Awami League
Why the movement against Rampal plant in Bangladesh failed
Five years after a people’s movement to stop a power plant near the Sundarban, Sheikh Hasina’s Awami League government has pushed the project through. Why did this movement fail where others in Bangladesh have succeeded?
Anupam Debashis Roy | Feb 24, 2023
Bangladesh’s BNP fights to make a political comeback
With massive anti-government rallies by the Bangladesh Nationalist Party and their repression by the ruling Awami League-led government, battle lines are being drawn for the next general election
Anupam Debashis Roy | Feb 02, 2023
The election-commission conundrum
Is the newly formed Election Commission in Bangladesh up for the daunting task ahead?
Anupam Debashis Roy | Apr 28, 2022
Bangladesh elections explained
What you should know about the 2018 Bangladesh general elections.
The Editors | Dec 03, 2018
State of disunion
International support for trade unionism in Bangladesh must proceed after separating the wheat from the chaff.
Colin Long | Sep 16, 2015
Identity grabbing
The official position against indigeneity undermines Bangladesh’s ‘adibashi’ minorities.
Prashanta Tripura | Sep 07, 2015
New Liberation War
With the trial of those suspected of war crimes likely to begin soon in Bangladesh, closure for what took place four decades ago might finally be possible. But the opposition is determined to stop the …
Haroon Habib | Aug 01, 2010
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