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Bingsha Shatabdi
Established in 1956, Bingsha Shatabdi follows two different trends in publication, It brings out direct translations from various European languages like French, Dutch, German into Bangla. It deals with both contemporary and classical literature. Its second goal is to publish collections of essays in Bangla and English, and its area of concentration is Social Science And Ancient Indian Civilization and Culture.
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January 2020The Communist Labor Party in Syria (1979-1992). A Chapter from the History of the Syrian Left.
by Rateb Shabo
It is interesting how the author succeeded, in a political book some would necessarily see as a dry text, in making the reader involved and not neutral. But the emotional influx that penetrates the narration never lessens the power of a text whose author could connect the daily details of a revolutionary communist organization to the developments of the regional and international situation; beginning with the Palestinian case, to the extending Lebanese crisis and ending with the fluctuations of the unpitiable Soviet communism – all overshadowed by the tyrant authority of Hafez Al-Assad and his men. Rateb Shabo’s book is a special text in the wide-perspective political analysis from a point of view that is biased to the interests of the oppressed. Though it seems from the story of the book that it tells a marginal story about a small communist organization whose time passed more than twenty-five years ago, Rateb Shabo, the communist author and struggler, drew (while telling the story of the “League”) a live intense painting of the struggling and political history of Syria in the period after the defeat in June 1967 to the collapse of the Eastern Bloc led by the Soviet Union. The story of giving birth to “a new Marxism” in the 1970s, and quite into 1980s – but not a new story. It is not just an Egyptian, Syrian or Arab story; but it is an extending international phenomenon that began with the upheavals of 1968 in all the world, especially in France. This international phenomenon of the raise of new left took different forms from a country to another according to its conditions of conflict and the level of its capacities.
