Bangladesh–RSYM: Press Release

We hereby share an unofficial translation of a press release published on the Facebook page of Revolutionary Student-Youth Movement on August 21.

Revolutionary Student-Youth Movement Forms Dhaka Metropolitan Committee, Announces University Committee and Holds Metropolitan Conference

Press Release
21 August 2026

Today, August 21, 2026, Friday, the Revolutionary Student-Youth Movement formed its Dhaka Metropolitan Committee at its Metropolitan Conference. Comrade Naim Uddin was elected president, and Comrades Arunab Ashraf and Sajid-ul-Islam were elected vice-presidents to form the 11-member city committee.

And a five-member Dhaka University Convening Committee was formed with Comrade Tasmiya Nebula as its convenor.

The Conference was moderated by Comrade Tofika Priya, and chaired by Comrade Naeem Uddin, the Revolutionary Student-Youth Movement. Speakers at the conference included Comrade Zafar Hossain, President of the New Democratic People’s Alliance; Comrade Kanon Chakraborty and Comrade Shafiq Suman, members of the central committee; and Comrade Rajjak, Joint Convener of the National Committee of Revolutionary Labor Movement, among others.

The speakers, analyzing the domestic and international political situation, said that students and youth must abandon the illusion of self-establishment and unite with the workers and peasants. Without the leadership of the working class and a peasant program, no organization or party can protect the interests of the broad masses of workers, peasants, and the middle class. Although the aspirations of the student movement in the July uprising were to oppose imperialism and expansionism, and to achieve the true liberation of the people, they failed to achieve their goal because they did not unite with the workers, peasants, and common people and did not have a correct political program that protected the interests of the workers and peasants.

Referring to the organization’s long history of struggle, they said that the student-youth organization, accepting the leadership of the working class, is continuing the struggle to succeed in the New Democratic Revolution aimed at socialism and communism by uniting students and intellectuals under the banner of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism to achieve true liberation.

Since the establishment of Bangladesh, every government that has come to power has consolidated its own power in the name of reforms, development, and plans, has sheltered and nurtured religious fascism, has pursued a politics of depoliticization, and at the same time has brutally suppressed the people’s democratic movements. Because imperialism, which protects the interests of the bourgeoisie, -The government, a proxy for imperialist expansionism, cannot protect the interests of the broad oppressed masses, including the working class, peasants, the middle class, women, and indigenous peoples. The speakers called for overthrowing this State system, arming the movement for socialism and equipping themselves with the ideology of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, and intensifying the struggle.

Sender,

Sajid-ul-Islam

Vice-President

Revolutionary Student-Youth Movement, Dhaka Metropolitan