Comrade Amal Sen’s 22nd death anniversary observed in Bangladesh

POBNEWS24, Dhaka, Jan16, 2025 : The Workers’ Party of Bangladesh and other left organizations observed the 20th death anniversary of Comrade Amal Sen, one of the pioneers of the communist movement in the subcontinent, the leader of the historic Tebhaga movement, and the founding president of the Workers’ Party of Bangladesh, on Thursday (January 17).
Comrade Amal Sen was born in 1914 in Afra village of present-day Narail district in British India. While still a ninth-grade student, he joined the anti-British imperialist struggle and formed ties with the ‘Anushilan’ association. In 1933, while studying chemistry at BL College in Khulna, he joined the Undivided Communist Party and led the peasant movement against the landlords of the region in the same year. The peasant movement against his father’s landlordism made him more well-known. The movement continued continuously in that region. In 1935, he became a member of the Undivided Communist Party. The legendary man of the historic Tebhaga movement of 1946 became known to everyone as ‘Babuda’. In 1948, he was appointed the secretary of the Jessore Party. After the partition of India and Pakistan, he fell under the wrath of the Pakistani Muslim League government and was imprisoned until 1956. Although he was out for two years, he was arrested again in 1958 and remained in jail until 1969. Although he was released during the mass uprising of 1969, he was arrested again. In March 1971, the people broke out of prison and freed him. A lifelong revolutionary, ungrateful, selfless revolutionary, Comrade Amal Sen was released from prison in 1971 and went to India. At that time, he issued an ‘open letter’ to organize the workers of the confused left movement and unite them in favor of the liberation war. While in India, he made continuous efforts to unite the revolutionaries of this country and formed the ‘Coordination Committee of Communist Revolutionaries’. After independence, in 1972, he formed the Leninist Communist Party against the Peking-Moscow trend and was elected its General Secretary. The Leninist Communist Party formed by Comrade Amal Sen later took the name of the Workers’ Party of Bangladesh. He served as the founding president of the Workers’ Party for a long time. Comrade Amal Sen breathed his last in 2003 at the age of 89. In his political life, Comrade Amal Sen showed the direction of social revolution of communist workers against the left-right deviation of his time with his thought formula called ‘People’s Alternative Power’. Before the collapse of Soviet socialism, in 1977, he wrote an article on his valuable thoughts ‘Regarding the Problems of the World Socialist Movement’. Later, many of those thoughts were also found to be correct. The book ‘Regarding Communist Life and Conduct’ is a must-read book for communists in this country in the practice of the Communist Party and the ideology of life. Tebhaga also highlighted the essence of the movement in his article titled ‘A Study of the Narail Tebhaga Movement’.
On the occasion of the 22nd death anniversary of Comrade Amal Sen, tributes were paid to his portrait in front of the party’s central office. The day’s program began with a tribute by the Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Bangladesh. On behalf of the Central Committee, led by Acting President Mahmudul Hasan Manik and Acting General Secretary Nur Ahmed Bakul, the party’s Politburo member Comrade Anisur Rahman Mallick, central leader Comrade Tapan Dutta, Comrade Himanshu Saha, Comrade Rafiqul Islam Piarul, Comrade Dipankar Saha Dipu, Comrade Amirul Haque Amin, Comrade Zakir Hossain Raju, Comrade Mostafa Alamgir Ratan, Comrade Sabbah Ali Khan Collins, Comrade Abul Hossain, Comrade Murshida Akhtar Nahar, Comrade Tapan Roy and others paid tribute.
Then, the members of the Standing Committee of the Socialist Party of Bangladesh, Shafi Uddin Molla, the freedom fighter, Comrade Sultan Ahmed on behalf of the Socialist Party of Bangladesh (ML), the Workers Party of Bangladesh Narayanganj District, Dhaka Metropolitan South, Dhaka Metropolitan North, Sherpur District, Nilphamari District, Rajshahi District, Thakurgaon District, the National Workers Federation, the National Farmers’ Association, the Bangladesh Agricultural Workers Union, the Bangladesh Women’s Liberation Congress, the Bangladesh Youth Alliance, the Bangladesh Youth Alliance Dhaka Metropolitan South, the Bangladesh Students’ Alliance, the Weekly Notun Katha, the Central Office, the National Garments Workers Federation, the National Domestic Women Workers Union, and the leaders of various progressive-democratic mass organizations of Bangladesh.