Democratic Socialist Movement

For Struggle, Solidarity and Socialism in Nigeria

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BUHARI AND THE ANTI-CORRUPTION FIGHT

BUHARI AND THE ANTI-CORRUPTION FIGHT Lagos DSM discusses the anti-corruption fight and the challenges for the working masses The Lagos State Chapter of the Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM) held its first aggregate meeting of the year on 16 January, 2016. The meeting was a follow-up to the previous meeting held in December 2015. It was partly meant to continue the

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Campaign for Registration of SPN Continues

Campaign for Registration of SPN Continues Demos held in 3 states and Abuja On Monday 25th January 2016, the legal action filed by the Socialist Party of Nigeria (SPN) challenging the INEC decision not to register it came up again for mention at the Federal High Court Abuja Division. The case has now again being adjourned till 31st March 2016.

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Pro-Biafra Protest again repressed

Pro-Biafra Protest again repressed DSM member, Comrade Chinedu Agbebire, who was at the protest in Aba Abia State, brings the following eye-witness account as well as comments on the movement’s strenght, limitations and the way forward. On January 18th, 2016, thousands trooped out in Aba Abia State, South East Nigeria, in answer to the call of the Indigenous People of

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Buhari 2016 Budget: Not a Real Change

Buhari 2016 Budget: Not a Real Change By Peluola Adewale With Nigeria groaning under the dead weight of global capitalist crisis which is symptomized by the lowest oil price in 12 years, the 2016 budget appears to have arrived in coma.The oil price has plunged from $116 in July 2014 to less than $30 in January 2016. In addition, doomsday

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LASIEC MUST OBEY THE COURT ORDER FOR THE CONDUCT OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT ELECTIONS IN LAGOS STATE

LASIEC MUST OBEY THE COURT ORDER FOR THE CONDUCT OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT ELECTIONS IN LAGOS STATE We of the Lagos State Chapter of the Socialist Party of Nigeria (SPN) welcome the recent court judgment granted by the Lagos State High Court ordering the Lagos State Independent Electoral Commission (LASIEC) to conduct local government elections in Lagos State without delay. The

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SPN Rejects Mass Sack of Staffs in Osun State Tertiary Institutions

SPN Rejects Mass Sack of Staffs in Osun State Tertiary Institutions We call for reversal of this obnoxious policy Labour unions (ASUP, COEASU, NASU, CASUOSTI etc.), in conjunction with students and communities must organize mass actions to stop attacks on education The Socialist Party of Nigeria (SPN), Osun State Chapter, condemns in absolute terms the mass retrenchment of staff of

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2016 BUDGET: EDUCATION SECTOR REMAINS UNDERFUNDED!

2016 BUDGET: EDUCATION SECTOR REMAINS UNDERFUNDED! Despite a background of Student leaders taking to the airwaves in an attempt to create bandwagon of applause for the 2016 budgetary allocation for the education sector, the allocation still remains lower than that of 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2015. These previous budgets were not also proportionate to the needs of the sector in

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2016 BUDGET

2016 BUDGET 2016 BUDGET: WORKING PEOPLE MUST PREPARE TO DEFEND THEIR LIVING CONDITIONS We of the Socialist Party of Nigeria (SPN) call on the mass of the working people to prepare to resist any attempt to make them pay for the current crisis of capitalism. We make this call based on the admissions of the President Muhammadu Buhari himself that

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REDUCTION IN FUEL PRICE IS A GIMMICK AND INTRIGUE TO IMPOSE DEREGULATION

REDUCTION IN FUEL PRICE IS A GIMMICK AND INTRIGUE TO IMPOSE DEREGULATION The Socialist Party of Nigeria (SPN) sees the reduction of petrol price from N87 to N86.50k as a mere gimmick and intrigue to deceitfully impose on the poor Nigerian working people the neo-liberal capitalist policy of deregulation of the downstream oil sector. The pump price reduction announced by