Western media, by employing double standards, censorship, deceptive language, amplifying Israeli lies and dehumanizing Palestinians, facilitates the genocide in Gaza. CHRIS HEDGES Aug 24, 2026 The Western media manufactures consent for genocide. It normalizes Israel’s decades-long military occupation and apartheid. It erases Israel’s flagrant violations of international law. It perpetuates the fallacy of Israeli victimhood. It betrays, discredits and […]
২৯শে জুন রাতে পুলিশ জলিল আখতারকে তুলে নিয়ে গেল। পুলিশ জানায় তাদের কাছে খবর ছিলো যে জলিল বাংলাদেশী, তাই তাকে ধরে বি.এস.এফ-এর হাতে তুলে দেওয়া হয়েছে। জলিলের নাম এস.আই.আর-এর পর ভোটার তালিকাতেও ছিলো, জলিল এবার ভোটও দিয়েছে…। বিপ্লব নায়ক কেবলমাত্র উত্তর দিনাজপুর জেলাতেই নয়, গোটা উত্তর বাংলাতেই রসাখোয়া একটি অতি প্রাচীন ও বড়ো […]
কনভেনশন শুরু থেকে শেষ পর্যন্ত বাঁধা ছিল শ্লোগানের যে সুরে – “এই লড়াই জিতবে কে/ বস্তিবাসী আবার কে!” সুদর্শনা চক্রবর্তীর প্রতিবেদন “পুঁজিপতিদের কোলে/সরকার বাহাদুর দোলে” “বুলডোজারের সরকার/আর নেই দরকার” “জাত-ধর্ম বাদ দে/ভুখা পেটে ভাত দে” “কেউ খাবে আর কেউ খাবে না/তা হবে না তা হবে না” এক বার নয়, বারবার এই শ্লোগানে […]
They may threaten to ‘sew Jadavpur’s mouth shut’. But a university with thousands of students, teachers and workers cannot be silenced by a threat. By Tanuj Mullick On 10 May 1933, books were burned by the Nazis in cities across Germany. Known as Die Bücherverbrennung am 10. Mai, the event was not merely […]
The fact-finding report argues that Hafiz’s participation in the Cockroach Janta Party’s Jantar Mantar protest and his subsequent attempt to initiate survey of a school in his area may have been perceived by local political actors as a challenge to their influence. The report maintains that villagers do not see a communal motive behind Mafik’s […]
The signing of a security and defence agreement by three countries allied with the United States cannot be viewed lightly, since it may stir significant strategic shifts in the Middle East. by Dr Sania Faisal El-Husseini The Mecca Agreement, signed on 7 August, may not be the first step in a series of […]
The petition ultimately asks the Supreme Court to confront not merely the legality of the Noida prosecutions (or lack thereof), but the police investigative culture that made them possible. By Mouli Sharma The Shakambhari writ petition, one of several eponymous petitions filed in India’s courts of supposed justice by the imprisoned 60-year-old journalist Satyam […]
The en masse participation of Muslims in democratic protests — for justice, equality and well-being for all — will depend on the general public accepting them as fellow citizens. Tashhar Mahmood Havā mẽ hai jashn, fizā mẽ hai shor Bhagvē raṅg mẽ liptā huā hai ye daur Par sōchŏ zarā, dil se pūchhŏ […]
While most of the over 170 people named in the at least 14 FIRs filed in relation to the matter—one of the more controversial aspects of the police action, as filing multiple FIRs in the same criminal action is illegal as per Indian law—are out on bail, the eight prominent activists charged with ‘criminal conspiracy’ […]
But who exactly were the Luddites? They were a collective reaction to the traumas of the Industrial Revolution, in early industrial England. by Brian Lewis, McGill University American filmmaker George Lucas is one of the latest to indicate he’s open to AI in the movie industry. In a recent interview, the director said […]
Visakhapatnam police suppress public scrutiny of the city’s rapidly expanding data-centre projects as land displacement and environmental costs come under scrutiny. Groundxero | 11 August 2026 A peaceful campaign against the rapid expansion of hyperscale data centres in and around Visakhapatnam was disrupted by the police on Sunday (August), with the authorities first […]
The Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM) and Central Trade Unions on 10 August mobilised workers, farmers and other sections of working people in a nationwide Jail Bharo protest against the Narendra Modi government’s economic and labour policies. The SKM warned that if the government fails to address the demands, it will launch an intensified and sustained […]
The Shakambhari writ petition in the Supreme Court is one of several petitions filed by Shakambhari, the wife of the imprisoned sixty-year-old journalist Satyam Verma, across the Indian courts of law in the wake of wave of arrests that took place following mass protests and workers’ strikes in Noida through the second week of April […]
Donald Trump’s peace plan for Gaza is a mirage, a conjuring trick in which peace is unilaterally declared as Israel seizes more Palestinian land and brings the genocide to its grim conclusion. CHRIS HEDGES Aug 10, 2026 There is no ceasefire in Gaza. There is no functioning “Board of Peace.” There is no […]
দক্ষিণ কলকাতার ঢাকুরিয়া ব্রিজের নীচের বস্তির বাসিন্দারা মাথার ওপর ছাদ হারানোর আশঙ্কা নিয়ে এক অনিশ্চিত ভবিষ্যতের সামনে এসে দাঁড়িয়েছেন। গত ১২ দিন ধরে উচ্ছেদ নোটিসের বিরূদ্ধে তাঁরা আইনি ও সামাজিক প্রতিরোধ গড়ে তুলেছেন। সুদর্শনা চক্রবর্তীর প্রতিবেদন। “বিজেপি-কে ভোট দিয়েছিলাম তো আমরা সবাই। কিন্তু তারাই বুলডোজার চালাবে আমাদের ঘরে বুঝতে পারিনি।” “আমাদের দেশের […]
The indefinite hunger strike against the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET) in Chennai entered its seventh day on Saturday, August 8. The agitation, led by the Anti-NEET Federation and the Joint Movement Against NEET, is demanding not merely reforms to the examination but its complete abolition, along with greater state control over education. Chennai, August […]
The future of the CJP will ultimately depend on whether it can transform its momentary popularity into a sustained democratic movement capable of bringing meaningful changes to India’s education system. By Dr. Prantik Basak and Ayushiba Jadeja The sudden and unexpected resignation of the Education Minister of India, Shri Dharmendra Pradhan, highlighted a […]
“As Prime Minister, ackowledge this failure, make a national apology and take immediate action”, Safai Karmachari Andolan said in a memorandum to the Prime Minister. New Delhi, August 4: Hundreds of sanitation workers from more than 10 states, families of those killed while cleaning sewers and septic tanks, Members of Parliament, students, writers, and […]
‘Compensation for victims’ families, no prosecution of protesters, and a public apology from the police for their brutality’—these were the demands the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) settled for, on oral assurances alone, when it called off the historic protest against corruption in India’s public education sector following the resignation of Dharmendra Pradhan. A week after […]