We are excited to announce that CORS has voted unanimously to affiliate with Workers Voice!
Since Central Ohio Revolutionary Socialists became an independent local organization in 2019, we have been committed to building the revolutionary left not just in Columbus, but across the country and the world.
Over this period we have organized for Palestine, trans rights, reproductive justice, climate justice, workers power, and against fascism, police brutality, and capitalist politics with an orientation towards mass action, working class political independence, and the rebuilding of the revolutionary socialist movement.
In tandem with these practical efforts, we have worked to build up a small pole of attraction for Marxist politics in the social and labor movements with the aim of pushing forward struggles against all forms of capitalist exploitation and oppression. From the start we’ve seen these efforts as a small part of the broader socialist movement developing across the world.
We have worked to make this connection more concrete by building relations with other local and national organizations committed to advancing the socialist movement. Through these efforts in groups like the Revolutionary Socialist Network (RSN), we built close relationships with many other organizers who share our commitment to mass action and workers’ power. In 2022, many comrades we met in RSN successfully regrouped as Workers Voice and we have worked with them in this process since.
On July 24th, 2025, the CORS membership decided to formalize our relationship with Workers Voice and help to launch the new Ohio branch of the organization.
We made this decision due to our shared commitment to Workers Voice’s politics and their serious approach to organizing in the movements. We seek to build a nationwide organization of socialists capable of developing a mass base for revolutionary politics through effective party building and systematic intervention in social and labor movements across the country.
As we transition into this new phase of organizing, we welcome other revolutionary socialists across Ohio to join Workers Voice! We currently have members in Columbus and Athens, Ohio as well as Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and Indianapolis, Indiana. We welcome comrades from across the region to work with us to build the socialist movement everywhere we can.
Whether you’re just now becoming a socialist or have been an organizer for years, now is the time to commit or recommit to collective struggle and the building of a mass movement for socialism. The capitalists and their parties, the Republicans and the Democrats, are committed to oppressing and exploiting the masses and only mass struggle for revolutionary change can bring power to the working class.
The working class has more power than the billionaires and the politicians but only when we organize in our millions and dedicate ourselves to resolute struggle against the capitalist ruling class. Today is the day to fight back against capitalism and imperialism and the exploitation and oppression it depends on.
We are beginning public activities as Workers Voice Ohio now and in October we will be hosting the founding congress of the Ohio branch of Worker Voice in Columbus. We welcome all those interested in joining or learning more to attend!
Moving forward, Central Ohio Revolutionary Socialists will begin the transition into the student and youth wing of our organization in Ohio. Workers Voice Ohio will orient towards organizing workers and the community. We are excited to deepen our organizing for socialism in the region and we are looking forward to working with our friends, allies, and comrades to help build the movement we need to win justice and liberation for all.