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 […]
Samyukt Kisan Morcha, a joint platform of farmers’ union, has written a letter to the President of India demanding her to direct the Union government to intervene and save the life of farmer leader Jagjit Singh Dallewal, whose fast-unto death at the Khanauri border protest site in Punjab has entered 28 days; to stop repression […]
Today, it is important to look back at this massacre. Because, the massacre of Hashimpura will tell that Modi’s India was not built in a day. Not in the last ten years. It has a long history. That history is older than the Gujarat pogrom. Groundxero | Dec. 21, 2024 The Supreme Court on Friday […]
In Syria, Turkey is escalating the very “terrorism” it pretends to be fighting. Erdoğan and his jihadist SNA proxies are artificially prolonging an atrocious war for their own political agendas, aiming to crush democratic self-determination and women’s freedom in north-east Syria. Progressives around the world must no longer stay silent. By Martin Winiecki Dec 20, […]
Campaign Against State Repression (CASR), Progressive Democratic Students’ Union (PDSU), Punjab Students’ Union, and Farmers Unions have strongly condemned the extensive searches at the residences of student, labour rights and anti-displacement activists. Groundxero | Dec. 20, 2024 The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Friday conducted extensive searches at the residences of student, labour rights and […]
The strike at Starbucks comes as Amazon workers are also striking at multiple delivery hubs across U.S. over the e-commerce giant’s refusal to engage in contract negotiations with their union. Groundxero | Dec. 20, 2024 Starbucks workers launched five days of strikes across cities like Los Angeles, Chicago, and Seattle in the United States on […]
“We are fighting against a vicious union-busting campaign, and we are going to win,” said one Amazon warehouse worker. By Jake Johnson Dec 19, 2024 The Teamsters launched what the union described as “the largest strike against Amazon in U.S. history” on Thursday morning to protest the e-commerce behemoth’s unlawful refusal to bargain with organized drivers […]
All the major opposition parties opposed the ‘One Nation One Election’ Bill as being “anti-federal”. Samyukt Kisan Morch (SKM), the joint platform of farmer unions, called the move as part of the corporate agenda to create ‘one nation one market’ for facilitating corporate exploitation of the working people by eroding the autonomy and the federal rights of the State […]
The debates surrounding the tragic suicides of Atul Subhash and police constable, Tippanna Alagur in Karnataka has given space for irrational and dangerous fears being unleashed by men’s rights organisations and a sensational media about “greedy and exploitative” women, and betray an ignorance of the processes of law in addition to a denial of violent […]
Women’s choice to not wear a headscarf is presented to the public as a symptom of mental illness, such as an “antisocial personality disorder”, “histrionic disorder” or “bipolar disorder”. By Daanika Kamal, Royal Holloway University of London The opening of a “hijab removal treatment clinic” to “offer scientific and psychological treatment” for Iranian […]
A year ago on Dec. 6, 2023 Israel murdered Palestinian poet Refaat Alareer in Gaza. His poems, however, remain, condemning his killers and beseeching us to honor our shared humanity. By CHRIS HEDGES DEC 11, 2024 Dear Refaat, We are not silent. We are being silenced. The students who, during the last […]
The mainstream media has described his remarks as controversial, contentious, or unbecoming of a HC judge etc., but in reality they are nothing short of hate speech against the Muslims, and hence criminal in nature. By Anil Kumar 10 Dec., 2024 Justice Shekhar Kumar Yadav, a sitting Judge of the Allahabad High Court, […]
The swift fall of the Assad regime has profound implications for the major players in the Middle East. By Ali Mamouri, Deakin University The swift and unexpected fall of the Syrian capital, Damascus, to Sunni opposition forces marks a pivotal moment in the modern history of the Middle East. Bashar al-Assad’s regime […]
Overthrowing a dictator is very difficult, but it is no guarantee of liberty. By Juan Cole Dec 08, 2024 Informed Comment The Syrian Revolution of 2024 has succeeded in deposing the al-Assad dynasty, in power since 1970, throwing off the rule of the once mighty Syrian Socialist Baath Party, a feared and murderous one-party […]
The risk of pollution is increasing. Central and state authorities blame each other and there is a lack of political will to address the problem. Individual people seem unwilling to take responsibility and stop polluting. By Komali Kantamaneni, University of Central Lancashire and Sigamani Panneer, Jawaharlal Nehru University Delhi’s air pollution is so […]
A group of prominent Indian Muslims, in an open letter to Muhammad Yunus, has strongly condemned the mistreatment of the minorities and urged the Bangladesh authorities to take immediate and corrective actions. Groundxero | Dec. 5, 2024 The “harsh treatment and victimisation” of religious minorities in Bangladesh is appalling and of immense concern, said a group […]