The Socialist Party of Bangladesh () is an anti-revisionist communist party in Bangladesh. The party was founded by Comrade Khalequzzaman on 7 November 1980.
SPB is an anti-revisionist MarxistâÂÂLeninist communist party. The party supports the ideologies of Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin, and Mao Zedong. The SPB party holds that Bangladesh is a "capitalist semi-fascist" country. Following its analysis, the party seeks to establish a socialist state through revolutionary socialism throughout Bangladesh.
In 2013, a group of members under the leadership of Mubinul Haider Chowdhury broke away from the party and formed the Socialist Party of Bangladesh (Marxist) over disagreement on recognition of the thought of Shibdas Ghosh and Ganajagaran Mancha.
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) () is the student's wing of SPB. This organization is one of the largest leftist 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 studentsâ 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 a revolutionary movement for the overthrow of capitalism and establishment of socialist state. SSF is a member of several international students' organizations including World Federation of Democratic Youth.
The official party newspaper, Vanguard (), is published monthly in Bengali. SPB central committee member Razequzzaman Ratan is the current chief editor.