For Struggle, Solidarity and Socialism in Nigeria
DSM Press Statement DEMAND FOR N52, 200 MINIMUM WAGE LABOUR LEADERS MUST INTENSIFY THE STRUGGLE FOR A LIVING WAGE FOR NIGERIAN WORKERS The recent statements credited to top government officials have confirmed the position of the Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM) that the government would not pay the long overdue living wage to Nigerian workers unless it is pressured through mass
South Africa wins the World Cup … of inequality Let them eat cake – the ugly backdrop to the beautiful game by Sheri Hamilton, Weizmann Hamilton and Liv Shange From the website of the Democratic Socialist Movement (the CWI in South Africa): http://www.socialistsouthafrica.co.za Nothing symbolises more graphically the ugliness that forms the backdrop to the beautiful game than all the
2010 May Day: Workers Have to Wait Longer for a Living Wage Labour Should Give Ultimatum and Begin Mass Mobilisation for a Warning Strike for N52, 200 Minimum Wage and against Deregulation By Peluola Adewale Were there a fighting trade union leadership this year’s May Day would have been an avenue to mobilize workers for action around demands for improved
2010 CWI May Day Statement The fightback has just begun! For fighting unions and mass workers’ parties! For international solidarity and socialism! No to war and occupation! Support the Greek general strike against capitalism’s austerity! For a European-wide day of action on 5 May! Committee for a Workers’ International This is a”situation of war” – said Greek Prime Minister, Papandreou,
MINDLESS POLICE KILLINGS IN AJEGUNLE: Enough is Enough! By Aderemi Ismail For over 20 years the residents of Ajegunle, one of the most densely populated poorest communities of Lagos State, have been subjected to searing police terror. But this came to head with the killings of Charles Okorafor on April 1, 2010 and, later, of Tunde Olotu, who had joined
DEREGULATION: Labour Must Maintain its Age-long Opposition Tragically for Nigeria’s workers and poor, it appears that the Labour leaders have opted for subterfuge as a strategy in the struggle against deregulation. While they have continued to put a façade feigning commitment to the struggle, their conduct has only pointed at inclination to dump the struggle. Unfortunately, this they believe they
LIVING WAGE FOR NIGERIAN WORKERS: LONG OVERDUE NLC, TUC Must Remain Steadfast on the Struggle By Chinedu Bosah Minimum wage which started in late 2008 has not moved beyond promises from the federal government and the recent setting up of a tripartite committee made up of labour, federal government and private sector employers. On the committee the Labour representatives are
MAY DAY: The Need to Build the Labour Party as a Genuine Working Peoples’ Political Platform By Kola Ibrahim As workers in Nigeria celebrate this year’s Workers’ Day, the political challenges before the working and poor people are more vital today than ever before. That the capitalist political class has severally and collectively plundered the huge resources of the nation,
2011 Election: Workers Must Go for Political Power Perennially faced with poverty and joblessness, high costs of education and health and general despair, more and more Nigerians on the streets, in the markets, on radio and TV phone-in programs and even churches and mosques etc – could be heard saying one thing: what Nigeria needs now is a revolution. This
Threat to My Life An Open Petition to the Lagos State Commissioner of Police Dagga Tolar, Secretary, Labour and Civil Society Coalition (LASCO), Lagos State Chapter Following his April 7 arrest and later release in connection with protests against early April’s police killings in Ajegunle, Lagos, Dagga Tolar, the Secretary of the Lagos State Chapter of the Labour and Civil
Ireland – Murder of 15 year old Toyosi Shitta-bey Communities must unite against racism Joe Higgins, Socialist Party (CWI in Ireland) MEP Below we publish an article written by Joe Higgins MEP, who along with other Socialist Party (CWI in Ireland) members, has been heavily involved in the organisation of a united community protest in response to the tragic murder
AJEGUNLE KILLINGS: DAGGA TOLAR AND TWO OTHER ACTIVISTS RELEASED BY THE POLICE OTHERS STILL IN POLICE CUSTODY; FOR AN INDEPENDENT PROBE PANEL DSM Statement, 9 April 2010 Segun Sango, General Secretary, Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM) The Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM) commends the media, trade union activists locally and internationally, organizations and individuals in LASCO, student and youth members of the
Ajegunle Police Killings – socialists and others escape arrest and criminal charges DSM reporters The Lagos police did not press any criminal charges against Dagga Tolar and the two other DSM (CWI in Nigeria) comrades who were arrested on Wednesday when they reported to the police after being freed on bail late on April 7. At the same time the
Ajegunle Police Killings Update: Police Arrest Dagga Tolar and two others today Free all Activists now and Prosecute the killer Police Officers! PRESS STATEMENT, April 7, 2010 Police today April 7, 2010 arrested Dagga Tolar, the Secretary of the Lagos state chapter of Labour and Civil Society Coalition (LASCO) and a member of Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM), Akpos Okoro, community
The Mindless Police Killings in Ajegunle Dagga Tolar, DSM NEC member and LASCO Lagos chapter secretary, speaking at LASCO’s April 5 press conference By Peluola Adewale The Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM) condemns the extra-judicial killings of youths in the Ajegunle community in Lagos and calls for solidarity with the residents of this poor and working class community who have been
LABOUR MARCH FOR ELECTORAL REFORM DSM CALLS FOR BUILDING OF A FIGHTING LABOUR PARTY Report by H.T Soweto. On Wednesday, 31st March 2010, the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Trade Union Congress (TUC), Joint Action Forum (JAF), Alliance for Credible Elections (ACE) and other civil society groups led a protest rally in Abuja (Nigeria’s Federal Capital Territory) for electoral reforms and
NEW WAVE OF FEE HIKES IN TERTIARY INSTITUTIONS For A One-day Nationwide Warning Lecture Boycott And Mass Protest This Struggle Must Be Actively Supported By Trade Unions And Parents By H.T Soweto In public institutions of higher learning in Nigeria, there is a rising wave of astronomical fee increments. This phenomenon of education commercialization is being implemented with gusto at
OAU: Reign of victimization of students and staff activists The union must call a 1-day lecture boycott and mass protest By H.T. Soweto Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), one of the few campuses where the culture of resistance and radicalism still exist, may soon turn into a slave camp like University of Ilorin (UNILORIN) and University of Ibadan (U.I) if the
CABINDA: No to terrorism! Yes to working peoples’ struggle and unity By Dagga Tolar Not a lot of people both on the African continent and outside have heard of Cabinda, until the attack claimed by the Front for the Liberation of the Enclave of Cabinda (FLEC) on the Togolese national football team in Angola. The attack on the Togolese, who
WARRI BOMB BLAST Manifestation of frustration over failure of amnesty program Socialist Democracy, April/May 2010 The bomb explosion that rocked Warri, an oil city in Delta state of the Niger Delta region, in Nigeria on Monday March 15, 2010 is a signal that the crisis is much alive despite decline in disturbances (kidnapping, bombing etc.) following the amnesty deal. The