Democratic Socialist Movement

For Struggle, Solidarity and Socialism in Nigeria

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PRESIDENT TINUBU’S SPEECH IS INSENSITIVE AND OUT OF TOUCH WITH THE SUFFERING REALITY OF NIGERIANS

CDWR DEMANDS AN UNCONDITIONAL AND IMMEDIATE RELEASE OF MICHAEL ADARAMOYE, BABATUNDE OLUAJO AND OTHERS The Campaign for Democratic and Workers’ Rights (CDWR) considers President Tinubu’s broadcast speech of Sunday August 4, 2024 as a display of arrogance and insensitivity towards the harrowing plight and hardship of Nigerians. He actually used the broadcast to double down on his failed anti-people reform

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WE CONDEMN THE ABDUCTION OF THE NATIONAL COORDINATOR OF YRC, MICHAEL ADARAMOYE, IN ABUJA BY THE DSS.

THE YOUTH RIGHTS CAMPAIGN REJECTS PRESIDENT TINUBU SPEECH AS IT FAILS TO ADDRESS DEMANDS We condemn in totality the abduction of Michael Adaramoye, National Coordinator of YRC by the DSS Abuja, around 2am on Monday August 5. This gestapo-style abduction of activists and dissenting voices by the Bola Ahmed Tinubu led APC government cannot cow us. Rather, it will only

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ACTIVIST ORGANISER AND TWO OTHERS SEIZED BY DSS!!! FREE MICHEAL LENIN AND OTHERS DETAINED NOW

Adaramoye Michael Lenin, National Coordinator of Youth Rights Campaign (YRC) and National Mobilisation Officer of Education Rights Campaign (ERC), was abducted by the DSS in Abuja around 2am today. Michael Lenin, also a member of the Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM), is one of the organisers of #EndBadGovernanceinNigeria nationwide protest in Abuja. Alongside Micheal another DSM member, Babatunde Oluajo, was detained

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#ENDBADGOVERNANCEINNIGERIA

Resist All Anti-Poor Policies, No to Attacks on Democratic Rights and Fight for Socialist Change We of the Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM) and Youth Rights Campaign (YRC) call on workers, artisans, traders, youth and the poor masses to support the call for nationwide peaceful protest over the prevailing mass hunger and cost of living crisis. Prices of food, energy, medicine

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DSM Ifako Ijaiye, Lagos, Branch Mobilises for Action against Tinubu’s Anti-People Policies

Comrades of Ifako Ijaiye Branch of the Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM) on Saturday July 20 held tabling (sales of organization’s paper and circulation of leaflet) at Abule Egba Bus Stop in Lagos. It was part of the activities of the organisation to encourage and mobilise mass resistance against the anti-poor capitalist policies of Bola Tinubu government which have caused serious

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N70, 000 Minimum Wage is Relatively Small; Serious Struggle Could Have Won Higher Wage

Labour Leaders and Workers Must Fight for Full Implementation Without Retrenchment The leaderships of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and Trade Union Congress (TUC) have accepted N70, 000 as the new national minimum wage after a period of limited struggle and negotiation. We of the Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM) believe that labour leaders need to be sober over what they

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Ogun – Threats of Industrial Action Over N40b Unremitted Pension Funds:

CDWR Stands in Solidarity With Ogun Public/Civil Service Workers We Call on Governor Dapo Abiodun to Pay The 160 Months (15years) Unremitted Pension Deductions From Workers Salaries Without Delay. The Campaign for Democratic and Workers’ Rights (CDWR), Ogun state chapter, stands in solidarity with workers over the threats of industrial action to press home their demands for the payment of

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YRC SUPPORTS PLANNED AUGUST NATIONWIDE PROTEST AND CALL ON ALL NIGERIA YOUTHS, WORKERS AND OPPRESSED MASSES TO REJECT NEOLIBERAL CAPITALIST POLICIES OF THE TINUBU/APC ADMINISTRATION

The Youth Rights Campaign (YRC) welcomes the planned August nationwide #EndBadGovernanceInNigeria protest and calls on all those who are dissatisfied with the prevailing condition of hunger and hardship in Nigeria to join. As the saying goes, you can’t beat a child and expect the child not to cry. The Tinubu administration cannot subject the Nigerian working people and youth to

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UI: ERC SUPPORTS THE ONGOING STUDENTS PROTEST AGAINST RATIONED ELECTRICITY SUPPLY AND FEE HIKE

We urge workers’ unions on campus to take immediate solidarity actions The Education Rights Campaign (ERC) University of Ibadan branch commends the mass of students of the university for  embarking on a peaceful protest to demand an immediate withdrawal of  an unfortunate schedule of electricity supply  in the university recently released by university administration and  reversal of the university current

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ECOWAS COURT INDICTS FEDERAL AND LAGOS GOVERNMENTS OVER #EndSARS KILLINGS

ECOWAS COURT OF JUSTICE JUDGEMENT ON #ENDSARS IS AN INDICTMENT ON THE FORMER PRESIDENT BUHARI-LED FEDERAL GOVERNMENT AND GOVERNOR SANWO-OLU LED LAGOS STATE GOVERNMENT WHO HAD BOTH DENIED THE KILLINGS AND ATTACKS EVER HAPPENED YRC Demands Arrest and Prosecution of all those Responsible Adequate Compensation for All Victims and immediate and unconditional release of protesters still in Detention For a

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CDWR SOLIDARIZES WITH SSANU, NASU AND ASUU’S STRUGGLE OVER UNPAID SALARIES OF MEMBERS

WE CALL ON THE GOVERNMENT TO PAY ALL BACKLOG SALARIES WITHOUT DELAY AND ADEQUATELY FUND EDUCATION The Campaign for Democratic and Workers’ Rights (CDWR) condemns the federal government’s refusal to pay University workers backlog of salaries owed to them. Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) and Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and Associated Institutions (NASU) members are owed four

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OAU JULY 10 CULT ATTACK: 25 YEARS AFTER

WE REMEMBER AFRIKA AND 4 OTHERS! JOIN THE ERC TO BUILD AN INDEPENDENT, DEMOCRATIC, AND MASS BASED STUDENTS UNION TO FIGHT CULTISM AND ANTI-STUDENT POLICIES Today makes it 25 years after the bloody cult attack which took the lives of five students of Obafemi Awolowo University Ile-Ife. The slain students included a 21-year-old 400-Level law student and the then Secretary-General

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SUMAL WORKERS’ PROTEST: CDWR CONDEMNS KILLING AND BRUTALIZATION OF WORKERS AND DEMANDS IMMEDIATE PROSECUTION OF POLICE OFFICERS INVOLVED

WE CALL FOR A DEMOCRATIC PANEL OF ENQUIRY AND IMMEDIATE INTERVENTION OF NLC AND TUC TO ENSURE THAT WORKERS’ DEMANDS ARE ACCEDED TO WITH ADEQUATE COMPENSATION FOR THE DECEASED AND INJURED The Campaign for Democratic and Workers’ Rights (CDWR), condemns the reported killing of one Mr Bode, a staff of SUMAL FOOD LIMITED, and brutalization of many other workers from

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LABOUR LEADERS MUST RESUME MINIMUM WAGE STRUGGLE AND ORGANISE RESISTANCE AGAINST ALL ANTI-PEOPLE POLICIES WITH SERIOUSNESS

CDWR DEMANDS A LIVING WAGE FOR NIGERIAN WORKERS AND BETTER LIVING CONDITIONS FOR THE MASSES IN GENERAL The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and Trade Union Congress (TUC) have been at loggerheads with the government and private sector over a new minimum wage, and negotiations have been deadlocked for over 3 weeks and still counting. Government and Private Sector insistence on

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IMF Austerity | Mass Protests Force Kenyan Government to Retreat 

Mass protests in Kenya have forced the government to withdraw unpopular tax increases. These amounted to a massive attack on the living standards of the middle class, the working class, the poor and young people. On Tuesday, 26 June, a mass protest forced its way into parliament, setting it alight, and preventing the finance bill from being passed. Politicians had

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CDWR SUPPORTS OYO HEALTH WORKERS’ DECISION TO HOLD 7-DAY WARNING STRIKE

The strike  should not be limited to a Stay-at-Home Action but include a Series of Mass Action and a link with the state striking nurses and midwives to build a coalition for the actualization of demands The Campaign for Democratic and Workers’ Rights,  CDWR, Oyo state branch, welcomes the decision of the members and leadership of the Medical and Health

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Protests against Hunger and Economic Hardship Held on June 12

This year’s June 12 anniversary was used by some left and pro-working people’s organizations to hold protest against mass hunger and anti-poor policies. In Lagos, the Joint Action Front (JAF) and Education Rights Campaign (ERC) worked with the Take it Back movement (TIB) and others to organize the mass action. Protests were also held in a few other states. Members

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DSM Calls on Working Masses to Support the General Strike for a Decent National Minimum Wage and Reversal of electricity tariff increase.

We call on Labour not to restrict the Strike to a Stay-at-Home Action but Hold a Series of Mass Actions. The struggle must also call for Reversal of Anti-People Policies of the Tinubu Government. The Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM) welcomes the decision of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and Trade Union Congress (TUC) to embark on an indefinite general strike

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“Class Collaboration or Social Transformation: What Sorts of Trade Unions Are Needed to Confront Tinubu’s Anti-People Policies?”

CDWR Holds Public Meeting Participants Agree on Urgent Need for Workers to Rebuild the Trade Unions and Make them Fighting Platforms By Davy Fidel Amidst the low ebb of consciousness among workers, youth, and the working masses undergoing economic hardship under the failed “Renewed Hope” government of President Tinubu that has unleashed anti-poor and neoliberal policies, the Campaign for Democratic

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FG’S OFFER OF N48,000 MINIMUM WAGE IS AN INSULT TO NIGERIAN WORKERS

CDWR CALLS ON LABOUR LEADERS TO MOBILISE WORKERS FOR SUSTAINED MASS ACTIONS TO ACTUALISE LIVING WAGE AND END ALL ANTI-PEOPLE CAPITALIST POLICIES On Wednesday, May 15, 2024, the leadership of both the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and Trade Union Congress (TUC) walked out of the meeting of the tripartite committee on the national minimum wage negotiation in protest against offers