For Struggle, Solidarity and Socialism in Nigeria
NO TO PRIVATISATION OF PHCN: WORKERS SHOULD REMAIN STEADFAST By Peluola Adewale For Solidarity Action by Trade Unions and Pro-Labour Organisations For PHCN to be Kept Public under the Democratic Control of Workers and Consumers The Democratic Socialist Movement reaffirms its solidarity and support for the electricity workers who have sustained a spirited struggle against the planned privatization of Power
South Sudan: Independence on a Capitalist Basis Offers No Long Term Solution By Peluola Adewale On July 9, 2011, South Sudan will officially become the newest nation in Africa by virtue of overwhelming votes, almost 99% support, for secession in the independence referendum held between January 9 and 15, 2011. The referendum is a product of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement
UNION BANK: VICTORY AS MASS ACTION FORCES UNION BANK MANAGEMENT TO MEET WORKERS’ DEMAND By Chinedu Bosah The Corporate Headquarters of Union Bank was on Monday February 14 picketed by about 600 workers and pro-labour activists led by the President of Nigeria Labour Congress, Abdul Wahed Omar to protest the sack of 13 union leaders and illegal proscription of the
LASU STUDENTS’ UNION ELECTIONS: ERC/DSM MEMBER WINS GENERAL SECRETARY POSITION By Ismail Aderemi It was a victory for the radical wing of the student movement and students who desire break from the general right wing tendency. In the recently conducted elections of the Lagos State University Students Union (LASUSU), Com. Ewebiyi Keye James contested and won the position of the
ONGOING ASUU STRIKE IN OOU: ERC INTERVENTION WIN SUPPORT DESPITE THREAT FROM PRO-MANAGEMENT STUDENTS’ UNION LEADERS By H.T. Soweto For the past 4 months, academic activities at the Olabisi Onabanjo University (OOU), Ogun State have been suspended due to the obstinate refusal of the OOU Governing Council and the anti-poor government of Otunba Gbenga Daniel of Ogun State to meet
THE 10TH NLC DELEGATES CONFERENCE: THE TYPE OF LEADERS THE WORKING MASSES NEED IN THE NEXT FOUR YEARS Segun Sango, DSM General Secretary Four years ago, the Nigeria Labour Congress last elected its national leadership. Not unexpectedly, this past four years had witnessed a wide range of activities and struggles by the Abdulwahed Omar led executive. Elected barely few weeks
The New Governor Aregbesola/ACN Government in Osun State: How Far can It Go? Being the Statement of the National Executive Council (NEC) of the Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM) issued on February 4, 2011 During the 2007 general elections, the Action Congress (AC) fielded Eng. Rauf Aregbesola as its governorship candidate against the then incumbent PDP governor, Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola. And
THE 2011 GENERAL ELECTIONS AND THE WORKING MASSES Segun Sango, DSM General Secretary The main political parties recently conducted their primaries to elect those that will fly their flags in the forthcoming general elections in April. Very tragically, these so-called primaries have once again revealed the well known fact that all the ruling parties are being led by highly undemocratic
THREE-DAY WARNING STRIKE ON MINIMUM WAGE Labour Must Build Strike/Action Committees at National, State, Industrial and Community Levels! Mass Demonstration and Rallies Must be Organised Across the Country! The Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM) wholeheartedly welcomes the decision of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and Trade Union Congress (TUC) to embark on a 3-day warning strike between November 10 and 12,
2011 GENERAL ELECTIONS: Will It Be Different From the Widely Acknowledged Farce Called 2007 Elections? Both Prof. Attahiru Jega, the Independent National Electoral Commission’s (INEC) Chairman and President Goodluck Jonathan have repeatedly continued to make pledges that the 2011 general elections will be truly free and fair. Even the advanced capitalist countries, the principal beneficiaries of the iniquitous capitalist system
PHCN WORKERS STEP UP FIGHT AGAINST PRIVATISATION OF POWER SECTOR Keep the PHCN Public! Capital NO to Privatisation NLC and TUC Must Organise Solidarity Actions to Support Them The struggle against privatisation was stepped up on Monday 25th October, 2010 when about 1,500 electricity workers, labour and human right activists under the auspices of Joint Action Forum (JAF) and the
ASUU, SSANU, ASUP AND COEASU STRIKE Govt Must Meet Their Demands Now Nigerian Students and Parents Should Join the Struggle to Save Public Education from Collapse The Education Rights Campaign (ERC) supports the strike action of staff unions in all State-owned tertiary institutions across the country. We call on the respective state governments, particularly the southeast governors, south-south governors, the
FASHOLA MUST MEET DOCTORS’ DEMAND Labour Should Organise Solidarity Actions Campaign for Democratic and Workers’ Rights (CDWR) supports the struggle of medical doctors for better wage and improved facilities in Lagos state owned public hospitals and condemns in strong term the insensitivity of Raji Fashola’s government. Doctors in Lagos State owned hospitals have been on strike for over 11 weeks
SEASON OF STRUGGLE AS WORKERS FIGHTBACK AGAINST NEO-LIBERAL ATTACKS NLC and TUC Must Build a Mass Working Class Political Alternative to Take Political Power All over the country, workers, youths, students and poor masses are being confronted with brutal neo-liberal attacks against their living and working conditions. These attacks range from privatisation of public enterprises, deregulation of the oil sector,
KEEP PHCN PUBLIC! Under Democratic Control and Management of Workers and Consumers No to Privatisation!! No to N18 pkwh Hike of Electricity Tariff!! Workers, artisans, traders, youths and all consumers must fight back now! The anti-poor government of President Goodluck Jonathan has contrived another means to convert the collective patrimony of Nigerians into a profit-making venture of businessmen and corrupt
LAGOS STATE DOCTORS’ STRIKE: Fashola Must Meet Their Demands Now! Medical doctors working in various public hospitals in Lagos State have been on strike now for the past nine weeks. The situation has paralyzed health care delivery in all the public hospitals in the State with dire consequences for Lagosians. WHY DOCTORS ARE ON STRIKE Doctors in Lagos State have
ANOTHER ROUND OF EDUCATION WORKERS’ STRIKE Only Joint Struggle of Workers, Students and Parents Can Win University workers’ Unions have started a rolling action of strikes across Universities owned by the State governments. At the last count, more than 10 Universities are on strike action. They are Abia State University (ABSU), Anambra State University, Ebonyi State University, Enugu State University
GOODLUCK JONATHAN PRESIDENCY: CAN NIGERIA EXPERIENCE POSITIVE DEVELOPMENT AND IMPROVED LIVING CONDITIONS? After much hullabaloo, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan became president of Nigeria on May 6, 2010, consequent upon the death of President Musa Yar’Adua, who died in office after a protracted terminal ailment. As usual, several bourgeois analysts and plain self seekers, who always support any government in power, have
2011 GENERAL ELECTIONS: IS NIGERIA ABOUT TO BREAK A 50-YEAR OLD JINX? Going by what President Goodluck Jonathan and Professor Attahiru Jega, the newly appointed Electoral Commission Chairman have been saying, Nigerians are expected to have truly free and fair elections come 2011 general elections. Hear the President: “When we nominated Prof. Attahiru Jega as the Chairman of INEC, some
MINIMUM WAGE AGITATION: TIME FOR MASS ACTIONS By Chinedu Bosah The minimum wage agitation is one that has generated so much interest amongst Nigerian workers, considering the fact that the wages currently earned can be best described as poverty wages. The issue has been characterized by conflicting stories from the government quarters and the media. This has confirmed the position