AS WE approach a major anniversary 鈥� 80 years since the defeat of fascism 鈥� a strange silence hangs over my country, Macedonia, and the broader region we now call the territory of former Yugoslavia. National authorities have been under...
An unidentified youth set fire to two motifs crafted for the upcoming Bengali New Year鈥檚 Barshabaran Ananda Shobhajatra at the Faculty of Fine Arts of Dhaka University early Saturday.
National Consensus Commission vice-chairman Professor Ali Riaz on Thursday said that fascism might return if any government was formed through a fair election without completing reforms.
鈥業 AM worried.鈥� Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen鈥檚 recent observation on Bangladesh鈥檚 post-fascism situation, for understandable reasons, has received wide publicity. Sen made this comment in an exclusive interview with the Press Trust of India (PTI)...
Socialist Students鈥� Front, left-leaning student wing of the Socialist Party of Bangladesh (Marxist), on Tuesday called for people鈥檚 unity to abolish fascism...
Speakers at a seminar held in Dhaka on Saturday condemned arbitrary suspension of officials from education, health, fisheries and livestock cadres, and the public administration reform commission鈥檚 negligence in listening to the voice of those protesting against inter-cadre discrimination...
Students of the University Of Liberal Arts Bangladesh on Thursday began hunger strike, demanding resignation of vice-chancellor Imran Rahman...
A group of students under the banner of Students Against Fascism on Sunday evening staged a protest march, demanding the proctor鈥檚 resignation in the incident of removing the portrait of deposed prime minister...
Information and broadcasting adviser Md Nahid Islam on Friday called for strengthening cultural movement to motivate people against fascism.
Bangladesh Nationalist Party secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Thursday warned that there was a possibility for the return of fascism in the country.
Several student organisations on Wednesday evening staged a protest procession and sit-in at Dhaka University, demanding the dissolution of the existing Dhaka University syndicate body, labeling it illegal and complicit in fascism...
Bangladesh Nationalist Party secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Wednesday accused India of hatching conspiracies against Bangladesh while it gave shelter to 鈥榯he mastermind of fascism鈥�...
FOR more than half a century, Bangladesh has grappled with the promise of democracy, caught in a cycle of progress and regression, and聽 hope and suppression. The country鈥檚 journey...
Speakers, including lawyers, at a discussion on Saturday urged the people not to scrap the existing constitution on a whim...
Some politicians attending a dialogue on Saturday slammed civil society organisations for helping the Awami League government, which was ousted on August 5, turn...
After the fall of the Hasina-led authoritarian regime on August 5 amid the student-led mass uprising in July and August, a debate emerged over whether to reform the existing constitution or draft an entirely new one. Many argued that the current constitution, after years of politically motivated amendments and modifications, has lost its original..
Information and Broadcasting Adviser Md Nahid Islam on Wednesday said the instigators of the genocide, committed during the student-people uprising, will be brought to book...
Speakers, including writers and journalists, at a discussion said on Tuesday that they had to remove fascism from the society as it was a negative system.
Poets and writers at a programme on Monday urged people of the country to remain alert so that no government could be a 鈥榝ascist鈥� and 鈥榙ictator鈥� in the name of development or any other issues in future...
Students and other people on Friday announced a 鈥�10-point charter for the interest of all鈥� at a rally in the capital to prevent any attempts to bring back autocracy and fascism, calling on all to implement the charter in their respective neighbourhoods...
Leaders of the Left Democratic Alliance, Anti-fascism Left Alliance and some other left parties demanded resignation of the Awami League government for its failure to resolve the ongoing crisis of the country politically and its atrocities to control student protests demanding reform of the quota system in government jobs...
TWO recent events have shattered complacency about the specter of a fascist takeover globally that a number of us have been warning about for some time now. In Europe, far-right parties scored impressive gains in the elections to the European Parliament in June. In Germany, the Alternative for Germany and other like-minded parties...
WITH the advent of a leader like Donald Trump, we have been watching for the last few decades that the United States is slowly becoming a fascist state. There is a quotation circulating since the last century and it goes like this: 鈥榃hen Fascism Comes to America, It Will Be Wrapped in the Flag.鈥� Although it is more important than who said it, another...
RISHI SUNAK鈥橲 decision to leave D-Day celebrations early to attend an ITV interview will likely be remembered as the worst blunder of this year鈥檚 UK general election campaign. But the British media鈥檚 coverage of the Normandy ceremony missed the main story: that while heads of state gathered to celebrate the end of fascism in Europe...
THE word 鈥榝ascism鈥� is a lightning rod. No one wants to be called a fascist. Everyone is ready to call someone else a fascist...