Author: Stephen Millies

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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 […]
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Fight racism

Rudy Giuliani’s 1992 police riot

June 9, 2020 Stephen Millies
The demonstrations sparked by the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and Ahmaud Arbery are not riots. They are uprisings of millions against racist police violence.     It’s the cops who are rioting with their […]
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Socialism and dignity

Socialism and dignity: The right to retire

June 3, 2020 Stephen Millies
Seventy-year-old Enock Benjamin never got to retire. The United Food and Commercial Workers union steward died of COVID-19 on April 3. Born in Haiti, Benjamin was one of many workers from other lands employed in […]
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Socialism and dignity

Socialism and dignity: The right to use a bathroom

May 24, 2020 Stephen Millies
Capitalism is humiliation. Having to ask to go to the bathroom can be deeply humiliating. As a young girl, Julia Wright was escorted by a family friend, Constance Webb, to Manhattan’s Bergdorf Goodman department store. […]
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Socialism and dignity

Socialism and dignity: The right to a funeral

May 20, 2020 Stephen Millies
No millionaire has ever been executed in the United States. Hardly any rich people have been buried in New York City’s Potter’s Field. Over a million poor people are interred there on Hart Island off […]
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Socialism and dignity

Socialism and dignity: Seniors are not roadkill

May 16, 2020 Stephen Millies
Why are so many people in nursing homes dying from the coronavirus? Over 28,000 people across the United States have died in nursing homes or other long-term care facilities.  Nearly 35 percent of the COVID-19 […]
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In the U.S.

Tom Cotton needs an education

May 11, 2020 Stephen Millies
Sen. Tom Cotton wants to stop Chinese college students from studying science in the United States. The Arkansas statesman told Fox News on April 26 that “if Chinese students want to come here and study […]