Author: Stephen Millies

Gepensionprotest
In the U.S.

Capitalism needs you to die quicker

September 23, 2022 Stephen Millies
“Americans are dying younger, saving corporations billions,” ran an Aug. 8, 2017, Bloomberg headline. It continued: “Life expectancy gains have stalled. The grim silver lining? Lower pension costs.” That was over two years before the […]
Nycopenadmissionsmarch
In the U.S.

Fear of an educated working class

September 15, 2022 Stephen Millies
Former U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer didn’t have to worry about student loans when she graduated from Brooklyn College in 1962. Whites then comprised over 90% of the students in the City University of New York […]
Dedankimathi
Around the world

Dedan Kimathi was hanged by Queen Elizabeth

September 9, 2022 Stephen Millies
The African freedom fighter Dedan Kimathi was hanged on Feb. 18, 1957, while Queen Elizabeth II was on her throne, head of state of Britain and the Commonwealth realms, including Kenya. As head of state, […]
Cancelstudentdebt3
In the U.S.

Their debts and ours

September 9, 2022 Stephen Millies
The entire student loan program amounts to loan sharking. Forty-five million people owe $1.7 trillion. Every cent should be wiped off the books. The compound interest collected by the banksters is strangling millions. People in […]
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China

Why China isn’t capitalist

September 5, 2022 Stephen Millies
Wall Street and the Pentagon view the People’s Republic of China as their number one enemy. China is the target of U.S. imperialism’s “Pivot to Asia.”  China’s economy may already be larger than the United […]
Reparationsrally
Fight racism

Brooklyn, N.Y., rally: Resistance and reparations!

August 22, 2022 Stephen Millies
“When will we be paid for the work we’ve done?” That great song by the Staples Sisters roared out in Restoration Plaza in Brooklyn, New York’s Bedford-Stuyvesant community on Aug. 17. “Resistance and Reparations” were […]
Sanfrancisco
In the U.S.

Nancy Pelosi, Taiwan and Baltimore

August 4, 2022 Stephen Millies
Nancy Pelosi, the speaker of the U.S House of Representatives, landed in Taiwan Province on August 2. Her trip is a dangerous provocation against the People’s Republic of China. Pelosi arrived on the 58th anniversary […]
Arizona
Political Prisoners

Guilty until proven innocent

July 29, 2022 Stephen Millies
The so-called U.S. criminal justice system is just plain criminal. Two of its biggest atrocities are cash bail and solitary confinement. Black Lives Matter activist Sandra Bland was held in a Waller County, Texas, jail […]
Trump2020
In the U.S.

Don’t trust the Secret Service

July 26, 2022 Stephen Millies
Despite the bloodshed in the U.S. capitol, Trump’s attempted coup on Jan. 6, 2021, is often portrayed as a clown show. The capitalist media showed countless pictures of the bare-chested Jacob Chansley wearing a fur […]
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Around the world

Philippines: Never again to martial law!

July 26, 2022 Stephen Millies
New York ― A terrible heat wave didn’t stop a hundred people from demonstrating in front of the Philippines mission to the U.N. on July 24. Filipinos, Filipino-Americans and their supporters were protesting the newly […]