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HomeJoin DSMContact DSMPresident Yar'adua's Era: A new dawn for the masses? DSM newsStatementsOur manifestoAbout usSocialist DemocracyDSM Newspaper DonateCampaignsElection 2007Fuel CrisisInternationalStudentsTrade UnionsWomenDownloadsLinks | 3 July 2009 Workers in OAU hold joint rally over local demandsERC calls on ASUU not to limit its national strike to "stay at home"By Awo TaiwoThe teaching staffs and students of the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife, held a joint rally on Wednesday July 1 with about 2,000 members of Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU), National Association of Academic Technologists Staff (NAATS), the Non Academic Staff Union (NASU) and the Students Union in attendance. 24 June 2009 WE SUPPORT ASUU STRIKEGovernment must implement agreementEducation Rights Campaign (ERC) Press StatementWe of the Education Rights Campaign (ERC) declare our support for the indefinite strike action embarked upon by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) since Monday June 22, 2009, to compel the Federal government to implement agreement reached with it. We call on all Nigerian students to support this strike action and resist all government blackmails and propaganda to discredit striking lecturers. 24 June 2009 IranWhere now for the Iranian revolution?Working class must decisively enter struggleTony Saunois, Committee for a Workers' International (CWI)Thirty years after the 1979 revolution Iran has again erupted in revolutionary convulsions as millions have taken to the streets to protest against the undoubted rigging of the Presidential election. Within a few hours of polls closing, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his cohorts in the theocratic dictatorship claimed a sweeping victory of 64% of the votes cast based on an 85% turn-out. 18 June 2009 JUNE 16 SOWETO MASSACRE ANNIVERSARY ARREST4 ACTIVISTS REGAIN FREEDOMH.T Soweto, National Coordinator, Education Rights Campaign (ERC)Hassan Taiwo Soweto (National Coordinator, the Education Rights Campaign), Chinedu Bosah (National Secretary, Education Rights Campaign) Usman Oloyede (Former PRO, NANS Zone D) and Debo Adeniran (Chairman, Coalition Against Corrupt Leaders) were released on bail today at the Sabo Police Station, Yaba Lagos. Soweto and Chinedu are also members of the Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM) 17 June 2009 Police forcefully disperse youth and students' rally commemorating the 16 June 1976 Soweto massacre in LagosRelease the arrested activists Now!Segun Sango, General secretary, Democratic Socialist MovementThe Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM) condemns the arrest of activists and education campaigners by the police today in front of Yaba College of Technology, Lagos, where they had gathered to take off a peaceful protest march organized by the Education Rights Campaign (ERC) to press home demand for proper funding of education and against victimisation of student and staff activists. We demand their immediate and unconditional release. 16 June 2009 Campaign for Democratic and Workers' Rights in Nigeria27 Soldiers Condemned to Life Imprisonment for Protesting Injustice and Stealing of UN Peace keeping AllowanceCDWR calls for Solidarity for the Persecuted SoldiersWhen 850 soldiers were rounding off their participation at the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Liberia, none could have had the premonition that some of them were on the transit to life imprisonment. The soldiers, drawn from different military formations across Nigeria, participated in the 15th Nigeria battalion (NIBATT 15) of the United Nations Peace Keeping Mission to Liberia (UNMIL) between September 2007 and April 2008. After the successful completion of the service, their allowances made available by the UN were not only delayed but also the soldiers were brazenly short-changed when they were eventually paid. Each soldier was supposed to be paid $7368 for the 6-month period but was given $3000 for the whole period, hereby denying them $4368. 5 June 2009 DSM Press StatementREVOCATION OF NITEL SALE TO TRANSCORPSegun Sango, Democratic Socialist MovementThe revocation of the sale of the Nigeria Telecommunications Limited (NITEL) to the Transnational Corporation of Nigeria (Transcorp) by the Yar'Adua government underscores the failure of neo-liberal policy of privatisation of public utilities. But, for sure the government has not learnt that lesson with its resolve to resell the telecommunication outfit to another set of the so-called private investors. 5 June 2009 NIGER DELTA CRISISCollective Action of the Working Class People of Nigeria NeededJTF must end the occupation now!!Segun Sango, Democratic Socialist MovementThe continued attacks by the Joint Task Force (JTF) on some communities in Delta State have claimed hundreds of innocent citizens while thousands others have been chased out of their homes. As we write, the JTF is moving from one community to another bombarding and destroying properties and lives. One eyewitness account of the senseless and brutish attacks on Oporoza community in the Gbaramatu kingdom as reported by the BBC reveals, "The helicopter gunships hovered low over a crowded street, where people had gathered to celebrate an annual festival, and opened fire with machine guns and rockets." 18 May 2009 LASCO Holds Rally in AsabaOn Friday May 15, 2009, the Labour and Civil Society Coalition (LASCO) organised a second protest-rally in Asaba, Delta state, South-South Nigeria, as part of its nationwide activities to mobilize Nigerian workers and poor to demand a new national minimum wage of N52, 200, a halt in the deregulation of the oil sector by government and electoral reforms. 18 May 2009 US: Modern capitalism and the "Swine Flu" outbreakDisaster worsened by profit systemThe role of agri-businessWhile the swine flu epidemic has not revealed itself to be a pandemic, at least not yet on the scale of the 1918 Spanish Flu, it has exposed the role of profit in creating these situations and the inability of capitalism to swiftly and effectively deal with crises like this one. | |
