For Struggle, Solidarity and Socialism in Nigeria
This International Women’s Day sees women, especially working women, facing great challenges in many countries especially those facing war, economic and social crises. At the same time there is a mixed picture regarding issues that women specifically face. We have recently seen significant victories for women internationally, such as the mass movements in Latin America, which forced governments to legalise
No One Deserves to Die Because they Want to Earn a Degree For the Reversal of hiked fees at the University of Abuja and Adequate Funding of Public education! The attention of the Education Rights Campaign (ERC) has been drawn to the predicament of Ada Amazu, a final year student of Veterinary Medicine of the University of Abuja (Uniabuja), who
We call for a 48 hour general strike as the next step We of the Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM) consider the decision of the leadership of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) to suspend the two-day nationwide protest of February 27 and 28, 2024 after only one day of protest as a counterproductive decision and a missed opportunity by the labour
Mobilisation march in Lagos On Monday 26th February 2024; the Joint Action Front (JAF) in conjunction with Coalition for Revolution (CORE) held protest actions in Lagos and three other states over the worsening cost of living crisis. It is aimed to build a nationwide mass movement against anti-poor capitalist policies of the Bola Tinubu government which are responsible for the
Join the Movement to Stop Tinubu’s Bad Policies Fight for Socialist Change Leaflet Issued by the DSM on February 22 for Mass Circulation across the Country. In different parts of the country many people have hit the streets in peaceful protests over the prevailing mass hunger and cost of living crisis. Where people have not organized a protest, we have
Reverse Fuel Price Hike to Pre-may 29, 2023 Level Reverse Tuition Fee Hike and End all Anti-poor Policies Slash the Humongous Salaries and Allowances of Political Office Holders and Take Our Wealth off the 1% FOR A SOCIALIST NIGERIA! By H.T. Soweto The Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM) applauds all Nigerian workers, women, students, youth and the poor masses who have
The Naira Shrinks, Our Pockets Empty: Nigerian workers Need a Living Wage Now The Nigeria Labour Congress, Trade Union Congress, and all their affiliates have a historic responsibility to rescue Nigeria and lead workers and the poor masses out of the quagmire the Bola Tinubu regime has plunged the country into. Across the length and breadth of Nigeria, the simmering
Mass Actions Needed to Defeat Anti-Student Policies Ever since the pronouncement of the student’s loan was made there have been heightened and sporadic attacks on public education through hike in tuition fees, spreading from one tertiary institution to another like a wide fire in harmattan. Sadly, many students continue to think that the government’s loan policy will help address the
The matter adjourned till 29th July, 2024. The case of trumped-up criminal charges instituted against Comrade Abiodun Bamigboye, popularly known as Abbey Trotsky by the police Zone 11, Oshogbo at the instance of SUMAL FOOD LIMITED, Ibadan came up on Tuesday, 20th February, 2024 at Court 6 Magistrate Court Iyaganku, Ibadan, Oyo State. The court session commenced around 9:30am during
* Demands Must Include Total Reversal of Fuel Price Hike and Deregulation as Well as Immediate actions to Halt Meteoric Rise in Prices of Food and Other Basic Needs * Knowing Labour Leaders’ Penchant for Last-Minute suspension and compromise, we urge pro-labour civil society and activists to begin to mobilise independently for a national shutdown and mass protests The Democratic
The President Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) Abuja Comrade President, The Campaign for Democratic and Workers’ Rights (CDWR) wishes to report to the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) the ongoing prosecution and persecution of Abiodun Bamigboye, also known as Abbey Trotsky, who is the Oyo State Coordinator of the CDWR and the Acting National Chairperson of the Socialist Party of Nigeria (SPN)
* WE DEMAND IMMEDIATE REOPENING OF THE SCHOOL, WITHOUT VICTIMIZING ANY STUDENT * WE CALL FOR A REVERSAL OF THE EXORBITANT FEES WHICH IS THE REASON MANY STUDENTS ARE UNABLE TO MAKE PAYMENT; ALL STUDENTS MUST BE ALLOWED TO SIT FOR THE EXAMS The Education Rights Campaign (ERC) strongly condemns the insensitivity of the management of Michael Okpara University of
Report of Protest and Picketing by Sacked Staff of Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospital Complex (OAUTHC) By Kola Ibrahim Following issuance of sack letters to over 1,500 staff of Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospital Complex (OAUTHC) Ile Ife by the management of the hospital, through the directive of the Federal Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, the affected workers started
Shows LP is a Party Dominated by the Rich We Reiterate Our Call on Trade Unions to Rebuild the Party as a Genuine Working Peoples Political Alternative The Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM) condemns the decision of the Labour Party to charge an outrageous sum of N30 million as its nomination fee for the governorship election in Edo State. This shows
On Tuesday January 30, members of the Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM) attended a workers’ meeting organized by the Lagos State Council of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) to mark the start of the new year. The meeting had both festive and political features. Workers, happy to have survived an harrowing 2023 under what is rapidly developing to become one of
OVER 442.5% INCREMENT OF FEES AT OBAFEMI AWOLOWO UNIVERSITY TEACHING HOSPITAL COMPLEX (OAUTHC) COLLEGE OF NURSING SCIENCES IS ANTI-POOR ERC DEMANDS TOTAL REVERSAL NOW WE CALL FOR RESUMPTION OF ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES The Education Rights Campaign (ERC) hereby condemns the increment of fees at the Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospital Complex (OAUTHC) College of Nursing Sciences. The increment, which was announced
January 21 this year marks the 100th anniversary of the death of Lenin (Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov). Along with Leon Trotsky and the Bolshevik party, Lenin (1870–1924) led the 1917 October socialist revolution that “shook the world” and changed the course of world history. For the first time ever, the working class succeeded in taking power and started the task of
The Socialist Party of Nigeria, SPN, Oyo State Chapter, sympathizes with the victims, and their relatives, of the unfortunate explosion that rocked the city of Ibadan, the capital of Oyo State around 7pm on Tuesday, 16th January, 2024. This explosion was quite unfortunate given the magnitude of its devastating impact on the lives and properties around and outside the immediate
* Workers must be defended * We call for immediate payment of all salary arrears for the affected staff The attention of the Campaign for Democratic and Workers’ Rights (CDWR), Osun State, has been drawn to the planned sack of hundreds of recently recruited staff at the Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospital (OAUTH), Ile-Ife, by the Federal Ministry of Health
On Thursday and Friday, January 4 and 5 respectively, three members of the Education Rights Campaign (ERC) visited OOU where students are organizing to resist an over 100 percent increase in school fees as part of a nationwide neo-liberal offensive spearheaded by the Tinubu capitalist regime against public university education in Nigeria. Toheeb Duroorike (ERC Member) reports. Myself, comrade Eko
