For Struggle, Solidarity and Socialism in Nigeria
Labour Must Insist on its Implementation and Prompt Payment Across States Without Retrenchment! Several months after Buhari/APC led government was compelled through various agitations and street protests, including a threat of strike action by Nigeria workers, to finally approve the implementation of the long overdue new minimum of N30,000, many state governments are yet to make concrete commitments over the
By Alfred Adegoke, Coordinator, DSM Osun State By 27th November 2020, Governor Gboyega Oyetola/APC led Government in Osun State will be two years in office. No one needs a soothsayer to know that there is nothing significant to show for it in terms of human and physical development of the state, yet the government is eager to score itself high in
CALLS GOVERNMENT TO MEET THE DEMANDS OF THE STRIKING DOCTORS Lagos State Chapter of the Socialist Party of Nigeria (SPN) has knocked the Babajide Sanwo-Olu-led Lagos State Government over the planned doctors’ strike, which is set to commence on Monday, 13th of July, 2020. The party expresses solidarity with the Medical Guild, the affiliate of the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA),
Neither Obaseki nor Ize-Iyamu can make Edo State work for the workers and poor masses ONLY A WORKERS AND POOR PEOPLES’ GOVERNMENT ARMED WITH SOCIALIST PROGRAMME CAN GUARANTEE BETTER WORKING AND LIVING CONDITIONS FOR ALL By Eko John Nicholas, DSM National Committee member In an almost breath-taking public display of cynical opportunism the main protagonists in the Edo state governorship election
DSM AJEROMI-IFELODUN, LAGOS, HOLDS A PUBLIC SYMPOSIUM By Moshood Oshunfurewa, DSM Ajegunle Branch In spite of the heavy economic and societal burden placed on the Nigerian masses and the working people by the failure of the corrupt capitalist government of President Muhammadu Buhari and the COVID-19 pandemic, twenty-four (24) Ajegunle residents, including comrades of the DSM, participated in a public
By Lanre Arogundade With Ayodele Akele’s remains committed to mother earth today in his hometown of Akungba, Ondo State, it is worth reiterating that he has earned his place in the hall of fame of genuine working class fighters. Comrades who worked with him at different periods of his leadership of the National Union of Public Corporation Employees in Lagos
Appeal for more international and national solidarity By Abbey Trotsky GX Foods workers approached the Campaign for Democratic and Workers Rights (CDWR) branch in Oyo State to intervene in the attacks on their working conditions in April 2020. Since then, CDWR comrades in solidarity have played major roles in the struggle. GX Foods Limited, Ibadan, is allegedly owned by Senator
The recent revelation that the Speaker of the Lagos House of Assembly, Mudasiru Obasa spent N80 million on a Dubai ‘training’ trip for 20 wives of Lagos lawmakers is highly condemnable. This is just one amongst the many profligate public expenditures by the Lagos State House of Assembly. Lagos State Chapter of the Socialist Party of Nigeria (SPN) sees this
SPN SUPPORTS THE MASS PROTEST IN US AND ACROSS THE WORLD SPN DEMANDS AN END TO POLICE BRUTALITY, RACIAL VIOLENCE AND ALL FORMS OF OPPRESSION The Socialist Party of Nigeria (SPN) condemns the brutal killing of George Floyd, a 46-year-old black man by Minneapolis Police officers on May 25, 2020, after he was arrested for allegedly buying cigarettes with a
Coronavirus Pandemic – A Failure of Capitalism Labour and Working People Must Force Governments at all Levels to Contain the Spread of Virus in Nigeria By Peluola Adewale Perhaps nothing in recent history has exposed the incompetence of capitalism to meet the basic needs of the people and advance humanity further than the global outbreak of Coronavirus otherwise called Covid-19
A call for donations to replace comrade’s phone snatched in the protest On Monday December 23, 2019, a coalition of civil society organizations organized demonstration to the National Human Rights Commission in Abuja and Lagos to protest the continued detention of Omoyele Sowore and other activists by Buhari government in violation of court order. Members of the Democratic Socialist Movement
The Education Rights Campaign (ERC) vehemently condemns the illegal arrest and detention of Yahuza Tijjani, a 200 level student of the Department of Science and Technology Education, Bayero University, Kano (BUK). He was arrested on 30th September, 2019 for allegedly criticizing a lawmaker representing Madobi Local Government Area in the Kano State Assembly. He has since that time been under
Matter comes up Thursday October 24, 2019 at Magistrate Court Iyaganku, Ibadan By Peluola Adewale The trial of Abiodun Bamigboye (Abbey Trotsky), Acting National Chairperson of the Socialist Party of Nigeria (SPN) and Oyo State Coordinator of the Campaign for Democratic and Workers Rights (CDWR) over trumped-up charges by the police at instance of Sumal Foods, Ibadan will come up
The Campaign for Democratic and Workers Rights (CDWR) –a campaign platform formed by the Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM) to intervene in workers struggle – would like to request your donation to the financial appeal meant for a campaign we have initiated to argue and fight for the full implementation of the minimum wage at all levels and an end to
MASSIVE PUBLIC INVESTMENT IN AGRICULTURE AND BASIC COMMODITIES IS THE WAY-OUT The closure of border on August 19, 2019 has created more crises for the working masses than they already have considering the rapid rising cost of consumables most of which are imported through the Seme border via Republic of Benin. The closure has provoked increment of prices of some
The Socialist Party of Nigeria (SPN) condemns in strongest terms the continued detention of Omoyele Sowore by the DSS despite a court order and having fulfilled the bail conditions. We hereby demand the immediate and unconditional release of Sowore alongside Olawale Adebayo (Mandate), who has been detained since August 5 RevolutionNow protest, Agba Jalingo who has been detained in Cross
GANI FAWEHINMI: DEFIANCE AS A CAUSE By Lanre Arogundade and Hassan Soweto Gani lived a life that was quintessentially defined by uncommon defiance of manifestations of abuse of power, especially corruption at the top levels of society and governance. He simply detested such and fought it with all he had in his nerves and veins. The echoes of the beneficial
First posted on September 11, 2009 The National Executive Committee (NEC) of the Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM) condoles with the family of Chief Gani Fawehinmi on the death of an outstanding working peoples’ leader and joins millions of working class people in Nigeria and internationally to celebrate his life and struggles. We reaffirm our dedication to the best of the
The Socialist Party of Nigeria (SPN) and the Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM) hereby demand immediate and unconditional release of the Presidential candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC) and Sahara Reporters Publisher, Omoyele Sowore. We also demand the release of all activists and journalists and a halt to all attacks on democratic rights. In the same vein, we demand an
The Socialist Party Nigeria (SPN) strongly condemns the judicial contrivance of the federal government obtained through an order of the Federal High Court to detain Omoyele Sowore for another 45 days. We restate our demand for immediate and unconditional release of Omoyele Sowore as well as all detained activists and journalists. We call for an immediate meeting of civil society