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Reparations must be paid!
“They stole us, they sold us, they owe us!” Those powerful and truthful words were chanted at the African Burial Ground in lower Manhattan on July 23 to demand reparations for slavery. The noontime rally […]
Author: Stephen Millies
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Haiti and Cuba—two great revolutions
The Haitian and Cuban revolutions are two of the greatest events in world history. Both social upheavals inspired oppressed peoples and terrified their oppressors. The Haitian Revolution was the only successful slave revolution in history. […]
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Defending Cuba in New York City
Two hundred people came to Manhattan’s Union Square on July 15 to defend the Cuban Revolution. They rejected the lies of the big business media that’s attacking socialist Cuba. The rally was called by […]
Fight racism
Fourth of You Lie in Brooklyn, N.Y.
July 4 — Frederick Douglass knew the Fourth of July was phony. So does the December 12th Movement. D12 held an outdoor rally today in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn, N.Y., for Black liberation and […]
In the U.S.
No tears for war criminals: Donald Rumsfeld was U.S. torturer-in-chief
For the people of Iraq, Donald Rumsfeld was their Hitler. The former Pentagon boss killed over a million people in Iraq. The country is still occupied by Big Oil. Nobody in Iraq is mourning Rumsfeld, […]
China
Happy birthday to China’s Communist Party!
The Chinese Communist Party was born a century ago on July 1, 1921. Several dozen courageous revolutionaries came to Shanghai to start building a party that led China out of its misery. At that time, […]
In the U.S.
The Rosenbergs were heroes
In his funeral eulogy for Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, W.E.B. Du Bois declared, “They died because they would not lie.” The Rosenbergs were burned to death in the electric chair by the U.S. government on […]
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New York State Assembly says YES to reparations
The New York State Assembly voted 107-43 on June 9 to establish the “New York State Community Commission on Reparations Remedies.” The 43 assembly members who voted against this historic act authored by Assembly Member […]
Political Prisoners
Julian Assange and the U.S. war on truth-tellers
Pentagon generals and killer cops can’t tolerate truth-tellers. That’s the reason Ramsey Orta was locked up for four years. Orta filmed his friend Eric Garner being choked to death by Officer Daniel Pantaleo in Staten […]
Venezuela
Free Alex Saab!
For thousands of years human societies have protected diplomats from harm, even during wartime. That hasn’t stopped the U.S. capitalist government from trying to seize the Venezuelan envoy Alex Saab. Sabb was Venezuela’s ambassador to […]