All-India Feminist Alliance and NAJAR warn the proposed Trans Amendment Bill undermines the right to self-identification and reverses gains made since the 2014 NALSA judgment. Groundxero | 21 March 2026 Over 100 members of the All-India Feminist Alliance (ALIFA) and the National Alliance for Justice, Accountability and Rights (NAJAR) — pan-India platforms associated […]
মার্চ মাস ফিরে দেখার নারী স্বাধীনতার আন্দোলনের একক বা জোটবদ্ধ লড়াইয়ের ইতিহাস। সুদর্শনা চক্রবর্তী মার্চ মাস – আন্তর্জাতিক শ্রমজীবী নারী দিবসের মাস। মার্চ মাস ফিরে দেখার নারী স্বাধীনতার আন্দোলনের একক বা জোটবদ্ধ লড়াইয়ের ইতিহাস। তবে সামাজিক, রাজনৈতিক প্রেক্ষিতে প্রত্যেক দশকেই তৈরি হয় নতুন বর্তমান। রুটি আর গোলাপের জন্য নারীদের লড়াইয়ের ইতিহাস ফিরে দেখার […]
What does it mean to be reduced to a name on a list—one that can be erased by the State at its will? On International Working Women’s Day, women opposing the SIR process gathered at Park Circus Maidan in Kolkata, and answered that question not through slogans alone, but by reclaiming identity as something lived, […]
আজকের যে দক্ষিনপন্থার বিশ্বব্যাপী উত্থান ও পরিপক্কতা প্রাপ্তির সার্বিক বাতাবরণ, সেখানে দাড়িয়ে বিগত সময়ের সীমিত উপরিভাগের লিঙ্গ সাম্য অর্জন, তাও আজ হৃতপ্রায়। কর্মক্ষেত্রে কর্মক্ষেত্রে ফিরে আসছে ক্রূর পিতৃতন্ত্র, নির্লজ্জ মৌখিক পুরুষতান্ত্রিকতার চিহ্ন। এবং, বাস্তবতা এটাই যে নাম-কে-ওয়াস্তে আই.সি.সি অকেজো আই.সি.সি-র যুগে মহিলা কর্মচারীদের সামনে কর্মক্ষেত্রে সেইসব ক্রূর পিতৃতন্ত্রের পুনরুত্থানকে প্রতিহত করার কোনো প্রাতিষ্ঠানিক পথ নেই। নেই মহিলা […]
Gaza is only the start. The new world order is one where the weak are obliterated by the strong, the rule of law does not exist, genocide is an instrument of control and barbarism is triumphant. CHRIS HEDGES Mar 16, 2026 The war on Iran and the obliteration of Gaza is the beginning. […]
রাষ্ট্র যত নির্দিষ্ট কাগজে বেঁধে ফেলতে চায় মানুষের নাগরিক হওয়ার অধিকার, ততই স্মৃতিতে জেগে ওঠে দেশের, পরিবারের, সমাজ-প্রতিবেশীর, বন্ধুর আখ্যান, যার মধ্যে জেগে থাকে নাগরিক হওয়ার অধিকারের যাবতীয় প্রমাণ। সুদর্শনা চক্রবর্তী গত চার মার্চ থেকে ভোটাধিকার রক্ষা মঞ্চ থেকে কলকাতার পার্ক সার্কাস ময়দানে চলছে এসআইআর বিরোধী গণ অবস্থান। শুধুমাত্র মঞ্চের সদস্যরাই নন, এখানে […]
Despite their occasional reformative approach, the judiciary is ultimately the machinery of a patriarchal, casteist State, and hence, by nature patriarchal and casteist – so is the bureaucracy attached to it. By Pritha Paul Shakespeare once wrote, “What’s in a name?” with a certainty only men can afford in this world. A man is […]
Groundxero | March 5, 2026 By Mouli Sharma Fifty-one JNU students were detained and 14 arrested by the Delhi Police on February 26 over a students’ protest march to the Ministry of Education, demanding implementation of the recently stayed UGC guidelines for the prevention of caste discrimination in higher education institutions, alongside condemning the casteist remarks […]
The future of Sindhi nationalism depends on its ability to reorient towards a class-conscious, inclusive framework centred on land, labour, and dignity. Without this transformation, it risks remaining symbolically powerful but politically ineffective. By Suffyan Laghari This article critically examines the evolutionary history of Sindhi nationalism through a class-based analytical lens. It presents Sindhi nationalism […]
“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 […]
The Samyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM) on Friday called the India–European Union Free Trade Agreement (FTA) an economic colonisation blueprint that will lead to systematic corporate capture of the vast Indian market. Groundxero | January 30, 2026 Rejecting the India–European Union Free Trade Agreement (FTA) as a grave threat to farmers, workers and small […]
Trump’s Board of Peace is an intricate play to maintain hegemony in the face of China’s rise, sparking talk of “a new world order” — but is the rules-based international order really worth saving? CHRIS HEDGES Jan 28, 2026 As U.S. hegemony continues to dwindle, Donald Trump and his international allies are making […]
As India heads towards a nationwide general strike on February 12 against the four labour codes, Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant’s remarks holding trade unions responsible for stopping industrial growth during a PIL hearing in the Supreme Court have sparked a sharp backlash from trade unions and Left political organisations. Groundxero | Jan 29, […]
Michael Parenti’s greatest contribution was not a single book or argument, but a stance: the refusal to flatter power, the refusal to forget history, the refusal to trade truth for respectability. By Arkadeep Goswami Jan 25, 2026 Michael Parenti’s death marks the passing of one of the last great unapologetic Marxist public intellectuals […]
Celebrate the 77th Republic Day on 26 January 2026 with “People’s March”; Defend Democracy, Secularism and Federalism; Repeal all pro-corporate legislations; Call for Tractor Parade, Vehicle/Motorcycle Rally & Mass Demonstrations At State/District/Block headquarters Groundxero | Jan 24, 2026 As the Indian state prepares to observe the 77th Republic Day with military spectacle and official ceremony, […]
Trump’s trade wars are often misread as anti-globalization. In reality, they represented a restructuring of imperial economic relations, not their dissolution. By Arkadeep Goswami (The presidency of Donald J. Trump is often interpreted as an aberration—an irrational interruption in the smooth functioning of liberal internationalism. This essay argues otherwise. Trumpism represents not a […]
Donald Trump on Wednesday hit back at the Canadian Prime Minister, saying Canada “lives because of the United States.” Groundxero | January 21, 2026 On Tuesday, January 20, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney addressing the political and business leaders at the World Economic Forum in the Swiss town of Davos, spoke about a “rupture” in the world order, saying […]
The presidential election in 2024 may be the last free vote taken in the United States. Dictatorships only hold elections with predetermined outcomes or do not hold them at all. Trump is no exception. CHRIS HEDGES Jan 19 Donald Trump’s threat to cancel the midterm elections is not a feign. He attempted to […]
সারা পশ্চিমবঙ্গের আশাকর্মীরা গত ২৩ ডিসেম্বর থেকে কর্মবিরতি পালন করছেন। কী পরিস্থিতিতে কর্মবিরতিতে যেতে বাধ্য হয়েছেন আশাকর্মীরা, জানা গেল তাঁদেরই মুখ থেকে। সুদর্শনা চক্রবর্তীর প্রতিবেদন সারা পশ্চিমবঙ্গের আশাকর্মীরা গত ২৩ ডিসেম্বর থেকে কর্মবিরতি পালন করছেন। সর্বভারতীয় ট্রেড ইউনিয়ন এআইইউটিইউসি-র নেতৃত্বাধীন পশ্চিমবঙ্গ আশা কর্মী ইউনিয়ন রাজ্যব্যাপী আন্দোলন-কর্মসূচী ও কর্মবিরতির ডাক দিয়েছে। গত ৭ জানুয়ারি তাঁরা […]