Towards a transnational approach
The collapsed Rana Plaza building in 2013. Common Dreams/European Pressphoto Agency/Abir Abdullah
APRIL 24 marked the eighth anniversary of the collapse of the Rana Plaza building that housed five garment factories in Bangladesh. At the expense of capitalist greed in Bangladesh and worldwide, especially in the global south, garment workers are still dying. The Rana Plaza collapse was tragic not just because it killed more than 1,134 workers and injured more than 2,500, but because it could have been prevented as Bangladeshi garment workers had called attention to the cracked infrastructure of the building and made pleas with higher management to respond.