Democratic Socialist Movement

For Struggle, Solidarity and Socialism in Nigeria

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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

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DISENGAGED LAGOS WATER CORPORATION WORKERS HOLD PROTEST AND DEMAND THEIR REINSTATEMENT

On 8 May 2024 hundreds of disengaged workers of Lagos Water Corporation (LWC) gathered at Ikeja Under Bridge to kick off a protest march against their unlawful disengagement by the Sanwo-Olu-led government in the state. The protest was called by three unions in the sector – the Amalgamated Union of Public Corporations, Civil Service Technical & Recreational Services Employees (AUPCTRE),

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Comrade Rotimi Sankore (June 5, 1968 – April 12, 2024): A Conscientious Defender of the Oppressed

The name of Rotimi Sankore is engrained on the marble of history of struggle against military dictatorship in Nigeria. The historic July 5-7, 1993 mass protests, following the annulment of June 12 election by Ibrahim Babangida junta, was a catalyst in the struggle. Millions were on the streets calling for an end to the military rule. Sankore contributed to making

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May Day 2024: Fighting Mood Suppressed by Expectation of a New Minimum Wage

Kola Ibrahim, the organiser of the Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM) in Osun State, aptly captures the current situation of the workers’ movement in Nigeria in his account of May Day rally in Osogbo Osun state. He wrote, “In the absence of a fighting labour leadership, many seemed to have resorted to fate or faith. This is clearly reflected in the