The alleged lynching comes within a week of a Dalit man from Chhattisgarh being lynched in Kerala’s Palakkad district. The incident is also the latest in a series of alleged attacks on Bengali-speaking migrant workers on suspicion of being Bangladeshi in several places in India that started getting reported from June-July 2025. by Indradeep Bhattacharyya Via Alt […]
Thousands of women from across Karnataka marched through the streets of Belthangady in a silent rally, demanding truth, justice, and accountability for rape, disappearances, and unnatural deaths of women and girls reported over several decades in and around Dharmasthala. Groundxero | December 24, 2025 Thousands of women from across Karnataka marched through the streets […]
Rural workers and peasants registered under MGNREGS across the country will submit a resolution to the President of India to demand restore and enrich MGNREGA in the Special Gram Sabhas. Groundxero | December 24, 2025 The Samyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM) has called upon rural workers and peasants registered under MGNREGS across the country […]
But let’s be honest, the War on Terror was never about terror. The War on Drugs was never about drugs. They were both wars on inconvenient truths—and lucrative opportunities for whoever controlled the narrative. By Raïs Neza Boneza If everything you thought you knew about the War on Terror were nothing more than a mirage—an extravagant […]
Opposition to the VB–G–RAM–G Act intensified as more than 10,000 rural agricultural workers marched to Raj Bhavan in Kolkata. Trade unions simultaneously called for a nationwide push to openly reject the law in upcoming Gram Sabhas and demand for a restoration of MGNREGA. Groundxero | December 23, 2025 Opposition to the Viksit Bharat–Guarantee […]
The CTUs warned that if the Modi government proceeds with notifying rules under the codes without repealing them, the February strike could be followed by multi-day general strikes and expanded sectoral actions. Groundxero | 23 December 2025 India’s central trade unions (CTUs) have called for a nationwide general strike on February 12, 2026, intensifying resistance […]
The present-day alignment between Hindutva and Zionism is not accidental; it is ideological, strategic, and deeply rooted. It is an alliance built not on philosemitism (love or admiration for Jews), which stands in stark contrast to antisemitism, but on a shared logic of supremacy, securitization, and the demonization of a common enemy: Muslims. by Rizwan […]
Calling Ramnarayan’s death a ‘brutal murder’, Dr Hitesh Shankar, who performed the post-mortem stated that despite having performed many post-mortems throughout his career, he had never seen anyone “assaulted this brutally.” By Shinjinee Majumder Via Alt News Five persons were arrested for allegedly lynching a Dalit man from Chhattisgarh on the suspicion of theft in Kerala’s […]
Calling worker–farmer unity the “primary weapon” against the union government’s policies, SKM calls to observe January 16 as ‘All India Resistance Day’ against NDA’s corporate push. Groundxero | 22 December 2025 The Samyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM) on Monday announced a renewed nationwide mobilisation against what it described as the NDA government’s “authoritarian, anti-federal […]
The death of Sharif Osman Hadi, a prominent face of the July 2024 uprising in Dhaka plunged Bangladesh into widespread violence yet again. by Indradeep Bhattacharyya Via Alt News The death of Sharif Osman Hadi, a prominent face of the July 2024 uprising in Dhaka, at a Singapore hospital plunged Bangladesh into widespread violence […]
While the fighting has largely been contained to within Sudan’s boundaries, it is being fueled from outside the country. By Christopher Tounsel Sudan’s brutal civil war has dragged on for more than 2½ years, displacing millions and killing in excess of 150,000 people – making it among the most deadly conflicts in the […]
নীতিশ কুমারের মতো স্বনিযুক্ত অভিভাবক হয়ে যান অধিকাংশ পুরুষই পরিচিত, অপরিচিত প্রায় সব মহিলাদের। কেনই বা হবেন না? ‘আদমি হ্যায় না!’ সুদর্শনা চক্রবর্তী Groundxero | December 19 “উও ভি তো আদমি হ্যায় না! পিছে নেহি পড় যানা চাহিয়ে। ছু দিয়া নাকাব। কহি অউর ছুতে তো তব কেয়ে হো যাতা?” “তো আপকো কেয়া লগ […]
Modi government yields to the U.S. pressure; open up a strategic and crucial sector like nuclear energy to private and foreign multinational companies. Groundxero | December 18 The Union government has pushed through a far-reaching overhaul of India’s nuclear energy regime, opening the strategic sector to private and foreign multinational corporations while diluting […]
The appeal by the All India Feminist Alliance (ALIFA) state that the incident cannot be separated from what it calls a growing pattern of demonisation of visible markers of Muslim identity, including hijab, burqa, skull caps and beards etc. Groundxero | December 18 A coalition of feminist activists, lawyers, scholars and researchers under […]
As the standoff in Rajasthan’s Hanumangarh district enters a critical phase, the struggle for farmers of Tibbi tehsil is no longer only against an ethanol plant. It has become a larger battle over who decides the future of land and water—and whether rural livelihoods and fragile ecologies can survive the march of an ecologically destructive, […]
The Genocide in Gaza has not stopped. It has been rebranded. And that is enough of a linguistic subterfuge to get the world to ignore it. CHRIS HEDGES DEC 15, 2025 First, it was Israel’s right to defend itself. Then it was a war, even though, by Israel’s own military intelligence database, 83 percent […]
More than 125 lawyers, legal professionals (faculty), and law students from all over the country have called on the Governor of Odisha to urgently intervene to stop state repression on protesting villagers and take steps to halt all illegal administrative actions aimed at handing over community-managed forest land to Vedanta for bauxite mining in Sijimali. […]
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 […]