Author: Stephen Millies

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Venezuela

Free Alex Saab!

June 10, 2021 Stephen Millies
For thousands of years human societies have protected diplomats from harm, even during wartime. That hasn’t stopped the U.S. capitalist government from trying to seize the Venezuelan envoy Alex Saab. Sabb was Venezuela’s ambassador to […]
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Around the world

Germany must pay reparations to Africa

June 3, 2021 Stephen Millies
May 31 — Members of the December 12th Movement held a news conference today in front of the German mission to the United Nations in New York City to demand reparations for Namibia. “From 1904 […]
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In the U.S.

What happened to U.S. passenger trains?

May 11, 2021 Stephen Millies
People around the world celebrate May Day as the international workers’ holiday. This past May 1st was also the 50th anniversary of Amtrak, the U.S. government’s passenger train system. Until the coronavirus pandemic, Amtrak’s 20,000 […]
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Palestine

Brooklyn rally declares: Palestine will win!

May 10, 2021 Stephen Millies
Hundreds of people rallied in the Bay Ridge neighborhood of Brooklyn, N.Y., on May 8 to denounce the latest atrocities against the Palestinian people. Mobs of Zionist settlers screaming “death to Arabs” are trying to […]
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Labor and strikes

Killing workers for profit: Why Workers’ Memorial Day is necessary

May 9, 2021 Stephen Millies
Starting in 1930, Union Carbide hired 5,000 people to build the Hawks Nest Tunnel In West Virginia. It became a deathtrap for the workers, most of whom were Black. Cutting through three miles of sandstone, […]
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In the U.S.

Don’t let them evict us!

May 7, 2021 Stephen Millies
Federal Judge Dabney Friedrich threw out the federal ban on evictions May 5. The Trump-appointed judge claims the Centers for Disease Control had no authority to impose the moratorium under the Public Health Service Act […]
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Around the world

Zimbabwe celebrates 41 years of independence

April 24, 2021 Stephen Millies
  Forty-one years ago the people of Zimbabwe won independence on April 18, 1980. Thousands of Africans died for it. For decades Zimbabwe’s people fought for freedom. As a young man, Zimbabwe’s President Emmerson Mnangagwa […]
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Fight racism

Who are the real looters?

April 17, 2021 Stephen Millies
Whenever the cops kill somebody, you can count on two things: 1) Fox News and other Trump supporters will smear the victim, and 2) the TV networks and newspapers will focus on “looting,” almost drowning […]
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La Lucha por el Socialismo

¿Por qué está tan deteriorado el capitalismo estadounidense?

April 16, 2021 Stephen Millies
Millones de personas en Texas perdieron la calefacción, las luces y el agua hace dos meses durante una tormenta de invierno.  Las empresas de servicios públicos del estado, ávidas de ganancias, no querían gastar dinero […]
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Capitalist crisis

Why is U.S. capitalism so decayed?

April 9, 2021 Stephen Millies
Millions of people in Texas lost their heat, lights and water two months ago during a winter storm. The state’s profit-hungry utilities didn’t want to spend money winterizing natural gas pumps and other equipment. Over […]