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“Government Has Betrayed Its Written Assurance”: SKM Writes to President as Farmer and Worker Unions Prepare for Nationwide Protest

The memorandum concludes with an explicit warning: “If the Government continues to ignore and neglect the burning demands, the masses belonging to farmers and workers have no option other to launch “massive, peaceful, protracted struggles” similar to the 2020–21 agitation.   Groundxero | NOV 25, 2025     On the eve of the fifth anniversary of the […]


A Pause, Not a Retreat: The Centre’s Push to Alter the Status of Chandigarh

What’s at stake in Chandigarh is the future of India’s federal democracy. The move to alter the status of Chandigarh fits more into the larger pattern of the RSS-BJP’s agenda of systematic centralisation of power by weakening of federal structures.   Groundxero | Nov 23, 2025   The Union Home Ministry’s announcement on 23 November that it will […]


SKM Slams Modi Government Over the “Anti-People, Anti-Farmer, and Anti-Worker” Draft Electricity (Amendment) Bill, 2025

SKM calls the Draft Electricity (Amendment) Bill, 2025, an assault on federalism and people’s right to affordable power, and announced plans to coordinate with electricity workers’ unions to resist what it termed as “corporate capture of the power sector.”   New Delhi | October 18, 2025 Groundxero    The Samyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM) has sharply condemned […]


Teaching a Lesson?: Academic Freedom and the Indian State

Prof. G.N. Saibaba memorial lecture on the occasion of his death anniversary on 12th October 2025 was held at HKS Surjeet Bhawan in New Delhi.   Groundxero | Oct 13, 2025   G.N. Saibaba (1967 – 12 October 2024) was an Indian scholar, writer and human rights activist from Amalapuram, Andhra Pradesh. He constantly raised his voice for the […]


India’s White Revolution at Risk: The Shadow of US Corporate Dairy

Large-scale, corporate-run, and heavily subsidized dairy production system of the US could devastate India’s marginal farmer-led dairy industry.   Debasis Mithiya   India and the United States are locked in a tense standoff over tariffs on agricultural and dairy products. To protect its domestic market, India has imposed high tariffs on import of specific goods, […]


Manipur violence was not spontaneous, but planned, ethnically targeted and facilitated by state failures, says People’s Tribunal Report

The overwhelming evidence placed before the Tribunal lays bare the gruesome and systemic nature of the violence, the role of the radical groups, the failure of state institutions and the failure of the Central government to fulfil its constitutional responsibility to ensure that Manipur remained under the regime of both rule of law and the Constitution. […]


“A huge criminal fraud”; Elections are being “stolen”: Rahul Gandhi

Rahul Gandhi accused the Election Commission of India (ECI) and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of working in collusion to perpetuate a large-scale fraud in the voter rolls of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. He claimed that over 100,000 votes were “stolen” in Karnataka’s Mahadevapura assembly constituency which led the saffron party to win the Bengaluru […]


Central Trade Unions (CTUs) and Farmer Unions Calls for Massive Protests against Trump’s Tariff Threats and India-UK CETA

The CTUs-SKM calls to observe August 13, 2025 as “Corporates Quit India Day; workers and farmers to organize protest mobilizations across the country on the day to “Defend National Sovereignty and To Stop Corporate Loot!”   Groundxero | Aug 4, 2025   A joint Statement issued on Monday jointly by the coordination of ten Central Trade Unions […]


‘হাম দেখেঙ্গে’ গাওয়া ‘রাষ্ট্র দ্রোহিতা’!

পাকিস্তান-বিরোধী হবার অপরাধে যে কবিকে তাঁর জীবনের দীর্ঘ সময় নির্বাসনে কাটাতে হয়েছিল, মুক্তি যুদ্ধের সময় যিনি ছিলেন স্বাধীন বাংলাদেশের পক্ষে, তাঁকেই আবার কাঠগড়ায় তোলা হয় ভারত-বিরোধী বলে! তাঁর কবিতা ‘হাম দেখেঙ্গে’ গাওয়ার অভিযোগে রাষ্ট্রদ্রোহের মামলা দায়ের করেছে মহারাষ্ট্র পুলিশ।    রিপোর্ট: ঊর্মিমালা   মহারাষ্ট্রের নাগপুরে গত ১৩ মে ভিরা সাথিদারের স্মরণসভায় ফয়েজ আহমেদ ফয়েজ-এর বিখ্যাত কবিতা […]


APPEAL FOR CEASEFIRE AND DIALOGUE Between CPI (Maoist) and the Government

The signatories to the APPEAL FOR CEASEFIRE AND DIALOGUE urged the government not to view the situation as though “it is a ‘war’ with an external adversary but as an internal conflict involving our own citizens which requires to be brought to an amicable settlement at the earliest.   Groundxero | April 4, 2025   More than two […]


SKM Calls ‘One Nation One Election’ – a Corporate Agenda by Eroding Federal Rights of the State Governments

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 […]


Concerns Arising From The Suicide of Atul Subhash: A Feminist Response

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 […]


Harsh Treatment and Victimisation of Religious Minorities in Bangladesh is Appalling: Indian Citizens writes to Muhammad Yunus

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 […]



Rozgar Adhikar Abhiyan Demands Property and Inheritance Tax on the Super Rich

A national conference cum meeting was held today at Gandhi Peace Foundation, New Delhi, on the conclusion of the first phase of Rozgar Adhikar Abhiyan being run across the country for the last three months, on the question of imposing proper tax on the property of super rich, guaranteeing education, health and employment, immediately filling […]