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GOODLUCK JONATHAN PRESIDENCY: CAN NIGERIA EXPERIENCE POSITIVE DEVELOPMENT AND IMPROVED LIVING CONDITIONS?MINIMUM WAGE AGITATION: TIME FOR MASS ACTIONS2011 GENERAL ELECTIONS: IS NIGERIA ABOUT TO BREAK A 50-YEAR OLD JINX?DEREGULATION: Labour Must Maintain its Age-long OppositionNIGER DELTA AND GULF OF MEXICO: UNITED BY DISASTER OF CAPITALISMLABOUR AND ATTAHIRU JEGA: Free And Fair Elections Are Meaningless Without A Fighting Mass Working Class Labour PartyFull contents: Socialist Democracy May Day 201031 August 2010 History: 70th anniversary of the assasination of Leon Trotsky | |||||||
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Capitalists attempt literary assassination of Trotsky's ideas
Seventy years ago the greatest living revolutionary of the time, Leon Trotsky, was murdered by Josef Stalin's hit man Ramon Mercader. There had been a number of failed previous attempts on Trotsky's life but this time a fatal blow from an 'ice pick' successfully destroyed the 'brain' of the working class and the symbol of implacable opposition to capitalism and totalitarian Stalinism. This event, celebrated in the Kremlin by Stalin and the bureaucratic elite he represented, also brought joy to the capitalist governments of Europe, America and the world.
24 August 2010
South Africa: General Strike to support public sector workers
South African Government threatens right to strike
* For class independence and workers unity!
* Cosatu out of the Tripartite Alliance Now!
* Build a Mass Workers Party on a Socialist Programme
Pamphlet issued by the Democratic Socialist movement (CWI South Africa)
23 August 2010
Tribute to John Odah at 50
By Segun Sango and Lanre Arogundade
This appreciation of John Odah, the Nigeria Labour Congress's General Gecretary, was published in the Compass newspaper on August 21 and in the Guardian newspaper on August 23.
19 August 2010
WORKERS` STRIKES IN OYO STATE:
A call for a United Action and Working People Political Alternative
By Abbey Trotsky
The perennial economic cum political attacks every pro-capitalist government now characteristically unleashes on workers and other categories of toiling working masses has kept throwing up repeated resistance from workers in Oyo state. In the last five months, workers in different sectors have embarked on one form of strike or the other to press home their various demands that mainly centre on the implementation of agreements which the employers had earlier reached with the aggrieved workers.
12 August 2010
South Africa: 1.3 million public servants in one-day warning strike
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Liv Shange, Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM – CWI in South Africa)
Approximately 20,000 workers marched in Tshwane and 15,000 in Cape Town on Tuesday, 10 August, as 1.3 million public sector workers, organised in the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) and the smaller Independent Labour Caucus (ILC) and Federation Unions of SA (Fedusa), shut down public services like schools and hospitals almost completely. In other towns pickets were held.
9 August 2010
Don't Hand Over Labour Party to Moneybags
Trade Unions must condemn the outrageous nomination fees, and actively build and fund the Party
By Peluola Adewale
On the surface the National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting of the Labour Party held on May 5, 2010 in Akure Ondo raises hope of the resolve of the party leadership to reposition it as a working peoples' party. The party is aptly described in the NEC communiqué as "the vanguard of all working and labouring people of Nigeria" and therefore "must play that role effectively by winning power for the people in the forth-coming elections". The media news reports were awash with radical speeches made at the meeting. Governor Olusegun Mimiko for instance threw a challenge to the trade unions and labour leaders to participate actively in the party. Good enough, the Nigeria Labour Congress and Trade Union Congress which have already openly adopted the Labour Party as the party of trade unions and workers were ably represented at the meeting. A few days earlier, in his May Day address, the Party's National Chairman Dan Anyanwu called the Labour Party a socialist political party formed in 2002 by the working people of this country.
5 August 2010
UNIBEN: Newly Registered ERC branch holds symposium
The newly registered branch of the Education Rights Campaign (ERC) held its maiden program on Wednesday 28th July 2010 at the Twin Lecture Theatre 11, Social Sciences of the University of Benin (UNIBEN) Benin Edo State. The Education Rights Campaign (ERC) was formed by the Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM) as a platform to campaign against the government's neo-liberal attacks on education.
30 July 2010
Authorities move to crush all left groups on the campus.
Latest on attacks on Socialist students in OAU:
By Peluola Adewale, DSM Lagos
The attack on the DSM and other comrades by the management of the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife, has continued unabated. It has now assumed a perfect blend of barbarism and ridiculousness. In a newspaper report during the week, an official of the Union revealed that the aim of the attacks is to rid the campus of the Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM) and all other ideological groups. More importantly, the University Management which had been alternating between veiled support for the attacks and false claims of neutrality has now officially taken the lead in routing socialist students of the University.
27 July 2010
UNPROVOKED ATTACK ON DSM MEMBERS BY AUTHORITIES-SPONSORED STUDENTS' UNION OFFICIALS AND THUGS OF THE OBAFEMI AWOLOWO UNIVERSITY (OAU)
Ajibola Alex, photo Socialist Nigeria |
Press Conference
We Cry for Justice
Text of a press conference held by the Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM) on Friday 23 July 2010 at the Press Chapel, Osogbo Osun State on the unprovoked attack on DSM members at the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU) Ile-Ife by authorities-sponsored Students union leaders and hoodlums. 12 media organisations attended the press conference.