Author: Stephen Millies

Labor and strikes

Boeing workers are striking for everyone’s right to retire

September 27, 2024 Stephen Millies
The 33,000 Boeing workers on strike since Sept. 13 are fighting a corporate giant with nearly $78 billion in sales last year. While strikers are concentrated in the Seattle metropolitan area, workers are also picketing […]
In the U.S.

Socialism and dignity: The right to a funeral

September 22, 2024 Stephen Millies
This article was originally published on May 20, 2020, at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic when mass burials were conducted in New York City’s Potter’s Fields. Grave robbing is alive and well in the […]
In the U.S.

Capitalists want your blood and maybe your kidney and liver, too

September 13, 2024 Stephen Millies
Malcolm X famously said, “show me a capitalist and I’ll show you a bloodsucker.” That’s literally true for U.S. capitalism. The United States exported $37 billion worth of blood last year, making it the country’s […]
In the U.S.

High transit fares are a crime! Buses and subways should be free!

September 12, 2024 Stephen Millies
Fares on New York City’s buses and subways are 58 times what they were in 1948 when it cost a nickel. That’s wholesale robbery of the working class. The current fare of $2.90 means people […]
In the U.S.

People have a right to housing because they have a right to live

September 1, 2024 Stephen Millies
Vice President Kamala Harris promises to build three million affordable houses if elected president. Meanwhile, her fellow Democrat ― California Gov. Gavin Newsom ― has ordered local governments to evict homeless people from their encampments […]
In the U.S.

405 years of ‘Black Jobs’

August 16, 2024 Stephen Millies
Make the Trumps pay reparations! What does Trump mean by the term “Black Jobs”? The billionaire bigot has used the phrase repeatedly since his debate with Genocide Joe Biden on June 27. Superstar gymnast Simone […]
In the U.S.

Justice for Sonya Massey! Disarm the terrorist police!

July 31, 2024 Stephen Millies
 Rallies and demonstrations were held across the U.S. on July 28 to protest the police murder of Sonya Massey in Springfield, Illinois. The 36-year-old Black mother of two children was shot in her own […]
Palestine

Cheers for a war criminal, pepper spray for protesters

July 27, 2024 Stephen Millies
Netanyahu echoes Kipling on ‘the white man’s burden’  A threat of an arrest warrant from the International Criminal Court didn’t stop Benjamin Netanyahu from being welcomed rapturously on July 24 by the U.S. Congress. […]
Palestine

Palestinians and their supporters ‘need not apply’

July 20, 2024 Stephen Millies
Sullivan & Cromwell’s guilty record “No Irish need apply” is a famous folk song that’s been performed by Pete Seger. Written in 1862, the song tells of an Irish immigrant who’s seeking work but is […]
Labor and strikes

Hands off the UAW!

July 17, 2024 Stephen Millies
Feds’ probe is retaliation for urging peace in Gaza  What’s behind the investigation of United Auto Workers union president Shawn Fain by U.S. government-appointed monitor Neil Barofsky? The inquiry comes just eight months after […]