Democratic Socialist Movement

For Struggle, Solidarity and Socialism in Nigeria

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DSM May Day Statement

DSM May Day Statement Insoluble Socio-economic Crises: Labour Should Fight For Socialist Alternative On May 1, 2007, the venues of rallies and activities to mark international workers day were heavily militarised, armour personnel carriers were stationed strategically at the entrances, workers were frisked to their underpants before going inside to attend their own events, pro-labour activists were whisked away and

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PENSION REFORM AND THE FATE OF NIGERIAN WORKERS

PENSION REFORM AND THE FATE OF NIGERIAN WORKERS Labour Should Lead Fight for a Living Pension and Working People Political Alternative Demola Yaya, Lagos In 2004, General Olusegun Obasanjo regime enacted a law to decentralise and privatise pension administration in Nigeria through the Pension Reform Act 2004. By this Act, the National Pension Commission (PENCOM) was constituted as a regulatory

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World Food Crisis: Total Failure of Capitalism

World Food Crisis: Total Failure of Capitalism Workers and Poor Masses Should Struggle for Socialist Alternative By Peluola Adewale, Lagos On March 31, about 2000 poor masses hit the streets in Cote D’Ivoire chanting “we are hungry”, “life is too expensive”, while protesting the rise in food prices and attendant high cost of living. The Ivorian protests were aptly expressing

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World food crisis

World food crisis Price hikes produce poverty and rebellion Robert Bechert, CWI, London Around the world, strikes, demonstrations and protests have erupted as millions upon millions of workers, peasants and poor face the horror of rapidly rising food prices. Haiti, Cameroon, Egypt, Indonesia are just some of the countries that have seen angry mass protests. The price hikes are shocking,

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GANI @ 70: CELEBRATING AN INIMITABLE FIGHTER FOR THE MASSES

GANI @ 70: CELEBRATING AN INIMITABLE FIGHTER FOR THE MASSES By Lanre Arogundade and Segun Sango This article was also published in four national Nigerian newspapers, the Guardian, Vanguard, Nation and Sun, on Sunday, April 20, 2008. As a consistent and courageous fighter for the masses whose activism span a vast terrain, there can be no shortage of deserved praises

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POWER PROJECT LOOTERS

POWER PROJECT LOOTERS LABOUR MUST LEAD MASS ACTION TO BRING CULPRITS TO BOOK By Peluola Adewale While it lasted Nigerians were daily treated to a reality show at the public hearing on power sector expenditure on how Olusegun Obasanjo government that strutted around as an Olympian height of virtue and wisdom made fortune out misfortune of the entire nation. Arguably,

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Adams Victory Shows Potential for Revolution

Adams Victory Shows Potential for Revolution Reports Olisa Penny, Socialist Democracy Political Correspondent in Edo state The 20th March 2008 woke with mixed feelings. That was the day set for the ruling on the Edo state governorship tussle. The day had been an eerie silence for seven hours (from 9am-3pm). Ears had been glued to the screen and radio, and

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SOCIALIST MANIFESTO FOR ADAMS

SOCIALIST MANIFESTO FOR ADAMS Adams Oshiomhole’s election manifesto contained many measures that would, if genuinely implemented, improve the lives of the working masses and poor. For instance the manifesto talks of re-inventing “the public school system”. Towards this, Oshiomhole has promised that his government “will restore, renovate and refurbish at least, two secondary schools and two primary schools in each

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EDO: Riggers Defeated, Adams is Governor!

Socialist Democracy – Special Edition April 2008 EDO: Riggers Defeated, Adams is Governor! Build a Mass Movement to Secure Change The long delayed declaration of Adams Oshiomhole as the rightful winner of the April 14, 2007 governorship polls in Edo State was greeted by working people both in Edo and throughout the Federation with joy. Millions have seen it as

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“We Are Victims Of Dictatorship But Remain Undaunted” – Soweto And Barry Blacky

“We Are Victims Of Dictatorship But Remain Undaunted” – Soweto And Barry Blacky On 21st February, 2008, two of the three students’ leaders (who are members of Democratic Socialist Movement) who have been detained for over four months in Ilesha Prison were released on bail by Magistrate Jide Falola of an Osogbo Magistrate Court. The Socialist Democracy had chat with

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NO TO FURTHER COMMERCIALISATION OF EDUCATION

NO TO FURTHER COMMERCIALISATION OF EDUCATION Nigerian Students Must Build Collective Resistance Against Regime Of Fees And Attacks on Education By Kola Ibrahim Those who still nurse the illusion that the Present Yar’Adua government will be different and better from its predecessors should be having a rethink as the current regime is bent on continuing the neo-liberal economic policies of

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BOOK REVIEW: Yar’Adua and the Working Class: A Timely X-Ray

BOOK REVIEW: Yar’Adua and the Working Class: A Timely X-Ray By Lanre Arogundade Click here to read: ‘President Yar’adua’s Era: A new dawn for the masses?’ The actual title of the book under review is ‘President Yar’Adua’s Era – A new dawn for the masses?’ a 48-page document written by the Democratic Socialist Movement’s (DSM) General Secretary, Segun Sango. But

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LASU: Scrap Killer Campus Marshals On Our Campus Now!

LASU: Scrap Killer Campus Marshals On Our Campus Now! By James Foluso The creation of storm troopers popularly called campus marshals on Nigerian campuses remains a major concern for students. These marshals have abandoned their responsibilities of “upholding security” to harassing and brutalizing students, especially, student activists on their demand for independent unionism to protect the living and academic rights

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THE AMBIGUITY OF “HOPE”: Barack Obama Frontrunner In Democrats’ Presidential Candidature Race

THE AMBIGUITY OF “HOPE”: Barack Obama Frontrunner In Democrats’ Presidential Candidature Race By Alan Jones, Socialist Alternative (CWI, US, New York The spectacular victories of Barack Obama in a series of the Democratic primaries are a reflection of several deeper processes taking place in the United States. While there is still quite a way to go until the presidential candidature

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CASTRO’S RESIGNATION OPENS UP NEW CHAPTER

CASTRO’S RESIGNATION OPENS UP NEW CHAPTER What Are The Prospects For The Revolution? By Peter Taaffe, Socialist Party (CWI, England and Wales) The formal resignation of Fidel Castro as President of Cuba opens up a new chapter in the history of Cuba and its revolution. Since his original illness in 2006 (an intestinal problem) intense discussion has been engendered about

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NMA, NARD AND THE HEALTH SECTOR CRISIS

NMA, NARD AND THE HEALTH SECTOR CRISIS As Nigerian doctors poised for a sow down with the federal government over their remuneration and condition of service, Dr. Niran Okeowle, the General Secretary of National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) in this feature article traces the genesis of issues at stake and proffers the way forward. The highly engaging blog, Nigeria

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DANCING ROUND THE FUEL PRICE HIKE

DANCING ROUND THE FUEL PRICE HIKE By Adeola Soetan As the sixth largest producer of crude oil in the world, the steady rise of price of crude oil in international market is expected to be an economic blessing in oil revenue, human capital and infrastructural development but the paradox is a bout of economic misery occasioned by higher prices for

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SAULA MURDER: One Killing, Too Many

SAULA MURDER: One Killing, Too Many By Demola Yaya & Sankara On January 7, 2008, Lagos commuters who were going for one business or the other were stranded for most part of the day especially in areas like Ikotun, Iyana Ipaja, Agege, Ikeja and Oshodi. Why? Members of Lagos State National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) had withdrawn their

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ARGUING FOR A FIGHTING WORKING PEOPLES’ PARTY

ARGUING FOR A FIGHTING WORKING PEOPLES’ PARTY By Alayande Stephen T. The political equation again has brought to the fore the need for a Mass Working Peoples’ Party. More than before, the masses are suffering and are reduced to slaves in their own country, even amidst abundant and stupendous wealth. The perspective of building a campaign for a genuine Mass

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Pay A Living Pension Now!

Pay A Living Pension Now! Being the text of a Press Conference by CDWR on the Plight of Pensioners on January 16, 2008. The motto of Nigerian pensioners reads, “Rest is sweet after retirement”. Yes, this is a statement of fact, but for retired workers, their daily harrowing experience has proved the motto to be a mere wishful thinking. Rest