Democratic Socialist Movement

For Struggle, Solidarity and Socialism in Nigeria

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Nigeria’s Inclusion in the Hunger Hotspots by FAO-WFP: Grim manifestations of the Ruinous Anti-Poor Policies of the Tinubu government

FFRC Calls for  Reversal of all Anti-Poor Policies and Demands Adequate Investments in Both the Social and Real Sectors  Including Agriculture to Meet the Needs of the Majority The Food and Farmers’ Rights Campaigns (FFRC) views the recent inclusion of Nigeria in the list of world’s hunger hotspots along with 12 other countries and territories including Yemen, the Democratic Republic

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June 12: Protesters Call for Sustained Resistance against Tinubu’s Anti-Poor Policies and Attacks on Democratic Rights

On June 12, protests were held in a few states across the country as a continuation of an expression by the working masses and youth of their rejection of the anti-poor capitalist policies of the Tinubu government and its descent into civilian dictatorship with attacks on democratic rights. In other words, the conduct and action of the Tinubu government, which

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HALT RISING CRIME ON UI CAMPUS

ERC Condemns fee disparity in College of Medicine and Continuous silence of the SU-leadership on calls for intervention and anti-fee hike struggle The Education Rights Campaign (ERC), University of Ibadan Chapter, strongly condemns the growing wave of criminal activities among students within the University of Ibadan campus. In recent weeks, reports of missing phones and laptops, and break-ins into hostel

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AJEGUNLE UNDER SIEGE OF POLICE BRUTALITY

A Democratic Community Response is Needed By Moshood Oshunfunrewa, Coordinator, Ajegunle People’s Movement The residents of Ajegunle in Ajeromi Ifelodun local government, Lagos, continue to suffer gross violation of their rights at the hands of the Nigerian Police Force – now operating under a new name, ‘Tactical Squad’. While the government declared the disbandment of the notorious SARS unit in

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PLATEAU KILLINGS ARE A RECURING DECIMAL WITH NO END IN SIGHT

MASS KILLINGS IN THE COUNTRY SHOW OBVIOUS FAILURE OF CAPITALISM AND THE SELF-SERVING RULING ELITE The Socialist Party of Nigeria (SPN) Argues for a Socialist Alternative to a Rotten System  The killings that took place in Bokkos and Bassa Local Government Areas of Plateau State between March 28 and April 16, 2025 are the latest act of genocide that reminds

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YRC CONDEMNS HARRASSMENT, ASSAULT AND EXTORTION BY LAGOS POLICEMEN

YRC CONDEMNS THE HARRASSMENT, ASSAULT AND EXTORTION OF A COMMERCIAL MOTORBIKE RIDER BY POLICEMEN FROM OKO-OBA POLICE STATION, ABULE-EGBA/AGEGE LAGOS WE DEMAND REFUND OF N20,000 BRIBE AND NECCESARY DISCIPLINARY ACTIONS AGAINST THE ERRANT POLICE OFFICERS POLICE OFFICERS FROM OKO-OBA POLICE STATION MUST STOP THEIR EXTORTION OF POOR NIGERIANS The Youth Rights Campaign (YRC) strongly condemns the inhumane harassment and assault

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SPN CONDEMNS THE GRUESOME MURDER OF 16 NIGERIANS FROM THE NORTH IN UROMI

The Socialist Party of Nigeria (SPN) condemns the gruesome murder of 16 northerners in Uromi, Edo State. This barbaric killing is the latest jungle justice that has become a recurring decimal in different parts of Nigeria. Over 20 northerners were found in a truck in Uromi enroute to Kano on March 28, 2025 with traditionally made guns (Dane Guns) and

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Rise of New Terror Group, Lakurawa in Nigeria’s Northwest

The rise of a new cross-border, transnational insurgent group, called Lakurawa, in the already battered northwest part of Nigeria has raised another spectre of Boko-Haram-type protracted insurgency war in that region of Nigeria. Already, the northwest is battling different security challenges notably deadly banditry and kidnapping. Indeed, the whole northern Nigeria is bedeviled with various security threats such as religious

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PRESIDENT TINUBU’S SPEECH IS INSENSITIVE AND OUT OF TOUCH WITH THE SUFFERING REALITY OF NIGERIANS

CDWR DEMANDS AN UNCONDITIONAL AND IMMEDIATE RELEASE OF MICHAEL ADARAMOYE, BABATUNDE OLUAJO AND OTHERS The Campaign for Democratic and Workers’ Rights (CDWR) considers President Tinubu’s broadcast speech of Sunday August 4, 2024 as a display of arrogance and insensitivity towards the harrowing plight and hardship of Nigerians. He actually used the broadcast to double down on his failed anti-people reform

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RISING INSECURITY IN NIGERIA AND THE IMPLICATION FOR THE WORKING MASSES

Democratically Organised Community Policing and Mass Gainful Employment Can Reduce Violent Crimes Drastically By Chinedu Bosah The working masses are facing different attacks on all fronts. On one hand, they are grappling with the heavy weight of exploitation and mass looting of public resources and funds, on the other hand, they are paying the heavy price of kidnapping and other

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ESCALATING INSECURITY IN AJEGUNLE: POLICE AND LAGOS STATE GOVT MUST PROTECT LIVES AND PROPERTY

—WE PROPOSE GENERAL MEETING OF COMMUNITY PEOPLE TO DISCUSS THE INSECURITY The Ajegunle People’s Movement (APM), a community campaign organization of the Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM), calls on the Nigeria Police Force (NPF) and the Lagos State government to be alive to their basic responsibility of protecting lives and property in the face of the worsening insecurity in Ajeromi-Ifelodun LGA.

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ETHNIC HATE IN LAGOS ELECTION: A Further Evidence of the Bankruptcy of Capitalist Elite

It is time to build a mass political alternative that represents the genuine interests of the working masses and youth The 2023 general elections followed a campaign season which saw all the capitalist politicians busy appealing to ethnic, religious and primordial sentiments, instead of trying to sell the ideas that they represent and the policies and programmes that they plan

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YOUTH RIGHTS CAMPAIGN CONDEMNS BRUTAL MURDER BY TRIGGER-HAPPY DELTA POLICE OFFICER

ONYEKA EMMANUEL IBEH KILLED AS HE SDAT IN HIS CAR BY INSPECTOR OBI EBRI IN ASABA WE CRY FOR JUSTICE! The Youth Rights Campaign (YRC) condemns the brutal murder of Onyeka Emmanuel Ibeh by trigger-happy policemen in Asaba, Delta state. Mr Ibeh was fatally shot, in the presence of his newly wedded and pregnant wife,  while sitting inside his car

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GRUESOME XMAS-DAY MURDER OF BOLANLE RAHEEM BY A POLICE OFFICER SHOW POLICE BRUTALITY IS FAR FROM OVER!

* We Demand Democratic Probe and Diligent Prosecution of the Murderer * Reforms are not enough; disband the Neo-Colonial and Oppressive Nigerian Police Force The Youth Rights Campaign (YRC) strongly condemns the murder of Mrs. Bolanle Raheem, a Lagos-based legal practitioner, who was killed by an Assistant Superintendent of Police, Drambi Vandi attached to the Ajah police division, on Christmas

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DSM CONDEMNS THE TRAGIC TERROR ATTACK ON ST. FRANCIS CATHOLIC CHURCH OWO, ONDO STATE

For United Actions of the Working People and Youth to Protest Failure of Government to Protect Lives and Halt the Barbaric Violence Across the Country. Continuous Rule of the APC, PDP, and Other Capitalist Parties is Equal to Endless Horror and Tragedy; for a Mass Workers Political Alternative Now! The Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM) condemns the tragic attack on St.

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BANNING OKADA WITHOUT PROVIDING ALTERNATIVE MEANS OF TRANSPORTATION IS AN INVITATION TO CHAOS AND A FACE-SAVING GIMMICK BY LASG TO AVOID ADDRESSING THE REAL ISSUES BEHIND INSECURITY IN LAGOS STATE

CDWR Opposes the Use of Force and Arrest of Okada Riders and Passengers While Calling for Provision of Integrated and Democratic-Managed Public Transport System As the Lagos State government’s ban on Okada operation kicks off, the Campaign for Democratic and Workers Rights (CDWR) condemns the ban as an anti-people policy that in the face of the non-provision of alternative means

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DSM CONDEMNS GRUESOME KILLING OF DEBORAH SAMUEL FOR BLASPHEMY: WE SUPPORT THE DEMAND FOR JUSTICE

RISING VIOLENCE INDICATES NIGERIA MAY DESCEND INTO FULL-BLOWN BARBARISM UNLESS THE WORKING MASSES FIGHT TO TAKE POWER The Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM) joins members of the public to condemn the brutal and gruesome killing on Thursday 12 May 2022 of Ms. Deborah Samuel, a 200-level student of Shehu Shagari College of Education, Sokoto by her schoolmates for purportedly committing blasphemy.

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ENOUGH IS ENOUGH! THE MASSES CANNOT BEAR THIS SUFFERING ANYMORE!

Organize and Mobilize for Mass Actions Now! We Call on NLC and TUC to Urgently Declare a 48-Hour General Strike Ordinarily, Nigerians are no strangers to suffering. But if the truth must be told, the kind of suffering and misery being experienced by the mass of Nigerians over the past few months is second to none. The bitter truth is

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NIGERIA’S RAGING SECURITY CRISES

A Frankenstein Monster Created by the Failure of Capitalism By H.T. Soweto The 28 March 2022 horrific terrorist attack by bandits on a Kaduna-bound train will continue to evoke outrage for some time to come. Coming about seven years since the Buhari government came to power on a mandate to end rampaging insecurity whose main manifestation as at then was

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WORKERS’ STRIKES, INEQUALITY AND INSECURITY IN ABUJA

Between the end of 2021 and the beginning of 2022 in Abuja, two different unions of public sector workers went on strike over their wages and working conditions. By Omole Ibukun, DSM Abuja The Nigeria Union of Teachers went on strike twice over the non-payment of their 2014 to 2018 promotion arrears and the lack of funding of Local Education