Bishwabandhu, Bangabandhu: Sheikh Mujibur Rehman
Events to Commemorate 50th Anniversary of Bangladeshi Independence
These events were held with the Saturday Free School for Philosophy and Black Liberation in Philadelphia, USA online.
Presentations and discussion on the Bangladeshi struggle for liberation and its implications for our times. Panelists included Dr. Ziauddin Ahmad, Professor of Medicine and Nephrology at Temple University, freedom fighter in the Bangladesh Liberation War.
Dialogue between Indian economist Prabhat Patnaik, Bangladeshi economist and freedom fighter Rehman Sobhan and African American intellectual and freedom fighter Anthony Monteiro on the lessons of the Bangladeshi war of liberation for our times. The discussion touched on the rise of China and the collapse of the Western world order.