Author: Stephen Millies

In the U.S.

The anti-people U.S. budget

August 8, 2019 Stephen Millies
The U.S. government will spend over $4.7 trillion in the coming year. The federal budget is larger than the entire economies of every other country in the world except for China and possibly Japan. Every […]
Imperialism and global politics

Why Hiroshima and Nagasaki were incinerated

August 6, 2019 Stephen Millies
Barack Obama visited Hiroshima on May 27, 2016, the first sitting U.S. president to do so. Obama’s visit to the Japanese city revived the question of whether killing hundreds of thousands of people in Hiroshima […]
Fight racism

Klansmen in the White House

August 5, 2019 Stephen Millies
California Gov. Ronald Reagan was angry that the most populous country in the world―the People’s Republic of China―had finally taken its rightful seat in the United Nations in 1971. But he was furious at the […]
In the U.S.

How they made Baltimore poor

August 3, 2019 Stephen Millies
Trump’s repeated attacks against Baltimore and Maryland congressperson Elijah Cummings have the smell of fascism. Describing the Black-majority city of Baltimore as a “very dangerous & filthy place,” the White House bigot also tweeted that […]
Fight racism

Field Marshall Coltrane Chimurenga, ¡Presente!

June 25, 2019 Stephen Millies
Two hundred people came to the historic House of Lord Church in Brooklyn, N.Y., on June 20 for a memorial tribute to Field Marshall Coltrane Chimurenga. Comrade Chimurenga was a leader of the December 12th […]
In the U.S.

The ultra-right Uline

June 17, 2019 Stephen Millies
Whenever you see the ULINE trademark on plastic trash cans or any other cleaning and business supplies, think of the word “bigot.” That’s because the outfit’s private owners, Richard and Elizabeth Uihlein, are two of […]
Imperialism and global politics

iHonduras resiste!

June 10, 2019 Stephen Millies
New York — More than 60 people came to Iglesia Santa Cruz/Holyrood Church in the Washington Heights section of Manhattan on June 7 to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the coup in Honduras. On June 28, […]
In the U.S.

Why they want to stop Bernie

June 5, 2019 Stephen Millies
The capitalist media have crowned Joe Biden as the likely candidate to win the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination. This isn’t just because the former vice president is leading in the early public opinion polls. Biden […]
Imperialism and global politics

Lift the sanctions on Zimbabwe!

May 28, 2019 Stephen Millies
More than a hundred people demonstrated in Washington, D.C., on May 25 — African Liberation Day — to demand justice for Zimbabwe. They marched from the African American Civil War Memorial to the White House, […]
Imperialism and global politics

Workers will pay Trump’s tariffs

May 18, 2019 Stephen Millies
Trump’s tariffs on goods made in the People’s Republic of China could cost an average four-person family $2,300 per year. That’s a $192 monthly pay cut. That’s because so much of the imports from China […]