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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
সরকার, শ্রম বিভাগ, কোম্পানি মালিকের শ্রমিক স্বার্থ বিরোধী কার্যকলাপের বিরুদ্ধে চার জন মহিলা ও তিন জন পুরুষ শ্রমিক গত ২৫ দিন ধরে আমরণ অনশন করছেন। অনশনরত মহিলা শ্রমিকদের অবস্থা অত্যন্ত আশঙ্কাজনক। উদাসীন বিজেপির ডবল ইঞ্জিন সরকার, কোম্পানি কর্তৃপক্ষ ও সংবাদমাধ্যমের উপেক্ষা সত্তেও শ্রমিকরা হকের লড়াই চালিয়ে যাচ্ছেন। গ্রাউন্ডজিরোর প্রতিবেদন। Groundxero | Nov. 12, 2024 উত্তরাখন্ডের রুদ্রপুরের […]
It’s about how Democratic Party elites abandoned the working-class over the past four decades while enriching financial elites, promoting runaway inequality, and tolerating a tsunami of mass layoffs. The Democrats assumed the working class had nowhere else to go. They were wrong! By Les Leopold Nov 06, 2024 Common Dreams I feel like […]
Aircraft giant Boeing’s factory workers have called off their seven weeks-long strike on November 5. Nearly 59 per cent of the employees voted in favour of accepting the new contract that includes a 43.65% wage increase over four years—a significant improvement over the 25% increase that the aerospace giant offered in September. “Strikes work,” labor journalist Kim […]
Countless lives of workers are lost or irreversibly altered due to inadequate occupational safety measures and hazardous working conditions in factories, construction sites, fire-cracker manufacturing units, mines or while cleaning sewage. In three fatal accidents at workplaces in Gujarat, at least 15 workers have reportedly died and many injured so far in the month of October […]