Protestors up against the law across the world Democratic rights are under threat in the EU, the UK, the US and elsewhere, as the rule of law is eroded in many countries, but defending these rights is a priority, argues John Clarke A report iss...

Whether they are openly authoritarian or cling to liberal pretensions, governments in a range of countries are restricting #democraticrights and attacking the right to protest. My column this week for Counterfire.
www.counterfire.org/article/prot...

Huge protest happening next week in #Halifax #NovaScotia against the Houston Conservative government - March 3, 2026 #NovaScotiaLegislature

Be there if you can!!!

#RespectTheTreaties #DemocraticRights #MakeYourVoiceHeard

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Protesters plan to march during the Israeli president’s visit to Australia. So what are their rights to protest? In lieu of an explicit right to protest across Australia, different states have legislated their own protections, while some are getting stricter

Protesting #Herzog?
Know what the law says in different constituencies 👇
#democraticrights

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Engler has been found guilty of harassment because a police detective, the poor sensitive little lamb, was made uncomfortable by emails calling for charges to be dropped.
This is another serious attack on #Palestinesolidarity and broader #democraticrights that must be challenged.

The Jury System: Past, Present, and the Battle for Its Future - Workers of England Union Over the coming weeks, the Workers of England Union will be publishing a three-part series examining one of the oldest and most important foundations of de

Is the jury system under threat? ⚖️

www.workersofengland.co.uk/news/the-jury-system-pas...

#JurySystem #EnglishJustice #WorkersRights #LegalReform #DemocraticRights #WEU #JuryDuty #EnglishHistory

The #Trump administration is a reactionary cutting edge but the threat to #democraticrights is by no means confined to the US. In country after country, a powerful section of the ruling establishment is becoming impatient with the constraints that liberal democracy imposes.

Palestine Action hunger strikers in imminent danger of death as Labour government still refuses to meet Irish Republican Bobby Sands died after 66 days of a hunger strike—a milestone reached by Muraisi on Tuesday. Other Irish hunger strikers died between 46 and 61 days.

Palestine Action hunger strikers in imminent danger of death as #UK #Labour government still refuses to meet. #Gaza #Genocide‌ #democraticrights www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

John Clarke In the early 2000s, a crown attorney at a hearing where I was denied bail, described an OCAP action as an act of 'domestic terrorism.' The Toronto chief of police used the same term about us and the.....

The threat to #democraticrights.
www.facebook.com/john.clarke....

" #Thepremier & his govt r using a mo of anger & grief 2 rush through #newlaws that attack our #democraticrights. This is a despic display of polit opportunism that undermines our dem. In seeking 2 protect #NSW citizens this way, the premier is undermining the legit of the dem that put him in power”

#Alberta #TransRightsAreHumanRights

The defence of #democraticrights today must be led by a working class counteroffensive against capitalist austerity and war, and for the socialist transformation of socio-economic life.

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This is completely correct which is why the effort to stifle the voice of #Palestinesolidarity is the cutting edge of a broader threat to #democraticrights.

I'm not convinced that #PressFreedom is the right on which all of our other rights depend.

I know rather too many #MainstreamMedia #journalists who (mis)use their #FreedomOfThePress to promote the repression of #FreeSpeech & other #DemocraticRights.

#CivilRights #HumanRights #CDNmediaFAILed

The impact of Democratic Socialism advocated by @sanders.senate.gov in 2010 gave TeaPartiers a huge victory since 1938.Followed by2016 victory of Trump&his come back in 2024.Protecting #SafetyNets&NarrowingIncomeInequality should not fall under Socialism but #DemocraticRights& #HumanRights.UNITE🙏

Democracy is not a #privilege.

It's a fundamental #HumanRight that freedom loving people have fought to establish & defend from despots for centuries.

People who don't exercise their #DemocraticRights aka #CivilRights aka #HumanRights risk losing them. . .

#PolCan

www.youtube.com/shorts/znxrI...

I voted in #AdvanceVoting last night at the chalet in Notre-Dame-de-Grâce Park.

I then filmed this video about #DemocraticRights & freedoms at the #cenotaph in Place de Vimy.

#CivilRights #CivilLiberties #CharterRights #HumanRights #SPVM #MySPVM #PolMTL #electionMTL
www.youtube.com/shorts/znxrI...

Subu Vedam, falsely imprisoned for 43 years, seized by ICE for deportation The 64-year-old Vedam, who came to the US from India as a baby, was exonerated and released from prison in Pennsylvania, then immediately detained by the immigration Gestapo.

#SubuVedam, falsely imprisoned for 43 years, seized by #ICE for deportation. Ignoring a great debt owed for corrupt ruining of his life, the government moving to #dictatorship instead seeks to deepen its scapegoating #immigrants to attack everyone's #democraticrights. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

The 2025 #NobelPeacePrize was awarded to #María #CorinaMachado for her efforts in promoting #democraticrights in #Venezuela and striving for a #peaceful transition from #dictatorship to #democracy. #Oslo, #Norway.

The Norwegian Nobel Committee has more balls than every single Republican in Congress put together.

#NobelPeacePrize #MariaCorinaMachado #democraticrights #Venezuela #FromDictatorshipToDemocracy
#Bluesky

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Big congrats to Maria Corina Machado who, for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela, was rewarded with the Nobel Peace Prize for 2025!
#nobelpeaceprice2025 #democraticrights

https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/2025/press-release/

The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the 2025 #NobelPeacePrize to Maria Corina Machado for her tireless work promoting #democraticrights for the people of #Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to #democracy.
#MariaCorinaMachado

Maria Corina Machado Wins 2025 Nobel Peace Prize, Trump Misses Out | 1Tak Venezuela’s Maria Corina Machado awarded 2025 Nobel Peace Prize for her peaceful struggle for democracy against authoritarian rule.

Maria Corina Machado Wins 2025 Nobel Peace Prize, Trump Misses Out

#VenezuelaDemocracy #trump  #NobelPeacePrize #NobelPrize #TrumpMissesOut #PeacefulStruggle #DemocraticRights #OppositionLeader

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María Corina Machado Nobel Peace Prize 2025

🇻🇪 #MaríaCorinaMachadoParisca is a Venezuelan politician & industrial engineer.

She was awarded the #NobelPeacePrize 2025

“for her tireless work promoting #DemocraticRights for the people of #Venezuela & for her struggle to achieve a just & #peaceful transition from #dictatorship to #democracy.”

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**In the Aftermath of Charlie Kirk’s Murder: Defend Free Speech**

By world-outlook.com on September 23, 2025
from #WorldOutlook

By Yvonne Hayes and Argiris Malapanis

> > The September 10 assassination of right-wing “influencer” #CharieKirk was an attack on free speech of the most serious and […]

Fascist Steve Bannon denounces teachers as “terrorists” in tribute to Charlie Kirk Alongside defunding public education and a brutal campaign of intimidation, censorship, and firings against educators, the Trump administration is rolling out a new “patriotic” civic curriculum for K-...

Longtime Trump advisor fascist Steve Bannon declared "a third of #teachers are terrorists” in tribute to Charlie Kirk, stepping up the attack on ##publicschools and #democraticrights. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

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My Money, My Choice.

#DemocraticRights

#Australia #CFMEU #Union #WorkersRights #DemocraticRights #Labor #War

Labor’s attack on the CFMEU:
1 year under state control

- World Socialist Web Site
www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

Trump’s mass deportations target working #immigrants, not criminals. Veronica and Nancy, a mother without papers and her US-born daughter, expose exploitation, fear, and the bipartisan assault on #democraticrights and immigrant workers.

www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

UUA Misuse Of Canada's Blasphemy Law By Falsely Accusing Me Of The Crime Of Blasphemous Libel Certainly Nurtured MY Spirit, But What If Anything Did It Do To Help Heal The UU World? Just asking. . . On Friday June 1st of 2012, I received an "electronic communication" aka email from the Unitarian Universalist Associ...

Speaking of #DemocraticFreedoms & institutions falling, the #UUA & #UnitarianUniversalists more generally have been attacking, undermining, & suppressing #FreeSpeech & other #DemocraticRights & freedoms for decades.

emersonavenger.blogspot.com/2014/02/blas...

#UUism #UU #BlasphemousLibel #LawSky