The historical development of the presumption of innocence is a centuries-long battle for due process and enlightenment against irrationalism, lynch mob justice and arbitrary state repression.
Working people should steer clear of the right-wing “Me Too” campaign.
Judge Burke handed out nearly the maximum possible sentence. Weinstein was found guilty February 24 on charges of a criminal sexual act in the first degree and rape in the third degree.
Hachette announced Friday it would not publish filmmaker-comic Woody Allen’s memoir at the behest of journalist Ronan Farrow and in the face of protests by its own employees.
Although no charges have been filed against the popular author, Norton will no longer publish his work, and at least one bookstore will no longer carry his books.
Scammell, an accomplished conductor and music director, denounces the media outlets instrumental in promoting sexual misconduct accusations against her partner, effectively destroying his television and theatrical career and ruining his mental health.
The smear campaign by three graduate students against Professor Comaroff, which has been underway for over four years with false allegations of sexual assault and retaliation, collapsed on Wednesday in a dismissal of the lawsuit against Harvard University without costs and with prejudice.
This new version of McCarthyite blacklisting has come about because official Hollywood has done whatever it can in recent years to erase Polanski’s films and his very artistic existence.
The two-part series levels new allegations against actor Kevin Spacey just as he is emerging publicly from the collapse of the witch-hunt against him.
In the face of mass murder in Gaza and unfolding world war, the #MeToo activists demonstrated their indifference to the mass suffering.
One unsubstantiated claim, which when tested in a courtroom five years later took a jury 45 minutes to dismiss, led to Spacey being driven out of the film, television and theater world.
The line of the feminist commentators is profoundly reactionary, denying the responsibility of governments for the social and mental health crisis and promoting sweeping police powers.
Attacks on the renowned actor, who has not been convicted of any crime, take place as the French government seeks to divert attention from its support for Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
Spacey’s experience was especially punishing, but it exemplified the type of treatment meted out to the victims of the ongoing sexual misconduct smear campaign.
Legal and democratic rights must be defended to put an end to the situation where public figures can be torn down on the basis purely of allegations.
The presence in Venice of directors Roman Polanski, Woody Allen and Luc Besson caused consternation in the American media, in particular.
The reactionary campaign to destroy Royal Spanish Football Federation President Luis Rubiales over his kiss of midfielder Jennifer Hermoso intensified last week.
The overwhelmingly positive reaction to Allen and Polanski, along with Luc Besson, indicates that it is becoming increasingly difficult for the upper middle class layers behind the #MeToo campaign to maintain their slanders and misrepresentations.
The three-part series expresses frustration as the #MeToo campaign suffered a humiliating and public trainwreck in the case.
While findings have been made against other legal practitioners over the years, the breadth of those against Director of Public Prosecutions Drumgold is somewhat unprecedented and could include criminal conduct.
All the allegations against Spacey tested in court have now failed. The outcomes have vindicated the principled stand taken by the World Socialist Web Site against the #MeToo witch-hunt.
In testimony to the court last week, July 13 and 14, Spacey rejected allegations that he was a “big sexual bully” who abused his fame and power to make his alleged victims “feel powerless and uncomfortable.”
Spacey denies three counts of indecent assault, seven of sexual assault, one of causing a person to engage in sexual activity without consent and one of causing a person to engage in penetrative sexual activity without consent, which carries a maximum punishment of life imprisonment.
Spacey has pleaded not guilty to three counts of indecent assault, three counts of sexual assault and one count of causing a person to engage in sexual activity without consent between 2001 and 2013.
