“The Voice of Hind Rajab” reminds us that indifference is complicity. It mocks the rhetoric used to dehumanize Palestinians. CHRIS HEDGES Feb 27, 2026 NEW YORK: “The Voice of Hind Rajab,” like all great pieces of art, takes a straightforward story — the battle to save the life of a 6-year-old girl, Hind […]
The Modi government has been inviting the world’s most toxic industries into India, and lately, the most hyped one has been building data centres that consume an insane amount of water and electricity, creating water crises in regions where they are set up. By Shyamoli Jana It is hard to find another government […]
With two-thirds of all journalist deaths while on duty in 2025 attributed to Israel, a new report by the Committee to Protect Journalists exposes a deepening global crisis of press freedom. Groundxero | Feb 25, 2026 A record 129 journalists and media workers were killed in the line of duty in 2025, making it the […]
Despite Iran’s relative military weakness, when set against the combined forces of the U.S. and Israel, it can inflict a lot of damage. It will do this as swiftly as possible. CHRIS HEDGES FEB 24 The Laurel and Hardy negotiating team of Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, coupled with Trump’s appalling ignorance of […]
Fact-finding team flags deaths, injuries, and systemic violations as thousands of workers continue agitation. The findings point to a deeper and more structural crisis—one rooted not merely in immediate grievances, but in years of institutionalised exploitation of workers under the contract labour system. Groundxero | Feb 24, 2026 A major labour conflict has erupted at […]
The coordinated violence in Indian university campuses in February 2026 following the UGC’s notification of new equity regulations in context of caste discrimination in educational institutions reveals the nature of the present moment: a systematic assertion of savarna neo-fascism—an ideological project that seeks to violently erase any challenge to caste supremacy, even when such challenges […]
Donald Trump’s public criticism of UK government’s decision to transfer sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius directly contradicting the U.S. State Department, have intensified diplomatic tensions, sharpened political divisions in the UK, and renewed global attention on Diego Garcia. By Arkadeep Goswami Groundxero | Feb 20, 2026 U.S. President Donald Trump has publicly criticised the […]
Algorithms decide who lives and who dies; corporations provide the infrastructure; intelligence services operate in the shadows; and technocratic language seeks to normalise the unacceptable. Gaza bleeds so that this model may be tested, refined, and then exported. by Sayid Marcos Tenorio The revelations by +972 Magazine and Local Call have exposed the darkest core of […]
“Revolution is not a paradise on earth. It is a constant process of change, with obstacles and shortcomings,” Felix Weber, a member of the Internationalist Commune in Rojava, told me. “The difference is that people here don’t pull back from the obstacles but try to overcome them.” By Shane Burley / truthout.org The autonomous area commonly […]
If we lose, if we let voices like Francesca’s be silenced, we will usher in an age of blood and terror. CHRIS HEDGES Feb 16, 2026 The viscous and sustained campaign mounted against Francesca Albanese, the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian Territory occupied since 1967, by […]
জলি বাগচি। আমাদের ও পরবর্তী প্রজন্মের প্রায় সবার কাছে গণসঙ্গীতের দল গণবিষাণের জলিদি। গত পাঁচ দশক ধরে পথে-ঘাটে-মিছিলে প্রতিবাদ-প্রতিরোধের ব্যারিকেডে ধ্বনিত হয়েছে তাঁর গাওয়া বা তাঁর সুর দেওয়া অসংখ্য গান। বহু ক্ষেত্রে ঢাকা পড়ে গেছে জলিদির ব্যক্তিগত অবদান, ব্যক্তিগত সাফল্যের খতিয়ান। জলিদিও তা-ই চেয়েছিলেন। সেটাই ছিল তাঁর রাজনীতির দাবি। ১৯৩৯ সালের ১৮ জানুয়ারী ময়মনসিংগঘের নেত্রকোণায় […]
A classed understanding of mob violence as witnessed in the current Indian scenario. By Sohini Saha Groundxero | Feb 15, 2026 We are witnessing a moment of normalisation of mob violences across India. Not only that the frequencies and number of incidences are on the rise today, but what concerns me is the growing normalisation […]
In both Cuba and Palestine, the United States is deploying its barbaric methods of producing mass suffering in order to bring about political and economic submission. By NUVPREET KALRA COMMON DREAMS Last week, the US government announced it would be sending $6 million in aid to Cuba, on top of the $3 million it […]
The ‘left’ parties and ‘progressives’ of Assam worked hard to legitimise the NRC in Assam only to hand fascists the justification to conduct a process of disenfranchisement that they will run as they see fit. Shyamoli Jana The Special Intensive Revision (SIR) process in Bengal has unfolded entirely predictably, creating massive chaos and […]
“The strike is to defend basic democratic rights, employment security and the welfare character of the Indian state,” CTUs said in a statement. By Groundxero Desk 9 February 2026 As India heads towards a nationwide general strike on February 12, called by ten central trade unions and independent sectoral federations, the country’s organised working-class […]
১২ ফেব্রুয়ারি বাংলাদেশে নির্বাচন। নির্বাচনে যে পার্টিই জিতুক, যারাই ক্ষমতায় আসুক রাজনৈতিক ধর্মের ক্ষমতায়ন এখন সময়ের অপেক্ষা। আজকের বাংলাদেশে রাজনৈতিক ইসলামের সামাজিকীকরণ প্রায় সম্পূর্ণ। সমাজমনকে উদীচী-ছায়ানট নয় প্রভাবিত করছে হেফাজতে ইসলাম, ইসলামি আন্দোলন ইত্যাদি রাজনৈতিক ইসলামের গোষ্ঠী। শুভ প্রতিম রায় চৌধুরী বিপরীত গণনা শুরু হয়েছে। ১২ ফেব্রুয়ারি বাংলাদেশে নির্বাচন। নির্বাচনে যে পার্টিই জিতুক, যারাই […]
Donal Trump believes that U.S. economic and military might are all he needs to become a benign dictator and achieve unilateral control over America’s allies – what will the effects of this policy be? CHRIS HEDGES Karl Marx in his essay “The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte,” said that history repeats itself, “the first time […]
Coordinated strikes by dockworkers and port unions in over 20 ports across Europe target arms shipments, port militarisation, EU rearmament plans, and assert internationalist solidarity with Palestine. By Groundxero Desk 7 February 2026 On Friday, February 6, 2026, dockworkers and port unions across more than 20 major Mediterranean and European ports carried out a coordinated […]
SKM calls the interim India–US trade agreement a total sell out of Indian farmers and agriculture to US MNCs; and warns of a massive pan-India resistance if it is signed. By Groundxero Desk 7 February 2026 The Samyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM) has launched a scathing attack on the Narendra Modi government over the Framework […]
The protest—organised by the Joint Committee to Stop Repression in India (JCSRI) along with several international organisations—marked the first public demonstration against Operation Kagar in Britain. The JCSRI, said the protests were part of a growing transnational movement against militarism, imperialism and genocide—from Central India to Palestine and the Philippines. Groundxero | Feb 7, 2026 […]
The prominent Hindi and Bangla writer and translator Kanchan Kumar passed away in Kolkata on 28thNovember, 2025. Born in Birudiha (Bardhaman district, then in undivided Bengal) in 1936, he grew up in Banaras and had already gained recognition as an emerging Hindi writer by the 1960s, working across multiple genres. His life and work took […]
Warning of a repeat of the 2020–21 farmers’ movement, SKM said any inclusion of agricultural or dairy products in the India–US Trade Deal would provoke nationwide resistance. Groundxero | Feb 5, 2026 The Samyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM), a pan-India platform of farmers’ unions, has launched a scathing attack on the Modi government over […]