Steve Gillis

Boston school bus drivers win emergency full pay during school closure

Gillis is the financial secretary of United Steelworkers Local 8751, the Boston School Bus Drivers Union. On March 16, elected…

March 23, 2020

Rebel Diaz rocks Boston for Chile

Boston Police forces killed four anti-government protesters in Chile during the first week of February. In the U.S., revolutionary hip-hop…

February 17, 2020

Raíces Borikén Collective says ‘Decolonize Puerto Rico!’

Boston — Blasting bomba, merengue and salsa music, and chanting, “Cancel the debt!” the Raíces Borikén Collective fired up the…

January 2, 2018

Boston workers show love to Durham freedom fighters

By Steve Gillis Financial Secretary, USW Local 8751 Boston Members of United Steelworkers Local 8751, the Boston school bus drivers’…

September 6, 2017

Boston science marchers demand ‘harm reduction’ for people who use opioids

Thousands of nurses, doctors, lab technicians, environmental professionals, computer programmers and teachers rallied for Science on Boston Common April 22.…

May 10, 2017

Harvard blockade bans neo-Nazi Bannon

Hundreds of students, university workers, social justice activists and contingents of antifa and other antifascist activists from greater Boston blockaded…

December 7, 2016

Egyptian community in Boston protests military coup

Outraged by the continuing massacres and crimes of recently extended martial law committed by the U.S.-backed Egyptian military following its…

September 27, 2013

Boston: This is what a police state looks like

Boston — Using war jargon associated with Iraq and Afghanistan, authorities have repeatedly described the blasts that killed three people and…

April 23, 2013