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Bangladeshi protest vs. U.S.-India state visitors

Published May 21, 2012 9:11 PM

May 4 march in Dhaka.
Photo: Socialist Party of Bangladesh

Excerpted from a Socialist Party of Bangladesh release.

Bangladeshi workers protested the visit of U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Indian Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee to Bangladesh on May 4.

The Socialist Party of Bangladesh, which is the main revolutionary workers’ party in the country, organized the protest in Dhaka, the capital. Among the main speakers was SPB General Secretary Comrade Khalequzzaman.

In his speech Khalequzzaman stated that the U.S. is the leader of the pro-war imperialist powers. “We saw the brutality of their policy in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Palestine. We have witnessed their policy very recently in the Arab zone. Presently South and Southeast Asia [have] become a playground for imperialist maneuvers, intrigues and conspiracies.”

Khalequzzaman saw the visit from Clinton and Mukherjee as a threat to Bangladeshi sovereignty whose purpose is to ensure U.S. dominance over the region, including Nepal, all of South Asia and Vietnam, with India as Washington’s local crony.

The “USA and India both have expanded their markets in our country to export their capital to exploit our cheap labor,” Khalequzzaman said. “Our garments sector is one of the stunning examples of USA’s exploitation here. … Now they plan to loot our natural resources [of] oil, gas, coal etc., especially the huge gas reserve in our deep sea area.”

The SPB leader criticized Bangladesh’s government and opposition pro-capitalist parties for their “immoral, corrupted and destructive politics” and for “compromising with the imperialist forces.”

“Taking advantage of this situation, US-India imperialist force is trying to interfere in our internal affairs.” He called on “left-progressive-democratic minds to unite” to form a left alternative “to resist this imperialist aggression and the native exploiters.”