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CRIN IBADAN: One Year of Campaign for the Reinstatement of the Sacked 95 Workers!

CRIN IBADAN: One Year of Campaign for the Reinstatement of the Sacked 95 Workers! CDWR Solicit For More Support And Solidarity By A.O.Babajide On January 24, 2015 it was exactly a year, 95 staff (not casual workers) of Cocoa Research Institute of Nigeria (CRIN), Ibadan had been arbitrarily sacked by the Prof. Akoroda-led management of the institute. The reason for

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GOVERNANCE GRINDS TO A HALT IN OSUN

GOVERNANCE GRINDS TO A HALT IN OSUN By Alfred Adegoke, Osun State Chair, Socialist Party of Nigeria (SPN) It is no gainsaying that the Governor of Osun State Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola has ground governance to a halt since August 9, 2014 when he was re-elected for a second term in the Osun State gubernatorial elections. Since then, he has sacked

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SEASON OF UNPAID SALARIES, PENSIONS AND ALLOWANCES: A foretaste of more attacks to come!

SEASON OF UNPAID SALARIES, PENSIONS AND ALLOWANCES: A foretaste of more attacks to come! By Abbey Trotsky On Monday, 1 December, 2015 the Guardian newspaper captured the lamentation of a worker in Benue State over non-payment of salary arrears as follow: “You journalists should help convey our plight to the governor. As you can see, it is four months now

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MAY DAY 2015 AND THE CHALLENGES AHEAD

MAY DAY 2015 AND THE CHALLENGES AHEAD For a Fighting Trade Union Movement and a Mass Working People Party By Kola Ibrahim The Socialist Party of Nigeria (SPN) felicitates with Nigerian workers as they celebrate this year’s May Day. We identify with the struggles of Nigerian workers for better living and working conditions. We enjoin workers, their unions and labour

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BUHARI: Can Buhari Government Meet the Aspiration of the Working Masses?

Socialist Democracy: May-June, 2015 Edition BUHARI: Can Buhari Government Meet the Aspiration of the Working Masses? By Peluola Adewale The Financial Times’ William Wallis ranked the March 28 Presidential Poll in Nigeria as one of the “most significant political events on the continent since the 1994 election of Nelson Mandela in South Africa brought an end to white majority rule”.

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No to xenophobia! Working class unity for jobs, education and services for all

No to xenophobia! Working class unity for jobs, education and services for all Workplace and community action to stop both murder, looting and government fuelling of xenophobia! Workers and Socialist Party (WASP), South Africa,Secretariat Statement | April 15, 2015 The Workers and Socialist Party condemns the xenophobic attacks that are centred in and around Durban and now spreading also to

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2015 ELECTIONS: RULING PARTY CRUMBLES IN HISTORIC ELECTION

2015 ELECTIONS: RULING PARTY CRUMBLES IN HISTORIC ELECTION But Only Mass Struggle Can Guarantee the Interests of Workers and Poor Masses under Buhari’s Presidency By National Executive Committee(NEC), Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM) The March 28, 2015 election was without doubt a major turning point for Nigeria. For the first time in the country’s 55 years existence as an independent country,

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DSM WEEK 2015: DSM-OAU CELEBRATES GENUINE IDEAS OF MARXISM

DSM WEEK 2015: DSM-OAU CELEBRATES GENUINE IDEAS OF MARXISM By DSM Reporters The Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM) branch of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife, recently held a series of political activities tagged “DSM Week 2015”. The DSM week, which is an annual event, started on Monday, 9th March with political gyration (singing, speech making and social interaction) and publicity and

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Uche Dike: A Socialist and Working Class Fighter Gone too Soon

Uche Dike: A Socialist and Working Class Fighter Gone too Soon DSM Ajegunle Branch Uche Dike – photo DSM At about noon on Friday March 20, 2015, family members gave the heartbreaking news of the death of their son Uchenna Dike, aged 31, to the members of the Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM), Ajegunle branch – an organisation that he had

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PLANNED VICTIMISATION OF ERC MEMBERS AND ATTACK ON DEMOCRATIC RIGHTS AT THE POLYTECHNIC OF IBADAN

PLANNED VICTIMISATION OF ERC MEMBERS AND ATTACK ON DEMOCRATIC RIGHTS AT THE POLYTECHNIC OF IBADAN Call for Solidarity Actions *We call on trade unions including the staff unions in the polytechnic, civil society organizations, radical student unions, youth organisations and socialists, locally and internationally, to prevail on the management to halt this attack on democratic rights* On the Wednesday, 11

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NLC DELEGATES CONFERENCE OUTCOME TRIGGERS SPLIT IN THE TRADE UNION MOVEMENT

NLC DELEGATES CONFERENCE OUTCOME TRIGGERS SPLIT IN THE TRADE UNION MOVEMENT BUILDING A FIGHTING AND DEMOCRATIC TRADE UNIONISM IS THE ONLY WAY TO HALT GROWING DEGENERACY Updated DSM press statement issued on March 20, 2015 Many trade unionists and workers and change-seeking elements will look with dismay at the divisions that have opened within the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), particularly

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Boko Haram’s Allegiance to ISIS: Propaganda or Real Threat?

Boko Haram’s Allegiance to ISIS: Propaganda or Real Threat? H.T Soweto The Nigerian Islamic fundamentalist group, Boko Haram, has now formally become an Affiliate of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS). For some time now, Boko Haram leader, Abubakar Shekau had been making overtures to ISIS leader, Abu – Bakr al – Baghdadi, in audio and video messages.

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NLC DELEGATES’ CONFERENCE OUTCOME TRIGGERS SPLIT IN THE TRADE UNION MOVEMENT

NLC DELEGATES’ CONFERENCE OUTCOME TRIGGERS SPLIT IN THE TRADE UNION MOVEMENT BUILDING A FIGHTING AND DEMOCRATIC TRADE UNIONISM IS THE ONLY WAY TO HALT GROWING DEGENERACY Many trade unionists and workers and change-seeking elements will look with dismay at the divisions that have opened within the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), particularly as they appear to be based on personalities rather

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End the Horrible and Illegal Acts of the Osun State Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) Now

End the Horrible and Illegal Acts of the Osun State Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) Now We in the Campaign for Democratic and Workers’ Rights (CDWR), Osun State Chapter, hereby decry the horrible and illegal conducts of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) of the Osun State Police Command, which itself has been robbing the poor people and youths of their freedom

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Caught in the Middle

Caught in the Middle Boko Haram Insurgency Highlights the Vulnerable Condition of Women and the Girl – Child in Nigeria H.T Soweto A few years ago, precisely in 2013, the “Ejigbo Sodomy” (a shocking case of brutalization of three women in the Ejigbo community of Lagos for allegedly stealing pepper) hallmarked the gender inequality and the unspeakable violence the female

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OAU Authorities Should Reinstate Victimized Student Activists

OAU Authorities Should Reinstate Victimized Student Activists The Campaign for Democratic and Workers’ Rights (CDWR), Osun State Chapter hereby calls on the authorities and Prof. ‘Tale Omole-led administration of Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife to reinstate six (6) student activists currently under politically motivated suspension. Five of these student activists: Olubanji Oluwole, Adabale Olamide, Adewumagun Johnson and Sanyaolu Adejuwon were

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SPN Registration: The Matter Adjourned to May 21 for Amicable Settlement Out of Court

SPN Registration: The Matter Adjourned to May 21 for Amicable Settlement Out of Court By Dimeji Macaulay SPN members including National Chairperson at a brief demo at the court prermises – photo DSM The legal suit of the Socialist Party of Nigeria (SPN) filed against the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) came up at the Federal High Court Abuja on

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SPN Condemns Granting of Life Pensions to Presidents and others

SPN Condemns Granting of Life Pensions to Presidents and others We call on Labour Movement to Mobilize for Mass Actions against this Robbery The Socialist Party of Nigeria (SPN) condemns the recent passage into the constitutional amendment the granting of life pensions for Presidents, Vice President, Senate Presidents and House of Representatives Speakers by the National Assembly. We see this

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2015 GENERAL ELECTIONS: ASUU HOLDS NATIONAL SYMPOSIUM

2015 GENERAL ELECTIONS: ASUU HOLDS NATIONAL SYMPOSIUM Neither the PDP nor APC Can Vow to Implement Chapter 2 of the Constitution! Dimeji Macaulay On Thursday 6th February, 2015, the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) organised a public symposium on the issues facing the country at the ETF building of the University of Abuja, FCT, Abuja. The symposium was organised

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