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 […]
ভারতের জাতীয় মহিলা কমিশনের কাছে পাঠানো খোলা চিঠিতে স্বাক্ষর করলেন প্রায় ৭০০ জনেরও বেশি নাগরিক। এই চিঠিতে দাবি জানানো হয়েছে, যে ভয়ঙ্কর যৌন নিপীড়নের ঘটনায় প্রজ্জ্বল রেভান্না, এইচ ডি রেভান্না ও অন্যান্যদের নাম জড়িয়েছে, তাতে অভিযুক্তদের বিরুদ্ধে কড়া পদক্ষেপ নেওয়ার জন্য। এই চিঠিতেই দাবি জানানো হয়েছে প্রজ্জ্বল রেভান্না-র মতো একজন ‘সিরিয়াল’ যৌন নির্যাতকের পক্ষে ভোট […]
Climate and Environment journalists worldwide are facing increasing violence, with as many as 44 journalists killed in last 15 years, according to a new report released by UNESCO on the occasion of World Press Freedom Day on May 3, 2024. Groundxero | May 3, 2024 The United Nations General Assembly declared May 3 to be World […]
“To claim these deaths are accidental is not only incredulous, it is insulting to the memory of professionals who lived their lives in service of truth and accuracy,” said one expert. By Jessica Corbett May 03, 2024 As the international community marked World Press Freedom Day on Friday, journalists and advocates across the […]
Press freedom in India has been badly hit by the gobbling up of media platforms by a few large companies. Large and powerful corporate houses have exercised diverse strategies to acquire several well-established media companies. What has arguably worked to favour them is their closeness to Narendra Modi’s government. By R Srinivasan Published on May 3, […]
Over 700 concerned citizens have written an open letter to the National Commission of Women (NCW) to ensure strong action against Prajwal Revanna, HD Revanna and others involved in the horrific sexual violence case. The letter demanded Prime Minister Narendra Modi to apologize for seeking votes for a known serial sexual abuser like Mr. Prajwal Revanna. […]
A wave of protests expressing solidarity with the Palestinian people is spreading across college and university campuses in U.S. and beyond. What students protesting Israel’s Gaza siege want — and how their demands on divestment fit into the BDS (boycott, divestment and sanctions) movement? By Mira Sucharov, Carleton University A wave of protests expressing […]
A full-scale Israeli assault on the crowded southern Gaza city “would bring catastrophe on top of catastrophe for children.” By JESSICA CORBETT May 02, 2024 “The children in Gaza need a cease-fire.” That’s how Catherine Russell, executive director of the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), concluded a brief video Wednesday about the harrowing conditions across the […]
“Free speech in India has sunk into a perilous abyss and steadily falling press freedom indices underscore the dangers of crossing a line that is becoming increasingly contentious.” Groundxero | May 1, 2024 A report by Free Speech Collective released on May 1, 2024, reveals that from January 2024 onward, in the run up […]
৮৮.৪ লক্ষ প্রতিবন্ধী ভোটারের ভোটকে রাজনৈতিক দলগুলি কীভাবে দেখেন এবং প্রতিবন্ধী সম্প্রদায়ের মধ্যেও বা নির্বাচনকে, নির্বাচনী রাজনীতিকে কীভাবে দেখা হয়, তা এই কনভেনশনে বিভিন্ন বক্তার আলোচনায় উঠে আসে। সুদর্শনা চক্রবর্তীর প্রতিবেদন May 1, 2024 ভারতে চলছে অষ্টাদশ সাধারণ নির্বাচন। সাত দফায় দেশে অনুষ্ঠিত হচ্ছে ‘গণতন্ত্রের সবচেয়ে বড় উৎসব’। নির্বাচনের আগে নির্বাচনী প্রতিশ্রুতিতে ভরিয়ে […]