Author: Stephen Millies

Minimumwageprotest
Capitalism and Marxism

The 45-year-long billionaire bonanza

October 8, 2020 Stephen Millies
Almost 13 million people in the U.S. are “officially” jobless. The real number is far higher. Many haven’t received an unemployment check in weeks. Then there’s Jeff Bezos, who runs Amazon and owns the Washington […]
Lionair
In the U.S.

Profits first, safety last. Boeing’s greed killed 346 passengers

September 28, 2020 Stephen Millies
Boeing’s rush to sell its 737 Max aircraft ignored design flaws and other safety concerns, according to a Sept. 16 report from Congress. Three hundred and forty-six people were killed in crashes of the plane […]
Nohumanisillegal
In the U.S.

Judges will not save us. It’s the people who make history

September 23, 2020 Stephen Millies
  People are outraged that Trump nominated right-wing zealot Amy Coney Barrett to the U.S. Supreme Court following the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Especially endangered are women’s reproductive rights, rights that enable women […]
Saulsanchez2
Labor and strikes

Meatpackers and Trump lie, workers die

September 21, 2020 Stephen Millies
Saul Sanchez didn’t have to die from the coronavirus. The 78-year-old worker at the JBS meatpacking plant in Greeley, Colo., died on April 7. His fellow workers, his six children and 12 grandchildren mourn him. […]
Timeyanks
Elections

Don’t blame Russia for Trump

September 11, 2020 Stephen Millies
Russia didn’t put Donald Trump in the White House. Large sections of the U.S. billionaire class did, with help from the FBI.  Yet most of the corporate media convicted the Russian Federation of the crime. […]
Jacob blake
Fight racism

Kenosha cops and fascists work hand-in-hand

August 29, 2020 Stephen Millies
The 12-year old Black youth Tamir Rice  had a toy gun when he was shot to death by a white Cleveland cop on Nov. 22, 2014.  Armed fascist terrorists are driving up and down the […]
Istandwithpostalworkers
Capitalist crisis

NYC postal workers rally

August 28, 2020 Stephen Millies
Postal workers and their supporters demonstrated across the country on Aug. 25. They were protesting the attacks on the postal service by President Trump and Postmaster General DeJoy. In New York City, a protest rally […]
Malaysia goodson
Socialism and dignity

Socialism and dignity: We need free public transit

August 26, 2020 Stephen Millies
New York City bus riders will have to start paying $2.75 again on Aug. 31. That’s 55 times what the fare was in 1948, when it cost a nickel.  Transit systems in Baltimore, Chicago and […]
Noevictions4
Capitalist crisis

“Billionaire landlords have to go!”

August 23, 2020 Stephen Millies
Aug. 20 ― Over five hundred people came to New York City’s public research library on Manhattan’s Fifth Avenue this afternoon. They were determined to stop the wave of evictions that is coming. New York […]
Usps
Capitalist crisis

Wrecking the post office and the election

August 20, 2020 Stephen Millies
From Harlem to Seattle, mail boxes are being removed by orders of Trump’s handpicked postmaster general, Louis DeJoy. Trump is sabotaging the post office in an attempt to steal the 2020 presidential election.  The mail […]