For Struggle, Solidarity and Socialism in Nigeria
2012 BUDGET: Transforming The Economy And Living Condition Of The Working People From Bad To Worse! By Peluola Adewale President Goodluck Jonathan told the nation that his 2012 budget is a “stepping stone to the transformation of our economy and country in our walk to economic freedom.” The working people can only take this statement from the President as a
N18,000 MINIMUM WAGE: AN UNFINISHED BATTLE By Kola Ibrahim In December 2008, the NLC and TUC formally demanded a minimum wage of N52, 200. The agitation lasted until last year when N18,000 was granted as the new minimum wage. At the beginning of this struggle, we in Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM) had proposed that the labour leadership must demand a
Socialist Democracy April-May 2012 Edition NIGERIA’S GENERAL STRIKE/MASS PROTEST AGAINST FUEL PRICE HIKE: Vital Lessons For The Working Class And Youth By H.T. Soweto For 6 days running in January 2012, Nigeria was in the throes of a general strike against an over 120% increase of fuel price from N65 to well above N142 per litre. It was the biggest
SENEGAL ELECTIONS: NO HOPE IN PRO-CAPITALIST SALL By Kola Ibrahim The mass enthusiasm and celebration that accompanied the recent run-off elections in Senegal, in which the incumbent, now outgoing, president, Abdoulaye Wade, was roundly defeated by his former protégé, Macky Sall, has again brought to the fore the increasing but unquenchable quest for change by the working and oppressed people
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
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
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
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
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
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
International Women’s Day: Capitalism has continued to worsen the situation of Women Join the struggle for a socialist alternative By Seun Ogunniyi
DSM HOLDS MEETING TO REVIEW THE STATE OF THE NATION “Only socialist revolution can save Nigeria – a country stupendously rich but whose majority of citizens are perpetually poor” – Segun Sango DSM Lagos aggregate 19 Fenruary 2012 On Sunday 19 February 2012, the Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM) held a Lagos aggregate meeting. The purpose was to bring members together
Education Rights Campaign Press Statement STUDENT DEATH AT AJAYI CROWTHER UNIVERSITY, THE MANAGEMENT IS CULPABLE! We call for a democratic and independent committee to investigate Elvis Paul’s death and bring all culpable university officials to trial The Education Rights Campaign (ERC) condemns the untimely death, on February 5 2012, of Mr. Elvis Abu Paul, a 300 level computer science student
LAGBUS WORKERS EMBARK ON 2-HOUR WARNING STRIKE TO PRESS HOME THEIR DEMANDS CDWR CALLS ON MANAGEMENT AND LAGOS STATE GOVERNMENT TO IMMEDIATELY MEET THEIR DEMANDS Campaign for Democratic and Workers’ Rights (CDWR) By Chinedu Bosah Workers with LAGBUS Asset Management Limited embarked on February 9, 2012 on their fourth strike since the establishment of the company. The strike was initially
DSM CONDEMNS BRUTAL CRUSHING OF MEMORIAL PROCESSION BY ARMED POLICE WE DEMAND PUBLIC APOLOGY FROM POLICE AND GOVERNMENT Segun Sango, DSM General Secretary The Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM) condemns the February 18 crushing by armed police of a memorial procession organized in Lagos by the Joint Action Front (JAF) to mourn over 20 protesters killed across the country during the
JAF Political Memorial for the martyrs and victims of January struggle DSM COMMISERATES WITH FAMILIES OF THOSE KILLED DURING THE STRIKE/MASS ACTION WE DEMAND THE ARREST AND PROSECUTION OF THE KILLERS FOR THE BUILDING OF A MASS WORKING PEOPLES’ POLITICAL ALTERNATIVE TO CHANGE NIGERIA Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM) commiserates with the families of about 20 harmless protesters murdered by trigger-happy
Education Rights Campaign statement SAY NO TO FEE HIKE AND ATTACK ON SCHOLARSHIP IN LASU! FOR A ONE-DAY LECTURE BOYCOTT AND MASS PROTEST TO DEMAND: (1)Reversal of Outrageous Fee Hike, (2) Reversal of the Review of Scholarship Scheme, (3) Restoration of LASUSU, (4) Improved Funding of Education All right-thinking people will certainly condemn the Lagos State Government and the Lagos
Tunisia: “The mass of people continue to struggle” Interview with two Tunisian socialists, one year after the fall of Ben Ali The Socialist, paper of the Socialist Party (CWI in England and Wales) 14 January marked the first anniversary of the downfall of the hated dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali by the Tunisian revolution. ‘The Socialist’, paper of the
Egypt: Mubarak’s state machine behind football stadium massacre 74 killed in horrific scenes David Johnson, Socialist Party (CWI England and Wales) The mostly young and working class football fans killed in the 1 February massacre played a crucial role during the Tahrir Square uprising. Parts of the old regime seem, through this massacre, to be trying to take revenge. Also
Video: Story of the great general strike Interview granted at a recent international meeting of the Committee for a Workers’ International (CWI) by Segun Sango, the General Secretary of Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM), on the recent general strike against fuel price hike. In the interview, Sango articulates a genuine socialist and revolutionary programme and strategy which the working masses must