Editorial Keep the savings, pass on the sacrifices Responding to President Ambar's comments in the New York Times
Culture Spectre recommended viewing: The People Under the Stairs Wes Craven's forgotten leftist manifesto
COVID-19 Igniting a New Labor Movement From the Coronavirus Pandemic When the safety of a worker becomes the concern of the public, a strong case is made for more safe working environments, better wages, and a national healthcare system that doesn’t rely on employers.
Campus Politics Refuse to Forget! Oberlin Students Must Remain Vigilant on Labor The Oberlin administration, in fact, has little moral regard for its actions. By all indications, the blatant union busting which has taken place has been done so blatantly precisely because the school expects there to be little memory of it.
Campus Politics “Union Busting is Disgusting”: 850 students demonstrate solidarity less than 24 hours after custodial and dining layoffs announced The demonstration made clear that Oberlin’s student community stands opposed to the College’s announcement and in support of UAW.
Campus Politics What is to be done? 1. Be Angry. Stay Angry. 2. Get involved! 3. Demonstrate. 4. Educate. 5. Practice self care.
Campus Politics UAW Strong! Voices from Oberlin’s Rank and File Several workers discuss the trials and hardships they’ll face with the coming layoff.
Campus Politics Op-ed: Oberlin has a moral obligation to pay its workers a living wage The moral imperative for any employer, within our capitalist society, is to provide its labor force with just compensation for their labor. A sub-living wage, such as the wages that non-union staff make at Oberlin, is a moral wrong.
Campus Politics Cutting More Than Just Costs: Oberlin's assault on UAW is an act of class warfare Despite the fact that administration got us here in the first place, labor pays the price.
Campus Politics Medicare for All: How universal health insurance could solve Oberlin’s woes Change is coming. Both Oberlin and America are in crisis. We must choose whether to build a just and humane future, or allow the brutal logic of the past 50 years continue to guide our decision making, and lead us down the road to ruin.
Campus Politics What is austerity? No matter that it may upend the livelihoods of 108 unionized custodial and dining staff in the process — using subcontracted labor, instead of union labor, is an obvious path to easing the College’s financial burden ... but is it truly so necessary? Is there really no alternative?
Campus Politics An Oberlin We Can’t Believe In How seriously can we, as activists, speak of the “commitment to social justice” of an institution that still sends many graduates to key roles in the financial sector and the soft-power arms of the American empire?
Campus Politics OSCA study stalled indefinitely: alumni survey would produce crucial new data if allowed to proceed “Even though we went through this process,” designing the survey, consulting, redesigning, and coordinating with the Alumni Association and the IRB, “it just seems that ... certain players didn’t want this data to exist.”
Domestic Politics Obies make calls for Sanders at student-organized phone bank, find camaraderie, good vibes “I really like how this is a people-powered movement. We’re not seasoned campaign volunteers, but we're doing this because we really believe in it.”
Domestic Politics Kmart and Me: Exploring Late Capitalism’s Festering Sores Kmart is an open wound within the otherwise smooth space of retail, where IBM computers from the 1990s, signage from 2005, and Kylo Ren action figures stand side by side. It is a living monument to obsolescence and the fact of history amidst the endless rush of consumer trends and styles.
Culture Review: Permanent Record, by Edward Snowden Edward Snowden’s incendiary memoir provides insight into democratic ideals, moral responsibility, and modern tyranny.
Culture Building Collective Power: A Guide for Baby Socialists With a pragmatic, long-term approach to revolution, we can dismantle this clusterfuck of a society, and establish a truly ethical global system of production.
Domestic Politics Medicare for Whomst? Breaking Down the Democrats’ Healthcare Debate If we want to mobilize grassroots support for political change, we must offer more than a half-measure. Solving this crisis means fundamentally restructuring our dysfunctional healthcare system to serve the interests of the American people: this is the promise of M4A.
Domestic Politics Opinion: CNN Botched Crucial January Debate, Targeted Sanders The U.S. is occupying Iraq while on the brink of war with Iran, there is record inequality in America, and the economy is potentially on course toward for worst crash in modern history. Why are we focusing on candidates’ squabbles and not their policy agendas?
Spectre Exclusive Jen Deerinwater: SPECTRE EXCLUSIVE “It doesn’t matter how good we are at this kind of organizing when the government can just undo everything we’ve done. The longer I've been alive and done political work, the smaller my faith in our system has become.”
Domestic Politics Why is Tulsi Gabbard’s Foreign Policy So Awful? Should she enter the White House in 2021, her policies would continue regional destabilization, refugee crises, and endless wars across the world.
Campus Politics Divide and Conquer “One Oberlin” austerity measures conjure “student demands” as weapons against CDS workers
Campus Politics Norman Finkelstein’s “Limits of the Possible” Need Not Be Ours The famed iconoclast defends his icons
Letters from the Editor Letter from the Editor 2: Why International Socialism? Global capital is dependent upon keeping everything in its right place. When the Global South get a little too rowdy, capital has a full toolbox to tighten those loose screws: debt, political interference, and when needed, physical force.
