Author: Scott Scheffer

Cop26colonialism
Environment

Climate change and the Global South

November 30, 2021 Scott Scheffer
More than two weeks have passed since the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow closed. In the days leading up to the conference there was anticipation – maybe even hope – that […]
Glasgowprotest
Environment

Climate crisis: Who’s pulling strings of budget negotiations?

November 2, 2021 Scott Scheffer
The consequences of a century’s worth of industrial capitalist destruction of the atmosphere continued lashing out at the earth in late October. A “bomb cyclone” attacked the U.S. West Coast, while a nor’easter slammed the […]
Yang kyung soo
Korea

Korean labor calls general strike to free union president

October 16, 2021 Scott Scheffer
Yang Kyung-soo, the president of the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU) —  South Korea’s largest and most militant trade union confederation — has been jailed and is on a hunger strike. A general strike […]
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Environment

Capitalism stands in the way of reversing climate crisis

October 16, 2021 Scott Scheffer
A lot of today’s climatologists may at this point feel like Superman’s father and Krypton’s leading scientist, Jor-El, who, in the comic book world, tried to warn the Council of Elders that planetary doom was […]
Milanprotest
Environment

How capitalism shackles the fight against climate change

October 9, 2021 Scott Scheffer
Journalists from the U.S. and Europe have warned that the summer of 2021 should be a wakeup call on climate catastrophe. Rightfully so. A slew of recent studies and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change […]
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Around the world

The U.S. ‘cold war’ drive and the Australia nuclear deal

September 26, 2021 Scott Scheffer
On Sep. 15, Australia’s Prime Minister Scott Morrison, U.S. President Joe Biden, and Prime Minister Boris Johnson of Britain announced their new trilateral security agreement, AUKUS, and its first initiative — the delivery of a […]
Afghanistandronestrike
Around the world

No end in sight to U.S. war crimes in Afghanistan

September 9, 2021 Scott Scheffer
On Aug. 26, a suicide bomb was detonated at the airport in Kabul amid the chaos of the U.S. troop withdrawal. Two hundred people were killed, including 13 U.S. soldiers. Reporters paid tribute to the […]
Justiceforjanitors
Labor and strikes

Justice for Janitors fighting big tech, big banks for a fair contract

August 29, 2021 Scott Scheffer
Thousands of janitors across California have taken to the streets to fight for a fair union contract. On June 15, hundreds of janitors held a commemorative march in downtown Los Angeles. The action marked the […]
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Around the world

Afghan resistance ends U.S. occupation

August 21, 2021 Scott Scheffer
The long and brutal U.S. imperialist war in Afghanistan is coming to a chaotic, inglorious end. For 20 years, the people of Afghanistan resisted the U.S. occupation and today the puppet government and its phony […]
FritoLayStrike
Labor and strikes

Frito-Lay workers win strike against ‘suicide shifts’

August 9, 2021 Scott Scheffer
Workers at the Frito-Lay factory in Topeka, Kansas, held their ground and won a favorable union contract after a solid three-week walkout. Frito-Lay is owned by PepsiCo and operates 30 other manufacturing centers throughout the […]