Tag Archives: Workers

A Struggle From Dawn to Dusk

by Shahidul Alam Posted on August 25, 2011

Subscribe to ShahidulNews By ANDREA RICE Photographs by Taslima Akhter The garment industry is one of the largest industrial sectors in Bangladesh. It accounts for a good portion of the country’s exports and employs more than three million workers. Most of them … Continue reading →

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LIVING WAGES FOR GARMENT WORKERS

by Shahidul Alam Posted on December 21, 2010

Subscribe to ShahidulNews Moshrefa Mishu, illegally arrested and remanded. By Rahnuma Ahmed I have known Moshrefa Mishu for the last 25 years. Since the mid-1980s when the two of us had participated in long and intense discussions with other representatives of … Continue reading →

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The Story of May Day

by Shahidul Alam Posted on May 2, 2010

Elizabeth Schulte tells the history of May Day, a socialist holiday founded to honor the Haymarket Martyrs and celebrate international workers’ solidarity. May 1, 2009 | Issue 695 “THERE WILL be a time when our silence will be more powerful … Continue reading →

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‘The best years of my life’. Or, remittances earned

by Shahidul Alam Posted on June 9, 2008

Subscribe to ShahidulNews Rahnuma Ahmed Amar jiboner sreshtho shomoita dilam. Amar joubon amake ke phirie debe? (I gave the best years of my life. Who will give me back my youth?) A Bangladeshi migrant. Paris, 2002. Bangladeshi workers resting in … Continue reading →

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Keeping the lamp lit

by Shahidul Alam Posted on January 14, 2008

The newly appointed education adviser has my sympathy. He had spoken the truth. With scandals emerging about departing advisers, and accusations flying about the gross incompetence of the ‘PhD’ government, he must have felt the need to demonstrate the character … Continue reading →

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Remembering

by Shahidul Alam Posted on January 2, 2008

Recovering Memory. Recovering Dignity It was 25th March, night. A Pakistani officer accompanied by soldiers entered their Dhaka University flat, dragged out Meghna’s father and and shot him. Jyotirmoy Guhathakurta was a well-known academic. He bled to death slowly, five … Continue reading →

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It Should Not Have Happened

by Shahidul Alam Posted on December 16, 2007

Why should the poor always have to pay for the misdeeds of the government, of the rich? This question surfaced yet again when I stood outside Rangs building on the morning of Dec 12. Rangs, one of the largest business … Continue reading →

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