Democratic Socialist Movement

For Struggle, Solidarity and Socialism in Nigeria

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Workers Struggle in the past one year and the Tasks Ahead

Workers Struggle in the past one year and the Tasks Ahead Kola Ibrahim For the past one year, the working people of Nigeria have had causes to engage the capitalist ruling class of different shades and disguises in fierce battles. These battles are against the attempt of the Nigerian governments and their big business partners to drive down the living

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MINIMUM WAGE: OYO WORKERS RESUME STRUGGLE, REJECT ROTTEN OFFER FROM THE STATE GOVERNMENT

MINIMUM WAGE: OYO WORKERS RESUME STRUGGLE, REJECT ROTTEN OFFER FROM THE STATE GOVERNMENT By Abbey Trotsky Oyo State workers have gone back to the trenches in their struggle for implementation of the minimum wage. At a joint congress held on March 16, 2012, the workers overwhelmingly rejected the new salary scale released by the state government. The workers who belong

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The “Kony 2012” phenomena How to end a nightmare?

The “Kony 2012” phenomena: How to end a nightmare? Robert Bechert, Committee for a Workers’ International Seldom before has an idea spread so quickly across the world. Within days tens of millions watched Invisible Children’s “KONY 2012” video as it went viral across the internet and social media. Shocked at the story of killing, rape and child soldiers, demands multiplied

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NO HOPE UNDER CAPITALISM: TIME FOR SYSTEM CHANGE

NO HOPE UNDER CAPITALISM: TIME FOR SYSTEM CHANGE NIGERIA: AN INTRACTABLE SOCIO-ECONOMIC CRISIS By Segun Sango, General Secretary, Democratic Socialist Movement Left alone to imperialist/capitalist analysts, Africa and Nigeria’s economy in particular are passing through the best of time. For instance, the Financial Times of London in its November 23, 2011 special edition on Nigeria reports: “African economies have been

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South Africa One-day general strike shows workers’ willingness to fight back

South Africa One-day general strike shows workers’ willingness to fight back 200,000 march across South Africa Democratic Socialist Movement (CWI in South Africa) Reporters When South Africa’s largest and most militant trade union federation, the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu), organised a one-day general strike on March 7, the first such action in over ten years, after avoiding

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Remembering the struggles & victories of women workers

International Women’s Day 2012 Remembering the struggles & victories of women workers For more than a century, 8 March has been the day to commemorate and celebrate the fight of working class and revolutionary women for a better deal and a socialist society. Clare Doyle, Committee for a Workers’ International (CWI) Its origins are in the struggles for equal pay