Recently, thousands of garment workers in Bangladesh went on a militant strike in protest against the Government’s newly announced revised pay structure that violated earlier promises made to the workers. A report by GroundXero on the spontaneous workers’ struggle that rocked Bangladesh and ended in a partial victory for the workers. Fresh spell […]
Over the last decade or so, millions of garment workers in Bangladesh have repeatedly taken to the streets with demands ranging from higher minimum wages and safe working conditions to the right to organise and collective bargaining. The current phase of the workers’ struggle has been around the demand for a rise in minimum wages. […]
বাংলাদেশের চলমান ছাত্র আন্দোলনের গতিবিধির উপর নজর রাখতে, এর সঙ্গে যুক্ত শিশু, কিশোর, তরুণ-তরুণীদের দেখে নিজেকে নতুন করে মানুষ বলে ভাবতে ইচ্ছে করে। নয়তো আজকাল মানুষ হিসাবে তো কেবলই লজ্জিত হতে হয়… লিখছেন সুদর্শনা চক্রবর্তী। আন্দোলনের সঙ্গে আবেগ জড়িয়ে যাওয়া যুক্তিসঙ্গত কি না তা নিয়ে চুলচেরা বিশ্লেষণ করতে এ লেখা লিখছি না। একটি আন্দোলন শুরু […]
Teenagers from schools, dressed in uniforms, coming in hordes, marching down the rain-wet streets in raw rage, with handwritten slogans on placards dangling from their necks, is something unprecedented. But that is exactly what is happening in Dhaka, capital of Bangladesh. The protest started spontaneously as two students died in a tragic road accident. The […]