President Sunday is Wrong About Religion (WDFXI)
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Wage Inequality in Bangladesh’s Garment Industry: The Cat is Out of the Bag
The Ready-Made Garment (RMG) sector, the primary engine of Bangladesh’s economy, has long been embroiled in a profound internal crisis. Recent street protests by workers demanding a living wage have exposed the industry’s structural vulnerabilities. The forced shutdown of hundreds of factories, severe law-enforcement crackdowns on protests, and
Spontaneous Class Struggle Intensifies in Bangladesh—Yet the Working Class Remains Confused by Reformism
The current political and socioeconomic landscape of Bangladesh is navigating an unprecedented and deeply complex juncture. After years of political transitions, shifting power dynamics, and various upheavals, millions of toiling people in the country now face a harsh reality. Over the past few days, the industrial belts have transformed into
Green On Paper, Grey On The Ground
Green Colonialism in Indonesia In the brochures, everything looks clean. Geothermal turbines line up neatly on green slopes, electric cars glide by without a sound, and a new city in the middle of the Kalimantan forest is drawn complete with flowering gardens on every corner. The story being trumpeted never
N(e→o)W
“Pointillist time is broken up, or even pulverized, into a multitude of ‘eternal instants’ – events, incidents, accidents, adventures, episodes – self-enclosed monads, separate morsels, each morsel reduced to a point ever more closely approximating its geometric ideal of non-dimensionality.” - Zygmunt Bauman (Consuming Life) .1 The history of time can be