Wednesday on April 24, 2013, an eight-story building collapsed, in the town of Savar, near Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh. The building, that housed five textile factories with about three thousand workers, had been declared unsafe time ago. The day before, workers noticed cracks in the upper floors of the building and protested, but were threatened and forced into working anyway by supervisors. The consequence was a tragedy: more than 1,000 workers (mostly women and youths) died under Immediately after the collapse, thousands of female and male workers invaded the streets of Dhaka, claiming justice for Savar victims and security in workplace.

Protesters did not direct their anger only against the bosses and the local government, but also denounced the interests and the pressures of Western garment multinational corporations lying behind the Savar massacre. Actually, almost all the clothing industries of Bangladesh work for these big companies. Big garment brands are the first responsible of the terrible conditions (monthly salaries of 30 euros, very long working hours and lacking safety measures) imposed on Bangladesh factory Five century of colonialism and imperialism have led to extreme poverty in Bangladesh. For many years Western capitalists exploited this situation to impose almost slave conditions. But nowadays, on the wave of industrialization process in China and Asia, a numerous and young working class developed also in this little but very populated country. Workers of Bangladesh are not willing to be passive anymore. They are fighting to improve their conditions, just like the other Asian workers do. What happened in Dhaka demonstrates that. We communist militants of the OCI greet the street protests of workers in Bangladesh.

We are committed to throw light on first responsible of the Savar massacre, starting from Italian garment brands. We denounce that Western capitalistic powers are attempting to Asiatic workers life, inciting rivalry between the states of the region and trying to instigate a huge war in Far East, with the aim to restore their full control on the area. At the same time, we are fighting so that Italian workers begin to see immigrants and workers of Bangladesh, Asia and other continents not as competitors to defend against, but as class allies with whom to start weaving a unitary struggle against the greedy monster that, although in different ways, is oppressing the ones and the others: imperialism and international capitalism.

"Che fare" ("What is to be done") n.78  May 2013 - October  2013