For Struggle, Solidarity and Socialism in Nigeria
SOUTH AFRICA: Cosatu Splits As Vavi Is Expelled Expulsion Opens New Chapter In Working Class Struggle WASP (Workers’ and Socialist Party) reporters Twenty years of class collaboration as part of the Tripartite Alliance has finally produced an irreversible split in the Cosatu trade union federation. On 30 March, Cosatu’s Central Executive Committee (CEC) expelled general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi, a vocal
CONSTITUTION AMENDMENT: What Gains For The Working People? By Ayo Ademiluyi Recently, the National Assembly approved the verified amendments from the States’ Houses of Assembly in the final move for the Fourth Amendment of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria since 1999. It will be necessary for socialists and genuine working class activists to assess the constitutional amendments
AFTER A DECADE OF PROSCRIPTION, UNILAG HOLD STUDENTS’ UNION ELECTION By Ilesanmi Samson Bunmi (ERC, UNILAG Branch Ten years after, the University of Lagos Students’ Union (ULSU) has been restored. The union was banned in 2005 following students’ protests against University administration’s anti-poor policies. Between then and now, the University administration had kept up a false semblance of students’ democratic
TEACHERS’ PAY AND WORKING CONDITIONS: NUT Must Struggle For Improvement By Victor Osakwe As the winners have emerged from the 2015general elections both at the federal and state levels, it is necessary for teachers all over the country and indeed the working class to look thoroughly at their situation and place demands for improvement on those that will run the
PENSIONERS SUFFER IN AN OCEAN OF WEALTH Labour must Wage Struggle for Living Pension By Emmanuel Adikwu The gulf between the pension of retired workers and that of political office holders is unimaginably wider than what any poor, but conscious Nigerian could imagine. Vast majority of the poor toiling masses and pensioners survive on less than 2 dollars per day,
THE POLY IBADAN SHOULD RECALL SUMBO BADMUS NOW! Call for Solidarity Actions By Ogundele Michael (ERC National Secretary) Comrade Sumbo Badmus, the Secretary of the Polytechnic of Ibadan branch of the Education Rights Campaign (ERC) and HND II Student of the department of Business Administration has been suspended for two semesters (one academic session) by the management of the polytechnic.
2015 ELECTIONS: RULING PARTY CRUMBLES IN HISTORIC ELECTION But Only Mass Struggle Can Guarantee the Interests of Workers and Poor Masses under Buhari’s Presidency By National Executive Committee(NEC), Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM) The March 28, 2015 election was without doubt a major turning point for Nigeria. For the first time in the country’s 55 years existence as an independent country,
Uche Dike: A Socialist and Working Class Fighter Gone too Soon DSM Ajegunle Branch Uche Dike – photo DSM At about noon on Friday March 20, 2015, family members gave the heartbreaking news of the death of their son Uchenna Dike, aged 31, to the members of the Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM), Ajegunle branch – an organisation that he had
NLC DELEGATES CONFERENCE OUTCOME TRIGGERS SPLIT IN THE TRADE UNION MOVEMENT BUILDING A FIGHTING AND DEMOCRATIC TRADE UNIONISM IS THE ONLY WAY TO HALT GROWING DEGENERACY Updated DSM press statement issued on March 20, 2015 Many trade unionists and workers and change-seeking elements will look with dismay at the divisions that have opened within the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), particularly
Boko Haram’s Allegiance to ISIS: Propaganda or Real Threat? H.T Soweto The Nigerian Islamic fundamentalist group, Boko Haram, has now formally become an Affiliate of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS). For some time now, Boko Haram leader, Abubakar Shekau had been making overtures to ISIS leader, Abu – Bakr al – Baghdadi, in audio and video messages.
OAU Authorities Should Reinstate Victimized Student Activists The Campaign for Democratic and Workers’ Rights (CDWR), Osun State Chapter hereby calls on the authorities and Prof. ‘Tale Omole-led administration of Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife to reinstate six (6) student activists currently under politically motivated suspension. Five of these student activists: Olubanji Oluwole, Adabale Olamide, Adewumagun Johnson and Sanyaolu Adejuwon were
SPN Registration: The Matter Adjourned to May 21 for Amicable Settlement Out of Court By Dimeji Macaulay SPN members including National Chairperson at a brief demo at the court prermises – photo DSM The legal suit of the Socialist Party of Nigeria (SPN) filed against the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) came up at the Federal High Court Abuja on
2015 GENERAL ELECTIONS: None of the existing political parties represent the change working masses and youth desire By Segun Sango, National Chairperson, Socialist Party of Nigeria (SPN) Nigeria’s 2015 general elections, from all key indications, promises to be the most beleaguered since post colonial rule in 1960. Politically and economically, the capitalist institutions and all their political parties are locked
NEITHER THE PDP NOR APC CAN BRING REAL CHANGE Support And Join The Campaign To Call On INEC To Register The SPN For The Socialist Transformation Of Nigeria By H.T Soweto National Youth Leader, SPN As things stand today, the 2015 elections will be dominated by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the All Progressive Congress (APC). Both political parties
ONE YEAR OF POWER PRIVATISATION: Epileptic Power Indicates Failure of Privatisation Renationalisation of the Power, Oil and Banking Sectors Under Workers Democratic Control can Guarantee Affordable and Uninterrupted Power. By Chinedu Bosah The scorecard of the one year of power privatization is epileptic power supply, constant unwarranted tariff hike and bailout for clueless private companies while the working masses groin
ONLY THE UNITED ACTION OF THE WORKING MASSES CAN END BOKO HARAM By Dagga Tolar One of the consequences of the monumental failure of governance in Nigeria is the rise of the fundamentalist variant of religion. The adherents seek spiritual solace to all the material issues confronting them which the temporal powers have demonstrated to all that they are incapable
Local government autonomy cannot automatically guarantee developments By Segun Sango, National Chairperson, Socialist Party of Nigeria (SPN) The Socialist Party of Nigeria (SPN) supports the demand and agitation for autonomy for local governments. We however warn that the autonomy will not automatically engender development at the grassroots level. We hold that the fundamental cause of failure of governance at all
Ebola Virus Disease Underscores the Failure of Global Capitalism By Kola Ibrahim Nigeria has scaled the hurdles of Ebola virus disease, we are told. Nigerian capitalist politicians are quick to squabble over who carries the trophy of the victory Fashola or Jonathan. In other West African countries Å• la Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone, where the disease has ravaged and
AGRICULTURE TRANSFORMATION AGENDA: All Motion, No Movement By Eko John Nicholas Agriculture is one of the pillars of all economies that are seriously and genuinely committed to developing and harnessing capacities to guaranteeing employment opportunities, food security, industrialization and wealth creation. Achieving these goals demand that governments across the world must be committed to improving the agricultural sector, striving to
Revolt in Burkina Faso and the Challenge of Working People’s Alternative By Kola Ibrahim After what seems like atrophy in mass movements in Africa, aftermath of counterrevolutionary rise in countries of the Middle East and North Africa, the working people and youth of Burkina Faso have brought the issue of mass movement and revolution back to the political agenda. The