Author: Stephen Millies

Trade deficit
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 […]
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Labor and strikes

Bringing back child labor

May 18, 2019 Stephen Millies
The capitalist drive to turn back the clock includes bringing back child labor. The wealthy and powerful want to return to the “good old days” when millions of girls and boys were exploited in farms, […]
Bolton
Imperialism and global politics

Bolton the bigot

May 13, 2019 Stephen Millies
Trump’s national security adviser, John Bolton, is not only a dangerous warmongering liar who wants to invade Venezuela, bomb Iran and overthrow the Cuban Revolution. He’s also a first-class bigot who was chair of the […]
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China

Never forget the U.S. bombing of China’s embassy!

May 9, 2019 Stephen Millies
Twenty years ago — on the night of May 7-8, 1999 — the Embassy of the People’s Republic of China in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, was deliberately bombed by the U.S. Air Force. This war crime was […]
Fightfor15
Capitalist crisis

It’s still ‘last hired, first fired.’ The truth about the jobless rate

May 8, 2019 Stephen Millies
Trump supporters and the capitalist media are celebrating April’s employment report by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. They claim this is the best jobs picture since 1969. What’s the real story? The drop in the […]
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Political Prisoners

Community, activists demand ‘Free Mumia!’

April 29, 2019 Stephen Millies
Two hundred people took to the streets of Philadelphia’s Germantown neighborhood on April 27 to demand freedom for Mumia Abu-Jamal and all political prisoners. Every year, supporters march to honor his birthday on April 24. […]
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Venezuela

‘We will never surrender’ – Venezuelan Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza speaks

April 26, 2019 Stephen Millies
New York — More than 100 people filled The People’s Forum in midtown Manhattan on April 25 to hear the truth about Venezuela. The main speaker was Venezuela’s foreign minister, Jorge Alberto Arreaza Montserrat, who […]
Harlemmarch
In the U.S.

Hundreds march in Harlem against high rents and evictions

April 14, 2019 Stephen Millies
Hundreds of people marched down Harlem’s Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Blvd. on April 11 in a Moral March for Housing. They shouted, “Housing is a Right! Fight! Fight! Fight!” and “Get up! Get down! There’s […]
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Imperialism and global politics

Protests demand justice for farmers killed by police death squads in the Philippines

April 13, 2019 Stephen Millies
A protest outside the Philippine Consulate on New York City’s Fifth Avenue on April 10 demanded justice for 14 farmers killed on March 30. The massacre by the Philippine National Police was in Negros Oriental […]
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Conference

Defending socialist achievements in Asia

April 5, 2019 Stephen Millies
Talk given by Stephen Millies at the “Unity for Socialism and Revolution” conference in Los Angeles on March 16. Seventy years ago — on Oct. 1, 1949 — Mao Zedong declared “China has stood up!” […]