For Struggle, Solidarity and Socialism in Nigeria
NO TO A CAPITALIST MEGA PARTY: FOR A TRULY WORKING CLASS LABOUR PARTY According to a publication in the ThisDay of March 26, 2009, plans have now reached an advanced stage to form a mega political party by about 19 opposition political parties. In fact the paper reported that a formal launch of the newly mega party has been slated
NUT Election: Stop Victimisation of Radical Teachers in Ajeromi Ifelodun The Campaign for Democratic and Workers Rights (CDWR) condemns the arbitrary redeployment of Segun Ajayi, the Third Vice Chairman, Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT) Ajeromi Ifelodun (Ajegunle) branch, and four other radical teachers out of their current local government by the Lagos state government in connivance the leadership of the
Lagos Teachers angry over Strike Suspension Call On the NUT Leaders to Take Further Actions The shameful calling-off of the strike action by the Lagos state leadership of Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT) was greeted with anger from the rank and file teachers in the state. The 3-week strike was called off without securing any reasonable commitment from the state
Campaign for Democratic and Workers’ Rights (CDWR) Free 24 Activists in Osun Now! The Campaign for Democratic and Workers’ Rights (CDWR) condemn the unjust detention of twenty four (24) pro-democracy activists by the Osun State government in collusion with the judiciary and the police command, and demand their immediate release. On Monday March 23, 2009, Magistrate Olalekan Ijiyode of the
Osun Teachers’ Strike: DSM Commends Teachers For Immediate implementation of the TSS now! The Democratic Socialist Movement, Osun State Chapter commends teachers in Osun State, under the umbrella of Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT), for embarking on dogged struggle for the defence of their economic rights, vis-Å•-vis the implementation of the Teachers Salary Scale (TSS) which various state governments had
OSBC: Ojingolo wins DSM Member Secure Victory in a Workplace Victimization Case A member of the Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM) in Osun State, Tajudeen Oyeniyi popularly known as Ojingolo, has won a major victory in a case of official victimization at his workplace, Osun State Broadcasting Corporation (OSBC). After over four months of victimization through unwarranted demotion and dehumanization, he
TSS: Teachers Need Mass Action to Win the Struggle Students in primary and secondary schools in most states in Nigeria have been at home for over three weeks. This is as a result of the industrial action embarked upon by the Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT) over the non-implementation of agreement on 27.5% pay rise also known as Teachers Salary
THE NEW MINIMUM WAGE: HOW TO FIGHT AND WIN Apparently to underline its commitment to secure a new minimum wage for workers, the National Executive Council of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), on March 10, issued a 21-day ultimatum to the government “to open discussion with it on the proposed N52,200 new minimum wage”. Members of the Democratic Socialist Movement
LABOUR MUST SAY: UNCONDITIONAL NO TO DEREGULATION AND PRIVATISATION OF THE OIL SECTOR For clearly over two decades now a combination of international capitalist forces (particularly oil corporations and cartels) and their Nigerian pro-imperialist, capitalist backers have been waging a protracted, and sometimes ferocious war, with the labour movement in order to put oil, the mainstay of the Nigeria’s economy,
CDWR Calls for Significant Reduction in Prices of Petroleum Products By Rufus Olusesan, Chairman CDWR The Campaign for Democratic and Workers Rights (CDWR) considers the removal of N5 from the pump price of petrol, which hitherto was N70, as insulting tokenism. The poor working masses of Nigeria, whose appalling living conditions caused by the anti-poor, neo-liberal programme have been worsened
ZIMBABWE: Selling out the Masses in the Name of Power Sharing By Kola Ibrahim The majority MDC (Movement for Democratic Change) opposition leader, Morgan Tsvangirai has been sworn in as the Prime Minister of Zimbabwe by the 84-year old Robert Mugabe, the despotic president of the country, while minority MDC faction leader Arthur Mutambara has also been appointed the Deputy
Demolition: A pupil’s Letter to Governor Fashola I am a fifth grader at the International School, University of Lagos. I commend the efforts of Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State, on his efforts to repair infrastructure in the state. I am really concerned about the demolition of buildings in different settlements, a very good and visible example being the demolition
No Freedom to Trade As Freedom Market was demolished by Lagos State Govt By Chinedu Bosah To make the ruthless demolitions that have taken place across Lagos state, Freedom Market was bulldozed on Thursday February 5 2009. The market largely accommodates traders who deal in computers and its accessories, electronics and its accessories and motor parts. In the same way
LAGOS Megacity Project and Mega Demolition Spree By Adeola Soetan To make life more abundance for the people is the fundamental essence of government and governance. This is corroborated by Section 14(b) of 1999 Constitution of Nigeria which states that, “The security and welfare of the people shall be the primary purpose of government”. And for life to be more
Excerpts from the Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels: “Constant revolutionizing of production, uninterrupted disturbance of all social conditions, everlasting uncertainty and agitation distinguish the bourgeois epoch from all earlier ones… The need of a constantly expanding market for its products chases the bourgeoisie over the whole surface of the globe.” “The bourgeoisie is unfit any longer to
Interest in Socialism Surging Capitalism Losing Legitimacy Karl Marx on the Cover of Time Magazine in Europe By Dan Di Maggio (Socialist Alternative, CWI, United States) The global crisis of capitalism has led to a surge of interest in socialist ideas all over the world. Merriam-Webster reports that socialism was the third most searched-for term (“bailout” was #1) during 2008
ASSBIFI and pro-labour organisations protest unlawful sack of LASACO unit chairman Management forced to Round Table The Association of Senior Staff of Banks and Insurance and Financial Institutions (ASSIBIFI) and other pro-labour organisations (CDWR, DSM, and UAD) picketed LASACO Assurance premises at Alausa, Ikeja on Thursday January 15, 2009 in protest of the unlawful sacking of the union’s unit chairman,
TSS: Teachers forced to go back on Strike By Chinedu Bosah The Nigerian teachers have been spoiling for another round of industrial action to force state governments to implement Teachers Salary Scale (TSS) as agreed by the 36 states governors in August 2008. The western zone of the Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT) comprising Delta, Edo, Ekiti, Kwara, Lagos, Ogun,
NIGERIAN ECONOMY: Bad Case Worsened by Global Economic Recession By Peluola Adewale Barack Obama, alarmed by the depth of recession in the US economy and its proclivity to go deeper, described recession as a continuous disaster. Yes, it is indeed a disaster, not only for the US, but also for the entire world. British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has revealed
Socialist Democracy, March-April 2009 While the central trade union, ZTUC, vaguely condemned MDC collaboration with Mugabe, it has also tacitly given a nod to the power-sharing in a defeatist manner without building a working class alternative. This placed enormous tasks before the Zimbabwean working class activists to start to build a mass working poor political alternative. Of course, there may