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following is a fax from a member of the Bangladeshi 'Garments Workers
Unity Forum' in response to the proposal of a Global Day of Action around
the IMF/WB |
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Dear O. First of all, accept my revolutionary greetings of the ushered millennium. I feel much elated on receiving your fax letter. I would like to extend my sincere thanks as you have remembered me till now. I got a PGA poster from a Bangladeshi person sent by you. Again one more thanks to you for this. You know, we have been going on with making a constant agitating movement and demonstration in Bangladesh against imperialist and ist corporal institution viz. WTO. IMF, WB and all sorts of multinational company. For your kind information, 22nd October of 99 was the day of central council of our worker’s organisation. In this council, with much enthusiasm of thousands of workers, we have adopted policy and action plan nemcon to strengthen our ongoing fight against WTO, IMF, WB, ADB including all other imperialists’ blessed institutions. Here, Bill Clinton, president of USA, will arrive in Bangladesh on March 25th. On that day, our organisation will organise a demonstration and huge protest rally waving black flags. I would
like to draw your kind attention, that we have six mass organisations
as follows: Garments Workers Unity Forum Bangladesh Peasants Forum Bangladeshi
Kishani Forum (Rural Women Organisation), Bangladesh Ingigenous Forum
Matridhara Cultural Command Students Unity Forum. We
have a national organisation too comprising these six mass organisations
and it bears the name "Revolutionary Unity Front (RUF)". We, through these
above mentioned six organisations, along with RUF are going on making
fight against imperialists and ist all institutions. No resistance of
imperialists and ist compradors can abate us from our ongoing continuous
fight, Dear friend, I represented in the PGA’s conference held in Geneva
in February of ’98 on behalf of our organisation as well as Bangladesh.
The participation in this conference made my experience unyielded and
affluent. Our organisation will remember with much gratitude the essential
cooperation that you have extended to me for ensuring my participation
there. The apparent position of our organisation is to build up a firm
unity and militant movement of people accross the world against imperialists
and ist unilateral monopolisation, aggression and regulation. I participated
in the PGA conference surely retaining in mind a boundless expectation
to gear up peoples’ movements accross the world. But it is a matter of
great regrets that, since my handbag was snatched, I lost all the contact
address and numbers to you all. For this reason I couldn’t make any contact
and communication with you for a long time. It is my pleasure to inform
you of holding a huge demonstration and protest rally with lack flag by
our organisation on the very day of WTO’s ministerial meeting in ’98.
We did too fax to you informing all of these messages. But I felt afflicted
later as not having any reply from you. However, on receiving your letter
yesterday, I have expressed my firm commitment to build up people’s movement
all over the world setting aside all of my afflictions. Dear O., the successful massive protest of Seattle has transfused a stream of strength in our heart. The saga of successful movement of people in Seattle has been uttered repeatedly in a gut manner in all the movement, struggle and speeches of agitating rally. This revolt and agitation has been expanded all over the world. This movement shouldn’t be confined in only Europe or North America. I think, in regards to expansion the robust zeal of this movement, PGA can play a vital and pivotal role. Now, here, we are keeping our opinion after perusing your proposal in our organisation. These are as follows: We think, it be a much better program to fix a certain date as global day of action on 26/28th September during the annual general meeting of IMF/WB. ‘GlobalDay of Action’ will be observed respectively in all countries and along with this, a militant protest and agitation rally have to be oganised to be held in Prague on 26/28th of September during theannual general meeting and on 16/17th of April in Washington during the executive meeting. All member organisations to PGA should be contacted now and once in order to hold these two programmes with utmost success. Duringthe annual general meeting of IMF/WB of Prague on 26/28th September, PGA may take a program to submit memoranda to the person concerned on behalf of all member organisations of all countries. Collecting pictures and news of the programme ‘Global Day of Action’,agitation and protest rally of Prague and Washington, Bulletin, posters should be published and be sent to all countries to strengthen the campaign movement. Friend O., we would like to impart you about our opinion on the context of your proposal. Please, inform us of all messages promptly and hope you will continue to keep in touch with us. Let me also inform about the Latin American and European meeting of PGA. I would like to get the number of web-site concerning this, if there is any. A continuous contact will gear up movement - and hope you will make a regular communication from this responsibility. I too express my firm commitment to keep a contact to you. If you feel any urge of our participation in these programs, you can inform us. With revolutionary greetings to all my friends, M |