For Struggle, Solidarity and Socialism in Nigeria
THE QUEST FOR SOCIALIST TRANSFORMATION OF NIGERIA GAINS MASS ECHO AMIDST ENORMOUS CAPITALIST CRISES AS DSM HOLDS NATIONAL COMMITTEE MEETING By Michael Ogundele For about six months, between the last National Committee (NC) meeting of Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM) held in April and the national meeting over the weekend of October 11-12 the need for the socialist transformation of Nigeria
Student Movement: Potential for Struggle Impeded by a Crisis of Leadership Resolution on Students Work DSM National Committee Meeting October 11-12, 2014 Cross section of comrades and supporters at DSM NC October 2014 The student movement in Nigeria is wracked by a huge crisis of leadership. This crisis is not just of its principal platform – the National Association of
RESOLUTION ON WORLD RELATIONS DSM NATIONAL COMMITTEE MEETING OCTOBER 11-12, 2014 The period between the last National Committee meeting and the present period have seen serious developments on the global scale with the attendant implications on the development of the class struggle with impact on the consciousness of the working masses. Lanre Arogundade intervening on discussion on world relations, photo
NIGERIA’S ECONOMY AND POLITICAL SITUATION RESOLUTION OF DSM NATIONAL COMMITTEE MEETING OCTOBER 11-12, 2014 INTRODUCTION Abbey Trotsky introducing the discussion on Nigeria’s economy and political situation, photo by DSM Between the last National Committee (NC) meeting held in April 2014 and now, the Nigeria’s political, social and economic situation has degenerated to an extent that it does not require the
FG ignores education deadline Government Fails to Meet the Demands of ASUP and COEASU 3 Months after Suspension of Strike ERC Calls on FG to Avert another Prolonged Closure of Public Polytechnics and Colleges of Education Today, Wednesday 15 October 2014, marks the expiration of the 3-months grace the unions in the Polytechnic and Colleges of Education subsector gave to
WORKERS PROTEST ANTI-LABOUR PRACTICES AT LINDA COMPANY By Chinedu Bosah Striking Linda workers at the main entrance of the company, photo by DSM On September 25, 2014, over 1,000 workers in Lagos went on strike which lasted for about two weeks at the Linda Manufacturing Company, manufacturer of ‘x-pression’ hair weave-on, over inhuman working conditions and anti-labour practices which led
Osun’s WAEC fiasco Woeful WAEC Results for State’s Students shows failure of Aregbesola Government’s Education Policies Again, the positions of we in the Socialist Party of Nigeria (SPN) on the bankruptcy of the so-called education reform of the Rauf Aregbesola/APC government in Osun State have been borne out with the latest results from the West African Examination Council (WAEC) SSCE.
Free Abdulmalik Sa’idu and Fejiro Oliver Now Stop attacks on democratic rights The Campaign for Democratic and Workers Rights (CDWR) demands immediate end to the savage attacks on democratic rights of citizens Abdulmalik Saidu and Fejiro Oliver. The former is currently languishing in detention for posting comments on the Facebook which, purportedly, “insults” the person of Kastina State Governor, Ibrahim
SPN CONDEMNS THE DEATH SENTENCE ON 12 SOLDIERS FREE THE CONDEMNED SOLDIERS NOW! The Socialist Party of Nigeria (SPN) condemns the death sentence on 12 soldiers by the Brig. Gen. CC Okonkwo led nine-man General Court Martial. It is the height of crudity and insensitivity for the affected soldiers to be sentenced to death for protesting against a command that
SPN Challenges INEC’s Rejection of its Application in Court Solidarity Songs after SPN Conference 2014, photo by DSM The Socialist Party of Nigeria (SPN) held a press conference yesterday, September 16, 2014, in Lagos at the International Press Centre (IPC) to make public the rejection of the party’s application for registration by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) despite fulfilling
BOKO HARAM’S “ISLAMIC CALIPHATE” AND CAPTURING OF TOWNS REVEAL FAILURE OF GOVERNMENT For a Working Peoples’ Political Alternative Now! By Ayo Ademiluyi In an apparent replication of the declaration of an “Islamic State” in some parts of Iraq and Syria by the terrorist ISIS (the Islamic State in Iraq and a-Shams) group, Boko Haram insurgents recently declared Gwoza, Borno State
ONE BILLION DOLLAR LAGOS STATE DEBT FASHOLA GOVERNMENT IS LEAVING A LEGACY OF WOES We of the Socialist Party of Nigeria (SPN), Lagos State Chapter, strongly decry the legacy of $1 billion debt burden that the outgoing Babatunde Fashola government is leaving behind for the mass of working people and the poor in the state. According to media reports, the
RAPE CASE REVEALS THE DEPLORABLE STATE OF HEALTH SECTOR IN OYO STATE For Adequate Funding of Health Care under Democratic Control The Oyo State Chapter of Socialist Party of Nigeria (SPN) describes as disturbing and ridiculous the recent media reports of how a medical doctor at the General Hospital in Eruwa could not carry out a verification test on a
EBOLA OUTBREAK: A CRISIS OF CAPITALISM Profit drive obstructs treatment and prevention At the end of August the World Bank President Jim Yong Kim began a co-authored article published in the Washington Post by writing that “If the Ebola epidemic devastating the countries of Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone had instead struck Washington, New York or Boston, there is no
OOU: AMOSUN SHOULD MEET THE DEMANDS OF STUDENTS AND REOPEN THE UNIVERSITY NOW! FOR ADEQUATE FUNDING OF EDUCATION IN OGUN STATE We of the Socialist Party of Nigeria (SPN) Ogun State strongly condemn the onslaught of the Ibikunle Amosun government on education in the state. In a sheer demonstration of an attack on democratic rights, the state government has shut
MOCPED: A Basket of Crisis Students Groan under Inadequate Facilities and Outrageous Fees Graduates of Degree Program Lament Non-Release of Result/Certificate Four Years after Graduation By ERC Reporters Michael Otedola College of Primary Education (MOCPED), formerly known as Lagos State College of Primary Education (LACOPED) located in Epe, is a teacher training college established in 1994. Today the College is
ERC CONDEMNS VICTIMISATION OF STUDENT ACTIVISTS AT THE OBAFEMI AWOLOWO UNIVERSITY The Education Rights Campaign (ERC) condemns the latest wave of victimization of student activists and leaders at the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife, by the Prof. Tale Omole-led university management and calls for the immediate and unconditional recall of 8 suspended student activists. On 18th August, 2014, the management
EBOLA OUTBREAK IN PORT HARCOURT A TRUE PICTURE OF HEALTH CRISIS WORSENED BY FAILURE OF CAPITALIST ELITE We of the Socialist Party of Nigeria (SPN), Rivers State Chapter, view the spread of the dreaded Ebola virus to Port Harcourt, the Rivers state capital, as a true confirmation of the failure of the Jonathan regime in the fight against the epidemic
ERC CONDEMNS CLOSURE OF OLABISI ONABANJO UNIVERSITY (OOU) Governor Amosun’s Action is a Mockery of Democracy The Education Rights Campaign (ERC) condemns the forced closure of Olabisi Onabanjo University (OOU), Ogun, by the Ibikunle Amosun state government. We are equally opposed to the militarisation of the campus by the state government which was meant to demobilise the mass of students
CRISIS OF FEE HIKE IN OGUN STATE-OWNED TERTIARY INSTITUTIONS Demand of OOU Students for Further Reduction of Hiked Fees Must be Met Immediately and Unconditionally Only a Solution that is Acceptable by Students of All the Affected Institutions in Ogun State Can Guarantee Academic Peace The Education Rights Campaign (ERC) calls on the Governor Amosun-led Ogun State government to immediately