Bangladesh: PDSU – The Interim Government of Dr. Yunus Bears Full Responsibility for the Ongoing Nationwide Violence!
We hereby share a statement from the People’s Democratic Students Unity (PDSU) that we received.
Crush with an Iron Hand the Activities and Rise of Extremist–Communal Forces Loyal to U.S. Imperialism!
Over the past two days, worker Dipu Chandra Das was murdered in Bhaluka, Mymensingh by extremist, fanatical, fundamentalist, and communal mob groups. During the same period, the offices of Prothom Alo, The Daily Star, and Chhayanaut were vandalized, and violence was carried out in a similar manner against the office of Udichi Shilpigoshthi by the same groups. Centering on the killing of Osman Hadi, spokesperson of Inquilab Mancha, political instability has once again erupted across the country with full force. We, People’s Democratic Students Unity, strongly condemn this ongoing nationwide anarchy and violence and regard it as a grave failure of the interim government. We believe that the shooting of Osman Hadi itself was a planned attempt to destabilize the country during the pre-election period, which ultimately serves the interests of U.S. imperialism.
The daylight assassination of Sheikh Osman Hadi by gunfire exposes the extreme failure of the country’s law and judicial system. By planning and exploiting this murder, the ruling class deliberately created an unstable situation, thereby paving the way for the rise of extremist, fundamentalist, and communal forces. Since the interim government assumed power, the continuing wave of mob killings and the growing prevalence of feudal mindsets in society are direct outcomes of this rise. These extremist, fascist, ideologically driven religious fanatics, beneath their rhetoric, are in reality attempting to engulf the country in the cloak of religious nationalism. Just as we oppose extreme Bengali nationalism, we also oppose this religious nationalism. Its manifestation was seen in Bhaluka, Mymensingh, where these fanatics, on allegations of religious blasphemy, brutally beat worker Dipu Chandra Das to death, hung his body from a tree, and burned it. Such barbarity has stunned the people of the country; today, the entire population is living under a sense of deep insecurity. Just as the Indian expansionist–subservient fascist Hasina–Awami League government kept the people in fear for a decade and a half— consolidating ruling-class power, perpetuating corruption, plunder, and schemes of selling out the country— this government, too, is continuing that legacy. Through instability, as part of imperialist planning, it is gambling with the lives and property of the people while simultaneously turning the country into a pawn in imperialist–expansionist proxy wars.
The situation has now reached such a point that, in the name of “July spirit,” “defense of religion,” or “anti-India sentiment,” the people can be harmed at any time, misled and divided, their property destroyed, and even confiscated. This situation continues to appease and strengthen the semi-colonial semi-feudal system that exists in this country. The anti-India rhetoric raised today by these religious fanatics is nothing but sheer hypocrisy. Without raising one’s voice against the brutal repression, oppression, and misrule inflicted by the Indian state and the Hindutva-fascist BJP government of Narendra Modi upon the people of India—without opposing the genocidal “Operation Kagar” against Maoist revolutionaries and Adivasis, and the exploitation of farmers, workers, and the middle classes— there can be no genuine anti-India stance. Likewise, an “anti-India” posture that fails to oppose the unequal treaties signed by this country’s ruling class with India, and fails to resist India’s unjust economic and geographical one-sided advantages, is nothing more than a deception of the people. In substance and in practice, the fake “anti-India” posture of these extremist, fundamentalist, and communal groups in Bangladesh actually serves the expansionist interests of the anti-people Indian state and the fascist BJP government. At the same time, we must state clearly: regime-change “mass uprisings,” elections, military rule, or the calls for various so-called forms of government that lick the boots of imperialist masters cannot bring liberation to the people. In countries like ours— oppressed by imperialism and expansionism, where neo-colonial forms of rule prevail— there is no liberation for workers, peasants, and the middle classes without class struggle.
We, People’s Democratic Students Unity, state unequivocally that we strongly condemn the instability, mob terror, disorder, and brutality arising around the killing of Osman Hadi, and the interim government must bear full responsibility for all of this. At the same time, as various cultural organizations, institutions, and individuals have come under attack and suffered losses, we call upon the people to prepare for mass resistance against fascism— whether wrapped in extreme nationalism or religious nationalism— on the basis of class struggle. Organize! We call upon all to oppose the anti-people rule of Dr. Yunus’s interim government, loyal to U.S. imperialism; and to establish, through agrarian revolution, a democratic state, government, and social system of the oppressed nations and people under the leadership of the working class, for the genuine liberation of the people.
20 December 2025
Central Convening Committee
People’s Democratic Students Unity
