jeff DeWitt for their refusal to negotiate with the UAKU. They asking everyone at KU, including staff, faculty, students, and even alumni, to weigh in.

KU management sent a letter outlining their intention to end negotiations and enter a period of forced mediation if the Union does not agree to their 1% raise proposal in 7 days. Rather than meet with the Union face-to-face, admin has chosen to strongarm their way through the process, without even giving UAKU an opportunity to respond.

I will not otherwise continue to serve under an administration that governs through intimidation, manipulation, and bad-faith tactics. I will also be stepping away from Student Senate for the foreseeable future, as the conduct displayed by prospective candidates and current leadership has contributed to an atmosphere of dysfunction that I refuse to legitimize through continued participation.

In the midst of perhaps the most chaotic and crowded news cycle ever, the story that has consistently cut through the headlines is the slow, agonizing release of the Epstein Files.

The Weekly Rose has received transcripts of two group chats implicated in the ongoing KU Student Senate drama relating to allegations of collusion by members of the Required Student Fee Committee. Is it still a ‘nothing burger’?

Wednesday Night, the Kansan reported that KU Student Body President Andrew Murga was alleging collusion by some members of the Student Senate Fee Review Committee. Did they? Does it matter?

The really progressive thing to do would be to eliminate gender on ID altogether. What the government puts on ID is political, not a neutral fact.

In American politics, discourse is saturated with appeals to freedom. While this concept is often ill-defined, these appeals are nevertheless very effective, as ‘freedom’ is a sacrosanct American value.

When the legislature budgeted for raises for state employees, faculty and staff at KU may have expected raises. Instead, they went to a few at the top, including one administrator who may have played a unique role in appropriating the funds.

Students at Lawrence High School and Lawrence Free State walked out of class to protest ICE alongside hundreds of members of the community.

As students already struggle to pay for tuition, those attending KU are forced to pay an additional tax of over $500 a semester to fund basic infrastructure like mental health counseling and transportation services.

Over the last decade, growing unrest in the U.S. has been repeatedly channeled into Democratic Party campaigns that promise change while preserving capitalist rule. In Kansas DSA, the Socialist Majority Caucus has advanced an electoral strategy that absorbs mass anger into safe institutional channels, leaving little behind in the way of durable working-class power.

Hundreds of people packed the sidewalks at Ninth and Massachusetts Street on Sunday afternoon, turning downtown Lawrence into a roar of chants calling for justice for Renee Good and an end to ICE violence.

The international radical publishing house has more than doubled their floor space in their new two-room storefront at an acclaimed local community justice center

Unionization is the natural conclusion when an administration igrnores Shared Governance. A university that doesn’t respect its workers cannot respect its students. A university that doesn’t invest in sustainability cannot claim to care about our future.

K-State is refusing to conduct a wage survey of undergraduates so YDSA is picking up the slack. Help us advocate for you and bring power back to the workers by filling out our survey. Let your wage be heard.

We all agree bad things are wrong. The leaders of the conservative movement don't thing anything ought to be done about it. The fundamental differences in thought between conservatives and the left provides us all the more reason to act.

Liberals are unable to comprehend that North Korea, too, is a victim of American imperialism. Instead, they rationalize their imperialism as something external, instead of something developed at home.

This guest opinon piece is an academic analysis of materialism and a critique of the root causes that underlie gun violence. It explores the conditions that make vigilante justice inevitable. It does not endorce them.

The challenge of organizing in Red States is not that different from organizing in Blue States. They are all capitalist states. By sectioning off Red State organizing, blue states pretend that they are closer to socialism in some way that the working classes of my state are not.

As fascism takes force nationally, organizers in Kansas City are charting a different path and building power locally. At its 2025 convention, KC DSA elected new leadership and passed bold resolutions that reflect a spirit of revolutionary optimism.

Back with a vengeance on Wescoe Beach after getting kicked out of Kansas in 2023 for violating state gambling laws, the sports betting app Underdog Fantasy has returned to targeting college students with cash giveaways during Hawk Week in exchange for creating an account and placing a bet.

The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) ranks colleges based on their free speech environment. These rankings feign neutrality while excusing fascism, they do not represent the full picture of how free speech operates on campus.

To better understand Marx’s original vision for socialism, it is best to go straight to the source(s). In Marx’s “Philosophic and Economic Manuscripts of 1844” and “The Communist Manifesto”, co-written with Engels, communism is described in a number of ways – positively, negatively, tangentially, and otherwise – which can be synthesized into an understanding of Marx’s socialist vision of a post-capitalist world.

Management takes months to produce counterproposals and is often underprepared to bargin, but tell UAKU "Don't punish us for good deeds". Over a year after winning their union, there is still no contract in sight for faculty and academic staff as the University of Kansas’ management stalls negotiations.

Private equity billionaire David Booth has contributed a portion of his multi-billion dollar fortune to KU’s latest vanity project and its floundering football team.

How Blue Cross and Blue Shield and the Kansas Chamber allied against consumers in their fight against KanCare