Author: Stephen Millies

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Capitalist crisis

Millions face eviction or foreclosure. The people can stop it!

July 29, 2020 Stephen Millies
A wave of evictions and foreclosures is coming that can throw millions of people into the street. The federal ban on kicking people out of their apartments and houses — which only applied to properties […]
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Capitalist crisis

Capitalist heat wave = death. Air conditioning for all!

July 22, 2020 Stephen Millies
As COVID-19 continues to kill hundreds of people every day in the United States, a summer heat wave will also be a big killer. Twenty-five years ago, at least 739 people died in Chicago during […]
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Covid-19

Millions face eviction while banks grab billions

July 16, 2020 Stephen Millies
Alvin Kinnard was jailed for nearly 36 years in Alabama for allegedly stealing $50.75 from a bakery. His real crime was being Black and poor. Kinnard was 22 years old when he was sentenced to […]
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Around the world

Haiti and Bastille Day

July 14, 2020 Stephen Millies
July 14 is Bastille Day. On that date in 1789 tens of thousands of poor people in Paris attacked a hated prison called the Bastille and began the French Revolution. The continual intervention of poor […]
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Socialism and dignity

Socialism and dignity: U.S. capitalist health care is racist

July 14, 2020 Stephen Millies
Deamonte Driver didn’t have to die. An abscessed tooth led to the 12-year-old Black youth’s death on Feb. 25, 2007.  Deamonte’s mother, Alyce Driver, worked two jobs. But her pay was so low that she […]
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Political Prisoners

Philadelphia protest: Free Mumia! Free them all!

July 7, 2020 Stephen Millies
Over 500 people came to Philadelphia’s City Hall on July 4 to demand that Mumia Abu-Jamal be freed. It was the largest action inside Philadelphia for the imprisoned revolutionary Black writer in years. Every July […]
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Socialism and dignity

Socialism and dignity: A job is a right!

June 30, 2020 Stephen Millies
Over 20 million workers are unemployed in the United States. That’s a catastrophe. Joblessness hasn’t been this high since the Great Depression of the 1930s. Extended unemployment benefits under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic […]
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Fight racism

Where are the statues of Viola Liuzzo?

June 25, 2020 Stephen Millies
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo doesn’t think the statue of Christopher Columbus in New York City’s Columbus Circle should be removed. Cuomo said that the statue “represents in some ways the Italian American legacy in […]
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Political Prisoners

Never forget Shaka Sankofa

June 22, 2020 Stephen Millies
Shaka Sankofa was executed 20 years ago on June 22, 2000. Texas governor and future president, George W. Bush, conducted the legal lynching in Huntsville. Sankofa spent half his life on death row. He was […]
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Socialism and dignity

Socialism and dignity: We don’t need their cops

June 18, 2020 Stephen Millies
When the Pilgrims invaded the Wampanoag nation in the 1620s, they didn’t find any police or jails. Such cruelty wasn’t necessary. That’s because there were no rich or poor in Wampanoag society. A community of […]