Author: Scott Scheffer

Iranchinamap
China

China-Iran agreement to bust U.S. economic sanctions

April 27, 2021 Scott Scheffer
  The People’s Republic of China and Iran have announced an agreement that is a direct challenge to the punishing U.S. sanctions against Iran and strikes back against the economic war on China.  China will […]
Jejuuprising
Korea

1948 Jeju uprising in Korea: Anti-imperialist resistance drowned in blood by U.S. military regime

April 4, 2021 Scott Scheffer
Seventy-three years ago, in April 1948, the people of the Korean island of Jeju rose up. The uprising — one of many that took place in the five years between the end of the Second […]
Chinesepandemicworkers
China

The real reason for U.S. attacks on China: global class struggle

March 18, 2021 Scott Scheffer
As the 2020 U.S. presidential campaign wound down, there was a perception held by many that a Biden win would mean a more diplomatic international approach by the new administration.  But that presumption didn’t consider […]
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Covid-19

China vs. COVID-19: Behind the U.S. slander campaign

March 9, 2021 Scott Scheffer
March 6 — As the Trump administration’s profits-first approach to COVID-19 was unfolding in the early months of the deadly pandemic, a slanderous campaign against China was rolled out. That campaign aimed to cover up […]
Food4less
Labor and strikes

Demand for hazard pay spreads on West Coast. Kroger threatens closures

February 27, 2021 Scott Scheffer
  In response to simmering anger, several cities in California as well as the city of Seattle have mandated hazard pay for essential workers. The California Grocers Association is suing and Kroger, the largest supermarket […]
Sinovac
Chicago 1919

Socialist countries beat back COVID-19

November 24, 2020 Scott Scheffer
Nov. 22 — Another wave of COVID-19 is raging across the U.S. The death count has now reached a quarter-million; Black, Brown and Indigenous communities have suffered the heaviest toll.  After actively discouraging all recommended […]
Vaccine
Covid-19

China commits to international solidarity in vaccines

October 20, 2020 Scott Scheffer
On Oct. 9, China announced that it has joined about 160 other countries in a pact to ensure that COVID-19 vaccines and treatments will be distributed equitably around the world. The aim of the agreement […]
PDX0723
Fight racism

‘Feds get out’: Portland movement fights to put power into the hands of the people

August 14, 2020 Scott Scheffer
Struggle-La Lucha spoke with Cody Urban of the International League of Peoples Struggle (ILPS) about the protests against racist police terror in Portland, Ore., and the violent federal agents dispatched by the Trump administration to […]
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Fight racism

Anti-racist protests expand in response to Trump’s army of thugs

August 1, 2020 Scott Scheffer
Eighty-eight years ago, on July 28, 1932, the U.S. military attacked Black and white military veterans in a Bonus Army demonstration demanding relief from the hunger wrought by the Great Depression. The attack has parallels […]
Operationwarpspeed
Covid-19

Operation Warp Speed – Trump’s $10 billion injection won’t stop falling profits (or COVID-19)

July 27, 2020 Scott Scheffer
Donald Trump resumed daily White House briefings regarding the COVID-19 pandemic on July 20. He had pouted and quit that role in late April after facing criticism and ridicule for having downplayed the pandemic, for […]