Socialist Party of Bangladesh

The Socialist Party of Bangladesh (Bengali: বাংলাদেশের সমাজতান্ত্রিক দল, abbreviated 'বাসদ', 'BASAD', or 'SPB') is an anti-revisionist Marxist-Leninist communist party in Bangladesh.[1][2][3] The party was founded by Comrade Khalequzzaman on 7 November 1980. In 2013 a group of members under the leadership of Mubinul Haider Chowdhury broke away from the party and formed the Socialist Party of Bangladesh (Marxist) over disagreement on recognition of the thought of Shibdas Ghosh and Ganajagaranmancha.[4]

Socialist Party of Bangladesh
বাংলাদেশের সমাজতান্ত্রিক দল
AbbreviationBASAD
General SecretaryComrade Khalequzzaman
Founded7 November 1980 (1980-11-07)
Headquarters23/2 Topkhana Road, Dhaka, Bangladesh-1000
NewspaperVanguard
Student wingSocialist Students' Front
Ideology
Political positionFar-left
International affiliationICOR
Colours  Red
Election symbol
Website
spb.org.bd

Ideology

SPB is an anti-revisionist Marxist-Leninist communist party. The party supports the ideologies of Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin, and Mao Zedong. The SPB party holds that Bangladesh is a capitalist- semi fascist country. Following its analysis, the party seeks to establish a socialist state through Revolutionary socialism throughout Bangladesh.

Central Committee

There are four members in the central committee of the party. Comrade Khalequzzaman is the General Secretary of Central Committee of SPB. Comrade Bazlur Rashid & Razequzzaman Ratan are Members of Central Committee.

Monthly newspaper

The official party newspaper, Vanguard (Bengali: ভ্যানগার্ড), is published monthly in Bengali. SPB Central Committee member Razequzzaman Ratan is the current chief editor of Vanguard newspaper.

Mass organizations of the party

SPB has many political wings, some of them are:

  • Socialist Students' Front[5]
  • Socialist Labour Front (SLF)
  • Socialist Peasants' Front (SPF)
  • Socialist Women's Forum (SWF)
  • Progressive Teachers' forum (PTF)
  • Progressive Engineers' and Architects' Forum (PEAF)
  • Progressive Lawyers' Front (PLF)
  • Progressive Agriculturist Centre (PAC)
  • Progressive Doctors Forum (PDF)
  • Progressive Art and Mass Media Workers Forum (PAMMWF)
  • Bangladesh Shipping Workers Federation (BSWF)
  • Re-rolling Steel Mills Labour Front (RSMLF)
  • Charan Sangskritik Kendro
  • Shishu Kishor Mela (SKM)
  • Platform of Science Movement (PSM)

Socialist Students' Front
Main article: Socialist Students' Front

The Socialist Students' Front (SSF) (Bengali: সমাজতান্ত্রিক ছাত্রফ্রন্ট) is the student's wing of SPB. This organization is one of the largest leftist students' organization in the country. The slogans of the SSF are: "Socialist Students' Front, commitments to the revolution!" and "Socialist Students' Front, commitments to save the rights of education!"

The SSF was established on 21 January 1984. The main objective of the SSF is to build a students’ movement throughout the country to bring about educational reforms to make education cheap, universal, scientific, truly secular, equal, and democratic, and to create an education system that is a revolutionary movement for the overthrow of capitalism and establishment of socialist state. SSF is a member of several international students' organizations including World Federation of Democratic Youth.[6][7]

References
  1. "Reliefs for haor people 'ridiculous, disgraceful': Sultana Kamal". The Daily Star. 2017-05-20. Retrieved 2017-12-19.
  2. "6-hour nationwide hartal underway". Dhaka Tribune. Retrieved 2017-12-19.
  3. "Leftist parties lead protests over hike in power price". bdnews24.com. Retrieved 2017-12-19.
  4. "BaSad splits again". Bdnews24.com. 12 April 2013. Archived from the original on 5 September 2018. Retrieved 5 September 2018.
  5. "Kaderi, Nasiruddin elected SCF president, GS". New Age. 26 September 2019.
  6. A short background of ssf
  7. anniversary


This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.