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 […]
Testimonies of two villagers expose the illegal and violent actions by the Odisha police to protect mining interests and crush the legitimate dissent of Adivasi and Dalit villagers resisting bauxite mining by Vedanta and other corporations. Groundxero | 8 December 2025 A group of activists have strongly condemned yet another shocking incident of […]
A survey of 2,500 Muslim women exposes widespread violence, abandonment and economic dispossession; over 300 prominent citizens endorse petition demanding ban on polygamy Groundxero Report | Dec 8, 2025 A coalition of Muslim women, secular activists, civil-rights defenders and progressive citizens has launched a petition demanding a complete legal ban on polygamy in India. […]
It’s looking a lot like the run-up to the Iraq war — only this time, the allegations are even more bogus and easily disproven. By Farrah Hassen President Trump promised “no new wars,” but his aggression against Venezuela is the exact opposite. The U.S. military has been blowing up alleged “drug boats” near […]
Maga supporters unite around a shared perception of threat to their status, often related to issues of race and immigration. Magnus Linden, Claire Campbell and Fredrik Björklund It’s often said that Donald Trump’s power base in the Maga movement has contributed to the radicalisation of the Republican party. Political scientists worry about the […]
As the genocide in Gaza, war in Ukraine and intensifying geopolitical tensions reshape global security priorities, arms production worldwide has entered a phase of rapid expansion reflecting a new era of competitive militarization. Groundxero Report | Dec 2, 2025 Global arms revenues of the top 100 weapons makers in the world—led by those in the […]
Muslim women are among the most vulnerable minorities in India. The book – Missing from the House: Muslim women in the Lok Sabha – is a much needed conversation starter on the issue of their political representation and empowerment. Zaid Al Baset Groundxero | Dec 2, 2025 Missing from the House: Muslim women in the […]
“We are joining Make Amazon Pay to demand the most basic rights: safety, dignity, and the chance to go home alive,” said one Amazon worker from India. Groundxero Report | Dec 1, 2025 Amazon workers across the world once again turned Black Friday—the corporation’s busiest shopping day—into a day of resistance. From 29 November […]
Amnesty International warns that Israel’s genocide against Palestinians is not over and despite a ceasefire Israel is still deliberately inflicting conditions of life calculated to bring about the physical destruction of the Palestinian population in the occupied Gaza Strip. Groundxero Report | November 30, 2025 More than a month after a ceasefire was announced […]
The scapegoating of farmers for pollution serves a dual purpose for the corporates whose interests the Indian state actively promotes. It lays the groundwork for a future push to corporatise agriculture by portraying farmers’ ‘backward practices’ as in need of modernisation. It also diverts attention from the real culprits —the automobile industry, the rise in […]
With the labour codes notified and the government signalling no sign of retreat, an open confrontation between India’s working class and a Corporate–State nexus intent on dismantling the last protections of labour law seems imminent. Groundxero Report | 26 November 2025 Thousands of workers, farmers and agricultural laborers staged protests across the country […]
“ফরেস্ট অফিসার, বনকর্মী তাঁদের আচরণ, গ্রামবাসী, দরিদ্র মৎস্যজীবী মানুষদের সঙ্গে তাঁদের ব্যবহার অত্যন্ত সামন্ততান্ত্রিক, মনে হয় এই বন-জঙ্গলে তাদের জমিদারি চলে। এই আচরণের বিরূদ্ধেও জোরদার প্রতিবাদ-আন্দোলন অবশ্যই গড়ে ওঠা প্রয়োজন।” সুদর্শনা চক্রবর্তী-র প্রতিবেদন Groundxero | NOV 25, 2025 “ওনারা আমাদেরকে আর জঙ্গলে যেতে দেবে না, মাছ-কাঁকড়া ধরতে দেবে না, ভবিষ্যতে। এখনও না হলে ওরা ডোঙা […]
The memorandum concludes with an explicit warning: “If the Government continues to ignore and neglect the burning demands, the masses belonging to farmers and workers have no option other to launch “massive, peaceful, protracted struggles” similar to the 2020–21 agitation. Groundxero | NOV 25, 2025 On the eve of the fifth anniversary of the […]
How the US dollar’s status as the world’s reserve currency allows America to export its inflation and live beyond its means – at everyone else’s expense By Jaime Bravo and Jorge Coulon In August 1971, then-US President Richard Nixon announced the suspension of the dollar’s convertibility into gold. This closed a cycle […]
Trump’s trade policies are an admission of capitalism’s failures. Perhaps finally enough people have learned the lessons of the past so that we can build an economy that works for working people. By Richard Wolff Nov 24, 2025 Common Dreams A short response to this essay’s title is: “because he, and the US system […]
“I am Maryam Al-Nimr, a student and citizen of Gaza, writing on behalf of every Palestinian seeking safety, freedom, and humanity. I write to say: we are not just numbers in the news; we are human beings who dream, suffer, and resist. This testimony recounts the night of July 25, 2024, when an Israeli […]
“COP30 provides a stark reminder that the answers to the climate crisis do not lie inside the climate talks—they lie with the people and movements leading the way toward a just, equitable, fossil-free future,” one campaigner said. By Olivia Rosane Common Dreams The United Nations Climate Change Conference, or COP30, concluded on Saturday in Belém, Brazil with a deal […]
The Supreme Court’s Centre for Research and Planning (CRP)’s groundbreaking new report examines how the Apex Court itself has spoken about caste over the past 75 years. By analysing the language used in major Constitution Bench judgments—from Champakam Dorairajan (1951) to State of Punjab v. Davinder Singh (2024)—the report reveals a judiciary wrestling not just […]
What’s at stake in Chandigarh is the future of India’s federal democracy. The move to alter the status of Chandigarh fits more into the larger pattern of the RSS-BJP’s agenda of systematic centralisation of power by weakening of federal structures. Groundxero | Nov 23, 2025 The Union Home Ministry’s announcement on 23 November that it will […]
For more than 3 months, sanitation workers under the Greater Chennai Corporation have resolutely refused to join a private company Ramky, showing up to protests every week, facing detentions and arrests in the process. What does drive these contractual workers to protest? By Sushmita Groundxero | November 22, 2025 About 2,000 workers, working under the […]
William D. Hartung and Ben Freeman’s extremely timely and necessary book explains how today’s crises are the predictable consequence of an entrenched system of militarism, a politics captured by lobbies and elite self-dealing. By Joseph Bouchard Nov 19, 2025 Common Dreams At this very second, Washington is pouring billions into escalations toward a potential invasion of Venezuela that […]
On 26 November, on the fifth anniversary of the 2020–21 farmers’ movement, SKM, CTUs and worker unions through nation-wide mass action, seeks to launch a protracted, massive pan-India struggle to confront the authoritarian, pro-corporate, communal policies and press for the basic people’s demands. Groundxero | November 19, 2025 Samyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM) leaders addressed an […]
The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) has released a harrowing report documenting what it describes as “systematic sexual torture and rape” committed by Israeli forces against Palestinian detainees, including women and men from Gaza, during their detention in Israeli prisons and military camps over the past two years. Groundxero | November 17, 2025 *This […]
Kamaljit, Research Scholar and Doctoral Candidate, Department of Philosophy, Punjab University (PU), talks on the ongoing student-led struggles to protect PU’s autonomy and democratic structure under attack from the Central government. Groundxero | November 17, 2025 During the past several weeks, Punjab University has become the site of one of the most significant student-led democratic […]
The same system that burns the planet also fuels Israel’s genocidal machine and upholds its colonial regime of illegal occupation and apartheid, reveals a report. Groundxero | November 14, 2025 A report, Behind the Barrel: An Update on the Origins of Israel’s Fuel Supply, was launched at the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP30) in Belém, Brazil, on Thursday. The […]
Israel must not be allowed to sanitize its image, because polishing genocide guarantees its repetition. by Dr Ramzy Baroud Israel’s allies worldwide are desperately scrambling to help Tel Aviv re-establish a convincing narrative, not only concerning the Gaza genocide, but the entire legacy of Israeli colonialism in Palestine and the Middle East. The […]
Muslim students on the campus said they never experienced any discrimination at ISI owing to their faith. By Indradeep Bhattacharyya Via Alt News A day after a car-bomb explosion killed at least 13 people in the heart of the national capital, anti-Muslim graffiti saying “Muslims and dogs should not enter the premises” and “No […]