Amnesty International warns that Israel’s genocide against Palestinians is not over and despite a ceasefire Israel is still deliberately inflicting conditions of life calculated to bring about the physical destruction of the Palestinian population in the occupied Gaza Strip. Groundxero Report | November 30, 2025 More than a month after a ceasefire was announced […]
The scapegoating of farmers for pollution serves a dual purpose for the corporates whose interests the Indian state actively promotes. It lays the groundwork for a future push to corporatise agriculture by portraying farmers’ ‘backward practices’ as in need of modernisation. It also diverts attention from the real culprits —the automobile industry, the rise in […]
With the labour codes notified and the government signalling no sign of retreat, an open confrontation between India’s working class and a Corporate–State nexus intent on dismantling the last protections of labour law seems imminent. Groundxero Report | 26 November 2025 Thousands of workers, farmers and agricultural laborers staged protests across the country […]
“ফরেস্ট অফিসার, বনকর্মী তাঁদের আচরণ, গ্রামবাসী, দরিদ্র মৎস্যজীবী মানুষদের সঙ্গে তাঁদের ব্যবহার অত্যন্ত সামন্ততান্ত্রিক, মনে হয় এই বন-জঙ্গলে তাদের জমিদারি চলে। এই আচরণের বিরূদ্ধেও জোরদার প্রতিবাদ-আন্দোলন অবশ্যই গড়ে ওঠা প্রয়োজন।” সুদর্শনা চক্রবর্তী-র প্রতিবেদন Groundxero | NOV 25, 2025 “ওনারা আমাদেরকে আর জঙ্গলে যেতে দেবে না, মাছ-কাঁকড়া ধরতে দেবে না, ভবিষ্যতে। এখনও না হলে ওরা ডোঙা […]
The memorandum concludes with an explicit warning: “If the Government continues to ignore and neglect the burning demands, the masses belonging to farmers and workers have no option other to launch “massive, peaceful, protracted struggles” similar to the 2020–21 agitation. Groundxero | NOV 25, 2025 On the eve of the fifth anniversary of the […]
How the US dollar’s status as the world’s reserve currency allows America to export its inflation and live beyond its means – at everyone else’s expense By Jaime Bravo and Jorge Coulon In August 1971, then-US President Richard Nixon announced the suspension of the dollar’s convertibility into gold. This closed a cycle […]
Trump’s trade policies are an admission of capitalism’s failures. Perhaps finally enough people have learned the lessons of the past so that we can build an economy that works for working people. By Richard Wolff Nov 24, 2025 Common Dreams A short response to this essay’s title is: “because he, and the US system […]
“I am Maryam Al-Nimr, a student and citizen of Gaza, writing on behalf of every Palestinian seeking safety, freedom, and humanity. I write to say: we are not just numbers in the news; we are human beings who dream, suffer, and resist. This testimony recounts the night of July 25, 2024, when an Israeli […]
“COP30 provides a stark reminder that the answers to the climate crisis do not lie inside the climate talks—they lie with the people and movements leading the way toward a just, equitable, fossil-free future,” one campaigner said. By Olivia Rosane Common Dreams The United Nations Climate Change Conference, or COP30, concluded on Saturday in Belém, Brazil with a deal […]
The Supreme Court’s Centre for Research and Planning (CRP)’s groundbreaking new report examines how the Apex Court itself has spoken about caste over the past 75 years. By analysing the language used in major Constitution Bench judgments—from Champakam Dorairajan (1951) to State of Punjab v. Davinder Singh (2024)—the report reveals a judiciary wrestling not just […]
What’s at stake in Chandigarh is the future of India’s federal democracy. The move to alter the status of Chandigarh fits more into the larger pattern of the RSS-BJP’s agenda of systematic centralisation of power by weakening of federal structures. Groundxero | Nov 23, 2025 The Union Home Ministry’s announcement on 23 November that it will […]
For more than 3 months, sanitation workers under the Greater Chennai Corporation have resolutely refused to join a private company Ramky, showing up to protests every week, facing detentions and arrests in the process. What does drive these contractual workers to protest? By Sushmita Groundxero | November 22, 2025 About 2,000 workers, working under the […]
William D. Hartung and Ben Freeman’s extremely timely and necessary book explains how today’s crises are the predictable consequence of an entrenched system of militarism, a politics captured by lobbies and elite self-dealing. By Joseph Bouchard Nov 19, 2025 Common Dreams At this very second, Washington is pouring billions into escalations toward a potential invasion of Venezuela that […]
On 26 November, on the fifth anniversary of the 2020–21 farmers’ movement, SKM, CTUs and worker unions through nation-wide mass action, seeks to launch a protracted, massive pan-India struggle to confront the authoritarian, pro-corporate, communal policies and press for the basic people’s demands. Groundxero | November 19, 2025 Samyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM) leaders addressed an […]
The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) has released a harrowing report documenting what it describes as “systematic sexual torture and rape” committed by Israeli forces against Palestinian detainees, including women and men from Gaza, during their detention in Israeli prisons and military camps over the past two years. Groundxero | November 17, 2025 *This […]
Kamaljit, Research Scholar and Doctoral Candidate, Department of Philosophy, Punjab University (PU), talks on the ongoing student-led struggles to protect PU’s autonomy and democratic structure under attack from the Central government. Groundxero | November 17, 2025 During the past several weeks, Punjab University has become the site of one of the most significant student-led democratic […]
The same system that burns the planet also fuels Israel’s genocidal machine and upholds its colonial regime of illegal occupation and apartheid, reveals a report. Groundxero | November 14, 2025 A report, Behind the Barrel: An Update on the Origins of Israel’s Fuel Supply, was launched at the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP30) in Belém, Brazil, on Thursday. The […]
Israel must not be allowed to sanitize its image, because polishing genocide guarantees its repetition. by Dr Ramzy Baroud Israel’s allies worldwide are desperately scrambling to help Tel Aviv re-establish a convincing narrative, not only concerning the Gaza genocide, but the entire legacy of Israeli colonialism in Palestine and the Middle East. The […]
Muslim students on the campus said they never experienced any discrimination at ISI owing to their faith. By Indradeep Bhattacharyya Via Alt News A day after a car-bomb explosion killed at least 13 people in the heart of the national capital, anti-Muslim graffiti saying “Muslims and dogs should not enter the premises” and “No […]
On the long tail of US intervention in Latin America and the Caribbean. By Chuck Idelson Common Dreams If the Trump administration’s assaults on Venezuela and threats to Colombia and Mexico have a familiar stench, they should. For more than two centuries the United States government has acted as if it owned the Western Hemisphere, with the right of […]
NACEJ strongly condemns the abject failure of the Government in systemically addressing the air pollution crisis and the brazen, arbitrary detention of peacefully protesting citizens, organizing against this public health catastrophe. It said Delhi NCR pollution crisis needs firm policy shifts and institutional action against prime polluters, not citizens. Restore Fundamental Right to Breathe! […]
While the CRI report tells us what has happened in the past, it is not a precise predictor of what will happen in the future. But the report clearly demonstrates global emissions must be reduced immediately; otherwise, we face rising deaths and economic disaster worldwide. Groundxero | November 12, 2025 The recently released Climate Risk […]
El Presidente Donald Trump is the gringo version of brutal and corrupt dictators foisted on Latin American countries by their oligarchs and Yankee imperialists. CHRIS HEDGES Nov 10, 2025 El Presidente Trump is cast in the mold of all tinpot Latin American despots who terrorize their populations, surround themselves with sycophants, goons and […]
Sudan is now home to the worst humanitarian crisis in the world. Hundreds of thousands have been killed since 2023, 12 million people have been displaced and 21 million people face what the UN calls “high levels of acute food insecurity”. Yet, the international community has been largely silent. Philipp Kastner, The University of […]
The Indian Statistical Institute Bill, 2025, represents a legislative attempt to undermine and dismantle an institution that has contributed immensely to India’s intellectual and scientific growth, erode ISI’s autonomy and its long-standing culture of academic freedom. Shyamoli Jana Groundxero | November 10, 2025 A ghettoised sweatshop is exactly what the name suggests: a workplace, a sweatshop, […]
The time has come for all US progressives to stop haranguing voters on what to vote against, and focus instead on what to vote for – a clear platform of food for all, housing for all, mass mobility for all, renewable energy for all, and health care for all. Dennis Redmond Groundxero | November 10, 2025 […]
The Adivasi and Dalit communities of Tijimali continue to actively resist Vedanta’s proposed bauxite mining project in the region. An update on the struggle. Groundxero | November 8, 2025 Since mid-2023, Adivasis and Dalits from Tijmali, Kuturumali, and Majhingmali—located in the Kashipur and Thuamul Rampur blocks of Rayagada and Kalahandi districts, respectively—have been actively resisting […]
The battle for a more affordable and egalitarian society is just beginning. Leaders like Zohran Mamdani need to gain even deeper traction with working-class voters, no matter how working class is defined and no matter their racial identity—if they want to win. By Les Leopold It truly is amazing that a Democratic Socialist […]
ক্রিস হেজেস সম্প্রতি দক্ষিণ অস্ট্রেলিয়ার অ্যাডিলেড ইউনিভার্সিটিতে এডওয়ার্ড সাঈদ স্মারক বক্তৃতা প্রদান করেছেন। তাঁর বক্তৃতার শিরোনাম ছিল “রেকুইয়েম ফর গাজা”। এটি ২০২৫ সালের ২০ অক্টোবর অস্ট্রেলিয়ার ন্যাশনাল প্রেস ক্লাব (NPC)-এ অনুষ্ঠিত হওয়ার কথা ছিল। কিন্তু এনপিসি বক্তৃতার সংক্ষিপ্তসার পর্যালোচনা করার পর, ইসরায়েলপন্থী লবির চাপে পড়ে অনুষ্ঠানটি বাতিল করে। গাজার গণহত্যা নিয়ে পশ্চিমা গণমাধ্যমের ভূমিকার […]
SKM alleges government behaving like a real estate agent; profited massively from reselling land to corporates acquired from farmers at throwaway prices. Farmers to hold a Mahapanchayat at Sohna on November 6 over ‘Haryana Model of Land Trade’. Groundxero | Nov 5, 2025 The Samyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM) has called for a massive Mahapanchayat on […]
The Supreme Court’s judgment may serve as a precedent for ensuring that social-welfare rights are not held hostage to political disputes. Groundxero | Nov 4, 2025 After four long years of waiting, West Bengal’s rural workers have won a battle fought not only in the courts but also in the fields and streets. On October […]
Rights groups demand arrests and independent probe; call attack a deliberate attempt to silence voices against illegal mining in Tamil Nadu Groundxero | Nov 3, 2025 The People’s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL) — both its national and Tamil Nadu–Puducherry units — and the Human Rights Forum (HRF) have strongly condemned the violent assault on […]
Academics from leading universities call Dr. Snehashish Bhattacharya’s termination “unjust and punitive”; warn of a growing crisis of academic freedom at SAU, New Delhi Groundxero | Nov 3, 2025 More than 300 scholars from leading universities and research institutions worldwide have appealed to the Secretary-General of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) to […]
The Democratic Party and its liberal allies refuse to call for mass mobilization and strikes — the only tools that can thwart Trump’s emergent authoritarianism — fearing they too will be swept aside. CHRIS HEDGES NOV 03, 2025 The only hope to save ourselves from Trump’s authoritarianism is mass movements. We must build […]
Dalit women sanitation workers at Maharshi Dayanand University, Rohtak (Haryana), allege heinous violation of dignity and privacy, casteist and gender-based harassment by supervisors. Rights groups, including DASAM, condemns the incident; say the case exposes systemic abuse in India’s contractual sanitation labour sector; demands criminal prosecution, court-monitored probe, and structural reforms. Groundxero | Nov 3, 2025 […]
Samyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM) Demands Loan Waiver, Scraping of PMFBY, Judicial Probe into Floods and Landslides; to Submit Memorandums to District Collectors on November 4. Groundxero | Nov. 1, 2025 The Samyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM) has accused both the Union and state governments of “administrative failure and criminal recklessness” in responding to widespread devastating floods […]
Plestia Alaqad had just graduated when Israel launched its large-scale assault on Gaza on October 7, 2023. Within days, her city and her home were reduced to rubble. Amid bombings, displacement, and the relentless search for refuge, she continued to write. What she produced is far more than a chronicle of endurance under conditions of […]