Democratic rights

3 women dead in 25 days: Social murder in Michigan prisons

Tue, 09 Jun 2026 03:56:11 GMT

Four women have died in seven months at Michigan’s only women’s prison, where toxic mold, privatized medical neglect and bipartisan austerity have created deadly conditions.

Sri Lankan police arrest Tamil rapper under draconian Prevention of Terrorism Act

Tue, 09 Jun 2026 03:39:36 GMT

The World Socialist Web Site and the Socialist Equality Party condemn the arrest of Sangeethsan Ganeskumar—a blatant attack on freedom of expression—and demand his immediate and unconditional release.

Court rules that Trump’s name must be removed from the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

Mon, 08 Jun 2026 02:04:56 GMT

A Washington DC federal district judge ruled that the president’s stacking of the board with his loyalists and placing the Trump name on the Kennedy Center was a “procedurally defective and substantively unlawful action.”

How the Democrats enabled the allocation of an extra $70 billion for Trump’s immigration Gestapo

Sat, 06 Jun 2026 03:38:01 GMT

The nearly $70 billion funding package is the outcome of a political operation carried out by the Democrats to strangle the mass movement that erupted after the murders of Renée Nicole Good and Alex Pretti.

Turkish CHP leader Özel’s Newsweek article: How to fight for democratic rights and against imperialism

Fri, 05 Jun 2026 17:53:56 GMT

Özel’s article is not a defense of democratic rights. It is a letter of assurance from a bourgeois party to the imperialist powers.

Who is prospective Labour Party leader and prime minister, Andy Burnham?—Part Two

Fri, 05 Jun 2026 17:16:51 GMT

A measure of the misery Burnham would continue inflicting on the working class can be taken from the cabinet he is planning to assemble.

Minnesota Republicans observe moment of silence for Derek Chauvin, police officer who murdered George Floyd

Fri, 05 Jun 2026 03:41:03 GMT

On May 30, delegates to the Minnesota Republican Party convention approved the motion for and then observed a moment of silence for Derek Chauvin, the Minneapolis police officer who was convicted by a 12-member jury in April 2021 on state charges of murdering George Floyd.

Florida executes Andrew Lukehart, eighth victim of DeSantis death machine in 2026

Fri, 05 Jun 2026 02:20:20 GMT

The brutal crime for which Lukehart was executed cannot be separated from the life that produced him. The evidence presented at the penalty phase described an individual who had been systematically destroyed long before he ever came before a judge.

New EU return regulation: Attacks on democratic right and mass expulsions

Thu, 04 Jun 2026 04:39:10 GMT

The European Parliament and EU states have agreed a new return regulation that abolishes the fundamental right to asylum and normalises collaboration with fascist parties.

Canadian border authorities handing refugees over to Trump’s fascist ICE thugs

Thu, 04 Jun 2026 00:53:34 GMT

Acting on the orders of the Liberal government, Canada’s border authorities are systematically handing over asylum seekers to ICE, full in the knowledge that they will be confined to concentration camp-like conditions before being expelled from the US.

Democrats enforce crackdown outside Delaney Hall as Congress prepares billions more for ICE and Border Patrol

Wed, 03 Jun 2026 04:05:33 GMT

The curfew and police crackdown in Newark are part of a broader assault on immigrants and anti-ICE protesters, backed by both capitalist parties.

UK Labour government bars Cenk Uygur and Hasan Piker from entering the country

Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:28:36 GMT

The bans stemmed from demands from right-wing Labourites and Zionists, who deployed the now standard lie conflating opposition to the fascistic Israeli government with antisemitism and terrorism.

The rise of anti-refugee violence in the Netherlands: What history reveals

Mon, 01 Jun 2026 22:46:32 GMT

What is unfolding is not a spontaneous eruption of "popular anger,” as it is often portrayed, but the outcome of a consciously cultivated political campaign by the bourgeois establishment and official media, developed over many years.

Italian rank-and-file unions hold nationwide strike against austerity and war

Mon, 01 Jun 2026 17:11:47 GMT

WSWS reporters spoke to members of the SI-Cobas rank-and-file union, which mainly organizes logistics workers, at a demonstration in Rome.

US murder spree in Latin American waters moves beyond 200 killed

Mon, 01 Jun 2026 04:22:40 GMT

The Trump administration’s campaign of extrajudicial killings off the coast of Latin America has killed more than 200 people, exposing the complicity of the Democratic Party and all regional governments in the normalization of mass murder as imperialist policy.

New Jersey Democrats unleash police riot against anti-ICE protesters outside Delaney Hall

Mon, 01 Jun 2026 04:12:10 GMT

As immigrants inside Delaney Hall continue their hunger and labor strike, Democratic officials have deployed state and local police to attack protesters, journalists and residents outside the facility.

Sri Lankan court case continues over violent attack on SEP members

Sat, 30 May 2026 03:45:56 GMT

The defence lawyer attempted to portray the SEP as an NGO dependent on foreign funding and suggested that the complaint was motivated by efforts to obtain overseas funds.

Australia: Victoria’s Labor government oversees police state raids against anti-war protesters

Sat, 30 May 2026 03:20:16 GMT

The political logic underlying these operations is suppression of all opposition amid mounting attacks on social conditions and expanding imperialist violence.

Police-state riot outside New Jersey’s Delaney Hall as 300 immigrants continue hunger and labor strike

Sat, 30 May 2026 02:53:36 GMT

Democratic officials have responded to the federal rampage not by opposing ICE, but by deploying state police to disperse the protests.

ISIS-linked families return to Australia, but mother and child blocked

Fri, 29 May 2026 04:10:09 GMT

One mother was barred from re-entry by an arbitrary Labor government exclusion order, violating the fundamental democratic rights of citizenship.

New Zealand government introduces anti-transgender legislation

Fri, 29 May 2026 03:59:56 GMT

The far-right coalition government is seeking to narrowly define the words “woman” and “man” in order to demonise and discriminate against transgender people.

Syrian refugees fear deportation from Germany

Fri, 29 May 2026 03:33:05 GMT

The German government's friendly reception of Syrian Islamist leader Ahmed al-Sharaa and its plans to deport up to 80 percent of Syrian refugees have sparked massive fear among those who have sought asylum in Germany.

Australian High Court to hear limited challenge to Melbourne public housing tower demolitions

Fri, 29 May 2026 03:22:29 GMT

Even if the case succeeds, it will not stop the state Labor government’s criminal wrecking operation; just require Homes Victoria to hold a consultation process.

Australia: NT laws to permit police interrogation of children without legal guardian

Wed, 27 May 2026 05:09:37 GMT

These laws are the latest escalation in a bipartisan offensive to essentially criminalise the poverty, chronic housing shortages and lack of secure employment that Australian capitalism has inflicted upon many working people, particularly Indigenous people.

Students and workers in Germany demand the release of Ukrainian Trotskyist Bogdan Syrotiuk

Wed, 27 May 2026 02:51:24 GMT

The campaign for the release of 26-year-old Ukrainian Trotskyist Bogdan Syrotiuk is meeting with a growing response in Germany. Students, workers and youth are expressing their solidarity and demanding his immediate release.

Law-and-order frenzy dominates final weeks of D.C. mayoral primary campaign

Tue, 26 May 2026 01:25:40 GMT

Washington D.C.‘s Democratic establishment is responding to youth gatherings by adopting Trump’s law-and-order agenda, criminalizing the impoverished children of communities its own policies have hurt.

Turkish police storm CHP headquarters, as court ousts elected party leadership

Mon, 25 May 2026 05:58:37 GMT

The political crisis in Turkey escalated further on Sunday when police raided the CHP headquarters.

Governments escalate the global war on online anonymity

Mon, 25 May 2026 04:46:45 GMT

The drive to abolish online anonymity is the digital dimension of a broader turn toward authoritarianism, austerity and imperialist war.

Gerrymandering in the South: The working class and the defense of democratic rights

Mon, 25 May 2026 04:21:27 GMT

The Supreme Court decision further undermined the Voting Rights Act, enabling a Republican gerrymander in Louisiana to eliminate the seat held by a black Democratic congressman.

Trump administration moves to force green card applicants out of the US

Mon, 25 May 2026 03:43:33 GMT

New USCIS policy threatens to separate families and strand workers, students and spouses abroad.

Jailed 37 days for a Charlie Kirk meme: Tennessee man’s settlement exposes the fraud of Trump’s “Anti-Weaponization” Fund

Mon, 25 May 2026 01:49:49 GMT

Larry Bushart was awarded $835,000 after being jailed for sharing a Facebook meme critical of Charlie Kirk. His case exposes the severe limitations being placed on “free speech” in America.

Virginia Governor Spanberger vetoes collective bargaining and immigrant protection bills

Mon, 25 May 2026 01:49:01 GMT

The veto of these two bills confirms—for the thousandth and first time—this fundamental reality of American politics: the Democratic party is a capitalist party charged with diffusing and disorienting popular hostility to the profit system.

A Turkish court unlawfully removes the CHP leadership from office

Sat, 23 May 2026 05:24:25 GMT

Under political pressure from the Erdoğan government, a court unlawfully removed the elected leadership of the Republican People's Party, triggering a major political crisis.

New revelations show San Diego neo-Nazi mosque attackers were known to police and FBI before massacre

Sat, 23 May 2026 03:21:03 GMT

The San Diego massacre exposes the fraud of the Trump administration’s claims that “left-wing extremists,” not fascists, are the central domestic terror threat.

New Zealand woman held for weeks in ICE detention

Sat, 23 May 2026 03:07:08 GMT

Nobody is exempt from the sweeping attacks on basic democratic rights by the Trump administration, no matter what their national origin or immigration status.

Lincoln and the enduring legacy of America’s second revolution: A reply to a critic of the “Letter from afar”

Fri, 22 May 2026 20:31:02 GMT

It is “fitting and proper,” to use Lincoln’s words, to invoke the historical experience of America’s past revolutions to bring to the surface and activate the deep-rooted democratic convictions of the working class.

Israel faces a general election with all parties committed to war, repression and social devastation

Fri, 22 May 2026 17:14:05 GMT

The opposition boast that their bloc represents “80 percent of the country,” a figure that explicitly excludes the 20 percent of the population who are Arab citizens.

Trump’s “Anti-Weaponization Fund”: The fusion of the gangster-oligarchy and the state

Fri, 22 May 2026 04:44:29 GMT

Trump’s $1.776 billion slush fund would reward those who sought to overturn the 2020 elections, including those who attacked the Capitol on January 6, 2021.

Australia: Bondi Royal Commission hearings used to attack anti-genocide movement

Thu, 21 May 2026 03:51:44 GMT

The hearings featured ludicrous testimony, of Zionists bemoaning news reportage of Israel’s war crimes and even pro-Palestinian bake sales at university campuses as a threat to their safety.

ICE operations continue in Michigan as local cops play key role

Thu, 21 May 2026 01:32:17 GMT

ICE has shifted toward local police partnerships while aggressive arrests continue in Michigan and Democratic officials offer token objections.

Jewish Voice for a Just Peace wins partial success in its case against the German Secret Service

Thu, 21 May 2026 01:30:01 GMT

The anti-Zionist organisation Jewish Voice for a Just Peace in the Middle East has achieved a court ruling that means, for now, it can no longer be listed as "extremist" by the Secret Service.

Germany’s civil defence plan: The government prepares the country for war

Wed, 20 May 2026 05:16:02 GMT

Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt and the federal government are driving forward the transformation of Germany into a military state. Under the cynical pretext of “civil protection,” a 10-billion-euro programme will integrate society into military war planning, preparing Germany as a central NATO hub for deployment against Russia.

California scholars demand accountability for death of Chinese researcher Danhao Wang

Wed, 20 May 2026 03:19:23 GMT

California Scholars for Academic Freedom's Professor Stephen Roddy opposes the McCarthyite witch-hunt targeting Chinese scientists at American universities and calls for transparency over the recent suicide at the University of Michigan of Danhao Wang.

Sri Lanka: Death of Welikada Prison inmate raises serious questions

Tue, 19 May 2026 02:53:50 GMT

Until a credible, transparent and independent investigation is conducted, the serious doubts surrounding his death will—and must—persist.

Science magazine investigates FBI’s witch-hunt against Chinese researchers

Mon, 18 May 2026 03:31:36 GMT

Science magazine, one of the most prestigious peer-reviewed publications in the world, has published an investigative report titled “Researching While Chinese,” detailing the Department of Justice (DOJ) persecution of Chinese researchers at the University of Michigan and Indiana University.

“The Forever Prisoner”: Abu Zubaydah’s testimony from Guantánamo Bay

Sun, 17 May 2026 17:07:12 GMT

Zubaydah’s international lawyer, Helen Duffy, explained how he has been held in arbitrary detention for 24 years without charge, trial, or judicial review and subjected to torture.

As Finland’s economy hit by war on Iran, President Stubb pledges support to US military

Sun, 17 May 2026 17:06:53 GMT

Finland’s right-wing government is aligning with US war crimes and using the growing economic crisis to attack social services

Sri Lankan government extends draconian state of emergency

Sat, 16 May 2026 02:01:10 GMT

President Dissanayake can rule through emergency decrees, deploy the military and police with extraordinary powers, restrict gatherings, detain individuals without normal judicial procedures, invoke censorship and ban strikes.

Private security firm staffed by former military officers contracted to spy on UK students

Fri, 15 May 2026 17:19:39 GMT

Horus is paid roughly £900 a month by universities specifically to compile “encampment updates”, which use the information to identify students.

Starmer government mounts mass police crackdown against London protests, targeting pro-Palestinian movement

Fri, 15 May 2026 17:06:01 GMT

Met Deputy Assistant Commissioner James Harman boasted that police had “arrested and charged people for calling for intifada at protests”