Stephen Millies – Page 38 – Struggle

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]