Columbus Workers Launch New Publication
In October, revolutionaries-in-formation in Columbus, Ohio launched a new publication Voice of a New Columbus. The publication is part of a wave of organs of local mass movements, like Charlotte’s Working People’s Press, Washington D.C. and Northern Virginia’s The Potomac Worker, and the Voice for a New Providence, that are dedicated to providing a revolutionary class-conscious analysis of local and regional issues the masses face. In their own words:
Voice of a New Columbus is a new publication launched by revolutionary workers, activists and organizers in the so-called city of “Columbus” for the purpose of centralizing and publicizing reports, summations, news and articles related to our struggles and the issues facing the multinational US working class. While building mass organizations is still our focus, the time has come to start building up the foundation for a revolutionary news service that can take up the task of centralizing, sharing, and synthesizing lessons from the great mass of revolutionary activity going on locally and nationally.
The masses of Columbus, Ohio deserve better and will win better, only by getting organized! We vow to help dismantle and expose opportunism in our city and fight hand in hand with the working class and the revolutionary movement. We want to not just be a news service but an organization that can help unite the revolutionary movement in our city, both theoretically and practically! We chose the name “Voice of a New Columbus” because we serve nothing but the new world that will come as the working class continues to get organized!”
Students Mobilize for Palestine, Face Repression from Old State
To commemorate the second anniversary of Al-Aqsa Flood, students, youth, and masses around the country mobilized to demonstrate their solidarity with the struggle of the Palestinian people for liberation from their Zionist settler oppressors. For example, in Providence, Rhode Island, the local Revolutionary Student Union (RSU) chapter lead a mass protest of more than a hundred students from different schools in a concrete demonstration of the righteous anger of the people against Israel’s bloody occupation of Palestinian land.
To meet this tide of mass mobilization, the Old State has interested and sharpened its repressive efforts over the last few years as part of the broader trend of rising fascism the United States is currently experiencing. In Texas, ultra-reactionary attorney general Ken Paxton addressed a letter to the University of North Texas calling for the dismantling of their local RSU chapter, the Denton Student Union (DSU), by the university administration. As can be read in their response, the DSU comrades refused to back down in the face of direct state repression, and instead proclaimed:
We will continue our work as an organization, and we will continue to serve as a bulwark against the fear, isolation, and atomization which the ruling class and their guard dogs seek to impose upon us and our communities.
Dare to struggle, dare to win.
Denton Student Union”
Amazon Workers Publish Draft Demands
Amazon warehouse workers organizing with New Day at Amazon released a set of demands in October as part of the New Labor Organizing Committee’s efforts to intensify their work against speed-ups, lay-offs, and worsening conditions of work the class is currently experiencing. Among the demands were included things like better pay, an end to Amazon’s infamous surveillance of insider workers and drivers, protections and demands for migrant workers, and a refusal to accept any no-strike clause imposed by management and the state union establishment.
Shop organizations like New Day at Amazon have been doing work like this as part of the 2025-2026 implementation of the new NLOC Program ratified this summer.
People’s Defense Committee Consolidates After 1st Convention
In the aftermath of its 1st National Convention, the People’s Defense Committee has continued to build its work among the masses. In Chicago and Washington, D.C., PDC chapters have called for the formation of Neighborhood Defense Units in local neighborhoods to organize long-term defense against militarization and police brutality. In both cities, ICE has been terrorizing immigrant communities with the full support of the Old State. In Washington, D.C., the National Guard and other federal police forces roam the streets and brutalize the masses at unprecedented levels. Both Chicago and D.C. face severe militarization, and thus in response the masses naturally struggle against the State’s attempts to demonize immigrants and enact militaristic control. Long term solutions, like Neighborhood Defense Units, are needed to fight back and transform the current mass community resistance from short-term spontaneous rebellion into long-term revolutionary momentum.
Chapters in Columbus, Austin, Charlotte, and Durham spent the month organizing tenants in their struggle against the parasitic landlord class by knocking doors and tabling inside of apartment complexes to garner support for the creation of tenant unions. People’s Defense Charlotte held a successful Halloween community event for tenants at the Landon Apartments, even after being denied the right to do so by the complex’s management. People’s Defense Columbus held a tenants and renters meeting to further develop the struggle in the city. In general, PDC chapters are further developing and professionalizing their work with each step in the tenants struggle, marching towards a class-conscious tenants movement.
People’s Defense Committee chapters across the nation furthered their practice of the “Three Withs” of living with, working with, and struggling with the masses. People’s Defense Oklahoma City spent the Halloween weekend hosting a “Trunk or Treat” event and erected an ofrenda (featuring portraits of local victims of police brutality, as well as Indian and Palestinian martyrs) at a local Day of the Dead festival. At the Day of the Dead festival activists spent the entire day speaking with locals and speaking on the struggles of the people in the US and internationally. Practicing the Three Withs is an important principle to uphold, since ultimately all change must come from the masses mobilized in class struggle.
