A group of academics and concerned citizens has condemned the SRM Institute of Science and Technology (SRMIST) for terminating Assistant Professor Lora Santhakumar, calling the move a serious assault on academic freedom, due process, and freedom of conscience within Indian universities. Groundxero | Dec 31, 2025 In yet another chilling instance of policing thought and […]
The U.N. special rapporteur is one of the most courageous crusaders against the genocide in Gaza. Because of this, she is blacklisted and treated as if she is a terrorist. CHRIS HEDGES DEC 30 NICE, France — It is a late November afternoon. I am driving to Genoa, Italy with Francesca Albanese, the […]
“Let it be clear delivery workers are not slaves of algorithms. We will not accept unsafe ‘10-minute delivery’ models, arbitrary ID blocking, or denial of dignity and social security. If repression continues, our resistance will only grow stronger. The gig economy cannot be built on the broken bodies and silenced voices of workers.” Groundxero | Dec […]
The arrest of Mukesh Malaud is aimed at weakening the growing land rights movement of the Dalits in Punjab and spreading fear among activists and marginalised communities. Groundxero | Dec 30, 2025 The arrest of Mukesh Malaud, president of the Zameen Prapti Sangharsh Committee (ZPSC), by the Punjab Police in Delhi on Tuesday […]
Across all governments – the Union govt. in particular, many state governments and multiple political parties; there is a consensus that workers’ rights can be compromised and violated, in the pursuit of ‘ease of doing business’, and in the service of ever greater private profits. Groundxero | December 29, 2025 As several Indian […]
The continued exemption of marital rape from criminal law exposes how the Indian state prioritises patriarchal order over women’s bodily autonomy, dignity, and right to justice. By Debasree Sarkar Groundxero| December 29, 2025 Despite constitutional guarantees of equality, dignity, and personal liberty, Indian law continues to deny married women protection from sexual violence within […]
More than a century after the Ghadar Party launched one of the earliest internationalist challenges to British colonial rule in India; its revolutionary legacy continues to live on in Punjab. The annual Gadri Mela in Jalandhar is not merely a commemoration of the past but a living political and cultural space that reconnects history with […]
The stage is being set for the next phase of extermination. The siege is now absolute, the violence more concentrated, and the dehumanisation of Palestinians more widespread than ever. As the international media drifts toward other distractions, Israel’s image is being rehabilitated as if the genocide never happened. by Dr Ramzy Baroud Suppose we […]
The British Empire, in steep decline on the eve of World War I, is a cautionary tale for a decayed U.S. Empire a century later CHRIS HEDGES Dec 27 At the start of the 20th century, the British Empire was, like our own, in terminal decline. Sixty percent of Englishmen were physically unfit for […]
The alleged lynching comes within a week of a Dalit man from Chhattisgarh being lynched in Kerala’s Palakkad district. The incident is also the latest in a series of alleged attacks on Bengali-speaking migrant workers on suspicion of being Bangladeshi in several places in India that started getting reported from June-July 2025. by Indradeep Bhattacharyya Via Alt […]
Thousands of women from across Karnataka marched through the streets of Belthangady in a silent rally, demanding truth, justice, and accountability for rape, disappearances, and unnatural deaths of women and girls reported over several decades in and around Dharmasthala. Groundxero | December 24, 2025 Thousands of women from across Karnataka marched through the streets […]
Rural workers and peasants registered under MGNREGS across the country will submit a resolution to the President of India to demand restore and enrich MGNREGA in the Special Gram Sabhas. Groundxero | December 24, 2025 The Samyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM) has called upon rural workers and peasants registered under MGNREGS across the country […]
But let’s be honest, the War on Terror was never about terror. The War on Drugs was never about drugs. They were both wars on inconvenient truths—and lucrative opportunities for whoever controlled the narrative. By Raïs Neza Boneza If everything you thought you knew about the War on Terror were nothing more than a mirage—an extravagant […]
Opposition to the VB–G–RAM–G Act intensified as more than 10,000 rural agricultural workers marched to Raj Bhavan in Kolkata. Trade unions simultaneously called for a nationwide push to openly reject the law in upcoming Gram Sabhas and demand for a restoration of MGNREGA. Groundxero | December 23, 2025 Opposition to the Viksit Bharat–Guarantee […]
The CTUs warned that if the Modi government proceeds with notifying rules under the codes without repealing them, the February strike could be followed by multi-day general strikes and expanded sectoral actions. Groundxero | 23 December 2025 India’s central trade unions (CTUs) have called for a nationwide general strike on February 12, 2026, intensifying resistance […]
The present-day alignment between Hindutva and Zionism is not accidental; it is ideological, strategic, and deeply rooted. It is an alliance built not on philosemitism (love or admiration for Jews), which stands in stark contrast to antisemitism, but on a shared logic of supremacy, securitization, and the demonization of a common enemy: Muslims. by Rizwan […]
Calling Ramnarayan’s death a ‘brutal murder’, Dr Hitesh Shankar, who performed the post-mortem stated that despite having performed many post-mortems throughout his career, he had never seen anyone “assaulted this brutally.” By Shinjinee Majumder Via Alt News Five persons were arrested for allegedly lynching a Dalit man from Chhattisgarh on the suspicion of theft in Kerala’s […]
Calling worker–farmer unity the “primary weapon” against the union government’s policies, SKM calls to observe January 16 as ‘All India Resistance Day’ against NDA’s corporate push. Groundxero | 22 December 2025 The Samyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM) on Monday announced a renewed nationwide mobilisation against what it described as the NDA government’s “authoritarian, anti-federal […]
The death of Sharif Osman Hadi, a prominent face of the July 2024 uprising in Dhaka plunged Bangladesh into widespread violence yet again. by Indradeep Bhattacharyya Via Alt News The death of Sharif Osman Hadi, a prominent face of the July 2024 uprising in Dhaka, at a Singapore hospital plunged Bangladesh into widespread violence […]
While the fighting has largely been contained to within Sudan’s boundaries, it is being fueled from outside the country. By Christopher Tounsel Sudan’s brutal civil war has dragged on for more than 2½ years, displacing millions and killing in excess of 150,000 people – making it among the most deadly conflicts in the […]
নীতিশ কুমারের মতো স্বনিযুক্ত অভিভাবক হয়ে যান অধিকাংশ পুরুষই পরিচিত, অপরিচিত প্রায় সব মহিলাদের। কেনই বা হবেন না? ‘আদমি হ্যায় না!’ সুদর্শনা চক্রবর্তী Groundxero | December 19 “উও ভি তো আদমি হ্যায় না! পিছে নেহি পড় যানা চাহিয়ে। ছু দিয়া নাকাব। কহি অউর ছুতে তো তব কেয়ে হো যাতা?” “তো আপকো কেয়া লগ […]
Modi government yields to the U.S. pressure; open up a strategic and crucial sector like nuclear energy to private and foreign multinational companies. Groundxero | December 18 The Union government has pushed through a far-reaching overhaul of India’s nuclear energy regime, opening the strategic sector to private and foreign multinational corporations while diluting […]
The appeal by the All India Feminist Alliance (ALIFA) state that the incident cannot be separated from what it calls a growing pattern of demonisation of visible markers of Muslim identity, including hijab, burqa, skull caps and beards etc. Groundxero | December 18 A coalition of feminist activists, lawyers, scholars and researchers under […]
As the standoff in Rajasthan’s Hanumangarh district enters a critical phase, the struggle for farmers of Tibbi tehsil is no longer only against an ethanol plant. It has become a larger battle over who decides the future of land and water—and whether rural livelihoods and fragile ecologies can survive the march of an ecologically destructive, […]
The Genocide in Gaza has not stopped. It has been rebranded. And that is enough of a linguistic subterfuge to get the world to ignore it. CHRIS HEDGES DEC 15, 2025 First, it was Israel’s right to defend itself. Then it was a war, even though, by Israel’s own military intelligence database, 83 percent […]
More than 125 lawyers, legal professionals (faculty), and law students from all over the country have called on the Governor of Odisha to urgently intervene to stop state repression on protesting villagers and take steps to halt all illegal administrative actions aimed at handing over community-managed forest land to Vedanta for bauxite mining in Sijimali. […]
Tens of thousands of Portuguese workers walked off the job in the country’s first general strike in 12 years. The massive show of force is a direct challenge to the right-wing government’s aggressive assault on labor rights, wages, and collective bargaining. Groundxero Report| December 14, 2025 Portugal was brought to a standstill on December 11 […]
The message from All India Workers’ Rights Day was clear: far from silencing opposition, the Modi government’s labour reforms have galvanised a new phase of working-class resistance that is likely to deepen in the period ahead. Groundxero | December 14, 2025 Thousands of workers across India marked All India Workers’ Rights Day on Sunday, […]
Trump administration is after regime change in Venezuela. For US and European corporations, the message is clear: regime change could unlock vast wealth. By Juan Zahir Naranjo Cáceres and Shannon Brincat Two centuries ago, US President James Monroe declared the Western Hemisphere off-limits to European powers in what would became known in history books as the […]
The Paschim Banga Khet Majoor Samity has issued a legal notice for contempt of court against both the State and Central Governments for failing to restart MGNREGA work in West Bengal. Groundxero | December 12, 2025 On 10 December 2025, the Paschim Banga Khet Majoor Samity (PBKMS) issued a legal notice for contempt of court […]
The trail as a mirror leaves back sensory methods that help one read lingering memories and the fragile boundaries of the ordered and the chaotic expressed by the city’s “in-between” zones. By Debasree Sarkar Groundxero| 12 December 2025 Thinking about cities, urbanity, and metropolitan spaces, we overlook the diverse transitional ecosystems that form them. One […]
The violent clashes in Hanumangarh have brought a simmering 17-month peasant struggle in Rajasthan to national attention. Farmers in Tibbi tehsil are resisting the construction of what is touted as Asia’s largest ethanol plant—a project they say threatens their land, water, and livelihoods. The police crackdown has only deepened anger in a region against what […]
But what if Gaza agrees to surrender its weapons? Will Israel leave the Palestinians alone? Will the prospects of a just peace and Palestinian freedom increase exponentially? by Dr Ramzy Baroud US President Donald Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’ is reportedly set to be announced before the year’s end. This news coincides with increasing reports that the […]
মানবাধিকার দিবসের দিন সাংবাদিক রূপেশ কুমার সিং-সহ ছ’জন রাজনৈতিক বন্দীর জেলের অব্যবস্থা ও অস্বাস্থ্যকর পরিবেশের বিরুদ্ধে প্রতীকী অনশন। সুদর্শনা চক্রবর্তীর প্রতিবেদন ১০ ডিসেম্বর মানবাধিকার দিবস। এই দিনেই বিহারের পাটনায় আদর্শ কেন্দ্রীয় কারা, বেউর-এ ছয় দফা দাবি নিয়ে হাই সিকিউরিটি সেল-এর ছ’জন রাজনৈতিক বন্দী এক দিনের প্রতীকী অনশনের ডাক দিয়েছিলেন। এই ছয় বন্দীর মধ্যে একজন সাংবাদিক রূপেশ […]
The World Inequality Report situates India as one of the world’s most unequal large economies with its world’s “fastest-growing economy” narrative standing in sharp contrast with an equally extreme concentration of income and wealth at the top. Groundxero | 10 December 2025 The World Inequality Report 2026, released on Wednesday, brings out alarming statistics of the staggering […]
A global solidarity call to end extrajudicial killings in Bastar, institute an independent judicial inquiry into the circumstances of all the killings, and initiate dialogue and political engagement with the Adivasi communities. Groundxero | 10 December 2025 The Indian government claims that the recent encounter killings of Maoists leaders and cadres mark a turning point in its war on […]
The Apex Court’s ruling lays bare a deeper, ongoing shift in the state’s approach to natural commons—one that privileges extraction over conservation, and corporate interest over ecological survival. By Tinku Khanna Groundxero | 10 December 2025 Indroduction The Supreme Court’s recent acceptance of a narrow, elevation-based definition of the Aravalli Hills marks a turning […]
To fully understand Washington’s current warpath in the region, it’s necessary to revisit earlier episodes in which the US intervened, violently and anti-democratically, to shape the political destinies of countries in the hemisphere. By ERIC ROSS Dec 08, 2025 TomDispatch In recent months, the Trump administration has escalated a decades-long campaign against the Venezuelan government and people. […]
The killings of the journalists were deliberate acts intended to silence them. “They weren’t collateral victims. They were killed, targeted for their work … Key witnesses to history have become inconvenient eyewitnesses, bargaining chips, and people to be ‘eliminated’,” said RSF director general Thibaut Bruttin. Groundxero | 9 December 2025 2025 was yet another […]
After the massive nationwide mobilisations of workers against the labour codes on 26th November 2025, the joint platform of central trade unions have announced a fresh phase of intensified agitations, culminating in a countrywide General Strike in February 2026. Groundxero | 9 December 2025 The Joint Platform of Central Trade Unions (CTUs) and Sectoral Federations/Associations […]