OIL SUBSIDY REMOVAL/FUEL PRICE HIKE Fast Lane To Socio-political Catastrophes Say No To Fuel Subsidy Removal! No to Fuel Price Hike! For 48 Hour Warning General Strike and Mass Protest Now!! By Segun Sango Come January 2012, the Jonathan government has announced that its decision to remove the so-called subsidy on fuel prices will be implemented. Going by past experience
PRIVATISATION OF PHCN: Labour Must Resist It For PHCN to be Kept Public under the Democratic Control of Workers and Consumers For Solidarity Action by Trade Unions and Pro-Labour Organisations No to Militarization of PHCN Installations By Peluola Adewale President Goodluck Jonathan government recently deployed soldiers to occupy the installations of Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN) nationwide. Jonathan has
ACN WIELDS THE AXE ON PUBLIC EDUCATION IN LAGOS STATE 725% Fee Hike in LASU! Students’ Union Banned! By H.T. Soweto and Keye Ewebiyi Babatunde Raji Fashola, the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) governor of Lagos state has announced a 725% increment in fees payable by students of Lagos State University (LASU). In response to peaceful protests by students, the
MASS BOYCOTT OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT ELECTION IN LAGOS An Indication for A Working People Political Alternative To CAN By ‘Lanre Akinola Lagos State government through the State Independent Electoral Commission (SIEC), on Saturday, October 22, 2011, conducted election into 20 constitutionally recognized Local Governments (LG) and the so-called 37 Local Development Area Councils (LCDA). The State Independent Electoral Commission (SIEC)
ONE YEAR OF AREGBESOLA’S ERA How Well Have The People Fared? By Alfred Adegoke November 27 marks the first anniversary of the coming to power of Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola as Osun State Governor pursuant to the well acclaimed judicial victory ending the tyrannical but illegitimate second term regime of the ousted Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)
EUROZONE: Into The Abyss? Fragmentation Of The Eurozone Could Trigger Another Deep Financial Crisis And Global Economic Downturn By Lynn Walsh, Editor, Socialism Today, monthly magazine of the Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales), the sister organization of Democratic Socialist Movement. Read full article here The Eurozone is at a tipping point. EU leaders are in disarray and have no
LIBYA: Gaddafi Dead – What Next? Independent Action by Libyan Workers, Youth and Poor Vital To Prevent Revolution’s Derailment By Robert Bechert, Committee for a Workers’ International (CWI) While the defeat of the last major forces defending Gaddafi’s dictatorial and increasingly megalomaniac regime was widely welcomed, the way in which it fell means that clouds now hang over the future
STILL NO RESPITE FOR 250 SACKED DANGOTE PASTA WORKERS CDWR Calls On NUFBTE And NLC To Immediately Mobilise For A Fight Back By Victor Osakwe For over one year now the inalienable rights of workers to freely associate have been brutally attacked by the management of Dangote Pasta Plant Ikorodu, a company owned by Aliko Dangote, the richest man in
ATTACKS ON DEMOCRATIC RIGHTS AT ROCHAS FOUNDATION COLLEGE, IBADAN, OYO STATE We Demand the Immediate Recall of Sacked Biology Teacher, Abiodun Bamigboye By H.T. Soweto, National Coordinator, ERC The Education Rights Campaign (ERC) condemns attacks on democratic rights at Rochas Foundation College Ibadan Oyo state. Particularly we condemn the sack of Mr. Abiodun Bamigboye who was a biology teacher at
LAGBUS: A Classic Case Of Public Resources Channelled Towards Private Interest By Chinedu Bosah When LAGBUS started transport operation in Lagos State, many heave a sigh of relief. The popular belief among motorists was that a public transport outfit had come to rescue Lagosians of chaotic transportation system. The transportation company which is widely known as LAGBUS or “Fashola bus”
Joint Action Front (JAF) Holds Congress By H. T. Soweto Saturday and Sunday, 8 and 9 October 2011, saw the Joint Action Front (JAF), the civil society partner of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) in the Labour and Civil Society Coalition (LASCO), hold its second delegate congress. JAF was formerly known as Joint Action
Workers Of Rebecca Fashion Ltd Protest Poor Working Conditions 2-Day Strike Wins Partial Concession By Chinedu Bosah Workers of Rebecca Fashion Limited, a Chinese company that produces Noble brand of weave-on (hair weave), went on an indefinite strike on Thursday, October 27, 2011 to press demand for better pay and improved working conditions as well as against casualisation. The strike
ASUU BEGINS “COMPREHENSIVE AND INDEFINITE STRIKE” For A Joint Struggle Of Education Workers, Students And The Working Masses Don’t Sit-At-Home! Organise Rallies And Public Protests! By H.T. Soweto, National Coordinator, ERC The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) commenced what it tagged “comprehensive and indefinite strike” on Monday December 5, 2011. The indefinite strike of ASUU is to protest the
Zartech AAEUN branch must reverse the indefinite suspension order on Kayode Wintola, its Welfare Off
Trade Union democracy Zartech AAEUN branch must reverse the indefinite suspension order on Kayode Wintola, its Welfare Officer, NOW! A fighting workers’ union free of management influence is needed now!!* By Abbey Trotsky The Zartech branch of Agricultural and Allied Employees Union of Nigeria (AAEUN) has issued out an indefinite suspension letter to its welfare officer, Kayode Wintola, who is
GOODLUCK JONATHAN FULL TERM PRESIDENCY: Can the Economy and Policy Get Better? To his bourgeois promoters plus also the few elements who wrongfully have hope in him, Goodluck Jonathan is a God-sent president to effect Nigeria’s socio-economic “transformation”. He is the only politician, who became a governor and then later president within a period of 5 years, without ever having
ROBBERY UNDER THE GUISE OF PRIVATISATION Labour Should Immediately Pull Out of Privatisation Council Now and Champion a Clear Pro-Working People Alternative By Peluola Adewale Just as obtained in the power probe by the House of Representatives in 2008, Nigerians have been treated to a reality show of monumental frauds and daylight robbery perpetrated in the name of privatization exercise.
THE STRUGGLE FOR N18,000 MINIMUM WAGE For A Two-Day General Strike Now! No To Retrenchment of Workers By H.T. Soweto The current administration had hardly been inaugurated when workers were set on a warpath with the Federal and state governments over the implementation of the N18,000 new National Minimum Wage. Especially in the public sector, strike activities involving tens of
FLOODS: Consequences of Lack of Planning By Bosah Chinedu The downpour across the country and its attendant flood has continued to leave behind loss of billions of naira worth of properties, deaths and homelessness. Floods are the Nigeria’s tsunami or hurricane, even though it could have been avoided if society was well planned. The states which are the worst affected
DANGOTE PASTA SACKS 250 WORKERS FOR JOINING UNION CDWR Demands Unconditional Reinstatement of All Workers and the Respect of Their Rights to Unionise By Victor Osakwe, Secretary, CDWR For over one year now the inalienable rights of workers to freely associate has been brutally attacked by the management of Dangote Pasta Plant Ikorodu, a company owned by Aliko Dangote, the
ZARTECH Workers Agitate For Improved Welfare Conditions As They Seek To Change Their Union Affiliati
ZARTECH Workers Agitate For Improved Welfare Conditions As They Seek To Change Their Union Affiliation By Abbey Trotsky The determination to keep the fight for improved living and working condition alive has been demonstrated by workers in ZARTECH Nigeria limited, Oluyole, Ibadan with their ongoing agitation to change their union affiliation from the Agricultural and Allied Employees Union of Nigeria