Eradicate Hasina-Awami-Indian fascism completely and utterly.
Struggle for the Establishment of the Governance of the Struggling Students, Workers, Peasants, Poor, Middle class.
(August 5, 2024. Extended reprint: August 8, 2024)
-[originally published in Bengali. Unofficial English Translation by Supporters of Maoists in Bangladesh]
The
15-year Hasina-Awami misrule has finally come to an end. The students
have won a great victory in their fearless movement. To achieve this
goal, many different political forces and masses have made immense
sacrifices and conducted valiant armed and unarmed struggles for the
past decade and a half. In this continuation, around 350 lives were lost
to achieve this feat at the last minute. Several thousand people were
injured. Over five hundred people lost their eyes. Many more have become
permanently crippled. 15,000 or more people were taken into custody. In
addition to that, thousands of political activists and common people
have been killed, and millions of people have suffered oppression and
unjust arrests in the past 15 years. False cases have been filed against
hundreds of thousands of people.
However,
this victory is not the end of the fight, rather it is just the
beginning. There is still a long way to go. Because the oppressed cannot
be liberated until the power or rule of the bona fide struggling masses
is established. That has been experienced many times in the past—in
'69, '71, '75, and '90. Even after shaking off the main enemy sitting on
the neck, the puppets of the ruling elite bourgeoisie have seized
power. To prevent this, the struggling masses must struggle for the
right political agenda. Currently, an "interim government" has been
formed under the initiative of the military and the bureaucrats. We
shall rationally insist that the hopes of the oppressed students for
emancipation from fascism be fulfilled. In light of this, we would like
to draw attention to a few key points below.
1.
To establish a provisional government composed of representatives of
all anti-fascist classes, professions, communities, and democratic
political forces instead of an externally imposed government led by
pro-western ex-military, civilian bureaucrats, bourgeois intellectuals,
professionals, and elite bourgeoisie representatives.
- Strongly oppose the imposition of martial law, so-called army-backed governments, or the imposition of a state of emergency.
- Complete repeal of the constitution that allows fascism.
- Promulgation of a new constitution and basic principles of a state system favourable to the democratic system.
- Abolition of the district council, sub-district, and UP formed on the blueprint of fascism.
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Formation of “mass committees” of farmers, workers, labourers,
students, youth, middle class, religious and ethnic minorities,
progressive and democratic intellectuals at all levels of society
starting from village/neighborhood, and having the administrative work
done by them. To form an armed “Mass Militia” under them to counter any
anti-Mass threat and attack.
- Creating an environment for fair
elections based on the elimination of fascism, the development of mass
power, and the urgent demands of the anti-fascist democratic forces,
especially the workers, peasants, students, and masses.
2.
Arresting and punishing all Awami godfathers who are the main pillars
of Hasina-India fascists and have dominated all spheres of state and
society for the past 15 years.
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Hasina's fascist allies included cabinet members, parliamentarians,
powerful bureaucrats, powerful military officers, tyrannical officers of
Police-RAB-DB, big businessmen, media magnates, so-called student-youth
terrorists, abominable and identified elites among judges,
professionals, cultural leaders, etc. Publish a list of names of all
these people and arrest them. Disarm them all.
- Immediate release of
prisoners in "Aynaghar," a torture prison maintained by the
Hasina-loyalist DGFI. Publish a white paper on this.
- Immediate abolition of the murderous RAB force.
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Publishing the list of public enemies involved in murder,
disappearance, rape, and money laundering, and prosecuting them under
the speedy trial law.
-Banning the Chhatra League, Jubo League, and
Hasina-Awami League as terrorist and fascist organizations. Depriving
them of their political rights.
- Confiscation of all properties of
the above. Confiscation of all agricultural lands, wetlands, residential
plots, and commercial plots occupied by Awami fascists. Free
distribution of agricultural land to landless-poor farmers. Opening of
reservoirs to fishermen.
3.
The immediate release of all political leaders and activists of all
political parties and struggling people who were tortured and imprisoned
during the last 15 years of fascist rule, especially in the last July
movement. The withdrawing of all cases brought against them.
4.
Opening universities and educational institutions immediately. Lifting
the curfew, sending the army back to the barracks. Deploying of BGB
immediately to guard the borders. Having the university halls managed by
student committees. De-fascistization and reformation of the
administration of universities.
5.
Publishing the list with the names, addresses, and ages of all those
killed during the fascist regime, especially in recent movements. The
state should provide compensation to the affected families. All injured
should be provided with medical treatment at state’s expense. Those who
have already undergone treatment at their own expense should be
compensated. A white paper on the injured should be published. Those
responsible should be punished severely.
- Listing the general
police—Ansar—BGB and army personnel, and common people killed in various
anarchic activities that followed the fall of Hasina and honoring them
socially.
6.
All anti-national agreements and understandings with foreign countries,
especially with India, by the Hasina-Awami government in the last 15
years must be cancelled.
- The Rampal Power Plant destroying the Sundarbans should be stopped immediately.
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Immediate cessation of providing India with train and road corridors
through Bangladesh, giving them the responsibility for the Teesta
project, buying electricity from India at a high price etc.
- Announcing no new agreement or compromise with India until India publicly apologises for supporting Hasina's fascism.
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To be fully alert of subversive or potentially aggressive activities of
Indian expansionists. Condemning their harbouring of Hasina/Awami
fugitives in India and demanding their handover to Bangladesh.
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Strictly opposing all imperialist meddling and conspiracy, including
those of America, China, and Russia, on internal matters of the country.
7. Immediate repeal of all black laws, including the Service Act, Digital Act, and Industrial Police.
8.
Accepting the legitimate demands of workers, farmers, fishermen, poor
and working urbanites, tenants, students, teachers, and musicians.
Implement stringent measures immediately to break up syndicates and
regulate commodity pricing. Taking strict measures to stop extortion and
bribery by the Hasina-Awami Fascist bureaucrats and police regarding
sidewalk traders, hawkers, transport workers, markets, buying and
selling land, building houses, getting government jobs, etc. Strictly
controlling the change of hands of extortion and of expropriation.
Taking strict measures to prevent persecution and attacks on religious
and ethnic minorities.
If
the interim government is not formed and run in the above way, it will
be a imperialist-comprador bourgeois government based on the existing
fascist structure, which will not be able to fulfil the aspirations of
the struggling masses.
The
above demands are not a complete program. Rather, these are only some
preliminary outlines for creating an anti-fascist environment and
system. Hence many more amendments may be made to it, and specifications
have to be made that can be finalised based on the opinion of the
serious anti-fascist fighting forces.
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Our
proletariat party has not only fought relentlessly against the recently
expelled Hasina fascism but also outlined a genuine revolutionary
program for real liberation from all imperialism, including that of
America-China-Russia, Indian expansionism, and their crony elite
bourgeoisie, semi-feudal exploitation-control. The party is thus
conducting a continuous struggle for the real independence of the
country and the empowerment of the masses of people, including the
workers, peasants, and middle class, and the establishment of a truly
democratic society. The ongoing anti-fascist struggle is a part of this.
We are working to fight to the end and lead it to victory. The ultimate
goal of the fight is to establish a society without exploitation in the
country and move towards communism worldwide.
To
advance that goal and to achieve a real revolution, the oppressed
people must take up arms, build an army of their own, and build a
rural-based people's war based on the program of agrarian revolution.
All struggles should be conducted based on this aim and work. The
advanced section of students and youth must be equipped with
Marxism-Leninism-Maoism. They should be organized into a revolutionary
party. Only then can their today's sacrifice and struggle progress
towards success.
-Central Committee, Proletarian Party of Purbo Bangla.
