Author: Stephen Millies

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 […]
Stopkillingsinphilippines
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!” […]
Taxisuicides
In the U.S.

Stop taxing the poor!

April 4, 2019 Stephen Millies
New York — “Only the little people pay taxes,” bragged the late hotel boss Leona Helmsley. Capitalist politicians always prove her right. New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]