https://iclfi.org/pubs/slbm/2024-bangladesh
The student-led revolutionary uprising in Bangladesh ousted the abhorred Hasina and her party, the Awami League (AL), and paralysed the state apparatus, sending cops fleeing and forcing the army brass to the table. This was a tremendous victory that unleashed the built-up anger of the masses at decades of corrupt rule and a worsening economy.
However, the student leaders of the movement have put their faith in (and some have joined) the interim capitalist government of micro-financier Muhammad Yunus. This is not the way forward; it cannot address the problems confronting Bangladesh. Its purpose is to provide a democratic facade, restore order and change nothing of the underlying economic and social structure responsible for today’s situation.
