For Struggle, Solidarity and Socialism in Nigeria
OYO STATE WORKERS RESIST N9, 400 “RELATIVITY PAY”, Immediate mass mobilization towards the nationwide general strike needed By Ayo Ademiluyi In the wave of struggle over the non-implementation of the N18,000 minimum wage, Oyo State workers have passed a vote of no confidence on the state labour leadership for their seeming complicity in the N9,400 “relativity pay” being proposed to
OYO STATE WORKERS RESIST N9, 400 “RELATIVITY PAY”, SUSPENDS STATE LABOUR LEADERSHIP AND INSTITUTES ACTION COMMITTEE. Immediate mass mobilization towards the nationwide general strike needed By Ayo Ademiluyi In the wave of struggle over the non-implementation of the N18,000 minimum wage, Oyo State workers have passed a vote of no confidence on the state labour leadership for their seeming complicity
Joint Action Forum (JAF) TOTAL SUPPORT FOR THE NLC AND TUC DEMAND! STRUGGLE FOR THE IMMEDIATE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE N18,000 NEW MINIMUM WAGE!! PUBLIC AND PRIVATE WORKERS, YOUTHS AND THE POOR IN THE COMMUNITIES SHOULD GIVE MAXIMUM MASS SUPPORT TO THE NEW MINIMUM WAGE ACT!! Being text of the Press Conference by the leadership of the Joint Action Forum (JAF)
KEROSENE SCARCITY, UNENDING WOES FOR THE POOR Press statement, June 27, 2011 Scarcity of kerosene, cooking gas used mostly by the masses is currently biting harder, the poor groaning while the big businesses in the petroleum industry are making brisk business. Though, kerosene had hardly sold for the N50 the official price, it had skyrocketed in the past weeks. It
Is Reduction of Political Parties in Nigeria the Solution to Socio-Political Problems? By Chinedu Bosah In the Vanguard of Monday 9th May 2011, the National Vice President (Zone C) of the National Union of Journalist (NUJ), Mr. Ambrose Nwachukwu called for the de-registration of political parties that failed to secure any seat in the just-concluded 2011 general elections. According to
DSM Student Committee Meeting Building Support for Socialist Ideas Among Students and Youth Report by H.T. Soweto. The student committee of the Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM) – CWI Nigeria, held a meeting on Sunday 29 May 2011 at Zik Hall, University of Ibadan. 14 comrades from 6 branches attended the meeting, the purpose of which was to review the state
Minimum Wage: Labour Must Declare a Two-Day Warning Strike and Mass Action By Peluola Adewale The Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM) calls on the leadership of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and Trade Union Congress (TUC) to ensure that the struggle for the implementation of the modest new minimum wage go beyond mere propaganda which seems to be the prevailing approach
18 years After June 12: What lessons for the working masses today By Alfred Adegoke From the June 2011 Osun state Special edition of Socialist Democracy No thanks to the Babangida/Abacha military juntas which some 18 years ago annulled the June 12 1993 presidential elections results won by the business mogul, Chief M.K.O Abiola who later died in the Abdul
OYES! Yes but not under slave conditions By Kola Ibrahim From the June 2011 Osun state Special edition of Socialist Democracy When the new Osun State government established a youth employment scheme tagged OYES which immediately employed what the government called 20,000 volunteers comprising graduates of universities, polytechnics and colleges of education, and secondary school leavers, everybody welcome this development.
O.A.U: In The Midst of Attacks on Students’ Democratic Rights, Education Rights Campaign (ERC) Holds Successful June 12 Symposium From the June 2011 Osun state Special edition of Socialist Democracy The Education Rights Campaign (ERC), Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU) branch, organized a symposium to mark the 18-year anniversary of June 12 masses’ struggle against military rule in Nigeria. The symposium
Minimum Wage: Labour Must Declare a Two-Day Warning Strike and Mass Action By Peluola Adewale The Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM) calls on the leadership of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and Trade Union Congress (TUC) to ensure that the struggle for the implementation of the modest new minimum wage go beyond mere propaganda which seems to be the prevailing approach
18 years After June 12: What lessons for the working masses today By Alfred Adegoke, from the June 2011 Osun state Special edition of Socialist Democracy No thanks to the Babangida/Abacha military juntas which some 18 years ago annulled the June 12 1993 presidential elections results won by the business mogul, Chief M.K.O Abiola who later died in the Abdul
OYES! Yes but not under slave conditions By Kola Ibrahim, from the June 2011 Osun state Special edition of Socialist Democracy When the new Osun State government established a youth employment scheme tagged OYES which immediately employed what the government called 20,000 volunteers comprising graduates of universities, polytechnics and colleges of education, and secondary school leavers, everybody welcome this development.
O.A.U: In The Midst of Attacks on Students’ Democratic Rights, Education Rights Campaign (ERC) Holds Successful June 12 Symposium From the June 2011 Osun state Special edition of Socialist Democracy The Education Rights Campaign (ERC), Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU) branch, organized a symposium to mark the 18-year anniversary of June 12 masses’ struggle against military rule in Nigeria. The symposium
Press statement JUNE 16 DECLARATION: THE STATE OF EDUCATION IN NIGERIA AND WHAT IS TO BE DONE A statement issued by the Education Rights Campaign (ERC) to address the state of education in Nigeria in commemoration of June 16, 2011 which is the anniversary of the 1976 massacre of black students in South Africa by the then apartheid regime and
DSM Oyo State Public Meeting: Debating the way forward for building a genuine working people’s political alternative Trade unionists and socialists discuss how to fight and win against neo-liberal attacks and secure N18, 000 minimum wage. By Ayo Ademiluyi Against the background of the outcome of the 2011 elections, it was necessary to draw together workers, trade unionists and youths
What now after the elections? Lagos DSM members meeting Members of the Democratic Socialist Movement based in Lagos held an aggregate meeting on Saturday May 21, 2011 to review the economic and socio-political situation in the country after the 2011 general election. The meeting also discussed international relations and world economy, especially the mass movements in North Africa/Middle East and
Paris commune 1871: When workers “stormed heaven” Niall Mulholland, CWI, www.socialistworld.net, 09/05/2011, website of the committee for a workers’ international, CWI 140th anniversary – Heroic few weeks when working class took power The mass struggles against dictatorships and poverty sweeping North Africa and the Middle East encourage workers and young people in the region and internationally to seek to learn
US / Pakistan Osama Bin Laden – killed by US forces www.socialistworld.net, 02/05/2011 website of the committee for a workers’ international, CWI The US government has announced a successful military assault on a large mansion in Abbottabad, near Islamabad, which has resulted in the killing of Osama Bin Laden. Tony Saunois, CWI Significantly, the complex where the killings took place
2011 May Day: Labour Demands Implementation of New National Minimum Wage without a Fighting Programme By Peluola Adewale Segun Sango addressing the Lagos May Day, photo Socialist Democracy This year International Workers’ Day was, unfortunately, another usual jamboree for workers on May 1 in Nigeria. The essence of the event as the day to put forward the demands of workers