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The Weekly Rose is a collection of leftist perspectives from students at universities in Kansas. Penned by students at the University of Kansas and Kansas State University, we are an independent socialist alternative to traditional student newspapers.

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The Weekly Rose is a collection of leftist perspectives from students at universities in Kansas. We are an independent socialist alternative to traditional student newspapers currently housed at the University of Kansas and Kansas State University.

Publication is free for students and community members. For content submissions email weeklyrose@proton.me or send us a DM on Instagram @weeklyroseks

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Against Salting: How YDSA Can Do More for Workers

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.

How Black Marxism Shaped Black Anticolonial Nationalism

The understanding of the semi-colonial status of the Black American resulted in the recognition of the need for a radically new Black nation, understood through the framework of Black Marxism.

EXCLUSIVE: Read the Full Group Chats Spurring the KU Senate Scandal

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’?

In the Business of Ideology: A Critique of KU's Business School

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 Classic Lib-off: Exclusive Interviews with the Democratic Candidates for KS-01

Lauren Reinhold and Colin McRoberts are running for the US House as Democrats in Kansas' first district, gerrymandered to include all of Western Kansas and Lawrence. In an exclusive interview, the Rose asked the candidates about redlines for the progressive movement.