Workers and left parties in South Asia mark May Day, preparing for bigger fights
Large-scale rallies and meetings were organized by trade unions and left parties in every country in the region to commemorate the martyrs of Chicago from the 1886 strike for an eight-hour workday.
Conservative BNP sweeps Bangladesh elections with over two-thirds majority in the parliament
The absence of Sheikh Hasina and her Awami League, banned from participating in the elections, presented a rightward shift in the country’s polity benefiting the BNP, which was out of power for almost two decades.
Bangladesh en la encrucijada: las elecciones y el futuro del octavo país más grande del mundo
La mayoría absoluta del BNP no es tanto un veredicto democrático como el resultado previsto de un proceso de ingeniería política de dos años.
Bangladesh at the crossroads: elections and the future of the world’s eighth largest country
BNP’s super-majority in Thursday’s elections is less a democratic verdict than the intended outcome of a two-year political engineering process.
Bangladesh heads to first national elections since the fall of Hasina government
Apart from the election for the National Assembly, around the Bangladeshi electorate will also vote in a referendum on proposed changes to the country’s constitution and political system
Workers Party of Bangladesh withdraws from upcoming national elections citing political persecution
The party’s president, Rashed Khan Menon, has been imprisoned for over a year and party offices, including its central office, have been occupied by pro-government mobs for months now.
Interim government is pushing Bangladesh towards a civil war, says Workers Party
The party claims religious extremist mobs have been allowed to target their offices, leading newspapers, secular cultural organizations and persons from minority community with impunity
Sheikh Hasina accuses Bangladeshi court of bias, says death sentence is politically motivated
Hasina had resigned and left the country following months-long violent protests against her government’s policies in which hundreds of people, mostly students, were killed in July-August 2024.
Political parties in Bangladesh oppose interim government’s changes to the country’s political system
The Muhammad Yunus-led interim government has failed to win the support of the majority of political parties in the country for its ambitious political “reforms”.
On the anniversary of Rashed Khan Menon’s imprisonment, Workers’ Party calls for the release of all political prisoners
Menon, 81, president of Workers’ Party of Bangladesh (WPB), has been charged with the murder of over 58 anti-quota protestors last year, despite not occupying any administrative position at the time.
Interim government in Bangladesh faces growing popular anger and accusations of authoritarianism
After a public spat with the army chief last week over the country’s political situation and the delay in elections, Yunus threatened to resign from his post as the chief advisor of the interim government.
Election uncertainty continues in Bangladesh amid contradictory statements from interim government
The attacks on Awami League and its former allies undertaken by the interim government also raises questions of credibility about the democratic and political reform process initiated by the interim government.
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