For Struggle, Solidarity and Socialism in Nigeria
Ajegunle, Lagos ERC Free Holiday Coaching Ends with Symposium The 6-week Free Holiday coaching for secondary school students organized by the Education Rights Campaign (ERC) finally came to an end on the 14th Wednesday September 2011 with a symposium inside the school compound of Nawa-Ur-Deen primary school at Arumoh Street, Ajeromi Ifelodun Local Government in Lagos. The Free Holiday Coaching
DSM National Committee Meet to Discuss and Organize For a Socialist Alternative Segun Sango giving lead-off on Nigeria – photo DSM On Saturday 17 and Sunday 18 September 2011, the National Committee (NC) of the Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM) – CWI Nigeria – met in Lagos. The purpose of this NC meeting, as DSM General Secretary Segun Sango said when
MINIMUM WAGE: OSUN WORKERS HOLD CONGRESS AND REMAIN RESOLUTE Kola Ibrahim All the copies (about a thousand) of the new edition of Osun State Socialist Democracy (SD) produced were sold out at the Congress of the Osun state workers on minimum wage in Osogbo held on Wednesday August 17, 2011. Indeed, some workers made photocopies of the paper out of
OYES! Yes but not under slave conditions By Kola Ibrahim From the June 2011 Osun state Special edition of Socialist Democracy When the new Osun State government established a youth employment scheme tagged OYES which immediately employed what the government called 20,000 volunteers comprising graduates of universities, polytechnics and colleges of education, and secondary school leavers, everybody welcome this development.
18 years After June 12: What lessons for the working masses today By Alfred Adegoke From the June 2011 Osun state Special edition of Socialist Democracy No thanks to the Babangida/Abacha military juntas which some 18 years ago annulled the June 12 1993 presidential elections results won by the business mogul, Chief M.K.O Abiola who later died in the Abdul
Minimum Wage: Labour Must Declare a Two-Day Warning Strike and Mass Action By Peluola Adewale The Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM) calls on the leadership of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and Trade Union Congress (TUC) to ensure that the struggle for the implementation of the modest new minimum wage go beyond mere propaganda which seems to be the prevailing approach
Press statement JUNE 16 DECLARATION: THE STATE OF EDUCATION IN NIGERIA AND WHAT IS TO BE DONE A statement issued by the Education Rights Campaign (ERC) to address the state of education in Nigeria in commemoration of June 16, 2011 which is the anniversary of the 1976 massacre of black students in South Africa by the then apartheid regime and
DSM Oyo State Public Meeting: Debating the way forward for building a genuine working people’s political alternative Trade unionists and socialists discuss how to fight and win against neo-liberal attacks and secure N18, 000 minimum wage. By Ayo Ademiluyi Against the background of the outcome of the 2011 elections, it was necessary to draw together workers, trade unionists and youths
2011 May Day: Labour Demands Implementation of New National Minimum Wage without a Fighting Programme By Peluola Adewale Segun Sango addressing the Lagos May Day, photo Socialist Democracy This year International Workers’ Day was, unfortunately, another usual jamboree for workers on May 1 in Nigeria. The essence of the event as the day to put forward the demands of workers
The New Governor Aregbesola/ACN Government in Osun State: How Far can It Go? Being the Statement of the National Executive Council (NEC) of the Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM) issued on February 4, 2011 During the 2007 general elections, the Action Congress (AC) fielded Eng. Rauf Aregbesola as its governorship candidate against the then incumbent PDP governor, Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola. And
THE 2011 GENERAL ELECTIONS AND THE WORKING MASSES Segun Sango, DSM General Secretary The main political parties recently conducted their primaries to elect those that will fly their flags in the forthcoming general elections in April. Very tragically, these so-called primaries have once again revealed the well known fact that all the ruling parties are being led by highly undemocratic
Voters’ Registration under a New INEC Chairman: Same old Organisational and Political Problems By Segun Sango, DSM General Secretary During the year 2011, about 16 odd African states are expected to conduct and or organize general elections. On the surface, this fact might give the misleading impression that governance and government in Africa are embracing democracy and the democratic ethos.
50 years’ independence “The fault lies not in our stars but in the circumstances and system we operate” DSM holds Symposium to mark Nigeria @ 50 On Friday October 1st 2010, Nigeria marked its 50 years of existence as an independent Nation. Nigeria had “won” its independence from British colonial rule on October 1st 1960. The independence, which was a
Continued Attack on Democratic Rights in Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife: A Call for Intervention Security man destroying DSM secretariat Press Statement Lawal Orsh, Secretary General, DSM Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife Branch The secretariat of Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM), Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU) Ile-Ife Chapter was destroyed by security men on 5th October, 2010 on the directive of the
RE-INVENTING THE LABOUR PARTY A paper presented on September 28, 2010 by Segun Sango, DSM General Secretary, at the 21st Annual Education Conference of the National Union of Textile, Garment and Tailoring Workers of Nigeria First and foremost, I wish to thank the National Executive Council (NEC) of the National Union of Textile Garment and Tailoring Workers of Nigeria for
Tribute to John Odah at 50 By Segun Sango and Lanre Arogundade This appreciation of John Odah, the Nigeria Labour Congress’s General Gecretary, was published in the Compass newspaper on August 21 and in the Guardian newspaper on August 23. AS members of the same generation of students and left wing movements, we join in congratulating John Odah, General Secretary
WORKERS` STRIKES IN OYO STATE: A call for a United Action and Working People Political Alternative By Abbey Trotsky The perennial economic cum political attacks every pro-capitalist government now characteristically unleashes on workers and other categories of toiling working masses has kept throwing up repeated resistance from workers in Oyo state. In the last five months, workers in different sectors
DSM Press Statement DEMAND FOR N52, 200 MINIMUM WAGE LABOUR LEADERS MUST INTENSIFY THE STRUGGLE FOR A LIVING WAGE FOR NIGERIAN WORKERS The recent statements credited to top government officials have confirmed the position of the Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM) that the government would not pay the long overdue living wage to Nigerian workers unless it is pressured through mass
2010 May Day: Workers Have to Wait Longer for a Living Wage Labour Should Give Ultimatum and Begin Mass Mobilisation for a Warning Strike for N52, 200 Minimum Wage and against Deregulation By Peluola Adewale Were there a fighting trade union leadership this year’s May Day would have been an avenue to mobilize workers for action around demands for improved
EDO HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY CRISIS FOR LABOUR PARTY TO BE BUILT AS A FIGHTING WORKING CLASS POLITICAL PARTY By Chinedu Bosah In what looked like the usual tussle for leadership at the motor parks, the Action Congress (AC) and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) of the Edo State House of Assembly have engaged in a desperate and dangerous fight to