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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
On the long tail of US intervention in Latin America and the Caribbean. By Chuck Idelson Common Dreams If the Trump administration’s assaults on Venezuela and threats to Colombia and Mexico have a familiar stench, they should. For more than two centuries the United States government has acted as if it owned the Western Hemisphere, with the right of […]
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 […]