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The protest by textile workers in

Bangladesh is escalating

The German newspaper Berliner Zeitung reported yesterday, 5.24, that masses of workers, armed with bamboo sticks burned down at least 14 factory buildings in the industrial town of Ashulia and in the capital Dhaka. Before the police were attacking demonstrators, demanding higher wages, the payment of overtime and at least one day off per week.
According to the trade unions in Bangladesh the workers over month are not getting holidays and many companies are paying the wages not regularely... just when ever the capitalists want.

Now the government anounced to crackdown strongly any "violent protest" - aka state terrorism (I would describe this...).

The textile industry is the backbone of the national economy in Bangladesh. And the most of this goes in the export to the so-called developed countries in Europe, to the US, but also to S. Korea.