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OAU: Campaign For Union Restoration Continues By Odun, Secretary, DSM, OAU Branch Few weeks after resumption into a new academic session, student activists in Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU) including members of the Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM) organized a bonfire/pubic rally on the evening of March 16 2012 to step up the campaign for the restoration of the banned students’ union.
MAY DAY: Workers’ Struggle Of The Past Year And The Tasks Ahead By Kola Ibrahim Since last May Day, fierce battle between public sector workers and the capitalist ruling class of different shades and disguises have erupted. These battles range from continuous struggle for a minimum wage to the unprecedented general strike/mass movements against hike of petrol pump price in
WORKERS AND POOR: WE NEED OUR OWN PARTY The real explanation for very limited success of this January’s massively supported anti-fuel price hike struggle and all the industrial disputes is that labour does not have a leadership to fight for political power. The infamous statement of the labour leadership that it is “not seeking a regime change” during the course
QUEST FOR WORKING CLASS POLITICAL PARTY: Mass Campaign Needed To Win Genuine and Democratic Electoral Process By Ayo Ademiluyi Most people will readily agree that Nigerian working masses need a political party of their own. This does not come as a surprise as none of the registered political parties (PDP, ACN, CPC, ANPP, APGA etc.) represent the true interest of
SENEGAL ELECTIONS: NO HOPE IN PRO-CAPITALIST SALL By Kola Ibrahim The mass enthusiasm and celebration that accompanied the recent run-off elections in Senegal, in which the incumbent, now outgoing, president, Abdoulaye Wade, was roundly defeated by his former protégé, Macky Sall, has again brought to the fore the increasing but unquenchable quest for change by the working and oppressed people
NO HOPE UNDER CAPITALISM: TIME FOR SYSTEM CHANGE NIGERIA: AN INTRACTABLE SOCIO-ECONOMIC CRISIS By Segun Sango, General Secretary, Democratic Socialist Movement Left alone to imperialist/capitalist analysts, Africa and Nigeria’s economy in particular are passing through the best of time. For instance, the Financial Times of London in its November 23, 2011 special edition on Nigeria reports: “African economies have been
CURRENT FUEL PRICE HIKE: Socialist Democracy special fuel hike edition, January 2012 Labour Must Adopt Strategy and Tactics That will Ensure Total Victory The declaration of “indefinite strikes, mass rallies and street protests” by both NLC and TUC leaders, against the so-called fuel subsidy withdrawal by the government, which had instantly hiked the price of a litre of petrol from
INDEFINITE STRIKE: Struggle until Victory Form Action Committees In Workplaces, Communities And Campuses Demand The Public Ownership Of The Oil Sector Under Democratic Control And Management Of Workers And Consumers End The Rule Of The Thieving Elite For A Workers’ And Poor Peoples’ Government The Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM) welcomes the decision of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and Trade
BOKO HARAM’S CONTINUING BOMBINGS: Working Masses Must Unite against Descent into Anarchy On the sidelines of the renewed mass struggle against President Jonathan’s government New year day announcement of the popularly-hated neo-liberal policy of removal of fuel subsidy/fuel price hike, the dreaded Islamist fundamentalist sect, Boko Haram has continued its dastardly attacks in the North East of Nigeria. The statement
OIL SUBSIDY REMOVAL/FUEL PRICE HIKE Fast Lane To Socio-political Catastrophes Say No To Fuel Subsidy Removal! No to Fuel Price Hike! For 48 Hour Warning General Strike and Mass Protest Now!! By Segun Sango Come January 2012, the Jonathan government has announced that its decision to remove the so-called subsidy on fuel prices will be implemented. Going by past experience
PRIVATISATION OF PHCN: Labour Must Resist It For PHCN to be Kept Public under the Democratic Control of Workers and Consumers For Solidarity Action by Trade Unions and Pro-Labour Organisations No to Militarization of PHCN Installations By Peluola Adewale President Goodluck Jonathan government recently deployed soldiers to occupy the installations of Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN) nationwide. Jonathan has
ACN WIELDS THE AXE ON PUBLIC EDUCATION IN LAGOS STATE 725% Fee Hike in LASU! Students’ Union Banned! By H.T. Soweto and Keye Ewebiyi Babatunde Raji Fashola, the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) governor of Lagos state has announced a 725% increment in fees payable by students of Lagos State University (LASU). In response to peaceful protests by students, the
MASS BOYCOTT OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT ELECTION IN LAGOS An Indication for A Working People Political Alternative To CAN By ‘Lanre Akinola Lagos State government through the State Independent Electoral Commission (SIEC), on Saturday, October 22, 2011, conducted election into 20 constitutionally recognized Local Governments (LG) and the so-called 37 Local Development Area Councils (LCDA). The State Independent Electoral Commission (SIEC)
ONE YEAR OF AREGBESOLA’S ERA How Well Have The People Fared? By Alfred Adegoke November 27 marks the first anniversary of the coming to power of Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola as Osun State Governor pursuant to the well acclaimed judicial victory ending the tyrannical but illegitimate second term regime of the ousted Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)
EUROZONE: Into The Abyss? Fragmentation Of The Eurozone Could Trigger Another Deep Financial Crisis And Global Economic Downturn By Lynn Walsh, Editor, Socialism Today, monthly magazine of the Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales), the sister organization of Democratic Socialist Movement. Read full article here The Eurozone is at a tipping point. EU leaders are in disarray and have no
LIBYA: Gaddafi Dead – What Next? Independent Action by Libyan Workers, Youth and Poor Vital To Prevent Revolution’s Derailment By Robert Bechert, Committee for a Workers’ International (CWI) While the defeat of the last major forces defending Gaddafi’s dictatorial and increasingly megalomaniac regime was widely welcomed, the way in which it fell means that clouds now hang over the future
STILL NO RESPITE FOR 250 SACKED DANGOTE PASTA WORKERS CDWR Calls On NUFBTE And NLC To Immediately Mobilise For A Fight Back By Victor Osakwe For over one year now the inalienable rights of workers to freely associate have been brutally attacked by the management of Dangote Pasta Plant Ikorodu, a company owned by Aliko Dangote, the richest man in
ATTACKS ON DEMOCRATIC RIGHTS AT ROCHAS FOUNDATION COLLEGE, IBADAN, OYO STATE We Demand the Immediate Recall of Sacked Biology Teacher, Abiodun Bamigboye By H.T. Soweto, National Coordinator, ERC The Education Rights Campaign (ERC) condemns attacks on democratic rights at Rochas Foundation College Ibadan Oyo state. Particularly we condemn the sack of Mr. Abiodun Bamigboye who was a biology teacher at
LAGBUS: A Classic Case Of Public Resources Channelled Towards Private Interest By Chinedu Bosah When LAGBUS started transport operation in Lagos State, many heave a sigh of relief. The popular belief among motorists was that a public transport outfit had come to rescue Lagosians of chaotic transportation system. The transportation company which is widely known as LAGBUS or “Fashola bus”
Joint Action Front (JAF) Holds Congress By H. T. Soweto Saturday and Sunday, 8 and 9 October 2011, saw the Joint Action Front (JAF), the civil society partner of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) in the Labour and Civil Society Coalition (LASCO), hold its second delegate congress. JAF was formerly known as Joint Action