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
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
US Supreme Court guts wetlands protections
By Daniel de Vries The US Supreme Court on Thursday eliminated federal protections for millions of acres of wetlands across the United States. The ruling in Sackett v. EPA is the latest in a series of anti-democratic and anti-science dictates by the right-wing majority. It upends more than 50 years of environmental policy
US court’s abortion pill ruling: Another milestone in the assault on democratic rights
By Patrick Martin The ruling issued Friday by federal District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk, overturning approval of the abortion pill mifepristone by the Food and Drug Administration, is the most flagrant attack on the democratic right to abortion since the Supreme Court’s decision last summer to overturn Roe v. Wade. The J. Marvin Jones
US Supreme Court poised to overturn Biden administration’s limited student debt relief plan
By Jacob Crosse, Our reporters On Tuesday, the US Supreme Court heard two different challenges to President Joe Biden’s student loan forgiveness plan, announced last year but blocked almost immediately by Republican judges. Biden’s plan would grant up to $20,000 in loan relief per federal borrower. Student debt relief advocates gather outside the
Sri Lankan government tables sham amendments to draconian anti-terrorism law
By Sanjaya Jayasekera Early last month, the Sri Lankan Foreign Minister G. L. Peiris tabled an amendment bill in parliament to the notorious Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA) with debate to begin on March 8. Two petitions filed in the Supreme Court challenging the unconstitutionality of the amendments are yet