Stephen Millies – Page 23 – Struggle

Their elections and our struggle

November 5, 2021 Stephen Millies

What do the Nov. 2 election results mean for poor and working people? In the Virginia governor’s race, Republican Glenn Youngkin beat Democrat Terry McAuliffe by 80,000 votes. In New Jersey, the Democratic incumbent Gov. […]

Stop terrorist ‘no-knock’ police raids!

November 2, 2021 Stephen Millies

Louisville, Kentucky, police with a “no-knock” search warrant broke down Breonna Taylor’s door after midnight on March 13, 2020, and started shooting. Six bullets struck the 26-year-old Black woman, killing her. There were no Fourth […]

Justice for Ahmaud Arbery! Lynched for jogging while Black

October 23, 2021 Stephen Millies

Philando Castile was killed by a Minnesota cop for Driving While Black. Trayvon Martin was killed by wannabe cop George Zimmerman in Florida for Walking While Black. Ahmaud Arbery was killed by three white vigilantes […]

Two, three, many Striketobers!

October 18, 2021 Stephen Millies

The U.S. working class is waking up angry and defiant. More than 100,000 workers are on strike from coast to coast. Here are some of the biggest battles that broke out during “Striketober”: 10,000 members […]

Haitian activists: ‘Joe Biden, shame on you!’

October 11, 2021 Stephen Millies

Oct. 8 ― Haitian activists and their supporters demonstrated today in New York City against the deportations of Haitian people. One sign said, “U.S. border patrols = slave catchers.” This referred to the immigration cops […]

Clean water and bathrooms are human rights!

October 10, 2021 Stephen Millies

San Francisco has 77 billionaires and 7,000 homes without indoor plumbing. While billionaire Jeff Bezos has his own rocket ship, 500,000 homes in the United States don’t have their own bathrooms with indoor plumbing. What’s […]

Congress will do nothing for us without struggle

October 7, 2021 Stephen Millies

Eighty-one million people voted last year against Trump and racism. For nearly 50 years, poor and working people have suffered from frozen wages and cutbacks. People want action now. Yet Congress is failing to pass […]

Happy birthday socialist China!

October 1, 2021 Stephen Millies

Seventy-two years ago, on Oct. 1, 1949, Mao Zedong declared “China has stood up!” The socialist People’s Republic of China was born after decades of struggle. Chinese women stepped forward with unbound feet. No longer […]

They didn’t have to die: U.S. capitalism fails to contain COVID-19

September 25, 2021 Stephen Millies

Is there anyone who hasn’t lost a loved one, friend, neighbor or co-worker to COVID-19? By the middle of September, one out of every 500 people in the United States had died of the coronavirus. […]

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Is Sirhan guilty? Unanswered questions about RFK’s assassination

September 17, 2021 Stephen Millies

Senator Robert Francis Kennedy had just won California’s Democratic presidential primary when he was shot in Los Angeles shortly after midnight on June 5, 1968. He died early the next morning, less than five years […]