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Why they hate Gary, Indiana
For generations, the rule for Black workers in the United States has been “last hired, first fired.” In the Black city of Gary, Indiana, it’s now “the last place where the lights came back on.” […]
Author: Stephen Millies
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The African Holocaust has never stopped — reparations now!
Aug. 29 — “They stole us! They sold us! They owe us!” The chant carried through Fulton Park in the Bedford-Stuyvesant community of Brooklyn, New York, as 200 people came to commemorate the 25th anniversary […]
Around the world
235 years of capitalist revenge against Haiti
U.S. steals Haitian wealth, deports Haitian workers The Trump regime’s mass deportations of Haitian people have begun. A planeload of more than 160 expelled Haitians landed in Cap-Haitien, Haiti, on Aug. 20. That’s 235 years […]
Im/migrants and refugees
Corona, Queens says No! to ICE round-ups
Aug. 10 — Hundreds of people came to Corona Plaza in Queens, New York this afternoon to say no to Trump’s round-ups of immigrant workers and their families. The working-class neighborhood has been targeted by […]
In the U.S.
Dr. Fauci and his inquisitors
Capitalism vs. public health Dr. Anthony Fauci’s appearance before the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs on July 29 was a throwback to the days of Joe McCarthy and the witch hunt. The […]
Venezuela
U.S. out of Venezuela! Free President Nicolás Maduro and First Combatant Cilia Flores!
New York, July 22 — Two hundred days after U.S. troops seized them from their home in Caracas, Venezuela’s elected President Nicolás Maduro and First Combatant Cilia Flores were taken in handcuffs from the Metropolitan […]
Around the world
Air conditioning is a human right!
Capitalism is cooking the earth Thousands of people are dying in the United States and Europe during the current heat wave. An estimated 20,000 people perished in Europe during June. Deadly conditions are continuing into […]
Around the world
Haiti and Bastille Day
July 14 is Bastille Day. On that date, in 1789, thousands of poor people in Paris attacked a hated prison called the Bastille and began the French Revolution. The continual intervention of poor people […]
In the U.S.
Slavery and the fourth of you lie
The Declaration of Independence is Philadelphia’s proudest claim to fame. It was written by the Virginia slave master and future U.S. president, Thomas Jefferson, who sold his own flesh and blood — the product of […]
Cuba
Harlem says ‘No war on Cuba!’
Defenders of socialist Cuba marched through Harlem June 20 to answer threats from the Trump regime. The action was called by the Blacks 4 Cuba Coalition, initiated by the December 12th Movement. As the coalition’s […]