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?

| 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

| Feb 02, 2023

The election-commission conundrum

Is the newly formed Election Commission in Bangladesh up for the daunting task ahead?

| Apr 28, 2022

Bangladesh elections explained

What you should know about the 2018 Bangladesh general elections.

| Dec 03, 2018

State of disunion

International support for trade unionism in Bangladesh must proceed after separating the wheat from the chaff.

| Sep 16, 2015

Identity grabbing

The official position against indigeneity undermines Bangladesh’s ‘adibashi’ minorities.

| 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 …

| Aug 01, 2010

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