Author: Stephen Millies

Demonstrations began in Kenosha, Wis., after Jacob Blake had been shot at seven times by policeman Rusten Sheskey on Aug. 23.
Elections

Before the attack on the U.S. Capitol: Trump’s Wisconsin coup attempt

January 8, 2021 Stephen Millies
After a fascist mob was allowed to take over the U.S. Capitol, Trump’s attempts to overturn the election can’t be dismissed as a clown show. It should have been obvious weeks before. Wisconsin showed how […]
Vendorsmarch
La Lucha por el Socialismo

¡Alto a la guerra contra los vendedores ambulantes!

January 7, 2021 Stephen Millies
Los hombres desempleados vendieron manzanas durante la Gran Depresión. Noventa años después, muchas aceras de la ciudad están llenas de comerciantes informales que intentan vender comida, ropa y equipo de protección personal. ¿Por qué estos […]
Laidoff
Capitalist crisis

Jeff Bezos says you don’t deserve $2,000

December 31, 2020 Stephen Millies
  Jeff Bezos has a fortune of $194 billion. Just in the United States, over a third of a million people have died from the coronavirus.   The tragedy has been a gold mine for the […]
Foodbankcalifornia
Capitalist crisis

Billionaires got a trillion. We get $600.

December 23, 2020 Stephen Millies
After months of doing nothing, the super Scrooge Congress finally provided a little help for poor and working people. We desperately need it. The coronavirus pandemic has killed over 320,000 people in the United States. […]
Tarikjameshaskins360
Covid-19

Stop killing prisoners with COVID-19!

December 18, 2020 Stephen Millies
Winter weather didn’t stop people from protesting the coronavirus plague that’s being allowed to sweep through U.S. prisons. Dozens gathered in front of New York City’s main post office on 8th Avenue on Dec. 15. […]
Executions
Political Prisoners

Trump’s racist revenge executions

December 16, 2020 Stephen Millies
During his final days in the White House, Trump is executing more prisoners than any U.S. president has since the 1950s. Starting on Bastille Day (July 14) this year, 10 prisoners have been put to […]
Michaelreinoehl
Elections

The ‘deep state’ is the real state

December 10, 2020 Stephen Millies
Is there a “deep state” that’s conspiring against Trump? Retired three-star Army Gen. Michael Flynn seems to think so. The brass hat posted a video on Twitter in July using slogans from the ultraright QAnon […]
Protectnurses
Covid-19

A two-day COVID tidal wave in the U.S.

December 4, 2020 Stephen Millies
In just the first two days of December, an estimated 5,495 people died of the coronavirus in the capitalist United States. That’s 690 more deaths than the total number of people who have died of […]
Vendorsmarch
Capitalist crisis

The war against street merchants

December 4, 2020 Stephen Millies
Jobless men sold apples during the Great Depression. Ninety years later, many city sidewalks are lined with street merchants trying to sell food, clothing and other needed goods. Why are these women and men willing […]
Detroitvotes
Elections

Black votes matter

November 28, 2020 Stephen Millies
Trump’s campaign to steal the election hasn’t stopped. It still depends on stealing Black votes. His No. 1 thug Rudy Giuliani wants the votes in Atlanta, Detroit, Milwaukee and Philadelphia thrown out. [Trump backtracked on […]