Author: Stephen Millies

 “Attorney-at-War” Alton Maddox Jr. has passed. The militant Black lawyer and defender of oppressed people died on April 23, aged 77 years old. Born in Inkster, Michigan―a suburb of Detroit―on July 21, 1945, Maddox’s […]

 Two more atrocities prove that police in the United States almost never face any consequences for killing Black people. On April 17, grand juries refused to indict police for the deaths of Jayland Walker […]

 New York City’s Times Square was packed on April 10 with a protest against the U.S. military’s latest incursion on Philippine sovereignty. The Pentagon has sent over 12,000 troops to the Philippines for the […]

 How many people have to lose their jobs before Federal Reserve Bank system chair Jerome Powell is satisfied? High-tech firms including Alphabet (Google), Amazon and Meta (Facebook) have shed 118,000 jobs so far this […]

 Should Donald Trump be prosecuted on charges filed by the Manhattan DA? When two million poor people are in prison, how can Trump not be put on trial? Trump should have been jailed decades […]

 Since Social Security was established on August 14, 1935, capitalist opponents have said it would go broke. Yet, as limited as it is, Social Security has been the greatest factor in reducing extreme poverty […]

Kingston, New York, says ‘roll back the rent!’  People in Kingston, New York, have had enough with rents going through the roof. So last November, the city’s Common Council voted to roll back rents […]