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President Yar'adua's Era: A new dawn for the masses? DSM newsStatementsOur manifestoAbout usSocialist DemocracyDSM Newspaper DonateCampaignsElection 2015Election 2011Fuel CrisisInternationalStudentsTrade UnionsWomenDownloadsLinks | 19 August 2017 OYO STATE: ERC FREE HOLIDAY COACHING ENTERS SECOND WEEK A Enrollment of 70 Students and 11 volunteer Teachers were recorded in the first weekThe inaugural edition of a free holiday coaching classes organized by the Oyo State branch of the Education Rights Campaign, ERC, for students transiting from SS2 to SS3 in secondary schools in Ibadan North Local government area of Ibadan entered into the second week on Monday, 14 August, 2017. This is after what can be described as an impressive first week of experimentation. 17 August 2017 SPN CONDEMNS ATTACK ON ON “RESIGN OR RESUME” PROTESTERS IN ABUJAAttack shows ruling party intent on repressing all criticism with extreme measuresFor the Unity of Working and Poor People in Struggle Against Anti-poor PoliciesThe Socialist Party of Nigeria condemns the recent Wuse market attack on the #OurMumuDonDo movement led by Charly Boy that was organizing protest actions to call on ailing President Muhammadu Buhari to either “Resume or Resign”. We consider this attack as a clear indication of the ruling All Progressive Congress’s (APC) intent to repress all criticism of the Buhari administration with extreme measures. 16 August 2017 LAGOS COUNCIL ELECTIONS MARRED BY IRREGULARITIES AND APATHY AS APC ‘WINS’ LANDSLIDEFor an electoral body with elected representatives of political parties, social groups and working class organisationsThe result of the recently conducted local council elections in Lagos is a not a surprise to anybody given the desperation of the ruling party using all organs of the state to win election. All Progressives Congress (APC) won all 57 Chairmanship seats, it also won 369 Councillorship seats while Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and Accord Party won 4 and 3 seats respectively. 14 August 2017 ERC BACKS ASUU's TOTAL AND INDEFINITE STRIKE• CALLS ON THE BUHARI/OSINBAJO GOVERNMENT TO IMMEDIATLEY MEET THE DEMANDSThe Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has once again embarked on a total and indefinite nationwide strike. The Education Rights Campaign (ERC) fully backs this indefinite strike action and calls on government to immediately meet the demands in order to avoid a situation where students waste away at home for months. 13 August 2017 As Buhari's Anti-Corruption War Grinds to a Halt: Only Socialist Programme Can End CorruptionOne of the cardinal campaign agenda points of the Buhari/APC is the fight against corruption. Indeed, Buhari was elected on the basis of his assumed integrity and anti-corruption credential. However, two years on, the anti-corruption war has unraveled with government unable to make any major headway, especially as regards retrieval of trillions of naira stolen from public coffer, jailing of public looters and stopping the hemorrhaging of the nation’s purse. 9 August 2017 RESTRUCTURING NIGERIA: The Roles of Nigerian Youth in National RebirthNo doubt, given the present parlous state of the country politically, socially and economically, it will be agreed by all that Nigeria needs an urgent restructuring. However, what we must understand is that restructuring itself is not a new idea in the history of Nigeria. The reason for this state of affairs is because none of the restructuring carried out in the past endeavored to address the fundamental root of oppression, inequality, underdevelopment and marginalization which is the neo-colonial capitalist economic system handed down by Nigeria’s erstwhile Colonial masters. 9 August 2017 Aregbesola Government Owes Workers and PensionersThe Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM), Osun State, hereby condemns the statement widely credited to the Governor of Osun State, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, to the effect that the government he is leading does not owe workers and pensioners. We suspect that the statement is aimed at denying workers and retirees arrears of their salaries and pensions owed over twenty four months. Nothing exemplifies this more than the fact the governor was making the reported statement days after acknowledging the receipt of Paris Club refund to the tune of over N6.3 billion. One of the conditions for the release of the refund to states, according to the Finance Minister Kemi Adeosun, is that state governments agreed that seventy percent of the refund would be used to offset arrears of salaries and pensions. 9 August 2017 RESIDENTS OF AJAO ESTATE SAYS ISSUE PREPAID METER OR NO DISCONNECTIONPeople of Ajao Estate, Lagos, on Sunday 18 June, 2017 held a Town Hall meeting to deliberate the crazy billing issued to them by Ikeja Distribution Company, and for them to agitate for no disconnection in the Estate. Groups and organizations which have helped organize people to peacefully resist disconnection and demand prepaid meters in other parts of Lagos were also invited. They were invited to share their experiences and thumb their solidarity for the efforts in Ajao Estate. 4 August 2017 YRC CALLS FOR INCREASE IN PAY AND REGULARIZATION OF EMPLOYMENT OF N-POWER VOLUNTEERSThe Youth Rights Campaign (YRC) hereby calls for an increase in the pay of N-Power volunteers as well as improvement in their working conditions. This should start with increasing the monthly allowance of the volunteers from the current N30, 000 and the regularization of their employment unlike the temporary and volunteering nature of the scheme. 2 August 2017 CWI/IR unification: An historic strengthening of the forces of Marxism22 July unification congress unanimously approves unification document and incorporation of IR into CWIThe Committee for a Workers’ International (CWI), the worldwide socialist organization which the Democratic Socialist Movement is part of, recently fused with Izquierda Revolucionaria (Revolutionary Left), an organization based in Spain, Mexico and Venezuela. The result is a big strengthening of the CWI’s presence in the Spanish speaking world. | |
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