Lucky Akter speaks on peasant rights and the plight of peasants in Bangladesh

If the farmers survive, the country will survive; the crisis of the peasants is the crisis of the entire population, says Lucky Akter in Dhaka. A former student activist, she works full-time as a central executive member of the Bangladesh Krishak Samity - the Bangladesh Peasants Union, the oldest and largest peasant organisation in the country. She is also a central member of the Communist Party of Bangladesh. Her extempore song in Bangla reiterates a resolve to organise peasants to get their rights.
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Sapan seminar ‘Labour rights and Democracy in Southasia’ - twelfth in the monthly series: Imagine! Neighbours in Peace, a title borrowed from unpublished Chowk.com anthology, 2005


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