In the U.S.

In the U.S.

New York City: Save the Fulton Houses! Hands off public housing!

August 23, 2019 Stephen Millies
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio wants to demolish two of the buildings in the Fulton Houses in the Chelsea section of Manhattan, a public housing project, and replace them with a luxury building […]
In the U.S.

The rich need us. We don’t need them.

August 23, 2019 Stephen Millies
Mark Hanna was a high school classmate of the world’s first billionaire, John D. Rockefeller, and became a pretty big capitalist himself. The Cleveland Central Labor Union’s secretary wrote in 1896 that Hanna wrecked the […]
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What can stop the racist massacres?

August 19, 2019 Stephen Millies
Millions of people have been horrified by the racist massacres in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio. The El Paso shooter’s hate manifesto echoed Trump’s anti-immigrant rants and those of Tucker Carlson at Fox News. […]
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The Second Amendment isn’t for everybody

August 19, 2019 Stephen Millies
There was no Second Amendment right to bear arms for Philando Castile. In 2016, the Black school cafeteria worker and Teamster member was killed inside his car by a Minnesota cop. Castile told the cop […]
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El Paso, white supremacist terror and fascism

August 17, 2019 Sharon Black
We should remind ourselves that white supremacist terror is not new to U.S. soil. Historically, it has been intertwined with the development of capitalism. First with the theft of Indigenous lands and later with the […]
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Black Mississippians respond to the ICE raids conducted in Mississippi on August 7, 2019

August 11, 2019 Struggle - La Lucha
We, as descendants of enslaved African people, stand here today in solidarity, in determination, and in righteous outrage at the unwarranted and heavy-handed actions of the federal government. On August 7th, 2019, hundreds of ICE […]
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The anti-people U.S. budget

August 8, 2019 Stephen Millies
The U.S. government will spend over $4.7 trillion in the coming year. The federal budget is larger than the entire economies of every other country in the world except for China and possibly Japan. Every […]
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Klansmen in the White House

August 5, 2019 Stephen Millies
California Gov. Ronald Reagan was angry that the most populous country in the world―the People’s Republic of China―had finally taken its rightful seat in the United Nations in 1971. But he was furious at the […]
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How they made Baltimore poor

August 3, 2019 Stephen Millies
Trump’s repeated attacks against Baltimore and Maryland congressperson Elijah Cummings have the smell of fascism. Describing the Black-majority city of Baltimore as a “very dangerous & filthy place,” the White House bigot also tweeted that […]
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A Marxist view of the U.S. Supreme Court

July 14, 2019 Sam Marcy
In late June, the U.S. Supreme Court released a wave of decisions, as it does every year at the end of its session. Among them was a ruling giving the responsibility for decisions on partisan […]