Author: Stephen Millies

Palestine

New York protest says: Long live Gaza!

March 31, 2019 Stephen Millies
Over 300 people rallied in New York City’s Times Square on March 29 to support the Palestinian people of Gaza. The demonstration marked the first anniversary of the weekly marches there demanding Palestinians’ right to […]
Books

The long shadow of the 1919 Chicago race riot

March 24, 2019 Stephen Millies
The Struggle – La Lucha Series by Stephen Millies The following articles are included: • Bombings greet the Great Migration • What did the unions do? • Communists fight racism and evictions • Chicago Mayor […]
Imperialism and global politics

Hundreds killed as cyclone sweeps Mozambique, Malawi and Zimbabwe

March 21, 2019 Stephen Millies
A terrible tragedy is unfolding in the southeastern African countries of Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Malawi. On March 15, Cyclone Idai hit the Mozambican port city of Beira and went inland. An estimated 2.6 million people […]
Venezuela

John Bolton and the Monroe Doctrine

March 10, 2019 Stephen Millies
John Bolton doesn’t serve up any mush about “democracy ” or “human rights” in selling the U.S. war against Venezuela. Trump’s national security advisor told the Fox Business Network on Jan. 24 the real reason […]
Venezuela

Jefferson Davis and Juan Guaidó: two presidential imposters

March 2, 2019 Stephen Millies
Donald Trump and Juan Guaidó hated Nicolás Maduro for being re-elected president of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela in 2018. Well, slave master Jefferson Davis, as president of the Southern Confederacy, revolted against Abraham Lincoln […]
Venezuela

Starving Yemen while feeding Venezuela? Using food as a war provocation

February 20, 2019 Stephen Millies
Fourteen million people are facing starvation in Yemen, according to United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Mark Lowcock. Every day 130 children die of hunger in Yemen. All these deaths are the result of a […]
Environment

Mass struggle needed for a Green New Deal

February 15, 2019 Stephen Millies
Capitalism is cooking the earth. Rising sea levels are threatening 167 million people in Bangladesh while Africa is suffering from both increased flooding and drought.   Capitalist climate change dragged the polar vortex to Chicago, […]
Cuba

New York salutes Cuba

February 11, 2019 Stephen Millies
[su_row][su_column size=”1/2″ center=”no” class=””] [/su_column] [su_column size=”1/2″ center=”no” class=””] [/su_column][/su_row] Two hundred people packed the People’s Forum in midtown Manhattan on Feb. 8 to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Cuban Revolution. Co-chairs Ike Nahem […]
Venezuela

‘Venezuela is our fight!’

February 8, 2019 Stephen Millies
New York — In a bold show of support for President Nicolás Maduro and Bolivarian Venezuela, over 100 people demonstrated in front of the U.S. Mission to the United Nations on Feb. 4. The militant action was […]
Fight racism

Justice for Jameek!

January 17, 2019 Stephen Millies
Jameek “Meek” Lowery went to the Paterson, N.J., police station before dawn on January 5 and asked for water and help. Cops at the Frank X. Graves Public Safety Complex refused to give him either. […]