For Struggle, Solidarity and Socialism in Nigeria
AILING LAGBUS TRANSPORT SCHEME: The Failure of Public Private Partnership (PPP) Reinstate Comrade Samuel Olowokere Now! By Chinedu Bosah For keen watchers of LAGBUS transport scheme, it is glaring that the transportation scheme is fast collapsing despite huge resources committed to it. The scheme was set up by the Lagos State Government with investment of public funds, landed properties etc.,
CAPITALIST BAILOUTS: Can They Reboot Nigeria’s Ailing Economy? By Kola Ibrahim For a country where virtually all facets of the economy are comatose, the idea of bailing out some sectors may sound innocuous on the surface but beneath this is a grand design by the capitalist politicians and their big business partners who severally and unapologetically debased the economy to
2013 BUDGET: President Jonathan and National Assembly Remain United against the Poor By Peluola Adewale Going through Nigeria budget every year gives one a strong feeling of déjŕ vu. Apart from difference in figures the budgets since the return of civil rule are in all fundamentals the same. They are essentially anti-poor. But there is a little twist this year.
OSUN STATE: Widespread Anger among Workers over N18, 000 Minimum Wage No more Dilly-Dallying, For Strike Actions Now! By Oladele Omokunle DSM Osogbo Since January Osun State workers have been holding rallies as part of activities to demand the implementation of the N18,000 minimum wage. The rallies are held at Fakunle High School Osogbo every Thursday. Members of the DSM
MINIMUM WAGE: General Strike is Overripe! For 48-Hour General Strike and Mass Protest * For a Fighting Trade Union Leadership By Peluola Adewale Two years after it has become a law the national minimum wage has been brazenly disobeyed by most state governors. Specifically, the new minimum wage was signed into law on March 25, 2011, a few days to
Campaign for Democratic and Workers’ Rights (CDWR) CDWR CONDEMNS THE ILLEGAL SACK OF WORKERS BY MANAGEMENT OF ZENITH BANK PLC FOR RECALL OF ALL SACKED WORKERS WITHOUT LOSS OF PAY The Campaign for Democratic and Workers’ Rights (CDWR) condemns the illegal sack of workers by the Zenith Bank management. On 25th July 2011, Zenith Bank Plc sacked three hundred and
Education Rights Campaign ERC CONDEMNS BRUTAL KILLING OF FOUR PROTESTING STUDENTS OF NASARRAWA STATE UNIVERSITY BY SOLDIERS We Demand Justice! On Monday 25 February 2013, the Education Rights Campaign (ERC) received the shocking news of the brutal killing of four students of Nasarrawa State University by the armed soldiers invited by the university management to repress the protest of students
Aviation Sector Crisis Deepens Despite Huge Intervention Funds Given To Private Airlines By Chinedu Bosah The aviation sector has been in the doldrums since the outright privatization of the industry. This is an industry that can conveniently be termed an ‘elite industry’ when the average earnings of Nigerians are compared to the high cost of flying from one place to
Osun State: Aregbesola Government’s Education Reforms: Socialist Alternative to Piece-meal Reforms By Kola Ibrahim The recent protest by the students of the famous Fakunle Comprehensive High School (FCHS), Osogbo, Osun State, against the planned (now suspended) demolition of their school by the state government has again brought to the fore the unorganized and ill-motivated education reform of the Aregbesola ACN
South African workers support DSM/CWI Hundreds-strong meeting hears speeches from visiting CWI members By Sean Figg, Johannesburg Hundreds of striking municipal workers meeting in a Pretoria park loudly cheered, sang and toyi-toyied after hearing speeches from visiting CWI members Peter Taaffe and Alec Thraves. The strikers waved CWI flags and constantly interrupted the speakers with repeated applause after offers of
South Africa: Democratic Socialist Movement national conference Hardening solid gold Democratic Socialist Movement (CWI in South Africa) http://www.socialistsouthafrica.co.za About 60 delegates and visitors from across South Africa’s platinum and gold mines, townships and villages, gathered on 9-11 February in Benoni, east of Johannesburg, for the Democratic Socialist Movement’s national conference. At the end of a weekend of discussing the lessons
PENSION SCAM SCANDAL: THE WORKING MASSES MUST FIGHT AND PROFER A POLITICAL ALTERNATIVE TO CAPITALIST LOOTING Segun Sango Protem National Chairperson Socialist Party of Nigeria (SPN) In the midst of abundant human and natural resources, the vast majority of Nigeria’s working masses and the poor perpetually live in abject poverty. The primary reason for this embarrassing state of absurdity is
Egypt: Mass demonstrations and brutal state repression Only the organized working class can show a way forward Aysha Zaki, Committee for a Workers’ International (CWI) Following the second anniversary of the 25th January Revolution, Egyptian streets have witnessed days of mass demonstrations and riots. State forces have brutally repressed many protesters. Last Monday, the army was deployed to try to
South Africa: Battle for control of mining sector Statement on the retrenchment threats by Anglo America n Platinum and Harmony Gold Weizmann Hamilton, Democratic Socialist Movement (CWI South Africa) The agreement by Anglo American Platinum to place a moratorium on their retrenchments cannot be trusted. The moratorium is for sixty days only and the conditions they have cited as making
Sahel: No to the war in Mali! Imperialist intervention will deepen crisis and instability Cedric Gerome, Committee for a Workers’ International January’s four day-long hostage crisis at the major ‘In Amenas’ gas facility in South East Algeria and its bloody outcome sent shockwaves out internationally as it was seen to mark a widening of the on-going conflict in Mali. In
Osun state Minimum Wage Struggle – What Next? After more than a year after the last strike, workers in Osun State under the two umbrella unions – NLC and TUC – have restarted agitation for the implementation of the nationally legislated N18, 000 minimum wage. As at Thursday, 31st January, 2013, three congresses of workers have been held in the
Nigeria’s “Jail the Gays” Bill: Homosexuals face legalised repression and lynching This undemocratic bill has nothing to do with “morality”, “religion” or “protecting African values” as conservative capitalist lawmakers would have us believe. Rather it is an agenda by a corrupt ruling class to divert attention from the crisis of poverty, unemployment and mass misery as a result of corruption
MALI: IMPERIALIST INTERVENTION OFFERS NO HOPE FOR THE WORKING MASSES By Lanre Arogundade From Liberia to the Congos and Somalia; Sierra Leone to Rwanda and Burundi; Sudan to South-Sudan and Kenya; Ivory Coast (Cote D’Ivoire), Nigeria and now Mali, significant proportions of post-colonial or neo-colonial Africa are witnessing state failures. As the Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM), has always emphasized, the
NIPOST PENSIONERS’ STRUGGLE GOVERNMENT SHOULD IMMEDIATELY PAY ALL PENSION ARREARS AND 2/3 GRATUITY NOW! Picketing of the post offices by the retirees of the NIPOST protesting the non-payment of 72 months arrears of pensions and two-third of gratuities being owed by the government, photo DSM Since December 24, 2012, the offices of the Nigeria Postal Service (NIPOST) throughout the country
Mali: French army intervention will amplify the chaos For a mass struggle of workers and poor to defeat imperialism and fundamentalist reaction Leila Messaoudi, Gauche Révolutionnaire (CWI in France) The sudden decision for a direct French military intervention in Northern Mali has not come from nowhere. Preparations for this have been underway for a number of weeks. French President, Francois