On 25–27 November 2025, three separate fire disasters in Dhaka’s Korail slum, a massive apartment blaze in Hong Kong’s Tai Po (Wang Fuk Court), and a late-night inferno near Rithala metro station in Delhi (8 Nov 2025) shows how overcrowded & commodified housing is very dangerous due to which a minor thing can become a catastrophe . Let us check each incidents in detail .
1- Bangladesh
Reports (Al Jazeera, Reuters, AP) say a huge fire ripped through Korail one of Dhaka’s biggest and most densely packed shantytowns on the evening of 25 November 2025. About 1,500 tin shanties were burned or damaged; thousands were left homeless. According to official data, some 60,000 families, many of them climate refugees, live in the area, which covers more than 65 hectares (160 acres). Dhaka, a city of 10.2 million people as of 2024, has hundreds of shantytowns where people from rural Bangladesh migrate because of poverty and exploitation. Climate-induced disasters also push them to the city’s poorest areas, where they live on low-paid daily labour such as driving rickshaws and working as housemaids and cleaners.
2- Hong kong indent
At 14:51 local time on Wednesday (06:51 GMT), a fire broke out at the Wang Fuk Court apartment complex in Tai Po, home to around 4,600 residents. The fire ripped through the estate for over a day – before finally being put out on at around 10:18 local time (02:18 GMT) this morning. At least 128 people are now known to have died in the fire and there are dozens still missing. Authorities say they don’t yet know what caused the Hong Kong high-rise fire – but have started to paint a picture of what could have contributed to its rapid spread. Wang Fuk Court consists of eight tower blocks, each 31 storeys high. Seven have been affected by the fire. According to a 2021 government census, the complex provided 1,984 apartments for some 4,600 residents. Now the authorities will try to blame a few individuals or call the incident an issue of ‘irresponsibility’, but they will avoid addressing the real problem, the overcrowded, high-rise apartment structures themselves. In these skyscrapers, residents say it is extremely difficult to escape during a fire, and the tightly packed units allow flames and smoke to spread rapidly across floors.
3- Delhi incident .
A man died and another sustained burn injuries after a massive fire broke out spreading to around 500 shanties near Rithala Metro station in Delhi’s Rohini, the Delhi Fire Services (DFS) said. Police said “several LPG cylinders were said to have exploded late Friday [November 8, 2025] evening, intensifying the blaze and triggering panic among residents. Thick plumes of smoke were seen rising from the area even as locals scrambled to save their belongings and move to safer places. Preliminary information suggests that 400 to 500 huts have been gutted, fire officials said. Most of the People affected by it are migrant workers who do scrap work & household jobs . Now the question is how these guys would survive through donations or philanthropy ? We don’t think that this is enough , the only way to fight those incidents is through getting united but we will discuss this later in this same article .
What Comrade Engles have said on the housing question ?
I bring this issue about housing question since I think the main reason for this type of fire indents is overcrowded housing & As engles explained the so called housing shortage occurs because the growth of the big modern cities gives the land in certain areas, particularly in those which are centrally situated, an artificial and often colossally increasing value the buildings erected on these areas depress this value, instead of increasing it because they no longer correspond to the changed circumstances. This shortage is not something peculiar to the present it is not even one of the sufferings peculiar to the modern proletariat in contradistinction to all earlier oppressed classes. On the contrary, all oppressed classes in all periods suffered more or less uniformly from it.( like we can see in the case of hong kong fire the non proletariat section got suffered) In order to make an end of this housing shortage there is only one means to abolish altogether the exploitation and oppression of the working class by the ruling class.
Now what workers should do in these case ?
In these conditions, workers must form struggle committees of their own organisations rooted in the locality to support one another and raise political demands against the capitalist housing system. Such committees would not only help during fires, but also in future crises: water shortages, forced evictions by builders, communal or fascist attacks on slum residents, and any other assault on working class life. But these committees must link themselves with the wider working class and be guided by a scientific programme. Their strength lies in their collective power and their clarity comes from a programme born out of class struggle. Without both the muscle of organisation and the brain of a revolutionary programme, their movement will collapse into bourgeois reformism & things will remain the same so the conclusion is simple organised or be crushed .
Sources
No War But the Class War Initiative in South Asia 
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