Siraj Sikder
[1] Sikder was born on 27 October 1944 in Village Lakarta, Upazilla Bhedarganj, Shariatpur District, British India.[1] On 8 January 1968, along with like-minded activists, Sikder formed a clandestine organisation named Purba Bangla Sramik Andolon (East Bengal Workers Movement EBWM) with an objective to lead a struggle against the revisionism of the existing "Communist" organisations and to form a revolutionary Communist Party.In late 1968, Sikder left his job to establish the Mao Tse Tung Research Center in Dhaka but it was later closed down by the Pakistani government.At the beginning of the war, he went to Barisal and he declared that as a free living space and making it his base attempted to initiate his revolution throughout other places.in a manner perceived by some as boasting and triumphant, implying his involvement and asserting his power, which has been interpreted as reflective of a dictatorial approach.