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Socialism and dignity

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Socialism and dignity

Socialism and dignity: We need free public transit

August 26, 2020 Stephen Millies
New York City bus riders will have to start paying $2.75 again on Aug. 31. That’s 55 times what the fare was in 1948, when it cost a nickel.  Transit systems in Baltimore, Chicago and […]
Nursesintrashbags
Socialism and dignity

Socialism and dignity: U.S. capitalist health care is racist

July 14, 2020 Stephen Millies
Deamonte Driver didn’t have to die. An abscessed tooth led to the 12-year-old Black youth’s death on Feb. 25, 2007.  Deamonte’s mother, Alyce Driver, worked two jobs. But her pay was so low that she […]
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Socialism and dignity: A job is a right!

June 30, 2020 Stephen Millies
Over 20 million workers are unemployed in the United States. That’s a catastrophe. Joblessness hasn’t been this high since the Great Depression of the 1930s. Extended unemployment benefits under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic […]
Riotcops
Socialism and dignity

Socialism and dignity: We don’t need their cops

June 18, 2020 Stephen Millies
When the Pilgrims invaded the Wampanoag nation in the 1620s, they didn’t find any police or jails. Such cruelty wasn’t necessary. That’s because there were no rich or poor in Wampanoag society. A community of […]
Bryant
Socialism and dignity

Socialism and dignity: The right to retire

June 3, 2020 Stephen Millies
Seventy-year-old Enock Benjamin never got to retire. The United Food and Commercial Workers union steward died of COVID-19 on April 3. Born in Haiti, Benjamin was one of many workers from other lands employed in […]
Busstrike
Socialism and dignity

Socialism and dignity: The right to use a bathroom

May 24, 2020 Stephen Millies
Capitalism is humiliation. Having to ask to go to the bathroom can be deeply humiliating. As a young girl, Julia Wright was escorted by a family friend, Constance Webb, to Manhattan’s Bergdorf Goodman department store. […]
Hartisland
Socialism and dignity

Socialism and dignity: The right to a funeral

May 20, 2020 Stephen Millies
No millionaire has ever been executed in the United States. Hardly any rich people have been buried in New York City’s Potter’s Field. Over a million poor people are interred there on Hart Island off […]
Nursinghomeworkers
Socialism and dignity

Socialism and dignity: Seniors are not roadkill

May 16, 2020 Stephen Millies
Why are so many people in nursing homes dying from the coronavirus? Over 28,000 people across the United States have died in nursing homes or other long-term care facilities.  Nearly 35 percent of the COVID-19 […]
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