Emergence of SPB
It is the existing capitalist social order of our country which originated the severe crisis that engulfed the daily life of our people. That is why, only through a revolutionary change of this social frame work these crises can be resolved. But due to the absence of a proletarian revolutionary party the real emancipation of the people has not yet been attained despite many sacrif
ices and struggle. During the British imperial rule the Communist Party of India (CPI) was formed in 1921 and, subsequently, inheriting the old revisionist tradition of CPI, the Communist Party of East Pakistan (EPCP) were formed. Later, in the ’60s those so-called communist parties following blindly the division of the international communist movement were divided into different factions. Despite various inspiring instances of glorious battle and valiant sacrifices of individuals in different, sporadic social, political and economic movements they could not achieve success due to lack of correct political understanding and scientific outlook. These parties were unable to lead the people, both in the independence struggle in India and Bangladesh, due to wrong social analysis i.e. Moreover, they could not build up a proletarian revolutionary party following the scientific methodology guided by Marxism-Leninism. Consequently, being led by the class-urge of fulfilling this vacuum SPB emerged on November 7, 1980, discontinuing its relation with the petty-bourgeois radical trend. SPB detected four points as the basic faults of the so-called communist parties of Bangladesh. These are: 1. to grasp the correct understanding of Marxism-Leninism as a science, 2. to launch struggle covering very aspects of life basing on the principle of Marxism-Leninism, 3. to determine the mode of production and class-character of the state, and thus the strategy and tactics of the revolution, 4. to determine the ethical and methodological aspects of building a revolutionary party. From that very moment SPB fought relentlessly against revisionism inside the party and for the cause of building class-movement through anti-autocratic democratic movement in Bangladesh. Eventually, in 1983, the revisionist trend was totally ousted from the mainstream of the party and SPB emerged as the developing force in the process of formation of a genuine revolutionary party of the proletariat. In spite of many organizational weaknesses and limitations SPB, in the meantime, has made many significant contributions in the sociopolitical movement of Bangladesh. The influence of the party on the working class is increasing day by day. SPB played an important role in the united anti-autocratic democratic movement, which started in 1982 and ended in 1990 overthrowing that military autocratic regime by a means upsurge. Afterwards, in the democratic movements, particularly in the anti-fundamentalism-communalism movement, SPB made a great role. At present, in our country, a movement is going on against the imperialist, especially the US, encroachment on our oil-gas and main port, named Chittagong Port. Mainly the left forces of which SPB is a major party are launching this movement. In recent period, SPB is trying to establish a left alternative current uniting all left parties, group and individuals fighting against the existing two parties hegemony in our politics. Beside this, SPB and its wings e.g. workers, peasants, students etc. have organised a lot of movements, depending on own force, for the last 25 years. Among them the garments workers upsurge on Nov. 2 in 2003, in Naryangonj was an internationally renowned movement.
