Recent Developments in Bangladesh
Featured image: Workers protest against the handing over of the Chittagong Port’s terminals to foreign corporations. Source: The Daily Star.
We hereby share a summarization of an article published by the Bangladeshi revolutionary newspaper, Andolan Potrika.
Several terminals of the Chittagong Port, the main seaport of the country, has been handed over to foreign corporations from Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, a company based in Singapore related to the United Arab Emirates and to a company subsidiary from the Danish monopoly Maersk Line. Protests were held against the handing over of these terminals. In order to stop protests against anti-people’s measures, the government banned meetings and gatherings at the port until November 11, 2025. Andolan Potrika highlights that these agreements were already initiated by the Hasina-Awami government.
The interim government has displayed more anti-people’s policies, for example attacking the protesting teachers, who took to the streets due to the severe worsening of their labor conditions, especially their salaries. The protesters were severely repressed but the teachers continued until they achieved a 15% salary increase.
Andolan Potrika also reports on fascist terrorism carried out by “religious fanatics”, since radical Islamist organizations are increasing their influence in national politics, and religious figures called to carry out terrorist actions such as torture, arson, looting, murder and rape against religious minorities in various regions of the country. Among these organizations is Jamaat-Hefazat-e-Islam, which organizes violence against Sufi Muslims and other differing views within Islamic religion. This Party has also apologized recently due to the harm caused by them since 1947, with the collaboration in the genocide of the Pakistani army in 1971 being the main accusation against them. However they also excused themselves saying that the main Party leaders were not born when these crimes occurred. Andolan Potrika reports that no action was taken against the Jamaat Party regarding this war crime.
