UK anti-strike Minimum Services law to be used against teachers
By Tania Kent The Department of Education (DfE) met with trade unions last Friday following an “invitation” by Education Secretary Gillian Keegan to discuss a “voluntary” agreement to limit industrial action in schools and colleges. If no agreement is reached, Keegan told Parliament the same day, she will use powers granted through
Argentine elections expose political rot and the growing threat of fascism
By Andrea Lobo As Argentina faces mass poverty, its worst economic crisis in two decades and triple-digit inflation, one of the main officials responsible, Economy Minister Sergio Massa, placed first in Sunday’s presidential elections with 36.7 percent of the vote. In a runoff next month, he will face the fascistic libertarian
We Can’t Depend on Elections and Legal Battles Alone to Defend Democracy
By Igor Shoikhedbrod |TRUTHOUT Karl Marx warned how easily democratic representation and rights can be lost to the forces of authoritarian reaction. By all accounts, liberalism is in a state of crisis globally. Liberalism finds itself especially under threat in its contemporary “homeland” — the U.S of the post-2016 Trump era, prompting
Another Trump lawyer pleads guilty in Georgia election interference case
By Megan Butler Trump campaign attorney Kenneth Chesebro entered a plea agreement while potential jurors began filling out questionnaires. Kenneth Chesebro, one of the defendants in the racketeering case against former President Donald Trump and 17 others accused of conspiring to overturn his 2020 election defeat in Georgia, accepted a plea deal
Princeton University report: US class-based life expectancy gap widened to more than 8 years
BY Benjamin Mateus The recent report by leading Princeton University economists Anne Case and Angus Deaton (winner of the Nobel Prize in 2015), submitted last month to the fall 2023 edition of the Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, makes a conscientious account of the widening mortality gap that exists between Americans with and
Supreme Court concludes hearing the Petitioners against the Online Safety Bill
Staff Writer The Speaker of Parliament confirmed on Wednesday (18) that 45 petitions had been filed in the Supreme Court (SC) of Sri Lanka challenging the constitutionality of the proposed draconian piece of law titled, Online Safety Bill (OSB). On the same day at 12.30 in the afternoon, the Supreme Court took
Constitutional amendment proposal for Indigenous Voice defeated in Australian Referendum
By Mike Head The scale and social content of last Saturday’s overwhelming rejection of the Australian Labor government’s referendum to entrench an indigenous advisory body called the Voice into the country’s constitution is becoming clearer. Overall, the referendum was defeated by about 61 percent to 39 percent, with postal votes still being
Indian Supreme Court bows down to the far-right, rejects same-sex marriage rights
By Staff Writer The Supreme Court in India today (17) refused to grant legal recognition for queer marriages, in a landmark judgement, denying equal rights to tens of millions of people. A five-judge bench, led by Chief Justice of India (CJI) DY Chandrachud, ruled that the court could not “be re-drafting
Arundhati Roy and Kashmiri activist targeted by Modi government for criminal prosecution over 2010 remarks
By Kranti Kumara India’s Narendra Modi-led, far-right government is targeting internationally acclaimed author Arundhati Roy and former Central University of Kashmir international law professor Sheikh Showkat Hussain for criminal prosecution for remarks that they made at a conference held 13 years ago. This flagrant attack on free speech is part of
Israel commits war crimes in Gaza: Will ICC issue arrest warrant against Netanyahu now?
By Staff Writer Friday (13) Israeli air force distributed leaflets in the North of the Gaza Strip informing the Palestinians there to evacuate to the southern part of Gaza, in view of their planned ground operations against Hamas fighters. Courtesy of AlJazeera Israel has already confirmed that it had dropped more than 6000