The Samyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM) and Central Trade Unions (CTUs) have appealed to the workers, farmers, agricultural workers, women, youth, students and all other sections of the people to join the massive peoples’ action and support the strike action on 16 February to save the Basic Principles of Democracy, Federalism, Secularism and Socialism enshrined in the […]
কেন অশান্ত হয়ে উঠল সন্দেশখালি? এই প্রশ্নের উত্তর পেতে গেলে আপনাকে যেতে হবে সন্দেশখালি ব্লকের দাড়ির জঙ্গল মৌজায়, যেতে হবে দাড়ির জঙ্গল মৌজার ৭ নম্বর পেত্নি ঘোলায়। যেতে হবে দীর্ঘদিনের অত্যাচারের শিকার সন্দেশখালির আমজনতার কাছে। বিঘার পর বিঘা জমি কার্যত দখল করে মাছ চাষের অভিযোগ রয়েছে ‘পলাতক’ তৃণমূল নেতা শেখ শাহজাহান এবং তার দুই ছায়াসঙ্গী, […]
Groundxero | 9th February, 2024 Mazdoor Adhikar Sangharsh Abhiyan (MASA), a coordination platform of 17 workers organisations/unions in India, observed “Mazdoor Pratirodh Divas/Workers’ Resistance Day” on 8th February, 2024, all over the country against the anti-worker policies and to press for the just demands of the working masses in the country. Protest demonstrations, rallies […]
Groundxero | 3rd February, 2024 In a press statement, released on 2nd February, 2024, over 250 activists, academicians, lawyers, and concerned citizens expressed solidarity with rights activist and former IAS officer Harsh Mander and condemned the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI)’s raids at his home and his office as being part of a “vindictive witch hunt”. The […]
Groundxero | Ist February, 2024 160 Adivasi and Dalit people from eight villages in Kutrumali, Sijimali and Majhingmali in South Odisha, wrote an open letter to the President of India on the Republic Day, drawing her attention to the unjust and unconstitutional ways by which their land, hills, rivers and streams have been sold off […]
Groundxero Report | 22 Jan 2024 Even as the entire country was overwhelmed by the massive display of brute majoritarianism on the occasion of inauguration of Ram Temple at Ayodhya, in the city of Kolkata, students, right activists, social and political organisations and individuals held several protest programs denouncing the use of the state and […]
Blocking subsidies meant for the poor and the marginalized to exact political revenge is unethical and reveals the Union government’s anti-working-class and anti-farmer position. Groundxero Report | 22 Jan 2024 The Narendra Modi-led Union government has decided to withhold the release of Rs 7,000 crore earmarked for the state government in West Bengal […]
Along with the brutal tree cutting of 50,000 trees within three days, repressive action and arrests have been made against the members of the local organization Hasdeo Aranya Bachao Sangharsh Samiti in Chhattisgarh protesting the coal mines by Adani group. Similarly in Odisha, several arrests and detentions have been made to intimidate the local resistance movements […]
Groundxero | 28th December, 2023 The all-India general body meeting of Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM) has called for intensifying struggle of farmers and farm-workers in 2024 to achieve the main demands of Minimum Support Price (MSP) calculated on the basis of C2+50% formula for all crops procurement by the government, freedom of farmers from […]
#SijimaliMatters Update # 6 December 21, 2023 We bring to you an update of the Gram (Palli) Sabha meetings held in the Sijimali region on 8 December by the local administration in the presence of company officials and armed police and people’s protest and the Shaheed Rendo Majhi Diwas event in Nakrundi Gram Panchayat […]
By Groundxero 17 December, 2023 In yet another deadly industrial accident, nine workers, including six women, were killed and and three others seriously injured in a massive blast at an explosives manufacturing factory in Nagpur district of Maharashtra on Sunday morning. The company was into manufacturing drones and explosives for the armed forces. The blast […]
By Harsh Thakor 15 December, 2023 A conglomeration of revolutionary and democratic forces, united under the slogan of ‘fighting fascism and neo-liberalism,’ has commenced a ‘Jan Chetna Yatra’ (People’s Awakening March) from December 6, 2023. The Yatra, a rally from Kolkata to Varanasi, aims to raise awareness among the masses regarding the communal agenda […]
Murderous State’s drone attack killed at least 88 persons in Tudun Biri village, Kaduna, Nigeria, on 3 December. By Harsh Thakor At least 88 people have been reportedly killed in a mistaken army drone attack” on a religious gathering, during the Mawlid al-Nabi (the birthday of Prophet Muhammad), in the northwest of Nigeria. […]
By Groundxero | 10 Dec, 2023 Peasant unions, Adivasi organizations, Trade Unions and social activists in Odisha have issued a joint statement condemning the farce of Gram Sabhas carried out by the Odisha Government in the Sijimali region to hasten the process of bauxite mining for Vedanta Limited. They have expressed outrage and concern over […]
“We stand here ashamed that the weapons used in the ongoing ethnic cleansing of Palestine are partly made on our own doorstep,” one participating doctor said. By OLIVIA ROSANE Dec 07, 2023 More than 1,000 union members with Workers for a Free Palestine blockaded four weapons factories in the United Kingdom Thursday that make components […]