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OUR POSITION ON THE NCP NCC PROPOSAL TO ENDORSE GENERAL MUHAMMADU BUHARI AS THE PARTY’S PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE FOR 2007 GENERAL ELECTIONS. National Conscience Party Oyo State Chapter The National Secretary, National Conscience Party (NCP), 1, Yaounde Street, 1st Floor, Wuse Zone 6, Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. Dear Sir, OUR POSITION ON THE NCP NCC PROPOSAL TO ENDORSE GENERAL MUHAMMADU BUHARI
DSM Holds National Committee (NC) Meeting At its National Committee (NC) meeting held between September 23 and 24, 2006, the Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM) x-rayed the capitalist induced socio-economic problems confronting humanity in Nigeria and internationally and came to a conclusion that only the working class unity and a working people political alternative built on a socialist programme nationally and
August Special Edition of Socialist Democracy NCP: Right Wing NEC Seeks To Destroy Party’s Radical Tradition; Expels, Suspends Socialists and Left Opponents. Segun Sango, Lagos Chair of the NCP and General Secretary of the Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM) has been expelled by the Dr. Osagie Obayuwana led national leadership of the NCP. The expulsion letter signed by Mallam Yunusa S.
OBASANJO AGAIN? NO WAY! Officially and publicly, President Olusegun Obasanjo has not announced his intention to remain in power beyond May 2007, his terminal period as President under the military imposed 1999 constitution. Notwithstanding his ostrich game on this issue, all key economic and political features and manipulations going on under the regime clearly point only in one direction –
Contents LASCO’S RALLIES: WHERE DO THE MASSES GO FROM HERE? CORRUPTION: DPS ALAMIEYESEIGHA AND TAFA BALOGUN SAGA BELLVIEW PLANE CRASH: "Dividend" Of Privatisation CHIMA UBANI (1963 – 2005) The Demise Of A Class Fighter CLAMP DOWN ON ETHNIC GROUP LEADERS What It Means LAGOS POLICE-ARMY CLASH A Manifestation of Societal Rot FLOUR MILLS Victimised
September 14, 2005 Special issue Socialist Democracy NLC/LASCO protests: Fuel price hike, chase out Obasanjo regime The current hike of fuel price is totally unjustifiable. According to the government, petroleum products are being subsidised by $4.5 million a day. However, when this so-called subsidy is compared with what income is daily generated from oil sales, then, the absolute anti-poor
Socialist Democracy Aug – Sept 2005 Index Contents After Failed National Confab: Labour Must Fight Consistently The Paris Club “Debt Relief” Package: A Big Con Proposed Fuel Price Hike: Mobilise For Regime And System Change! Fresh Democratic Election Must Be Conducted For Lagos State Local Councils Six Apo Killings Funding Privately Owned Commercial Banks With Public Money Is Super Corruption
Contents INCESSANT FUEL HIKE: Labour Needs Revolutionary Mass Actions To Defeat This Baseless And Provocative Anti-poor Policy NATIONAL CONFAB IS AN EXPENSIVE JOKE: Labour Leaders Should Pull Out Immediately ADAMS OSHIOMHOLE LED NLC: Six Years Of Missed Opportunities OBASANJO’S ANTI-CORRUPTION POSTURING WILL NOT HALT TREASURY LOOTING 2005 TRADE UNION ACT: undemocratic and Anti-Labour – DSM Complete text on one page
Contents INCESSANT FUEL HIKE: Labour Needs Revolutionary Mass Actions To Defeat This Baseless And Provocative Anti-poor Policy NATIONAL CONFAB IS AN EXPENSIVE JOKE: Labour Leaders Should Pull Out Immediately ADAMS OSHIOMHOLE LED NLC: Six Years Of Missed Opportunities OBASANJO’S ANTI-CORRUPTION POSTURING WILL NOT HALT TREASURY LOOTING 2005 TRADE UNION ACT: undemocratic and Anti-Labour – DSM Complete text on one page
Contents GENERAL STRIKES: How To Fight And Defeat Obasanjo’s Anti-poor, Capitalist Government ROTIMI EWEBIYI: A Rare Socialist Class Fighter Passes On HOW TO COMBAT HIV/AIDS “Working class living condition in Europe is far less glamorous than many Nigerian youths may actually think” AS CLASS DIVIDE SHARPENS: Ruling Class Must Prepare For Class War SEIZURE OF FUNDS OVER NEW LOCAL GOVERNMENTS:
Contents MASS MOVEMENT IN 2004: REVOLUTIONARY STRATEGY NEEDED THE LAUNCHING OF NEW LABOUR PARTY: A WELCOME DEVELOPMENT BUT…… TRADE UNIONS: * FIGHT OBASANJO’S ANTI-LABOUR BILL * ENIGEERING WORKERS’ LEADER: "TIME FOR SYSTEM CHANGE" * FIGHT PRIVATISATION AND RETRENCHMENT WORKPLACE NEWS: * SEWUN, AMPISEN SIGN COLLECTIVE AGREEMENT * RECALL GIL SACKED WORKERS NOW! * CIU DEMANDS OLOWOOKERE’S RECALL NO TO DE-REGISTRATION
29 October 2003 Socialist Democracy Paper of Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM) Special Bulletin October – November 2003 Fuel Crisis, Deregulation, Mass Poverty, TIME FOR SYSTEM CHANGE An Independent Pan-Nigerian Working Masses Political Party Must Be Built After almost five years of civil rule, the living conditions of most layers of the working masses have grown from bad to worse. While
Socialist Democracy Feb – Mar 2003 2003 Elections REJECT THE MONEYBAG PARTIES * Build A Mass-Based NCP * Fight For Socialist Policies To End Nigeria’s Crisis The tempo of political activities has quickened in the country following the release of the time-table for the 2003 national and state elections by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). By this time-table, election