Workers Party of Bangladesh

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বাংলাদেশের ওয়ার্কার্স পার্টি
Workers Party of Bangladesh Workers Party of
Bangladesh
Rashid Khan Menon
Party leader Rashid Khan Menon
founding 1980
Headquarters Dhaka
Youth organization Bangladesh Juba Maitri
Alignment Communism
Marxism Leninism
Stalinism
Maoism
Colours) red
Jatiya Sangsad
4/350
International connections ICMLPO
International Meeting of Communist and Workers' Parties
Website wpbd71.org

The Workers Party of Bangladesh or Bangladesh Workers Party ( BWP , Bengali বাংলাদেশের ওয়ার্কার্স পার্টি , " Bangladeshi Workers' Party ") is a communist party in Bangladesh .

Party history

The party was formed in 1980 as the Workers Party through the merger of the Bangladesh Communist Party (Leninist) , the Revolutionary Communist League and the Majdur Party . In the 1980s the party was part of the opposition to General Ershad's regime .

In May 1993 the Workers Party joined forces with two other small left-wing parties, the United Communist Party and Shamyabadi Dol , to form the Workers Party of Bangladesh .

In June 2004, a dissident wing split off from the party and rejected the planned merger with the Awami League in the upcoming parliamentary election. The dissidents founded a new party, the Biplobi Workers Party , in 2008 , but it could not take on any major importance. In the parliamentary elections in 2008 , 2014 and 2018 , the BWP entered into electoral alliances with the Awami League, thereby winning 2, 6 and 2 of the total of 300 constituencies and then participating in the government under Hasina Wajed .

Historically, the WP saw itself as a Marxist-Leninist party. They sought a people's revolution to introduce a socialist social order. Political goals were land reform, nationalization of the means of production, the decentralization of administration and, in terms of foreign policy, increased cooperation with socialist states. The party fights political Islamism . Since the party has been in government since 2008, it has severely restricted its Marxist vocabulary.

The party maintains many international contacts with other communist or left-wing socialist parties, for example the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna in Sri Lanka , the Communist Party of Vietnam or the Communist Party of India (Marxist) , which has its focus in neighboring West Bengal .

The party leader has been Rashid Khan Menon since the 1980s .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bangladeshi government confronts rising popular discontent. International Committee of the Fourth International (ICFI), September 25, 2015, accessed January 4, 2016 .
  2. ↑ Tom Lansford (Ed.): Political Handbook of the World 2014 CQ Press 2014, ISBN 1483333280 . P.114
  3. ↑ a b Faruque Ahmed: Bengal Politics in Britain . CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2013, ISBN 978-1-4802-0794-3 , chap. 8 Politics of Disintegration: Workers Party, p. 223 (English, Google Books preview ).
  4. ↑ Kavita Krishnan: Interview with Saiful Huq, Workers Party of Bangladesh. MRZine, January 8, 2008, accessed February 3, 2016 .
  5. ^ Information on the Bangladesh Workers Party and whether its student wing is called "Chattra Moitri" (BGD24525.E). Immigration and Refugees Board of Canada, July 4, 1996, accessed February 3, 2016 .
  6. ^ Workers party calls for Jamaat ban. theindependent, January 9, 2016, accessed February 4, 2016 .
  7. ^ Workers Party manifesto 5 days ahead of polls. greenwatchbd.com, January 1, 2014, accessed February 4, 2016 .
  8. ^ JVP has discussions with the Bangladesh Workers Party. JVP website, accessed February 3, 2016 .
  9. ↑ Bangladesh Workers Party visits Vietnam. vietnamplus.vn, March 16, 2015, accessed on February 3, 2016 .
  10. ↑ S Ramachandran Pillai: CPI (M) Greets Workers' Party of Bangladesh on its Ninth Congress. April 2014, accessed February 3, 2016 .