Sudan is now home to the worst humanitarian crisis in the world. Hundreds of thousands have been killed since 2023, 12 million people have been displaced and 21 million people face what the UN calls “high levels of acute food insecurity”. Yet, the international community has been largely silent. Philipp Kastner, The University of […]
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 […]
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 […]
The recent expansion of detention and deportations of immigrants reflects an accelerated criminalisation and punishment of non-citizens, tied to a rising authoritarianism across purportedly liberal Western countries. Andonea Jon Dickson, Cetta Mainwaring and Thom Tyerman Under President Donald Trump, the United States is expanding its efforts to detain and deport non-citizens at an alarming rate. […]
Western recognition of Palestine may have been a symbolic victory, but in the absence of enforcement, it changes nothing on the ground. Strongmen like Trump ensure that such gestures remain hollow, easily dismissed, and politically inert. Ronny P Sasmita Donald Trump’s 23 September speech at the United Nations General Assembly was never going […]
This is the first time in Brazil’s long history of political instability that a coup attempt has led to a conviction. Marieke Riethof, University of Liverpool Four out of five members of Brazil’s supreme court have voted to convictthe former president, Jair Bolsonaro, for plotting a military coup after losing the 2022 election […]
The protests are a genuine outburst of long-simmering grievances against the political elite, guided by grassroots civil society organisations. Tim Lindsey, The University of Melbourne For many Indonesians, the violent riots currently wracking Jakarta and other cities across the archipelago are eerily reminiscent of the riots of 1998 that accompanied the fall of […]
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, […]
A US-brokered peace deal between the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Rwanda binds the two African nations to a worrying arrangement: one where a country signs away its mineral resources to a superpower in return for opaque assurances of security. By Hanri Mostert and Tracy-Lynn Field Via The Convservation A US-brokered peace deal […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
A new trade agreement reached between the United States and E.U have shown yet again that the Europeans lack a backbone to stand up to Trump’s bullying and intimidation tactics. In a way, the deal also reinforces the long-held view that Europe is essentially a vassal of the United States. By C.J. Polychroniou | […]
The return of Left internationalism inspired by the vision of socialism needs a dramatic turnaround on the global ideological and political landscape. Alexandra Boutri, C.J. Polychroniou June 03, 2025 Has neoliberal globalization run its course? Should the Left be on the side of tariffs or protectionism? Can Left internationalism be revived? Political scientist, […]
The Arab monarchs’ hobnobbing with the backers of genocide in Gaza represents not only a cruel blow to the Palestinian people but also a profound insult to the ordinary citizens of the Arab. By Sushovan Dhar Groundxero | June 03, 2025 As Israel’s war on Palestine continues to inflict suffering on Gaza, Arab monarchies busied themselves […]