Author: Scott Scheffer

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In the U.S.

LA students support school workers’ strike, oppose armed police

April 15, 2023 Scott Scheffer
 Jailynn Butler-Thomas is a student at Dorsey High School in Los Angeles. She spoke with Struggle-La Lucha about support for the recent Los Angeles Unified Public School District (LAUSD) strike and opposition to armed […]
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Environment

While Biden unleashes climate bomb in Alaska, Cyclone Freddy ravages eastern Africa

April 13, 2023 Scott Scheffer
 The U.S. corporate-controlled media are concealing the climate crisis’s severity and breadth. Coverage of extremely destructive weather is so slanted, biased, and Eurocentric that people in the United States and Europe may not even […]
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Labor and strikes

Los Angeles-area strikes show: Labor’s sleeping giant is awakening

April 3, 2023 Scott Scheffer
 A series of strikes in the Los Angeles area provide an example of what has been happening across the U.S.  Having been in a defensive mode for decades, union workers are chipping away at […]
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In the U.S.

Activist speaks on worst California snowstorm in four decades

March 30, 2023 Scott Scheffer
Pawel Chmielewski is a retired engineer and a long-time progressive activist who lives in the San Bernardino mountains of California. He spoke with Struggle-La Lucha about the massive snowstorms that slammed the mountain range. The […]
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China

Bipartisan slander of China: Lab leak theory dead, U.S. war drive alive and well

March 26, 2023 Scott Scheffer
Last week, before the capitalist crisis of bank failures crowded it out of the headlines, news of a congressional hearing to further investigate the origins of the virus that caused the COVID-19 pandemic was splashed […]
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Labor and strikes

USC bus drivers want a union

March 14, 2023 Scott Scheffer
 University of Southern California shuttle bus drivers have petitioned for a union election which is now scheduled for March 23. Graduate students at USC won union representation within weeks of the successful strike by […]
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In the U.S.

Behind California’s extreme weather emergency

March 6, 2023 Scott Scheffer
March 3 — While the giant U.S. energy corporations and banks seek out every way to profit from the climate change emergency that they inflicted on the world, extreme weather events are becoming the new […]
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In the U.S.

Inflation, layoffs, and the $1 trillion war budget

February 11, 2023 Scott Scheffer
In January, tech companies laid off 97,020 workers, more than double the layoffs in the first month of last year. Amazon, Microsoft, and Google were responsible for most of the January cuts – 18,000, 10,000, […]
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In the U.S.

Nuclear fusion hype: A boost for U.S. armaments, not clean energy

January 7, 2023 Scott Scheffer
Jennifer Granholm, the U.S. Secretary of Energy, led a press event on Dec. 13 to announce a major scientific breakthrough at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.  There, researchers had aimed an array of the world’s […]
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Labor and strikes

UC strike victory: Capitalist academic machinery no match for workers’ power

December 29, 2022 Scott Scheffer
The strike by academic workers at University of California has ended.  For more than a year the bargaining teams from United Auto Workers Locals 2865 and 5810 tried to negotiate for better wages, an improvement […]