Author: Stephen Millies

Chicago 1919

Bombings greet the Great Migration

October 11, 2019 Stephen Millies
A fundamental change in the composition of the U.S. workforce was the Great Migration of African Americans from the South to Northern cities. With the outbreak of World War I, factory owners lost Eastern and […]
Chicago 1919

The long shadow of the 1919 Chicago race riot

October 8, 2019 Stephen Millies
First in a series A century ago, Chicago was convulsed by anti-Black riots. For days, African Americans were beaten and killed in a city whose first non-Indigenous resident was the Black man Jean Baptiste Point […]
Around the world

Long live the memory of Robert Mugabe!

September 20, 2019 Stephen Millies
New York — Hundreds came to Harlem’s All Souls Episcopal Church on Sept. 17 to pay tribute to the late Robert Gabriel Mugabe. The memorial meeting for the former president of Zimbabwe, who died on […]
Capitalism and Marxism

Capitalist pigs and capitalist decay

September 16, 2019 Stephen Millies
Donald Trump is an extremely dangerous, racist, sexist, billionaire pig. But is the former New York City mayor, Michael Bloomberg, that much different? All billionaires are not created equal. Bloomberg’s $55.2 billion fortune makes him […]
Political Prisoners

Free all political prisoners!

August 28, 2019 Stephen Millies
The auditorium of the Langston Hughes Community Library and Cultural Center in East Elmhurst, Queens, N.Y., was filled on Aug. 24 for the 24th Annual Dinner Tribute to Political Prisoners. Organized by the Malcolm X […]
In the U.S.

New York City: Save the Fulton Houses! Hands off public housing!

August 23, 2019 Stephen Millies
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio wants to demolish two of the buildings in the Fulton Houses in the Chelsea section of Manhattan, a public housing project, and replace them with a luxury building […]
In the U.S.

The rich need us. We don’t need them.

August 23, 2019 Stephen Millies
Mark Hanna was a high school classmate of the world’s first billionaire, John D. Rockefeller, and became a pretty big capitalist himself. The Cleveland Central Labor Union’s secretary wrote in 1896 that Hanna wrecked the […]
In the U.S.

What can stop the racist massacres?

August 19, 2019 Stephen Millies
Millions of people have been horrified by the racist massacres in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio. The El Paso shooter’s hate manifesto echoed Trump’s anti-immigrant rants and those of Tucker Carlson at Fox News. […]
In the U.S.

The Second Amendment isn’t for everybody

August 19, 2019 Stephen Millies
There was no Second Amendment right to bear arms for Philando Castile. In 2016, the Black school cafeteria worker and Teamster member was killed inside his car by a Minnesota cop. Castile told the cop […]
Venezuela

Blockade Trump not Venezuela

August 14, 2019 Stephen Millies
Big Oil and the big banks want to starve the people of Venezuela into submission. They want to return the independent Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela to the days when Nelson Rockefeller—the butcher of Attica’s prisoners—had […]