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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

State Universities, financially bound to the legislature, are overcomplying in lock step with their every demand at the expense of diversity initiatives and trans students, faculty, and staff.

Formatting your email signature in the face of the pronoun ban may seem daunting. Comply with the letter, but not the spirit of the law, and fill your email with non-gender identifying pronouns.

When people imagine knitting, they picture their grandma hunching over in a rocking chair, not, this author, a nonbinary teen with a mullet. But since the pandemic, fiber arts have seen a dramatic rise in popularity with younger generations. Knitting and crochet have been dismissed as “grandma hobbies;” slow, domestic, and too feminine to be taken seriously. However, that dismissal is misogynistic, and misses the point entirely. Knitting uses intergenerational knowledge and community as a quiet rebellion against a world obsessed with speed and profit. Basically, I’m saying my knitting is punk as hell.

CapFed is a facade beyond its modular facade; it is a shell over an institution that exists to reproduce the logics it teaches and the capitalists it relies on – no matter the ‘external’ costs. It understands its role in the community, it knows it will always have support from private actors and University administration, and doesn’t care that it eliminates contingent possibilities, both practical and theoretical.

A History of Coltan Mining and Extraction in the Democratic Republic of the Congo . To fuel its tech boom, as is its nature, the First World is preying upon the Third for its resources

Beauty is not an objective fact; it is a social construct, reified across generations and composed of endless threads of styles, genres, artists, notions, and cultures. It is an expression of ourselves and the vast diversity across humanity, united not by one standard of beauty, but by many.

In 1992, former Kansas Senator Bob Dole tried to kill public broadcasting. Trump is pushing Congress to finish the job.

While administrative compensation has skyrocketed, the purchasing power of faculty and academic staff salaries at KU has declined by almost a fifth. Girod sits inside his cushy office, separated from the rest of the university by a passcode lock, while the departments he oversees make enormous sacrifices to make ends meet.

Kansas Christian College, a staple of Overland Park, is a private school whose programming is more focused on God than academics. They spread a conservative model of Christianity by forming a small community of students of all backgrounds and molding them in accordance with their vision for the world. A look into a local private college reveals the deeper nature of American conservative Christianity. Image credit: Kansas Christian College

Criticism and misinterpretation has erupted following the passing of a Resolution Recognizing the Ongoing Genocide in Palestine. Let’s clear that up.