Bangladesh

We give full support to the workers in Bangladesh fighting to stop the closure, and subsequent privatisation, of state-owned Jute Mills. We condemn the arrest of Jute Mills trade union leaders, Nurul Islam and Waliar […]

Follows mass strike of garment workers in December

The world’s largest mangrove forest lies on the deltas of three rivers: the Ganges, Brahmaputra and Meghna rivers on the Bay of Bengal. It is here, in an area of outstanding natural beauty called the […]

Protest letter from Paul Murphy and other MEP’s

Both sides mired in corruption and violence

It is said that where labour is cheap, life is cheap. This is never more so than in the recent horrific deaths of over 400 garment workers crushed in a collapsed building in Dhaka, the […]

Verdicts of the Bangladesh war crimes tribunal this February, which were widely seen as overdue and too lenient, sparked off a wave of protests in Dhaka’s Shahbagh Square and throughout the country.

Strikes and protests by Bangladesh garment workers continue in the face of harsh repression by the state. Following the deaths of three strikers, shot down when police opened fire on demonstrators in Chittagong on 14 […]

Strike and protest action in around 4,000 factories

Thousands of garment workers in Bangladesh took to the streets of Dhaka to dismiss the recently announced increase in the minimum wage as completely inadequate.

Textile workers are on the move again.

Troops were deployed throughout Bangladesh on Sunday 11 December supposedly to “maintain law and order”, according to a Presidential order.

Trade unionists and left activists under threat

Danger of army intervention

Protesting Bangladeshi garment workers torch factories

5 killed, 50 injured security force shootings

Capitalist parties clash but no workers’ alternative