US Supreme Court majority abolishes racial preferences in university admission
By John Burton, Tom Carter On Thursday, the corrupt far-right majority on the US Supreme Court issued a decision effectively abolishing racial preferences in university admissions. By a 6-3 vote, the court held that racial preferences in the admissions process at Harvard University and the University of North Carolina, also known as
One year since the US Supreme Court’s abolition of the constitutional right to abortion
By Barry Grey Today, June 24, 2023, marks the one-year anniversary of the US Supreme Court ruling overturning the constitutional right to abortion established five decades earlier in the landmark Roe v. Wade decision. Writing on the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization ruling by five unelected far-right justices, the World Socialist Web Site stressed at the
No right to equal pay for equal work, Germany’s highest labour court rules
By Justus Leicht A ruling by Germany’s Federal Labour Court (BAG), at the end of May explicitly confirmed that the principle of “equal pay for equal work” does not have to apply to temporary agency workers. The complaint of a temporary worker was thereby rejected after a third hearing, despite an earlier
The destruction of an independent judiciary in Ukraine
By Maxim Goldarb This essay was submitted to the WSWS by Maxim Goldarb, the chairman of the Union of Left Forces (For a New Socialism) party, which has been banned by the Zelensky government because it opposes the US-NATO proxy war in Ukraine against Russia. An independent judiciary is one of the
US Supreme Court issues far-reaching attack on the right to strike
By Tom Carter On Thursday, the US Supreme Court handed down a decision that is a massive attack on the right of workers to strike. By an 8-1 vote, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of allowing an employer to file a lawsuit and recover monetary compensation for “damages” incurred as