Author: Stephen Millies

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Around the world

Celebrating African liberation in Brooklyn, N.Y.

June 1, 2022 Stephen Millies
Frederick Douglass Square in Brooklyn, New York, celebrated African Liberation Day on May 28. People gathered outside Sistas’ Place to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the historic 1972 ALD marches in San Francisco and Washington, […]
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Around the world

How socialist countries fight disease

May 28, 2022 Stephen Millies
Around 7.5 million people live in the Lao People’s Democratic Republic as compared to 8.8 million people residing in New York City. While 756 people in Laos have died from COVID-19, 40,365 New Yorkers died […]
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In the U.S.

One million people killed by capitalism

May 23, 2022 Stephen Millies
One million people in the United States have died of COVID-19. Coronavirus was written on their death certificates as the cause. But they were really killed by poverty, racism and capitalism. Even compared to other […]
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Palestine

Shireen Abu Akleh was a truth teller

May 19, 2022 Stephen Millies
Palestine will not be silenced The Palestinian journalist Shireen Abu Akleh was deliberately targeted by an Israeli sniper and assassinated on May 11. She was murdered in the morning daylight while wearing a vest that […]
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Palestine

Stop lying about Zionist murder! Shireen Abu Akleh was assassinated

May 16, 2022 Stephen Millies
Hundreds protested on short notice outside the headquarters of the New York Times on May 13, 2022. They came to protest the coverage by the capitalist media about the murder of Al Jazeera reporter Shireen […]
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Fight racism

Never forget the MOVE bombing

May 13, 2022 Stephen Millies
“Let the fire burn.” That was the order that Philadelphia police commissioner Gregore Sambor gave to firefighters as a residential home blazed on May 13, 1985. Philadelphia police, with assistance from the Pentagon and FBI, […]
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Around the world

Elon Musk, super pig

May 6, 2022 Stephen Millies
The U.S. Supreme Court wants to abolish reproductive rights and return to the days of coat hangers. Elon Musk―the world’s richest man―wants to turn back the clock for all poor and working people. The 12,000 […]
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Palestine

New York rally declares: Jerusalem is Palestine!

May 3, 2022 Stephen Millies
The chant “Palestine will be free from the river to the sea!” was heard by thousands of people in New York City on April 29. Manhattan’s Herald Square was filled with protestors who were outraged […]
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Environment

Why is Earth Day on Lenin’s birthday?

April 22, 2022 Stephen Millies
Millions of people around the world rally for environmental justice every year on April 22, which is Earth Day. This struggle is more important than ever as capitalist climate change continues to cook the earth. […]
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Around the world

Happy Birthday Zimbabwe!

April 22, 2022 Stephen Millies
Sista’s Place in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, was filled on April 18 to celebrate the 42nd anniversary of Zimbabwe’s independence. The event, which included representatives from Zimbabwe’s mission to the United Nations, […]