For Struggle, Solidarity and Socialism in Nigeria
IRELAND: By Election Triumph Marks Turning Point in Anti-Austerity Struggle By Eddie McCabe, Socialist Party (CWI in Ireland) 12 October 2014 will be a day that’s remembered for years to come in Ireland. An estimated 100,000 marched in Dublin against the hated water charges. And on the same day, Paul Murphy, Socialist Party member and Anti Austerity Alliance (AAA) candidate,
SOUTH AFRICA: NUMSA Expulsion from COSATU Rebuild Trade Union Movement on Socialist principles By Workers and Socialist Party (WASP) Reporters The pro-ANC right-wing of the Cosatu leadership has accomplished what the apartheid regime could not and split the 2.2 million strong trade union federation. On the night of 7/8 November dubbed the ‘night of the long knives’ in the press
LAGOS STATE WORKERS AGITATE FOR NEW MINIMUM WAGE For a 24-hour Warning Strike Now! By Dagga Tolar Under the auspices of the Joint Negotiating Council, the workers in Lagos state public service have demanded an upward review of workers salary with effect from January 2015 and a return to the original steps instead of the present compressed steps of 1
THE SACK OF 95 CRIN WORKERS: management defies court order to re-open accommodations of the victimized workers. End Attacks on Democratic Rights Workers Now! For Immediate and unconditional recall of victimized workers A call for solidarity action By Abbey Trotsky Since the sack of 95 workers of Cocoa Research Institute of Nigeria (CRIN), Ibadan, by Prof. Akoroda-led management on 24th
PLANNED REMOVAL OF NATIONAL MINIMUM WAGE FROM THE EXCLUSIVE LIST Labour Must Commence Mobilization For A 48hours Strike On Non Implementation Of N18,000 Minimum Wage By Abbey Trotsky Since 2013, there have been deliberations and debates at both the lower and upper house of the national assembly on its plan to remove the national minimum wage from the exclusive legislative
CASUALISATION IS ANTI-WORKERS: Labour Movement Must Begin Struggles Against Casualisation By Chinedu Bosah, Publicity Secretary, CDWR Casualisation is a condition wherein workers are made to work without regularized status and are subjected to employment insecurity that attracts little or no benefits in terms of emoluments, allowances etc. Casualisation is a policy aimed at enslaving and exploiting workers. Many company practice
OAU 9: Reinstatement Struggle Gathers Storm A call for Solidarity Actions By ERC Reporters At the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU) Ile Ife, the struggle for the reinstatement of nine student activists, who were suspended by the University authorities because of their radical roles in students’ struggle against fee hike, is gathering storm. Four of the suspended student activists are members
UNILAG ERC SYMPOSIUM: Akokites Call for Restoration of Banned Students’ Union By Ishola Afeez, ERC UNILAG The Education Rights Campaign (ERC), University of Lagos (UNILAG) chapter, held a public symposium on November 4, 2014, at Faculty of Arts of the university, with the theme “Proscription of independent students unionism in UNILAG, So long, too long and the topic “Degeneration of
PROTESTS IN NIGERIA AND EUROPE AGAINST NON-REGISTRATION OF SPN Hearing in the Suit Against INEC at Federal High Court Abuja Adjourned until November 27. By SPN Reporters There were protests on Wednesday November 19, 2014 in Nigeria, Germany, Belgium, England and Sweden against the refusal of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to register the Socialist Party of Nigeria (SPN)
This year’s ERC free summer coaching is closed with symposium, poetry and drama By Fidel Davynovich Thursday 11 September, 2014 marked the closing day of the 10th edition of the free summer coaching of the Education Rights Campaign (ERC). The coaching which is targeted at students in SS I, SS II and SS III classes has been on since 2005
Falling Oil Price: Working People must prepare to resist Attacks By Peluola Adewale Ordinary Nigerians, whose daily life is like being in a frying pan with hot vegetable oil, should be prepared to resist any attempt by the government to fling them into fire. This is as a result of the decline in the oil price. The Minister of Finance
CDWR Supports Teachers’ Warning Strike in Osun State Strike shows utter failure of Aregbesola government’s education policies On 14th November, 2014, the Osun State Wing of the Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT) started a three-day warning strike to draw the attention of Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola-led Osun State government to the rot that public schools in the state are in. Subsequent
NATIONAL EDUCATION SUMMIT ASUU, NASU, NAAT AND SSANU DECLARE STATE OF EMERGENCY IN NIGERIA’s PUBLIC EDUCATION SECTOR. By Ogundele Michael ERC National Secretary A cross section of participants at the ASUU Education Summit 2014 Between Monday October, 27th and Friday, 31st October, 2014 workers’ unions in Nigeria’s Public Universities, which comprise the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Senior Staff
ABDUCTION OF OVER 200 SCHOOL GIRLS BY BOKO HARAM INSURGENTS By Segun Sango National Chairperson Socialist Party of Nigeria (SPN) Doubtlessly, the Boko Haram insurgency is the most horrific political expression currently ravaging Nigeria’s capitalist state. In this respect, the abduction of over 200 school girls at Chibok female secondary school in Borno State, North-East of Nigeria now for almost
NIGERIA: Africa’s Biggest Economy is Big for nothing for the Poor and Working People By Peluola Adewale No doubt this is not the best of time for President Goodluck Jonathan. His government has been exposed as peddling meaningless phrases while wholesale looting continues and the country shows growing signs of disintegration. The Boko Haram’s abduction of over 200 Chibok school
GM FOODS: On the Basis of Capitalism Genetic Modification is designed to Benefit Corporate Businesses By Eko John Nicholas Globally, the controversy over the use of food and other goods derived from genetically modified organisms, as against the conventional ones, and other uses of genetic engineering in medicine, research, industry and agriculture has not been settled. There are debates on
POWER SITUATION CONTINUES TO WORSEN AFTER PRIVATISATION For Renationalisation of power sector under democratic control By Chinedu Bosah It is no news that electricity supply has worsened since the power sector was privatized in November 2013.. The government and its spokespersons have continued to lay the blame on vandals and insufficient gas to the power sector. Despite degenerating power supply,
OSUN GOVERNORSHIP ELECTION 2014: The need for a genuine working people’s alternative By Kola Ibrahim Governorship election will come up in Osun State on 9th of August, 2014. If the Socialist Party of Nigeria (SPN), initiated by Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM) and like minds across the country, does not stand in the election it is as a result of the
SOUTH AFRICA ELECTION 2014: The ANC victory, WASP and the EFF By Weizman Hamilton, General Secretary of WASP The African National Congress has been re-elected with 62% of the vote. This represents a marginal decline with the shedding of a few hundred thousand votes in absolute terms and the loss of 3.5%. Given the scandal filled five-year term of president
VICTORY FOR $15 IN SEATTLE! How Socialists built a winning movement By Socialist Alternative (CWI Supporters, US) Seattle is the first major city to pass a $15 an hour minimum wage. 100,000 workers will be lifted out of poverty, and millions will be inspired all over the country and around the world. On June 2nd Seattle’s City Council voted unanimously