The Socialist Party of Bangladesh () is an anti-revisionist Marxist-Leninist party in Bangladesh. The party was founded by Comrade Khalequzzaman on 7 November 1980.
Ideology SPB is an anti-revisionist Marxist–Leninist communist party. The party supports the ideologies of Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin, and Mao Zedong. The SPB party holds that Bangladesh is a "capitalist semi-fascist" country. Following its analysis, the party seeks to establish a socialist state through revolution throughout Bangladesh.
In 2013, a group of members under the leadership of Mubinul Haider Chowdhury broke away from the party and formed the Socialist Party of Bangladesh (Marxist) over disagreement on recognition of the thought of Shibdas Ghosh and Ganajagaran Mancha.
Organization Central committee
There are 14 members in the central committee of the party. Comrade Bazlur Rashid Firoz is the General Secretary of Central Committee of SPB. General Secretary: Bazlur Rashid Firoz Joint General Secretary: Razequzzaman Ratan Members: Abdul Kuddus Nikhil Das Janardon Datta Nantu Abdur Razzaq Wazed Parvez Rowshan Ara Rusho Saiful Islam Poltu Julfikar Ali Nabo Kumar Karmakar Sofiur Rahanan Sofi Shampa Basu Manisha Chakraborty
Mass organizations SPB has many political wings, some of them are: Socialist Students' Front (SSF) Socialist Labour Front (SLF) Socialist Peasants' Front (SPF) Socialist Women's Forum (SWF) Progressive Teachers' forum (PTF) Progressive Engineers' and Architects' Forum (PEAF) Progressive Lawyers' Front (PLF) Progressive Agriculturist Centre (PAC) Progressive Doctors Forum (PDF) Progressive Art and Mass Media Workers Forum (PAMMWF) Bangladesh Shipping Workers Federation (BSWF) Re-rolling Steel Mills Labour Front (RSMLF) Charan Sangskritik Kendro Shishu Kishor Mela (SKM) Platform of Science Movement (PSM)
Socialist Students' Front
The Socialist Students' Front (SSF) () is the student's wing of SPB. This organization is one of the largest leftist students' organization in the country. The slogans of the SSF are: "Socialist Students' Front, commitments to the revolution!" and "Socialist Students' Front, commitments to save the rights of education!"
The SSF was established on 21 January 1984. The main objective of the SSF is to build a students’ movement throughout the country to bring about educational reforms to make education cheap, universal, scientific, truly secular, equal, and democratic, and to create an education system that is a revolutionary movement for the overthrow of capitalism and establishment of socialist state. SSF is a member of several international students' organizations including World Federation of Democratic Youth.A short background of ssf
Mouthpiece The official party newspaper, Vanguard (), is published monthly in Bengali. SPB central committee member Razequzzaman Ratan is the current chief editor.
Election results Jatiya Sangsad elections
ElectionParty leaderVotes%Seats +/–PositionGovernment1991Khalequzzaman Bhuiyan34,8680.10%New 21stFeb 1996Boycotted 0Jun 199610,2340.02% 0 20th200121,1640.04% 0 13th200838,6430.06% 0 18th2014Boycotted 0201817,5910.02% 0 19th2024Bazlur Rashid FirozBoycotted 0202640,000 0.05% 0 13th
See also List of anti-revisionist groups
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