Democratic Socialist Movement

For Struggle, Solidarity and Socialism in Nigeria

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May Day 2026: No Plan of Mass Struggle Despite the Deepening of Cost-of-Living Crisis 

Unfortunately, this year’s May Day has passed as another annual ritual, not an opportunity for mobilization for a mass struggle. Labour leaders gave speeches and workers paraded before governors in a display of jamborees, in most cases without putting forward any demand. To be fair to the national leadership, they do not sing praises of the government unlike their state

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What the Committee for a Workers’ International (CWI) Fights For

Tasks for Revolutionaries and the Role of the CWI This document should be read alongside articles on the CWI website, socialistworld.net, and ‘What We Stand For’ statements and campaigning materials from CWI sections. This Programme is published alongside the document ‘Historic Foundations of the CWI and the Struggle for a Revolutionary Socialist International’, which provides the political, and theoretical foundations

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Trial of Makoko protesters – We Remain Undaunted

We Risk Jail Term for Daring to Stop State-Backed Theft of Poor People’s Land but We Remain Undaunted. On Friday, 24 April 2026, it would be the third time that I and Dele Frank (Arole Fela) would be appearing in court to stand trial on criminal charges. By H.T Soweto We are being tried on a five-count charge bordering on

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SOLIDARITY IN COURT: THE STRUGGLE CONTINUES

DROP TRUMPED-UP CHARGES AGAINST TAIWO HASSAN SOWETO AND DELE FRANK Today, 11th March 2026, members and collaborators of the #EndBadGovernance Lagos Movement were present at Court 2 of the Yaba Magistrate Court to stand in firm solidarity with Hassan Taiwo Soweto and Dele Frank (Arole Fela), who are facing trial over mass protest against unjust demolitions and forced evictions on

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LAGOS MUST IMMEDIATELY STOP DEMOLISHING POOR PEOPLE’S HOMES IN OWOROSHOKI, AJEGUNLE AND MAKOKO

THE LAGOS STATE GOVERNMENT MUST IMMEDIATELY HALT THE DEMOLITION OF HOUSES OF POOR PEOPLE IN OWOROSHOKI, AJEGUNLE AND MAKOKO. WE DEMAND IMMEDIATE ADEQUATE COMPENSATION AND PROVISION OF DECENT HOUSES FOR ALL VICTIMS OF DEMOLITION; NO TO HOMELESSNESS! The Youth Rights Campaign (YRC) condemns the ongoing cruel demolition of houses in Oworoshoki by the Lagos State APC Government despite a subsisting

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COMRADE ABIODUN AREMU (A.K.A. AREMSON): FAREWELL TO A WORKING-CLASS ORGANISER EXTRAORDINAIRE AND REVOLUTIONARY PAR EXCELLENCE

With deep pain and heavy hearts, the Joint Action Front (JAF) mourns the tragic and untimely passing of our beloved comrade, Abiodun Aremu, fondly known as Aremson, on Sunday October 12, 2025. Comrade Aremson, until his death, was the National Secretary of JAF – a coalition of socialists and left groups which, in the last two decades, has helped organise

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DSM CONDEMNS THE DEADLY VIOLENCE OVER LOCAL GOVERNMENT CONTROL IN OSUN STATE

We Condemn the Role of the Police and the Attorney General of the Federation For A Mass Party of the Working People on a Genuine Socialist Program Capable of Banishing Poverty and Emancipating the Poor, Oppressed, Women and Youth By Alfred Adegoke DSM Coordinator, Osun State The Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM), Osun State, strongly condemns the violence that has trailed

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TINUBU’S APPROVAL OF $20,000 FOREIGN MEDICAL TREATMENT, BULLET-PROOF SUVS AND OTHER PERKS TOP GENERALS IS AN INSULT TO NIGERIAN WORKERS AND MASSES

CDWR DEMANDS REVERSAL OF ALL EXTRAVAGANT PACKAGES FOR THE MILITARY, JUDGES AND TOP POLITICAL OFFICE HOLDERS It is a disservice to the toiling Nigerian workers and masses for President Tinubu to approve jumbo salaries, allowances and outrageous perks for serving and retiring generals and top military officers while subjecting those who labour to create the wealth of the country to

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RESIST OUTRAGEOUS ELECTRICITY PRICE HIKES

CARE CONDEMNS ELECTRICITY DISTRIBUTION COMPANIES IMPOSITION OF AN OUTRAGEOUSLY HIGH ELECTRICITY TARIFF ON COMMUNITIES TRADE UNIONS AND COMMUNITY ACTIONS ARE NEEDED TO RESIST THESE OUTRAGEOUS TARIFFS The Coalition for Affordable and Regular Electricity (CARE) condemns the imposition of outrageous billing/tariffs (N227/kWh or more) on many communities without consultation, discussion and agreement by Ikeja Electric and other distribution companies. Some communities

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#EndBadGovernance Movement Lagos State Announces Plan for October 1 Protest

On Thursday September 26, the #EndBadGovernance movement in Lagos State addressed a press conference to intimate the general public about the details of a mass protest scheduled for Tuesday 1st October 2024 and tagged “National Day of Survival”. Take-off point in Lagos is Ikeja Under Bridge by 7:30am. Below is the text read at the press conference WE URGE THE NIGERIAN

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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 holds public symposium on elections and declares critical support for Sowore

Calls for a mass working people party with socialist programme and preparation for class struggle after election By Gideon Adeyeni On Saturday February 18, 2023, the Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM) held a public symposium in Lagos under the theme “2023 General Elections: Any Hope for the Working People and Youth?”. The event was attended by over a hundred participants from

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2023: No Genuine Alternative Amongst all the Capitalist Candidates

Only a Mass Workers’ Party with Socialist Program can Save Nigeria Given the seeming perpetual decline in the living conditions of the majority of Nigerians in the last seven and half years of the Buhari/APC government, it will be expected that many Nigerians will want to use the 2023 elections to punish the ruling politicians and parties and seek for

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WHAT IS MARXISM? An Introduction

This article was published in April 2022 in Socialism Today, the monthly journal of the Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales) as one of the content of five new Introduction to Marxism pamphlets. They are based on a series first printed in 2003 but take into account the context of the present period, and a fresh approach has been taken

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ADELEKE/PDP’S GOVERNMENT IN OSUN STATE: Can it Deliver?

After four years of rudderless leadership, the Oyetola government has been replaced by a new government of Ademola Adeleke of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP). This is of course with a caveat: the possibility of the judicial overturning of Adeleke’s victory. Whatever happens however, nothing can change the fact that Oyetola is the first sitting governor in Osun State history

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GOOD NIGHT OUR SANGO, THE ULTIMATE REVOLUTIONARY

Segun Sango (born Segun Aderemi) wrote his own epitaph. He dreamt the working class socialist revolution; he spoke and worked for it; and he lived an exemplary life of a true revolutionist. By Lanre Arogundade Both in theory and praxis, he was a Nigerian version of truly dedicated world-class revolutionaries who built cadres across generations. A man of steel, he

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Extreme Manufacturing Nigeria Limited: ALL THE ARRESTED CASUAL WORKERS RELEASED!

CDWR appreciates NLC, Lawyers and all well-meaning Nigerians for prompt interventions The Campaign for Democratic and Workers Rights (CDWR), Oyo State Chapter, brings to the knowledge of the general public that all the arrested casual workers of Extreme Manufacturing Nigeria limited, Ibadan, have been released from the Oyo State Operation Burst detention. This was following the intervention of Barrister Ola

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2023 Elections: An Urgent Necessity for Pro-Working People Political Alternative

Only alternative based on a socialist progamme can rescue Nigeria and reconstruct its economy in the interest of workers and the masses The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has recently announced February 18, 2023 as the tentative date the next general election is scheduled to hold across the country. If held, it will be the seventh since the country returned