Bangladesh
Bangladesh: The ‘Global South’ debt crisis intensifies
After Hasina’s resignation, the struggle over the power vacuum continues in Bangladesh
Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation: Statement on the developments in Bangladesh
Bangladesh: The defiance continues (plus statements from South Asian left)
Who really benefits from sweatshops?
Billionaire sweatshop sponger Bruce Rockowitz's CEO in October 2011 Rockowitz married Hong Kong pop
Capitalism, sexual violence and sexism
For more discussion on feminism, click HERE
Bangladesh: Climate change and neoliberal policies
By Danielle Sabai
May 9, 2011 -- Asia Left Observer, posted at Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal with permission -- Located in the largest delta at the world, where two Himalayan rivers, the Brahmaputra and the Ganges, converge and flow into the Bay of Bengal, Bangladesh is used to climatic catastrophes. Half of the land area of Bangladesh is less than 10 metres above sea level. It consists mainly of silt deposited by the rivers that flow down from the Himalayan glaciers. When the snow melts it regularly causes large-scale floods. The coast is at the mercy of cyclones and giant waves which submerge the coastal areas.
জলবায়ু পরিবর্তন : একটি মার্ক্সবাদী বিশ্লেষণ
মূল: টেরি টাউনসেন্ড
ভাষান্তর: হাসান মেহেদী
[Original English version (2007) at http://www.dsp.org.au/node/166. The Democratic Socialist Perspective has now merged with the Socialist Alliance of Australia. This translation into Bangla appeared at Bangladesh's monthly progressive online journal, Shojashapta, on April 14, 2011.]
Global microfinance industry totters as Grameen Bank founder’s career ends in disgrace
Grameen Bank's Muhammad Yunus (right) with Bangladeshi women. The promised empowerment and poverty reduction failed to eventuate.
By Patrick Bond
April 27, 2011 -- Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal -- Bangladesh’s once-legendary banking environment is now fatally polluted. The rot is spreading so fast and far that the entire global microfinance industry is threatened. Controversy ranges far beyond poisonous local politics, the factor most often cited by those despondent about Grameen Bank’s worsening crisis.