Cuba
New Yorkers say: ‘Lift the U.S. blockade of Cuba, now!’
Oct. 17 — People chanted “¡Cuba sí, bloqueo no!” as activists stood on the steps of New York City’s City Hall today to denounce the U.S. blockade of Cuba. A news conference was held to […]
Author: Stephen Millies
In the U.S.
Housing is a right — Fight, fight, fight!
New York — Hundreds of people filled the auditorium of Manhattan’s Washington Irving campus near Union Square on Oct. 16 to fight for housing for all. After years of skyrocketing rents, the New York state […]
Chicago 1919
What did the unions do?
The long shadow of the Chicago race riot, Part 3 Up to the 1920s, Chicago was the center of the labor movement in the United States. It was the heart and soul of the eight-hour-day […]
In the U.S.
Solidarity with Ecuador
New York — Hundreds of people gathered in Corona Plaza in the Borough of Queens on Oct. 13 to demand that Ecuador’s president, Lenin Moreno, resign. Ecuadorian immigrants and their supporters hailed the mass uprising in […]
Chicago 1919
Bombings greet the Great Migration
A fundamental change in the composition of the U.S. workforce was the Great Migration of African Americans from the South to Northern cities. With the outbreak of World War I, factory owners lost Eastern and […]
Chicago 1919
The long shadow of the 1919 Chicago race riot
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 […]
Around the world
Long live the memory of Robert Mugabe!
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 […]
Capitalism and Marxism
Capitalist pigs and capitalist decay
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 […]
Political Prisoners
Free all political prisoners!
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 […]
In the U.S.
New York City: Save the Fulton Houses! Hands off public housing!
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 […]