“There is no mistake, just total disregard for humanity, decency, international law,” said human rights experts at the United Nations of Israel’s bombing of an encampment. By Julia Conley May 30, 2024 A coalition of United Nations experts on Wednesday vehemently rejected Israel’s claim that its bombing of a tent encampment in a supposed “humanitarian […]
সব্যসাচী, সৌমি (দিলখুশ) অজানা জায়গায় অচেনা মানুষের সাথে সাংস্কৃতিক মেলবন্ধন আগেও ঘটেছে। তবু অনেক কিছু জানার ছিল। ইচ্ছে ছিল বুঝবার। আমরা দু’জন নিজেদের কতটা স্ট্রেচ করতে পারি । ইচ্ছে ছিল পুরোটা বোঝার, কিভাবে পুরো ব্যবস্থাটা রান করে। এত মানুষের মাঝে মানুষের খেলা, বিনিময়… কথা, ভাব, সময়, খাবার। ভারতবর্ষকে ভেতর থেকে ভালোভাবে চেনার একমাত্র উপায় […]
“How many more charred corpses does he have to see before the president considers a change in policy?” a CBS News reporter asked a White House official following the massacre. By Edward Carver Israel used U.S.-made bombs in its attack on a camp of displaced Palestinians outside Rafah that killed dozens on Sunday night, according to analyses […]
Pro-Israel forces in the U.S. are trying their best to throw sand in the wheels of justice with threats of new sanctions against the International Criminal Court after it requested Israeli and Hamas arrest warrants. By Medea Benjamin Senator Lindsay Graham was bursting with contempt for the International Criminal Court when he grilled Secretary of […]
Ipsa Shatakshi is the wife of Rupesh Kumar Singh, an independent journalist based in Jharkhand who has been in jail since 17 July 2022, charged under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act for being a suspected Maoist. Rupesh Kumar has been working as a freelance journalist since 2014, reporting on state violence against Adivasi communities. […]
27th May 2024, New Delhi Highlighting the serious challenges facing livelihood issues due to the corporate policies being vigorously pursued in the last ten years by the BJP led NDA Government under Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM) has appealed to workers and farmers to ensure change in government as well […]
সাদত হাসান মান্টোর ১১২তম জন্মদিন চলে গেল এই মাসে। গত দু’বছর হল মান্টোর ‘খোল দো’ গল্প নিয়ে একক পারফর্মেন্স করে চলেছে কত্থক, সমসাময়িক নাচ ও থিয়েটার শিল্পী শ্রুতি ঘোষ। শ্রুতির সঙ্গে নাচ নিয়ে একাধিক কাজ করার সুবাদে ওর ‘খোল দো’-র সাথে সামান্য হলেও আমি জড়িয়ে থেকেছি। সেই ‘খোল দো’র শৈল্পিক, অর্থনৈতিক পথ চলা নিয়ে মান্টোর […]
নোটায় ভোট বেশি পড়লে নতুন করে ভোট নেওয়ার জন্য আইন করার দাবিও তোলা দরকার। যেমন দরকার একটা নির্দিষ্ট সময়ের মধ্যে নির্বাচিত প্রার্থী তার নির্বাচনী প্রতিশ্রুতি না রাখলে তাকে ফিরিয়ে আনার অধিকারের (রাইট টু রিকল) জন্য আন্দোলন করা। সেই রাস্তায় না গিয়ে ‘নোটায় কোনও ভোট নয়’ বলে আওয়াজ তুললে লাভ কার? লিখলেন নীলাঞ্জন দত্ত। এবারের […]
“What needs to be ordered is a permanent cease-fire and an end to the siege and occupation,” said a Palestinian forced to flee Gaza. By Jessica Corbett May 24, 2024 Civilians and journalists in the southern Gaza Strip reported Friday that Israel responded to an order by the International Court of Justice to halt military operations in Rafah by […]
“Israel must immediately halt its military offensive or any other action in the Rafah governorate which may inflict on the Palestinian group in Gaza conditions of life that could bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part,” said Judge Nawaf Salam, president of the ICJ. By Julia Conley May 24, 2024 […]
The political dynamics of Bihar is changing very fast. Initially when Nitish Kumar crossed over to NDA camp, one more time, in the last month of January, the poll pundits were making predictions of an easy win for BJP-led NDA and a repeat of the 2019 results when NDA got 39 out of 40 seats […]
How durable is the foundation of faith of an institution that was willing to abandon its creed on such flimsy grounds as a dispute with its employees and how strong morally are those who defend it today with ostentatious valour? Nilanjan Dutta May 22, 2024 Recent utterances by West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata […]
The ruling by the High Court in London permitting Julian Assange to appeal his extradition order leaves him languishing in precarious health in a high-security prison. That is the point. By CHRIS HEDGES May 21, 2024 The decision by the High Court in London to grant Julian Assange the right to appeal […]
Karim Khan, chief prosecutor for the International Criminal Court, accuses Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant of numerous crimes including “starvation as a method of war” and “deliberately targeting civilians.” Groundxero | May 20, 2024 The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) on May 20 announced that he […]
A new report on global internet shutdowns puts India into number one offender position with a whopping 116 total internet shutdowns in the country during 2023. By Sumendra Tamang 2023 was the worst year of Internet shutdowns ever recorded— highlighting an alarming and dangerous trend for human rights. A new report, Shrinking Democracy, […]
Seema Azad – a human rights activist and President of the Uttar Pradesh (UP) chapter of People’s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL), a poet, author and an independent journalist, was recently in Kolkata to attend the 6th Kolkata People’s Literary Festival. She is the editor of a monthly non-commercial magazine ‘Dastak Naye Samay Ki’. A […]
Organizers held rallies in the U.S., Europe, and Asia to mark Nakba Day and condemn Israel’s bombing and starvation of Palestinian civilians. By Julia Conley 19 May, 2024 As one United Nations official on Saturday said that “brand new words” are needed to adequately describe the devastation Israel has wrought across Gaza in its U.S.-backed military assault, tens of […]
All the five seats going to poll in fifth phase in Bihar had been won by NDA with a big margin in the 2019 election. But things are changing at the ground level. A report by Anish Ankur. Will Chirag Paswan be able to retain the Hajipur seat, considered to be a family bastion of […]
Modi’s latest statement referring to “those who have too many children” is the latest iteration of a long history of Hindu demographic fears – and has proven to be a lasting one. By Archana Venkatesh, Clemson University The world’s largest election is currently under way in India, with more than 960 million people […]
“Only tiny proportion of reality”: Over 9,600 children imprisoned in adult jails in 6 years reveals a RTI study. Groundxero | May 17, 2024 A recent right-to-information-based report, titled Incarceration of Children in Prisons in India, has found at least 9,681 children were wrongly incarcerated in adult prisons in between 1st January, 2016, to 31st […]
The National Resistance Front of Palestine continues to combat, resist and inflict casualties on Israeli forces in Rafah and Jabalia. By Harsh Thakor The genocidal carnage of the State of Israel, patronised by the imperialists, mainly U.S. imperialism, continues. On 12th May, 57 Palestine people were killed and another 82 injured in Israeli […]
The new shipment was announced “right after the State Department admits Israel has ‘likely’ used U.S.-supplied weapons in violation of humanitarian law,” said one journalist. By JULIA CONLEY 15 May, 2024 Less than a week after U.S. President Joe Biden said he was pausing a shipment of thousands of bombs to Israel, citing concerns […]
Statement by India Palestine Solidarity Forum and Indian citizens in solidarity with Palestine, condemning the escalation of the genocidal war on Gaza by Israel with their invasion of Rafah and military takeover of border crossings hindering access to humanitarian aid to Palestinians, and the brutal clampdown on Palestinian protestors. INDIA PALESTINE SOLIDARITY FORUM (IPSF) […]
One of the sanitation workers, Deepu, who survived the tragedy at Mughalsarai, said that if the private hospital had wanted, at least Vinod’s life could have been saved but due to the presence of feces on his body, the doctor shooed him away from a distance. Groundxero | May 15, 2024 The death of sanitation […]
Paramjit Kaur Longowal is the zonal secretary of the Zameen Parapti Sangharsh Committee (ZPSC). She is one of the founding members of ZPSC. Since 2014 she has been an organizer of the struggle for Dalit ownership of agricultural land in the villages of Punjab. She also works focusing on the various issues faced by Dalit […]
“The bomb that killed her family was most likely American. As an American, your tax money paid for it.” By Jon Queally May 13, 2024 Footage of a young girl rescued from beneath the rubble of a building in central Gaza overnight is among the latest graphic images to emerge from the Palestinian enclave as Israel intensifies […]
Local villagers and activists alleged that the 12 persons killed by security forces in Chhattisgarh were villagers from the nearby Pedia village who were out to gather tendu leaves. Groundxero | May 13, 2024 On 11th May 2024, twelve Adivasi people in Chhattisgarh’s Bijapur district, were killed in an encounter by the paramilitary forces of […]
Hundreds of thousands of people are being forced to flee, once again, after more than half of Gaza’s population took sanctuary in the border town of Rafah. This is part of Israel’s sadistic playbook. By Chris Hedges May 13, 2024 Run, the Israelis demand, run for your lives. Run from Rafah the way […]
‘Groundxero’ visited Begusarai going to poll today – a report by Anish Kumar Left parties in Bihar, consisting of CPI, CPI(M) and CPI(ML-Liberation) didn’t win any parliamentary seats from the state since the last two decades. The last communist MP from Bihar was Subodh Rai of CPI(M) during 1999-2004. CPI has not been able […]
Groundxero | May 10, 2024 The award-winning Iranian filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof, 51, known for his film There Is No Evil, has become the latest artist targeted in a brutal crackdown on all dissent by the Islamic fundamentalist regime in Iran following years of mass protests, including over the 2022 death of Mahsa Amini. Mohammad […]
“It is a day of resistance and demand,” said trade groups that organized the action “in defense of democracy, labor rights, and the living wage.” By JESSICA CORBETT May 10, 2024 Argentina’s primary trade union federation on Thursday held another nationwide general strike, the second called since President Javier Milei, a far-right economist, took office in December […]
As part of the Empire, the Universities establish a strong control over the production and consumption of “knowledge” that is sanitized from the need for human liberation. And yet, in this choke hold, history presents junctures that have the potential of changing the consciousness of the masses, and we are living through one such juncture. […]
What happened to the middle class in the United States? The rich ate it. By FRANCES MOORE LAPPÉ May 09, 2024 Almost 90 percent of us think of ourselves as being “middle class,” but we’re way off. In 1970, 62 percent of Americans did qualify; but by 2021, our shrinking middle class was down to 42 percent. By […]
The courageous stance of students across the country in defiance of genocide is accompanied by a near total blackout of their voices. Their words are the ones we most need to hear. By Chris Hedges May 8, 2024 NEW YORK CITY: I am sitting on a fire escape across the street from Columbia University […]
“I expect a semi-dystopian future with substantial pain and suffering for the people of the Global South,” one expert said. By OLIVIA ROSANE May 08, 2024 Nearly 80% of top-level climate scientists expect that global temperatures will rise by at least 2.5°C by 2100, while only 6% thought the world would succeed in […]
The Jewish students’ open letter—which circulated as U.S. President Joe Biden again linked campus encampments to antisemitism—urges institutions of higher learning to “take immediate action” to stop Israel’s Gaza genocide. Groundxero | May 8, 2024 Against the backdrop of U.S. President Joe Biden’s Capitol Hill speech marking Holocaust Remembrance Day condemning antisemitism, hundreds of Jewish students […]
The 50th anniversary of the historic railway workers strike in 1974 should remind the working class of the need to resurrect the spirit of that struggle as the right-wing political establishment under the neo-liberal economic world order pushes for implementation of anti-labour reforms in India. By Harsh Thakor May 8, 2024 One of […]
Ideological priority has become irrelevant, the only consideration being to secure a party-ticket to contest and attempt to capture political power for the majority of politicians, who have entered the electoral fray on behalf of different mainstream political parties in Bihar. By Anish Ankur May 7, 2024 End of ideologies thesis firsts emerged […]
To silence Al Jazeera from reporting on its atrocities in Gaza, Benjamin Netanyahu Government issues an order to close down the network in Israel Groundxero | May 5, 2024 Israel’s Cabinet on May 5 banned Al Jazeera, the Qatar-based satellite news network—the sole international media outlet providing 24/7 live coverage from Gaza—from operating in […]
At a time when the massacres and crimes committed by the Zionist-imperialist alliance continue and escalate, Palestinian people, especially people in the Gaza Strip, write a new page of heroism and miracles each day. By Harsh Thakor May 4, 2024 The State of Israel, patronised by imperialists, mainly U.S. imperialism, continues its genocidal […]