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15/07/2024

Educators in Turkey protest draft anti-labor law

While the Turkish political establishment and the trade union apparatus have been working to suppress the growing discontent of the working class against the ongoing cost of living crisis, the police attacked a protest by educators in Ankara against the new anti-labor law.

07/07/2024

The Supreme Court and the Counter-Revolution of July 1, 2024

"Issued days before the Independence Day holiday, two years shy of the 250th anniversary of the birth of the Republic, the decision on presidential immunity from prosecution guts the American constitutional framework."

Issued days before the Independence Day holiday, two years shy of the 250th anniversary of the birth of the Republic, the decision on presidential immunity from prosecution guts the American constitutional framework.

03/07/2024

Supreme Court declares America a presidential dictatorship

In what amounts to an American version of the 1933 Enabling Act that gave Hi**er dictatorial powers, the Supreme Court announced that the US president must enjoy immunity from prosecution to be able to engage in “bold and unhesitating action.”

In what amounts to an American version of the 1933 Enabling Act that gave Hi**er dictatorial powers, the Supreme Court announced that the US president must enjoy immunity from prosecution to be able to engage in “bold and unhesitating action.”

01/07/2024

Right-wing Supreme Court majority approves making homelessness a crime

As expected, the extreme right-wing Supreme Court majority on Friday overturned a Ninth-Circuit ruling that prohibited local governments from fining or arresting homeless people for sleeping in public when no public shelters were available.

26/06/2024

"May 17, 2024, marked 70 years since the US Supreme Court decision in the landmark case of Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas (1954), which upended the apartheid Jim Crow system in the American South. In one of the most important Supreme Court cases in its history, the unanimous ruling outlawed state-enforced racial segregation in schools."

The ruling spelled the beginning of the end of legal segregation based on race—but in the decades since the American ruling class has gutted public education.

13/06/2024

Delaware jury finds Hunter Biden guilty on all 3 felony counts

The younger Biden was found guilty of lying on a gun application and to a federally licensed gun dealer about his drug use and illegally possessing a gun while addicted to drugs in October of 2018.

13/06/2024

Australian court upholds sacking of academic Tim Anderson over criticisms of Israel

This ruling sets a dangerous precedent in the context of the denunciations by the media and political establishment of anti-genocide protests.

13/06/2024

A significant court ruling against US SEC financial regulation

The decision has far-reaching implications for attempts to regulate the burgeoning private credit market, which the International Monetary Fund has said poses a major potential risk to the financial system.

13/06/2024

Missouri executes David Hosier despite his claims of innocence and no physical evidence linking him to the murders

Hosier, 69, was put to death Tuesday evening by the state of Missouri despite no physical evidence linking him to the murders of a Jefferson City couple. Hosier long maintained his innocence.

13/06/2024

70 years since Brown v. Board of Education outlawed school segregation: The class issues, then and now

The ruling spelled the beginning of the end of legal segregation based on race—but in the decades since the American ruling class has gutted public education.

16/04/2024

Smith maintained his innocence during a clemency hearing last month, insisting: “I didn’t commit these crimes. I didn’t kill these people. I was high on drugs. I don’t even remember getting arrested.”

16/04/2024

With Washington’s approval, the Ecuadorian ruling class has gone from granting Julian Assange asylum in 2012, to renouncing his asylum, and now storming a foreign embassy in Quito.