Stephen Millies – Page 24 – Struggle

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 […]

Never forget the Hamlet fire: Capitalist greed killed 25 workers

September 8, 2021 Stephen Millies

Twenty-five workers were killed on Sept. 3, 1991, when a fire broke out at the Imperial Foods chicken plant in Hamlet, N.C. Workers choked to death from heavy black smoke after a deep-fat fryer ignited. […]

How Reagan’s war drive exploited a tragedy: The real story of Korean Air Lines Flight 007

September 7, 2021 Stephen Millies

Thirty-eight years ago, 269 people were killed when Korean Air Lines flight 007 was shot down over the Soviet Union on Sept. 1, 1983. President Ronald Reagan called it “an act of barbarism.” U.S. cops […]

Happy Labor Day — now drop dead

September 6, 2021 Stephen Millies

At least 7.5 million workers will lose all their unemployment benefits on Sept. 6. Another 3 million workers will lose part of their income. That’s how the capitalist government celebrates Labor Day. Two million workers […]

The growing poverty of the U.S. working class

August 28, 2021 Stephen Millies

Millions of working-class families in the United States are so poor they can’t afford to shop at grocery stores any more. They’re buying food at 99 cent stores instead. Ohio resident Kyle Dishman told the […]