For Struggle, Solidarity and Socialism in Nigeria
LASCO AND DEREGULATION: Lagos Meeting Calls for a More Steadfast Resistance by Labour Leaders By Peluola Adewale Many Lagos workers, socialists and civil society activists were present at the February 22 general meeting of Labour and Civil Society Coalition (LASCO) that was significant in some respects. A trade union of tipper drivers and owners, which is a new affiliate of
Campaign for Mass Based Labour Party (CMB-LP): LABOUR PARTY NATIONAL CONVENTION 2009 LABOUR PARTY FOR POWER IN 2011 Labour Party for Labouring Masses Open Up the Party for Mass Recruitment, Set Membership Target Trade Unions Must Actively Participate and Mobilise Rank and File Workers Contest Elections with Democratically Elected Credible Candidates This Labour Party Convention meets at a time of
NIGERIA ON THE BRINK: Nigeria on the brink Only a Working Peoples’ Government can save it INTRODUCTION It is 30 months this November that the government of Umaru Musa Yar’Adua has been in office, albeit through the most farcical election in annals of Nigeria. Like in the 8-year rule (or ruination of Nigerian economy) of his predecessor and mentor, Olusegun
OSHIOMHOLE: ONE YEAR AFTER Time to Build Labour Party and Implement Working Class Oriented Policies It would appear as if the government of Adams Oshiomhole in Edo State has lasted more than one year. This is because it has drawn wide range attention, both locally and internationally and a host of controversies, especially generated by the defeated PDP. Adams is
LASCO SOLIDARITY PROTEST IN SUPPORT OF EDUCATION WORKERS’ STRIKES Biodun Aremu, LASCO Joint Secretary Class solidarity in action as workers, students and youths give support For the formation of Joint Action Committees (JAC) composed of elected representatives of all education workers’ unions and students Labour must call a one-day general strike to defend public education and demand New National minimum
NIGERIAN STUDENTS SUPPORT ASUU STRIKE We Support Demands of SSANU, NASU, ASUP AND NUT For the formation of Joint Action Committee comprising all education workers, students and youths Socialist Nigeria NLC, TUC and LASCO Must Declare a One-Day Solidarity General strike The Education Rights Campaign (ERC) declares its solidarity with members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) on
YAR’ADUA’S ELECTORAL REFORMS AND 2011 GENERAL ELECTIONS Segun Sango, DSM General Secretary The 2007 general elections were adjudged nationally and internationally, as the most farcical exercise ever conducted in the name of elections anywhere in the world. Thus faced with the crisis of legitimacy arising from what practically was no more than stolen mandate and, especially, the possibility of mass
FIGHT FOR A LIVING WAGE DSM statement The demand of Labour for a minimum wage of N52,200 is more than just. In fact, when a real survey of the basic needs of an average working class/family, (with respect to feeding, housing, healthcare, transportation, children education, telecommunications, electricity, etc), are taken into consideration, this is nothing but a very modest demand.
NO TO A CAPITALIST MEGA PARTY: FOR A TRULY WORKING CLASS LABOUR PARTY According to a publication in the ThisDay of March 26, 2009, plans have now reached an advanced stage to form a mega political party by about 19 opposition political parties. In fact the paper reported that a formal launch of the newly mega party has been slated
OSBC: Ojingolo wins DSM Member Secure Victory in a Workplace Victimization Case A member of the Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM) in Osun State, Tajudeen Oyeniyi popularly known as Ojingolo, has won a major victory in a case of official victimization at his workplace, Osun State Broadcasting Corporation (OSBC). After over four months of victimization through unwarranted demotion and dehumanization, he
Campaign for Democratic and Workers’ Rights (CDWR) Free 24 Activists in Osun Now! The Campaign for Democratic and Workers’ Rights (CDWR) condemn the unjust detention of twenty four (24) pro-democracy activists by the Osun State government in collusion with the judiciary and the police command, and demand their immediate release. On Monday March 23, 2009, Magistrate Olalekan Ijiyode of the
THE NEW MINIMUM WAGE: HOW TO FIGHT AND WIN Apparently to underline its commitment to secure a new minimum wage for workers, the National Executive Council of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), on March 10, issued a 21-day ultimatum to the government “to open discussion with it on the proposed N52,200 new minimum wage”. Members of the Democratic Socialist Movement
LABOUR MUST SAY: UNCONDITIONAL NO TO DEREGULATION AND PRIVATISATION OF THE OIL SECTOR For clearly over two decades now a combination of international capitalist forces (particularly oil corporations and cartels) and their Nigerian pro-imperialist, capitalist backers have been waging a protracted, and sometimes ferocious war, with the labour movement in order to put oil, the mainstay of the Nigeria’s economy,
Labour Party Holds Inaugural Public Meeting in Ajegunle Labour Party Inaugural Public Meeting in Ajegunle The Labour Party Chapter in Ajeromi Ifelodun, Lagos, Local Government held its first public meeting on Saturday January 24, 2009 in Ajegunle. This was part of effort of building the Party in communities and workplaces in order to reposition it as a party of struggle
Labour Party Ajegunle (Lagos) Inaugration Building a Genuine Political Alternative for the Poor The Labour Party (LP) Ajeromi Ifelodun Local Government invites workers, professionals, artisans, traders, peasants, youths, students, the unemployed and poor masses to the inauguration of the party in Ajegunle on Saturday January 24, 2009. With the past popular struggles against fuel price hikes and other anti-poor policies
LABOUR’S DEMAND FOR FIFTY TWO THOUSAND TWO HUNDRED NAIRA MINIMUM WAGE The Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM) enthusiastically and wholeheartedly welcomes and supports the demand of the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) for a new minimum wage of N52, 200 across the country. However, we wish to urge the NLC leaders, right from the beginning, to emphasise that the new minimum wage
2009 Budget: Poor Working Masses are in for Worse Living Conditions For the poor working masses, as usual, there is nothing to cheer at in the proposed 2009 Budget recently presented by President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua. The woe of poor Nigerians has in fact been compounded by the global economic meltdown which has expectedly taken its toll on the oil
The Jos mayhem: Characteristic of a failed state Only working class solution can hold Nigeria together in harmony and peace The Jos mayhem that has claimed about 400 lives and several million naira worth of property and displaced about 500 people from their houses is a big tragedy for the poor working masses of the city. Yet again calamity has
OSHIOMOLE: A DESERVED VICTORY FOR THE WORKING MASSES, BUT CHALLENGES LIE AHEAD A SPECIAL STATEMENT BY THE DSM ON THE COURT VERDICT & SWEARING IN OF ADAMS OSHIOMOLE AS GOVERNOR OF EDO STATE The Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM) congratulates the poor working masses of Edo State on the swearing-in of Adams Oshiomhole as the Governor of the state following last
DSM Socialist School 2008: Deepening Socialist ideas in a period when capitalism is in crisis Peluola Adewale The DSM’s Socialist School 2008 proved to be a great success in advancing the political understanding and commitment of both established DSM comrades and new recruits. Significantly, the School held between Saturday October 4 and Sunday October 5, was largely dominated by individuals