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The Role of CPB-ML Since August 5, 2024: A Marxist-Leninist Analysis

Badrul Alam — 2026-05-01T07:16:37Z

The Communist Party of Bangladesh (Marxist–Leninist), or CPB-ML, has re-emerged in a new light following the mass upheavals of August 5, 2024. Rooted in Dhaka and drawing on deep traditions of left-wing militancy and peasant struggle, CPB-ML's role since this pivotal moment has taken on strategic significance—especially when analyzed through Leon Trotsky's theory of permanent revolution and Antonio Gramsci's concept of hegemony and the war of position. This article explores how a (…)

- Features / Marxism, Bangladesh

On the Situation in Venezuela

CPBML — 2026-01-04T20:43:32Z

“At this critical moment, international solidarity must be people-centred, anti-imperialist, and politically independent. It must oppose imperialist aggression clearly and unequivocally, while refusing to provide uncritical support to policies that undermine popular interests.”

- Venezuela 2026 / Venezuela, Bangladesh

Solidarity Against Communal Violence, Fundamentalism, and State Complicity

CPBML, Radical Socialist — 2025-12-26T15:30:09Z

This Joint Political Statement by the Communist Party of Bangladesh (Marxist–Leninist) and Radical Socialist (India) was issued on 25 December 2025.

- News from around the world / India, Bangladesh

India after the Tianjin summit and in the midst of the climate crisis – an overview

Pierre Rousset, Sushovan Dhar — 2025-10-10T19:19:25Z

On China's initiative, the Tianjin Summit was held on 31 August and 1 September 2025, within the framework of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO). India was invited to attend. Sushovan Dhar, a political activist and trade unionist in Kolkata, analyses the summit's proceedings and geopolitical implications in this interview. He also examines the nature of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's regime, the link between the climate, democratic and social crises plaguing the country, and the state of the parliamentary and radical left.

- IVP609 - October 2025 / Russia, Pakistan, China, India, Bangladesh

One year of the Bangladesh interim government: crisis and possibility of resistance on the stage of exploitation

Badrul Alam — 2025-08-10T13:53:00Z

Over the past one year, the interim government has been part of a difficult chapter in the country's politics. They came to power amid political instability and economic crisis, but from a Marxist analysis, it is clear that this government does not represent the liberation of the working people; rather, it wields state power to protect the interests of the capitalists.

- IVP607 - August 2025 / Bangladesh

On the present left political situation in Bangladesh

Badrul Alam — 2025-07-06T09:05:16Z

“Nonetheless, the political ground has shifted. What once seemed impossible—the return of Marxist politics, the reorganization of underground parties, the convergence of student and worker struggles—is now a living process.”

- IVP606 - July 2025 / Bangladesh

The permanent instability of a system in crisis

Antoine Larrache — 2024-09-11T08:42:28Z

The last few months have given rise to a succession of local crises of astonishing magnitude. These crises are the occasion for mass movements within which we hope fwiil evolve in ways that attack the system.

- IV596-September 2024 / United States (USA), Britain, France, Venezuela, Iran, Bangladesh

‘It's crucial to fight the far right in Pakistan and the region'

Farooq Tariq, Israel Dutra — 2024-09-08T10:35:54Z

Though it is one of the most dynamic regions of world capitalism, the Brazilian public [and elsewhere] knows little about South Asia. But the recent student rebellion in Bangladesh has brought to the fore this region marked by instability, which includes populous countries such as Bangladesh, Pakistan and India.

- IV596-September 2024 / Fourth International, Pakistan, India, Far Right, Bangladesh

New Delhi faces the gravest geopolitical fallout from Sheikh Hasina's exit

Kamal Ahmed — 2024-08-25T13:31:32Z

The Modi government must reckon with Bangladeshi anger over its support for Hasina even as the United States, China and Russia all reassess their approaches to Dhaka

- IV595 - August 2024 / India, Bangladesh

After Hasina's resignation, struggle continues

Badrul Alam — 2024-08-10T04:43:16Z

On August 5, at 2:30 pm, Sheikh Hasina resigned from her post as prime minister and fled with some of her Special Security Forces by helicopter to India. She is now in Delhi, and some reports indicate that she wants to go to London for political asylum, but Britain is refusing her entry because of her human rights violations.

- IV595 - August 2024 / Bangladesh