পাতা:বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্র (চতুর্থ খণ্ড).pdf/৫৩০

500 বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিল : চতুর্থ খন্ড শিরোনাম সূত্র তারিখ শ্রমিক লীগের পক্ষ থেকে বিশ্বের শ্রমিক বাংলাদেশ কেন্দ্রীয় শ্রমিক ৮ আগষ্ট, ১৯৭১ সমাজের কাছে সাহায্যের আবেদন ংগ্রাম কমিটি AN APPEAL TO THE WORKERS OF ALL NATIONS OF THE WORLD The war of liberation of Bangladesh is going on. In this uneven war on one side is the invading armed hordes of Yahya Khan killing, looting and plundering innocent and unarmed people of Bangladesh for the sake of perpetuating colonial hold on the 75 million people and on the other side is the unarmed people fighting and dying for justice and liberation. The peoples' struggle will continue till the goal of achieving full freedom will COmC trլլC. In the following lines, the special position of the working class of Bangladesh in relation to the liberation movement is being narrated for enlightening the fellow brethren all over the World: There are four million industrial workers in Bangladesh. These include workers 1I] industries, communication sectors and other allied fields. The working class people were the worst victims of the colonial rule perpetuated on Bangladesh by the ruling coterie of West Pakistan. During the last 23 years, the Jagirdars-Landlords, industrial monopolists, and exploiters of West Pakistan, with the active and willing help of the so-called Field marshals, Generals and Air-marshals of the Armed Forces have been systematically exploiting the people of Bangladesh. The economic exploitation was accompanied with continuous and villainous attempts to destroy the distinct and long-cherished political and socio-cultural ideals of Bengalees. This was done in order to break the backbone of our people, so that, they could never consolidate themselves into a homogeneous entity to assert their rights for economic, political and cultural emancipation. The exploitation and repression, in all its forms and features, gradually took a classic form of colonial rule. At this stage, in 1966, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman formulated and declared his historic 6 point programme to constructively combat the imminent disintegration of the people of Bangladesh. The Six-point programme was a comprehensive political formula to ensure economic, political, and cultural emancipation for the people of Bangladesh. The working class being the most conscious section among the "masses, immediately saw in this programme a definite promise/of economic emancipation and under the leadership of Sk. Mujib, came-out in the fore-front of the subsequent mass movements. As a matter of fact" in creating the overwhelming mass upsurge in favor of the 6-point programme in the late sixties in the face of extreme repression and intimidation let lose by the Ayub regime, in toppling his rule and freeing Sk. Mujib from the Agartala conspiracy case and later, in giving the Awami League a historic victory in the last general election, the workers and students of Bangladesh played the most decisive role.