Scott Marshall

Scott has been a life long trade unionist and was active in rank and file reform movements in the Teamsters, Machinists and Steelworkers unions in the 1970s and '80s. He was co-chair of the Save Our Jobs committee of USWA local 1834 at Pullman Standard in Chicago and active in nationwide organizing against plant shutdowns and layoffs. He was a founder of the unemployed organization Jobs or Income Now (Join), in Chicago, and the National Congress of Unemployed Organizations in the 1980s. Scott remains active in SOAR (Steelworkers Active Organized Retirees). He lives in Chicago.

LATEST ARTICLES BY Scott Marshall

World

Cuba blockade costs American jobs
March 22, 2010 By Scott Marshall
The figures are staggering. Even a minor easing of the US blockade against Cuba would create tens of thousands new jobs in the US.
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World

In Havana, is it Lenin or Lennon?
March 15, 2010 By Scott Marshall
HAVANA - Here is a city where statues of Vladimir Lenin and John Lennon coexist without a second thought.
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Opinion

Socialism USA means jobs, jobs, jobs
February 23, 2010 By Scott Marshall
SANCTI SPIRITUS, Cuba - Traveling around Cuba you get a feel for how Cubans struggle every day to develop their country. As an American it makes my blood boil to see how the U.S. government blockade...
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Opinion

Stock market gets giddy over Massachusetts
January 21, 2010 By Scott Marshall
The stock market might not be a useful economic indicator, but at times it just might be an indicator of the class struggle.
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Opinion

Retirees fight for young workers
January 12, 2010 By Scott Marshall
One thing most of us in South Chicago SOAR (Steelworkers Organization of Active Retirees) have in common is children and grandchildren
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Opinion

Republican vs. Republican
December 28, 2009 By Scott Marshall
There he was on Christmas Eve: Senator John Kyl, pumped with anger, calling the just passed Senate health care reform bill "a massive, very bad assault on liberty."
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Labor

Steelworkers’ hall rededicated to workers killed building union
December 6, 2009 By Scott Marshall
Local 1010 of the United Steelworkers union (USW) is proud of its militant history and its rededicated union hall.
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Opinion

Workers and oppressed of the world unite, 2.0
November 22, 2009 By Scott Marshall
The following are remarks made by Communist Party USA Vice Chair Scott Marshall to the 11th International Meeting of the Communist and Workers Parties hosted by the Communist Party of India (Marxist) and the Communist Party...
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