For Struggle, Solidarity and Socialism in Nigeria
UNIVERSITY OF IBADAN (UI): RECALL DSM MEMBER MICHAEL OGUNDELE NOW! END VICTIMIZATION OF STUDENT ACTIVISTS!! Call for Protest Letters and Solidarity Michael Ogundele: victimised by UI Authorities, photo DSM The Management of the University of Ibadan (UI) has continued its notoriety of victimizing student activists who lead students to challenge its highhandedness and demand improvement in welfare condition. The latest
NLC and TUC’s Suspension of April 10 Protest: Angry, Bitter and Undeterred, Hundreds of Pensioners and Activists Rally in Lagos H.T Soweto Abiodun Aremu, JAF Secretary, addressing the protesters, inluding pensioners and activists, as well as journalists at rally – photo DSM – photo DSM If one were to describe the mood on Wednesday, April 10, at the protest rallies
Socialist Party of Nigeria (SPN) – Osun State Chapter Minimum Wage in Osun State: Rotten Deal between Aregbesola Govt. and Renegade Labour leaders Once again, the Rauf Aregbesola-led Osun State government has shown its anti-worker and dubious character with the current underhand dealing with renegade labour leaders to deny workers their legitimate right to the nationally legislated N18, 000 minimum
Britain Margaret Thatcher dies Thatcher’s bitter legacy Peter Taaffe, Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales) general secretary On the occasion of Former British Premier Thatcher’s death, we republish this May 2009 article from Socialism Today, the monthly magazine of the Socialist Party, the CWI in England and Wales. It graphically illustrates the primitive, brutal, class warfare against the rights and
Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU) OAU ADMINISTRATION MOVE TO VICTIMISE STUDENT ACTIVISTS FOR DEMANDING RESTORATION OF STUDENTS’ UNION STUDENTS MUST RESIST THIS NEW VICTIMISATION ATTEMPT OAU MANAGEMENT MUST WITHDRAW ALL ALLEGATIONS AGAINST THEM AND DISSOLVE THE VINDICTIVE DISCIPLINARY PANEL! APRIL 12 CONGRESS MUST HOLD AS SCHEDULED! The OAU administration has again showed it is diametrically opposed to the democratic and constitutional
SPN DEMANDS AN END TO DEPORTATION AND VICTIMISATION OF NIGERIENS AND OTHER NON-NIGERIANS FOR THE SOLIDARITY OF THE WORKING MASSES OF ALL NATIONALITIES TO END CAPITALIST ATTACKS The Socialist Party of Nigeria (SPN) condemns in strong terms the ongoing arrest and detention of ordinary poor citizens of Republic of Niger and other nationalities like Senegalese, Malians etc., by the Lagos
NLC Protest Call April 10 Protest must be a First Step in the Struggle to end Capitalist Mass Looting! Workers, Pensioners, youths and the Unemployed Must Join the Protest By Peluola Adewale The Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM) welcomes the decision of the Nigeria Labour Congress to hold a protest march in Abuja and Lagos against the monumental pension fraud and
PROTEST FOR JOBS IN BAYELSA: BUILD NATIONWIDE MASS MOVEMENT OF THE UNEMPLOYED! For a massive public works programme and infrastructure development to create decent jobs By Ayo Ademiluyi Socialist Party of Nigeria (SPN) Bayelsa State Security operatives attached to the Bayelsa State Government funded “Operation Doo-Akpo” broke up a peaceful demonstration of unemployed graduates on Wednesday, 26th March, 2013 at
South Africa Workers and Socialist launch making waves within the combative SA working class Democratic Socialist Movement (CWI in South Africa) reporters Launch of the Workers and Socialist Party (WASP), South Africa, Friday 22 March 20, photo S. Figg This year’s launch of the Workers & Socialist Party (WASP) was the direct outcome of the struggles of the mineworkers of
Socialist Party of Nigeria, Osun state Lecturers’ Strike in Osun State Tertiary Institutions: Government Must Accede to Lecturers’ Demands “Opon Imon” Project is mere grandstanding The Socialist Party of Nigeria (SPN), Osun State Chapter, hereby calls on the Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola/ACN-led Osun State government to immediately accede to the demands of the striking lecturers of the state-owned tertiary institutions. We
Press Statement INEC’S ONE MILLION NAIRA FOR PARTY REGISTRATION: A Dangerous Attempt to Monetise the Electoral Process The Socialist Party of Nigeria (SPN) condemns in strong terms a new decision taken by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) after a meeting with registered political parties to increase administrative fees payable by groups wishing to register as a political party from
Socialist Party of Nigeria – Osun State Chapter President Jonathan’s Proclamation on Planned Hike in Fuel Price: SPN Rejects Any Planned Fuel Price Hike Calls for mass action The Socialist Party (SPN), Osun State chapter, wishes to register its total opposition to the reported, but only latest, attempt by the Jonathan government to hike the pump price of petrol under
Socialist Party of Nigeria BUILD NLC PLANNED PROTEST AGAINST PENSION SCAM The SOCIALIST PARTY OF NIGERIA (SPN) welcomes and fully supports the decision by the Central Working Committee (CWC) of the Nigeria Labour Congress, (NLC) to “mobilize workers on a protest march to the presidency and state government houses … over growing level of corruption and crisis in the pension
DSM National Committee (NC): Proffering Socialist Alternative to Capitalist Crisis “The crucial question now is not if or what, but how to begin immediately to build a Working class political alternative” By H.T Soweto NC motion on Nigeria NC motion on world relations DSM NC March 2013 – Segun Sango, DSM General Secretary, leading discussion on Nigeria Situation and Building
Ongoing Strike of Osun State Tertiary Institutions Lecturers Ilesha Students Solidarity Protest Dispersed by Armed Police By Jamal DSM, OSCE Ilesha On Tuesday 12 March, 2013, students of the Osun State College of Education (OSCE) Ilesha organized themselves at the school Motion Ground to embark on a peaceful protest to support the strike action embarked on by CASUOSTI, the umbrella
Education Rights Campaign (ERC) PRESS STATEMENT LECTURERS STRIKE IN OSUN STATE TERTIARY INSTITUTIONS AREGBESOLA MUST MEET THEIR DEMANDS NOW WE CONDEMN POLICE BRUTAL ATTACK OF STUDENTS PROTESTING IN SOLIDARITY WITH THE STRIKING LECTURERS AT OSCE ILESA RELEASE THE FOUR ARRESTED STUDENTS NOW The Education Rights Campaign (ERC) supports the strike action began yesterday Monday 11 March 2013 by lecturers of
Socialist Party of Nigeria (SPN) statement HANDS OFF NCP! STOP UNDEMOCRATIC DEREGISTRATION OF POLITICAL PARTIES The Socialist Party of Nigeria (SPN) strongly warns INEC and its mentors, the PDP, from carrying out their pro-rich, anti-poor agenda to deregister NCP or any other political party for that matter allegedly for failing to win any seat in elections. We state boldly that
Osun DSM and SPN Hold Joint Public Symposium: “Building a Genuine Alternative Political Platform: The Role of Workers, Poor and the Youth” By Kola Ibrahim The Osun State Chapters of Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM) and Socialist Party of Nigeria (SPN) held a joint public symposium with the theme: “Building a Genuine Alternative Political Platform: The Role of Workers, Poor and
2013 International Women’s Day Women in Nigeria Suffer Inequality, Brutality and Exploitation For Mass Struggle and Socialist Alternative to Win Gender Equality By Oluwaseun Ogunniyi Women undergo double oppression under capitalism, first for their gender and second, for the vast majority, for being members of the working class. Grave inequality is the hallmark of women’s condition in Nigeria. To win
NUCECFWW National Delegates Conference, Owerri BUILDING A WORKING CLASS POLITICAL ALTERNATIVE By Ayo Ademiluyi The Nigerian Union of Civil Engineering Construction, Furniture and Wood Workers held their Fourth Quadrennial National Delegates’ Conference on February 22 in Owerri, the Imo State capital. With the theme, “Employment Deficit and the Panacea of Construction and Wood Sector Growth in a World of Work”,