GenZedong

Hi! Sorry I was late to get back to you. I was asking around other Bangali Communists to see if they had any book recommendations of their own as well (and to check if my recommendations thus far were fine). After talking with them, this is the list of books that I'd recommend to read regarding the History and Politics of our country:

1. 🇧🇩 JASOD er Utthan Poton (জাসদের উত্থান পতন)
2. 🇧🇩 Amar Fashi Chai (আমার ফাঁসি চাই)
3. 🇧🇩 Ami Major Dalim Bolchi (আমি মেজর ডালিম বলছি)
4. 🇧🇩 Tajuddin Ahmed: Neta o Pita (তাজউদ্দীন আহমেদ: নেতা ও পিতা)
5. 🇧🇩 BNP: Shomoy o Oshomoy (বিএনপি: সময় ও অসময়)
6. 🇧🇩 Protinayok: Shirajul Alam Khan (প্রতিনায়ক: সিরাজুল আলম খান)
7. 🇬🇧 Bangladesh: A Legacy of Blood
8. 🇬🇧 Bangladesh: Unfinished Revolution

Bangladesh flagged ones (🇧🇩) are Bangla Language sources, while UK flagged ones are English Language sources. But I'd still recommend reading all of them, if you can read Bangla.

Just a note:

1. Tajuddin Ahmed: Neta o Pita was written by Tajuddin Ahmed's Daughter, so there might be some bias towards him.
2. Likewise, Amar Fashi Chai has an anti-hasina bias (good) and some things written there are being disputed. But it was written by a freedom fighter as well, so...
3. Ami Major Dalim Bolchi is an autobiography written by Major Dalim himself. So there may be some bias here too. Major Dalim is an important figure in Bangladeshi History because he's the one behind the killing of Mujib and (most of) his family in 1975.

But all three of them are still a must-read to figure out how Mujib and his daughter, Hasina were like.

JASOD er Utthan Poton goes on about the Rise and Fall of JASOD - the first political party to come out of Liberated Bangladesh. It used to be a part of Sheikh Mujib's then-Awami League, but because Mujib would keep neglecting them for the more yes man-y faction of the Awami League, they departed from the Awami League to form their own party. "JASOD" btw, stands for JAtiyo ShOmajtantrik Dal. In english this would mean "National Socialist Party", if the nazis didn't ruin this term for everyone. No, JASOD isn't a fascist party. They really are socialist as they say.

BNP: Shomoy o Oshomoy goes on about how BNP - the Bangladesh Nationalist Party - came into being. BNP is the second most popular political party over here, the first one used to be BAL.

I'd also recommend researching about Ershad and Jatiyo Party, as he murdered Ziaur Rahman to get into power. He ruled this country for 8 years straight before a student-led mass movement happened in the 90s to get him off the throne.

• tajuddin ahmed was supposed to serve as the PM after BD became liberated. well, he didn't let that happen lmao
• formed the "rokkhi bahini", which was like his own personal army and used it to crush any form of dissent. an example is the murder of shiraj shikdar, who was a prominent leftist revolutionary over here; essentially defangling the east bengals' proletariat party.
• tried dissolving every single political parties at the time to form BAKSAL and have it be the only allowed political party.
• banned several newspapers to only allow his selected few newspapers

...all this while saying that he wanted to form a democratic country during the liberation war lmao

there's a reason why under his daughter's rule, you couldn't read newspapers from his rule. but truth always has a way to get out into the world.

no problem comrade. i'm glad that you can understand why hasina really "fell" as opposed to the common narrative that's been going on around here, that "america got her off".

i think for once the west might have a good reason to not approve her, seeing as how she took part in the tradition of vote stealing (read: telling people INSIDE THE PRIVATE VOTE BOOTHS to vote for her, beating up anyone who didn't vote for her - especially anyone who voted for BNP. people have also been saying the vote boxes were already filled when they got there, which is insane) to illegitmately slingshot herself to power in the elections after 2008/2014, just like everyone before her (like sheikh mujib and even fucking khaleda zia). unless there were other reasons the west didn't like her - in which case, idk about it.

but yes, she only has herself to blame for this revolution to take place. there were many, many things that she could've done right with the people to prevent this from happening - but at the bare minimum, she could've stopped trying to deify her father, herself and stopped trying to turn the freedom fighters + their descendants into a new privileged class and stopped pushing the bullshit anti-meritocratic quota law in our faces. she also shouldn't have tried to intimidate us when we protested against this bullshit quota law by gunning down unarmed protestors or even innocent people/children!

she even tried to control this shit by turning off/slowing the internet down to a crawl (like she always did when people protested against her and her guard dogs were let loose) and claiming "data centers got burnt durr" or "we're repairing the submarine cables durr", like we're that fucking dumb and the internet is her daddy's property to turn on and off at will.

she did all this crap and then has the guts to say "if i gave uncle sam what he wanted, i would still be in power". lmfao. dumb out-of-touch boomer. then again, she also cried crocodile tears right after gunning down unarmed protestors and kids, so.

It’s so frustrating to read anything about IMF loans because most summaries are all euphemistic economic jargon

they do this to make it seem like "nothing is unusual", or to make you feel too bored to keep reading. first impressions and all that.

what are they gonna sell though

Yes, 1992 was first year of yet another imperialist cycle of opening new markets (read: unlimited plunder) with added benefit of becoming real nearly unopposed hegemon of entire planet.