Author: Stephen Millies

New York, Nov. 6 — Housing activists gathered on the steps of City Hall today and said no to the privatization of the largest public housing system in the U.S. Developers want to kick out […]

The long shadow of the Chicago race riot, Part 7 By 1970, people of color were already close to half of Chicago’s population. The Daley machine — which still had white ward bosses on the […]

One-hundred-and-two years ago on Nov. 7, 1917, workers and peasants overthrew the capitalist government in Russia. Two million soldiers in the Russian army had died in World War I. Russia was ruled by the cruel […]

New York, Nov. 4 — A picket line outside the Philippines Consulate tonight on Manhattan’s Fifth Avenue protested police raids carried out in metropolitan Manila and Negros Island. They chanted, “Activism is not a crime!” […]

Mayor Richard Daley stands at the microphone during the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago. The long shadow of the Chicago race riot, Part 5 In the spring of 1937 the Congress of Industrial Organizations—the […]

Cities across the United States are demanding the U.S. government stop its cruel blockade of Cuba. Activists came to the New York City council on Halloween to do the same. The NYC Council Committee on […]

New York, Oct. 30 — Ten thousand transit workers jammed Manhattan’s lower tip tonight to say “No!” to the Mass Transit Administration’s giveback demands. MTA chairman Pat Foye — also known as “Pat Fraud” — […]