Despite Erdoğan’s conciliatory tone, the future of this peace process remains highly uncertain. Previous negotiations unravelled due to unresolved questions about Kurdish political autonomy, cultural rights and power-sharing. By Spyros A. Sofos, Simon Fraser University On March 1, the start of the holy month of Ramadan — observed by most of Turkey’s Sunni […]
এমন মেয়ের গল্প আমাদের সিনেমায় বলা হয়নি। শূচী চমৎকারভাবে বলেছেন। তাছাড়া পুরুষতন্ত্রের নিগড়ে এই ভাবে মেয়েদের গল্প মাইক্রোস্কোপের কাচের সামনে ফেলে মেয়েরাই বলতে পারে। গার্লস উইল বি গার্লস – ছবিটি দেখার অভিজ্ঞতা লিখলেন দেবারতি গুপ্ত। Groundxero | March 7, 2025 বাংলায় হলে ছবিটার নাম দেওয়াই যেত মা, মেয়ে আর ক্লাস টুয়েলভ। পরিচালক শূচি তালাতি নাম দিয়েছেন ‘গার্লস […]
Groundxero | March 5, 2025 Thousands of farmers today started peaceful protests on the streets of Punjab in more than 35 places as they were prevented by the Police from going to Chandigarh, the State Capital, to start a week long Dharna. The massive participation in today’s protest despite the arrest of 350 farmer leaders by […]
The wave of enforced disappearances in Balochistan continues, with 41 more individuals allegedly forcibly disappeared by Pakistani forces in Kalat, Quetta, Nushki, and Turbat over the past few days, reported The Balochistan Post. The Baloch population, seeking greater autonomy and rights, has been targeted by Pakistan’s security forces – its military and intelligence agencies. […]
Something new is happening in Punjab, which might answer the question about the left’s incapability to address the caste question. Zameen Prapti Sangharsh Committee (ZPSC) is a well-organized Dalit-left organisation working have successfully taken control of reserved one-third of the village common land for Dalits and established cooperative farms in more than 150 villages. The organisation […]
Samyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM) — the platform of farmer unions, which led the historic struggle against the three pro-corporate farm laws in 2020-21 — has welcomed the unanimous resolution passed on Tuesday by the Punjab Assembly rejecting Centre’s draft agri-marketing policy. SKM called the assembly’s decision a huge shockwave to multinational companies and big corporations, urged […]
After the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, the Western powers declared the victory of capitalism over socialism. The Western capitalist countries believed they had defeated fascism on the right and socialism on the left, assuming Western-style liberal democracy had no challenger only to sow the seeds of rightwing hooliganism, even fascism, by applying […]
As they united around neoliberalism and an aggressive foreign policy, mainstream parties created a dangerous democratic vacuum. This vacuum can now be exploited in particular by extremist parties on the right. By David Goessmann Feb 25, 2025 According to the preliminary results of the Bundestag, or parliamentary, elections, the extreme right-wing party Alternative […]
Groundxero | Feb 25, 2025 আজ বেসরকারিকরণ বিরোধী গণমঞ্চের আহ্বানে আসানসোলের ইসিএল এর সোদপুর এরিয়া অফিসে বিক্ষোভ সভা অনুষ্ঠিত হল। বেসরকারিকরণ বিরোধী মঞ্চের পক্ষ থেকে সোদপুর এরিয়ার চারটি কয়লাখনির বেসরকারিকরণের চুক্তি বাতিল করে চিনাকুড়ি ৩, দুবেশ্বরী সহ চারটি কোলিয়ারিতে উৎপাদন ইসিএল দ্বারা করার দাবি জানানো হয়। রাষ্ট্রায়ত্ত কয়লাশিল্পে এই মুহূর্তে সবচেয়ে বড় বিপদ রেভেনিউ […]
PUCL strongly condemned turning of a blind-eye by the Narendra Modi government to the inhuman and degrading treatment of Indians deportees from USA, which is violative of the Constitution’s promise of equality and dignity. Groundxero | Feb 23, 2025 People’s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL), in a press statement, expressed shock at both the Indian […]
নব্বই এর দশকে আর্থিক পুনর্গঠনের নামে বাজার অর্থনীতির যে আগ্রাসন শুরু হয়, তা ইতিমধ্যেই দেশের বহু রাষ্ট্রায়ত্ত শিল্প প্রতিষ্ঠানকে বিক্রি করে দিতে সমর্থ হয়েছে। এই আগ্রাসন ঠেকানোর ক্ষেত্রে ভারতের মূল ধারার ট্রেড ইউনিয়নগুলো দু একটি ব্যতিক্রম বাদ দিলে সেভাবে বাস্তবে কোন লড়াই গড়ে তুলতে পারে নি। তাই রাষ্ট্রায়ত্ত শিল্পের সঙ্গে সম্পৃক্ত স্থায়ী শ্রমিকেরা বেসরকারিকরণকে তাদের […]
As Pakistan and the Turkish state continue to strengthen their war alliance, it is necessary that those fighting for their freedom also strengthen their alliances at the political, military and diplomatic levels. By Members of the internationalist commune of Rojava Groundxero | Feb 23, 2025 On February 12th and 13th, Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif […]
দীর্ঘদিন ধরেই খড়্গপুরে রেশ্মি মেটালিক্সের একটি স্পঞ্জ আয়রন কারখানা ভয়ানক রকমের দূষণ করে আসছে। গতবছর খড়্গপুরের পাঁচবেড়িয়া এবং বিদ্যাসাগরপুর লাগোয়া NH এর কাছে ওয়ালিপুর মৌজায় একটি জমিতে নতুন কারখানা বাসিয়ে চিমনি বসানো শুরু করলে এলাকার সাধারন মানুষরা জনজাগরন কমিটি তৈরি করে এর বিরুদ্ধে আন্দোলোনে নামে। সৌপর্ণ চক্রবর্তীর রিপোর্ট। Groundxero | Feb 21, 2025 দীর্ঘদিন ধরেই খড়্গপুরে […]
Trump’s attempt to incite a coup in 2021 and his subsequent victory in the 2024 presidential election speak volumes of the democratic decline in the United States. By C.J. Polychroniou Feb 19, 2025 Common Dreams Over the past few years, there has been an alarming surge of coups d’état across the world, particularly in Africa. […]
Donald Trump’s dismantling of the deep state presages the formation of something far worse. By Chris Hedges Feb 18, 2025 The Trump administration’s war with the deep state is not a purgative. It is not about freeing us from the tyranny of intelligence agencies, militarized police, the largest prison system in the world, predatory corporations or the end […]
This is a critical juncture for Europe. The continent needs to define its future place and role in the dysfunctional love triangle of Trump, Putin and Xi, a triumvirate that will shape and dominate the new global order. By Stefan Wolff, University of Birmingham European leaders are scrambling to respond to what looks […]
The 38th African Union summit called on African leaders to “halt to any form of cooperation or normalisation with Israel until it ends its occupation and aggression against Palestine.” Groundxero | Feb 17, 2025 The 38th Ordinary Summit of the African Union held in the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa from February 15 to 16, in […]
When today the entire police-administration is with the Maruti management, then in the coming days, we expect support and cooperation from all the progressive and pro-worker people and organizations of the society in our struggle for legitimate rights. Gurgaon, 16 February: On 16 February, a meeting of active members of Maruti Suzuki Asthayi Mazdoor […]
First we got a mafia economy. Then we got a mafia state. We must rid ourselves of the ruling criminal class or become its victims. By Chris Hedges Feb 15, 2025 Kiss the ring. Grovel before the Godfather. Give him tribute, a cut of the spoils. If he and his family get rich you […]
A Supreme Court bench has said that freebies announced by political parties were creating “a class of parasites” and disincentivizing people from working by giving free ration and money. Citizens and individuals & organisations have issued a statement condemning the insensitive and classist remarks of Justice Gavai in the strongest terms. Groundxero | Feb 16, 2025 […]
We share the pathologies of all dying empires with their mixture of buffoonery, rampant corruption, military fiascos, economic collapse and savage state repression. By Chris Hedges The billionaires, Christian fascists, grifters, psychopaths, imbeciles, narcissists and deviants who have seized control of Congress, the White House and the courts, are cannibalizing the machinery of state. […]
Without organizing the working class under a shared vision and demand for a more fair and just society, we will remain largely powerless to stop the Trump-led takeover by the billionaire oligarchy. By Les Leopold Feb 13, 2025 Trump and Musk are stirring up a resistance movement among liberals and the left. The […]
Manesar, 30 January: Today at around 11 am Manesar police coming in large number picked up around 100 Maruti workers from their dharna site which is continuing since 18 September 2024. The tents, placards and other stuffs were demolished. Later, the workers were taken far from Manesar to Pataudi by bus and released, but […]
28 January, 2025 Since May-June 2023, the Adivasi and Dalit communities of Tijmali, Kuturumali and Majhingimali, in Kashipur and Thuamal Rampur blocks in Raygada and Kalahandi districts in Odisha, respectively, have been protesting against the proposed bauxite mining project of Vedanta Ltd. The struggle is for the protection of their lands, forests, streams and […]
DeepSeek’s “reasoning” R1 model, released last week, provoked excitement among researchers, shock among investors, and responses from AI heavyweights. The company followed up on January 28 with a model that can work with images as well as text. So what has DeepSeek done, and how did it do it? By Tongliang Liu, University of […]
We should keep a track of this case as the perpetrator with solid political and financial background may go free after sometime. Sudarshana Chakraborty reports on the case after talking to independent journalists and activists from Bastar. The New Year started on an ominous note for independent journalists in Chhattisgarh’s Bijapur district. Even as the […]
Israel plays a cynical game. It makes phased agreements with the Palestinians that ensure it immediately gets what it wants. It then violates every subsequent phase and reignites its military assault. CHRIS HEDGES JAN 16, 2025 Israel, going back decades, has played a duplicitous game. It signs a deal with the Palestinians that is to […]
They may be only seeds, but that’s how new life is born. By Yanis Varoufakis Watching, on the one hand, the Israeli soldiers’ video confessions of their genocidal intent and acts and, on the other hand, the Palestinians’ livestreaming of their own deaths and devastation, it is ever so easy to throw one’s […]
The generally mild nature of the illness, the widespread detection of antibodies reflecting broad population exposure and immunity, combined with a lack of any known major pandemics in the past due to hMPV, suggests there’s no cause for alarm. By Allen Cheng, Monash University Five years on from the first news of COVID, […]
Israel and the U.S. government will continue the genocide in Gaza for many months until the Palestinians are annihilated or driven from their homeland and Greater Israel is consolidated. CHRIS HEDGES JAN 6 Joe Biden’s parting gift of $8 billion in weapons sales to the apartheid state of Israel acknowledges the gruesome reality of the genocide in Gaza. This […]
CAMPAIGN AGAINST STATE REPRESSION (CASR) has condemned the arbitrary arrest of the trade union leader Baccha Singh, calling his arrest as part of a crackdown on anti-displacement, labour, farmer and student activists to intimidate or jail them without material evidence, in a bid to suppress the people’s growing demand of a just and better society. […]
More than three thousand non-permanent (contract, trainee, apprentice, TW, CW, MST etc.) workers who have worked and are working in Maruti Suzuki plants in Gurgaon-Manesar gathered for a mass meeting in Gurgaon to demand permanent jobs, equal pay and salary increase. 5th January 2025 In a significant move, more than three thousand erstwhile […]
Three courageous individuals who chose to put their careers on the line to fight against Big Tech’s role in Israel’s genocide. CHRIS HEDGES JAN 02, 2025 The vast censorship and suppression campaign launched by American tech companies since October 7, 2023 has been both systemic and deliberate. Instagram, Facebook, X as well as […]
During this Christmas season alone, at least 14 incidents targeting Christians were reported, ranging from threats and disruptions to arrests and outright attacks, underscoring an alarming trend of rising intolerance and hostility. Groundxero | Jan.2, 2025 Christmas celebrations in India were overshadowed by violent incidents on December 25, 2024, as several states reported attacks on […]
Amma’s Pride and If (in Bengali ‘Jodi’) – a documentary and a short film respectively, were screened at Dialogues: Calcutta International Film & Video Festival 2024 on 30th November and 1st December at the iconic single screen cinema hall ‘Basusree’ in Kolkata. The themes of both these films are ‘marriage’. Though different in forms, both […]
On 28th December, 2024, Saturday, more than hundreds of manual scavengers engaged in sewers and septic tank workers, and several families of the victims who had died in the line of duty on the practice of manual scavengers gathered for the public hearing conducted by the Dalit Adivasi Shakti Adhikar Manch along with various organisations and […]
“Full equality is antithetical to the logic and functioning of capitalism. A capitalist economy cannot work without exploiting workers,” said the economist. By C.J. Polychroniou Dec 24, 2024 In the 1990s, all the talk was about the end of socialism and the unchallenged military and economic superiority of the United States. Nonetheless, two decades later, […]
প্রতিবন্ধকতাযুক্ত মহিলাদের সঙ্গে ঘটতে থাকা লিঙ্গভিত্তিক হিংসার চিত্রটি বাস্তব। অথচ লিঙ্গভিত্তিক হিংসার বিরুদ্ধে আন্দোলনে, সমীক্ষায় বাদ পড়ে যান তাঁরা। লিখলেন সুদর্শনা চক্রবর্তী। উদাহরণ ১ ১৯ বছরের লতা (নাম পরিবর্তিত) হেমব্রম ঝাড়ঝন্ডের এক প্রত্যন্ত গ্রামের বাসিন্দা। লতার প্রতিবন্ধকতা উচ্চতাজনিত, তিনি ‘বামন’। বাড়িতে রয়েছেন মা, বাবা, বোন, দাদা, বৌদি। সপ্তম শ্রেণী পর্যন্ত পড়েছেন। খুবই ইচ্ছে থাকা […]
America’s democracy was destroyed by the two ruling parties who sold us out to corporations, militarists and billionaires. Now we pay the price. By CHRIS HEDGES 23 DEC For over two decades, I and a handful of others — Sheldon Wolin, Noam Chomsky, Chalmers Johnson, Barbara Ehrenreich and Ralph Nader — warned that the expanding social inequality and steady erosion […]
The year 2024 has been one of the deadliest in Bastar. Security forces reported over 235 killings since December 2023. Villagers have contested many of these “encounter” killings, alleging staged executions. PUCL (Chhattisgarh) has released a fact sheet on the recent incidents in Bastar (2024). Overview Bastar has become one of the most heavily militarized […]