Author: Stephen Millies

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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 […]
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In the U.S.

No tears for Trump!

July 15, 2024 Stephen Millies
Gaza is still being bombed! The struggle must go forward  The first question that must be asked about the shootings at the July 13 Trump rally is: who does it benefit? It’s obviously Trump […]
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Around the world

Haiti and Bastille Day: Tear down the walls!

July 13, 2024 Stephen Millies
The pushing back of the fascists in the French election gives new hope for an upsurge of the working class. So many French capitalist fortunes — like those in the United States and Britain — […]
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In the U.S.

Six Supreme Court judges declare the U.S. a dictatorship

July 3, 2024 Stephen Millies
Fifty years after Nixon was driven out of the White House, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed with the Watergate war criminal that presidents can commit any crime they want. “When the president does it, that […]
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In the U.S.

Trump attacks ‘horrible’ Milwaukee

June 24, 2024 Stephen Millies
How deliberate deindustrialization made U.S. cities poor  It shouldn’t surprise anybody that Donald Trump called Milwaukee “horrible.” He hates cities with large Black and Latinx communities. Trump described the Black-majority city of Baltimore — […]
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Around the world

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

May 7, 2024 Stephen Millies
May 7, 2024, marks the 25th anniversary of NATO’s bombing of the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade. This article was originally published in 2019, when Venezuela’s embassy in Washington, D.C., was being defended against Donald Trump’s […]
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History

UAW workers at Daimler Truck win big wage gains: Organize the South!

May 1, 2024 Stephen Millies
Blinking at the last minute on April 26, Daimler Truck agreed to union demands for big pay raises. The 7,300 United Auto Workers members won an immediate 10% wage increase. Pay will go up by […]
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Fight racism

Hundreds march in Philadelphia to free Mumia Abu-Jamal

April 27, 2024 Stephen Millies
Hundreds of people marched through the streets of Philadelphia on April 24 to demand freedom for Mumia Abu-Jamal. That day the world-renowned political prisoner turned 70 years old.  Mumia Abu-Jamal has spent over 42 years […]
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History

Never forget the Ludlow, Colorado, and Veracruz, Mexico, massacres

April 19, 2024 Stephen Millies
Over 20 people were killed by the Colorado National Guard in Ludlow on April 20, 1914, during a coal miners’ strike. Eleven of those murdered were children. They choked to death when the tent above […]
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Around the world

Why can’t everyone have Princess Kate’s medical care?

March 28, 2024 Stephen Millies
 News that the Princess of Wales is battling cancer has swamped the corporate media both in Britain and the United States. People are sympathetic to Catherine Middleton, a mother of three young children, as […]