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, […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
“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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The Supreme Court’s judgment may serve as a precedent for ensuring that social-welfare rights are not held hostage to political disputes. Groundxero | Nov 4, 2025 After four long years of waiting, West Bengal’s rural workers have won a battle fought not only in the courts but also in the fields and streets. On October […]
Dalit women sanitation workers at Maharshi Dayanand University, Rohtak (Haryana), allege heinous violation of dignity and privacy, casteist and gender-based harassment by supervisors. Rights groups, including DASAM, condemns the incident; say the case exposes systemic abuse in India’s contractual sanitation labour sector; demands criminal prosecution, court-monitored probe, and structural reforms. Groundxero | Nov 3, 2025 […]
The Samyukt Kisan Morch (SKM) – a platform of farmer unions across the country – has warned of a massive protest if the Narendra Modi led Union government surrender to the USA and demanded exclusion of agriculture and allied sectors from the Free Trade Agreements and WTO. Groundxero | Oct 08, 2025 The National Council […]
জীবন-জীবিকা নিয়ে একদিকে চরম অনিশ্চয়তা, অন্যদিকে নিজেদের ভাষা ও জাতিসত্তা নিয়ে পরিচিতির উপর নেমে আসা প্রাণঘাতী আক্রমণ ও বাংলাদেশে পুশ ব্যাক-এর আতঙ্কে অনেকেই স্পষ্টত দিশাহারা। সুদর্শনা চক্রবর্তীর রিপোর্ট উৎসবের মরশুম শুরু হয়ে গেছে। বাড়ি ফিরছেন প্রবাসে কাজেকর্মে, পড়াশোনায় ব্যস্ত থাকা মানুষজন। কিন্তু সব ফেরা এক হয় না। যেমন হয় না, হচ্ছে না পশ্চিমবঙ্গের […]