Author: Stephen Millies

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Political Prisoners

After 43 years in jail, Mumia Abu-Jamal is still innocent

July 7, 2025 Stephen Millies
Philadelphia, July 5 — Over a hundred people demonstrated for Mumia Abu-Jamal’s freedom here today. Forty-three years ago, on July 3, 1983, the Black revolutionary was convicted after being framed for killing a Philadelphia cop.  […]
In the U.S.

Slavery and the fourth of you lie

July 4, 2025 Stephen Millies
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 […]
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Political Prisoners

Always remember Shaka Sankofa

June 22, 2025 Stephen Millies
Shaka Sankofa was executed 25 years ago on June 22, 2000. Texas governor and future president, George W. Bush, ordered the legal lynching in Huntsville. Sankofa spent half his life on death row. He was […]
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In the U.S.

What’s Steven Hatfill doing as a health adviser for Trump?

May 28, 2025 Stephen Millies
Remember Steven Hatfill? He was the main suspect in the 2001 anthrax deaths before the FBI turned its attention to Bruce Ivins. Five people were killed by anthrax being sent in envelopes through the mail. […]
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Fight racism

Commemorating the 1985 MOVE bombing in Philadelphia

May 18, 2025 Stephen Millies
Philadelphia, May 13 — Two hundred people gathered here at Cobbs Creek Parkway and Osage Avenue this rainy late afternoon to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the bombing of the nearby house of the MOVE […]
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Labor and strikes

Locomotive engineers shut down New Jersey Transit

May 17, 2025 Stephen Millies
May 16 — Four hundred fifty members of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen went on strike at 12:01 a.m. today against New Jersey Transit. The railroad workers, who belong to the International Brotherhood […]
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China

Tu Youyou, Ho Chi Minh, Mao Zedong and the struggle against malaria

April 25, 2025 Stephen Millies
Caused by a parasite which is spread by infected mosquitoes, malaria has killed billions during thousands of years of human history. Just in the last century, an estimated 150 to 300 million people died from […]
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Palestine

Massive D.C. protest targets U.S. role in Gaza genocide, ICE crackdown on activists

April 7, 2025 Stephen Millies
April 5 — Tens of thousands came to the U.S. empire’s capital in the Black colony of Washington, D.C., today to stop the genocide in Gaza. They marched on the headquarters of ICE to demand […]
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Around the world

Trump wants a super bigot to be ambassador to South Africa

April 1, 2025 Stephen Millies
Stop the war on Black people! Donald Trump has nominated L. Brent Bozell III — who defended the white supremacist apartheid system — to be U.S. envoy to South Africa, whose people overthrew apartheid in […]
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In the U.S.

Hands off Rep. Al Green! It’s fascist Trump who’s ‘out of order’

March 14, 2025 Stephen Millies
Texas Rep. Al Green was absolutely justified for challenging Donald Trump during the wannabe dictator’s March 4 speech to a joint session of Congress. George Wallace — whose Alabama state troopers clubbed voting rights protesters […]