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Bangladesh at a Precipice – A tale of two massacres I attended a talk last Thursday night at CUNY Graduate Center that focused on the Shahbag Movement in Bangladesh, which was a quasi-spontaneous movement of individuals who descended on the Shahbag neighborhood a few months ago in Dhaka in protest after an International Crimes Tribunal there failed to declare a death sentence on war criminal Abdul Quader Mollah (who received a life sentence instead). This tribunal and the movement that created it (and pressures it) revolves around the prosecution of a few key figures who have escaped punishment for the more generalized, widespread violence and genocide at the time of Bangladesh’s war for independence from Pakistan in 1971– The recent collapse of a textile factory in Dhaka that has killed at least 501, 600 (which will most likely rise) is one of the worst manufacturing disasters in human history and will also see the trials of a few key figures who will be found guilty while the more generalized, widespread violence of capitalistic competition and cost-cutting will escape prosecution. These two events, while concerned with scenarios separated by decades and distanced by the different foci of nationalism/genocide vs. international finance/proletarianization still allow us to focus on this unique area of the world where a confluence of currents shows the crisis of bourgeois/market capitalist democracy. More at http://guavapuree.wordpress.com/2013/05/06/bangladesh-at-a-precipice-a-tale-of-two-massacres/ -- http://guavapuree.wordpress.com ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
