Socialist Party of Bangladesh বাংলাদেশের সমাজতান্ত্রিক দল | |
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| Abbreviation | BaSaD BASOD SPB |
| General Secretary | Bazlur Rashid Firoz |
| Founder | Khalequzzaman Bhuiyan |
| Founded | 7 November 1980 (1980-11-07) |
| Headquarters | 23/2 Topkhana Road,Dhaka, Bangladesh |
| Newspaper | Vanguard |
| Student wing | Socialist Students' Front |
| Ideology | |
| Political position | Far-left |
| National affiliation | Democratic United Front LDA |
| International affiliation | ICOR |
| Colours | Red |
| Slogan | দুনিয়ার মজদুর, এক হও! ("Workers of the world, unite!") |
| House of the Nation | Parliament dissolved |
| Mayors | 0 / 1 [a] |
| Councillors | Post dissolved |
| District councils | Post dissolved |
| Subdistrict councils | Post dissolved |
| Union councils | Post dissolved |
| Municipalities | Post dissolved |
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| Website | |
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TheSocialist Party of Bangladesh (Bengali:বাংলাদেশের সমাজতান্ত্রিক দল) is ananti-revisionistcommunist party in Bangladesh.[2][3][4] The party was founded by Comrade Khalequzzaman on 7 November 1980.
SPB is an anti-revisionistMarxist–Leninist communist party. The party supports the ideologies ofKarl Marx,Friedrich Engels,Vladimir Lenin,Joseph Stalin, andMao Zedong. The SPB party holds that Bangladesh is a "capitalist semi-fascist" country. Following its analysis, the party seeks to establish asocialist state throughrevolutionary socialism throughout Bangladesh.[citation needed]
In 2013, a group of members under the leadership of Mubinul Haider Chowdhury broke away from the party and formed theSocialist Party of Bangladesh (Marxist) over disagreement on recognition of the thought ofShibdas Ghosh andGanajagaran Mancha.[5]
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There are 14 members in the central committee of the party. Comrade Bazlur Rashid Firoz is the General Secretary of Central Committee of SPB.
SPB has many political wings, some of them are:
The Socialist Students' Front (SSF) (Bengali:সমাজতান্ত্রিক ছাত্রফ্রন্ট) is the student's wing of SPB. This organization is one of the largestleftist students' organization in the country. The slogans of the SSF are: "Socialist Students' Front, commitments to the revolution!" and "Socialist Students' Front, commitments to save the rights of education!"
The SSF was established on 21 January 1984. The main objective of the SSF is to build a students’ movement throughout the country to bring about educational reforms to make education cheap, universal, scientific, truly secular, equal, and democratic, and to create an education system that is arevolutionary movement for the overthrow of capitalism and establishment ofsocialist state. SSF is a member of several international students' organizations includingWorld Federation of Democratic Youth.[7][8]
The official party newspaper,Vanguard (Bengali:ভ্যানগার্ড), is published monthly in Bengali. SPB central committee member Razequzzaman Ratan is the current chief editor.
| Election | Party leader | Votes | % | Seats | +/– | Position | Government |
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| 1991 | Khalequzzaman Bhuiyan | 34,868 | 0.10% | 0 / 300 | New |  21st | Extra-parliamentary |
| Feb 1996 | Boycotted | 0 / 300 |  0 | N/a | Extra-parliamentary | ||
| Jun 1996 | 10,234 | 0.02% | 0 / 300 | 0 | 20th | Extra-parliamentary | |
| 2001 | 21,164 | 0.04% | 0 / 300 | 0 | 13th | Extra-parliamentary | |
| 2008 | 38,643 | 0.06% | 0 / 300 | 0 |  18th | Extra-parliamentary | |
| 2014 | Boycotted | 0 / 300 | 0 | N/a | Extra-parliamentary | ||
| 2018 | 17,591 | 0.02% | 0 / 300 | 0 | 19th | Extra-parliamentary | |
| 2024 | Bazlur Rashid Firoz | Boycotted | 0 / 300 | 0 | N/a | Extra-parliamentary | |
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