For Struggle, Solidarity and Socialism in Nigeria
JONATHAN’S FAILED WAR ON TERRORISM: A United Mass Movement Of The Working Masses Is Needed (By Ayo Ademiluyi) Nothing confirms the failure of the arm-twisting tactics that the Jonathan regime is employing in its war against terrorism than the protests that greeted his recent visit to Yola, Adamawa State, one of the hotbed of the Boko Haram insurgency in North-eastern
SOUTH AFRICA: Struggles Intensify As Election Draws Closer Campaigning for WASP socialist alternative at May polls By Liv Shange, Democratic Socialist Movement (CWI South Africa) As South African President Jacob Zuma, last Friday, announced that the country’s next general elections will be held on May 7, this year, his regime was surrounded by dramatically intensifying class struggles. The same day,
RIVERS’ STATE CRISIS: Working Masses Must Fight For Socialist Change (By Onwunalu Alexander) The last has not been heard of the political crisis ravaging Rivers’ state. Following the defection of Rotimi Amaechi from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the All Progressives Congress (APC), a chain of dramatic events has continued to grip the state. The Rivers State Police Command
ADMISSION FRAUD AT IBADAN POLY: An Ominous Sign Of Poor Funding Of Education! For A United Struggle Of Education Workers And Students For Adequately Funded Public Education (By Kabiru Saka, DSM, Ibadan Poly) One of the most recent ugly developments in the polytechnic this year is the case of the over Two thousand (2000) prospectus students of the institution whose
UNIPORT: Fee Hike can be defeated by United Struggle of Students and Workers (By Onwunalu Alexander) With the recent increment in school fees at the University of Port Harcourt (UNIPORT), it is very clear that the Jonathan government has set out to undermine the gains of the last six-month strike action by Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) which won
ASUU STRIKE 2013: Lessons for Activists and Unions in the Education Sector Vigilance Must Be Maintained To Ensure That The 2013 MOU is Implemented and the Promised Funds Are Not Looted. (By Hassan Taiwo Soweto, National Coordinator, ERC) Starting from July 1st 2013, University lecturers downed tools in a crucial struggle to reposition the public university system. The key demand
AICOM COMMENCES MASS MOBILISATION OF RESIDENTS AGAINST EPILEPTIC POWER SUPPLY Disunity Amongst The Factionalised CDAs Undermines Campaign (By Chinedu Bosah Coordinator, AICOM) As power supply to Aboru-Ifesowapo community worsens, the residents have no choice other than to start mass mobilization of the community for a “No Payment of Bill Protest” until Power improves drastically. Power supply to the community has
Ban of Commercial Motorcycle in Niger State By the Govt. is Anti-people (By Dimeji Macaulay DSM, Niger State) The Niger State Government recently banned the operation of commercial motorcycle popularly called Kabu in the state. This deliberate attack on the right of youths and masses to livelihood in the state again shows the insensitivity of state government to the plight
3 YEARS AFTER, LASU FEE HIKE PROVOKES PROTESTS “The APC’s megacity agenda is a mega fraud to create a Lagos for the rich only. Megacity means Mega fees in LASU, it means Mega profit for the rich and Mega suffering for the rest of us. We in the ERC and the #SaveLASU movement have also decided to give them mega
WORKERS PROTEST MASS RETRENCHMENT AT CONSOLIDATED BREWERIES PLC. For Unity of All Categories of Workers against Management’s Anti-Worker Policies By Eko John Nicholas and Oduemen Owis Hundreds of workers, mainly junior and contract staff, embarked on strike on Monday 3rd February, 2014, to protest against the mass retrenchment of workers without pay by the management of Consolidated Breweries PLC. The
Socialist Party of Nigeria, Osun State Chapter Press Statement SPN Calls for Immediate Payment of Pension to Osun State Retirees The Socialist Party of Nigeria (SPN), Osun State Chapter hereby calls on the Aregbesola/APC government in Osun State to immediately settle the pension of retirees in Osun State. Many of these retirees are already living from hand to mouth, despite
South Sudan: Power Tussle tearing apart the World’s Newest Nation By Peluola Adewale When Valerie Amos, the United Nations emergency relief coordinator visited the UN compound in Malakal, which serves as a refugee camp, she was confronted with a situation described as “unbelievably dire circumstances”. “When we spoke to people they said they’d completely lost faith, they actually wanted to
CRIN IBADAN: Workers Sacked, Union Activities Proscribed and the Institute Heavily Militarized! A Call for Solidarity Actions By Abbey Trotsky Tessy Chioma Chair NASU CRIN addresssing a rally of the striking Cocoa Research Institute of Nigeria workers Various attacks on working conditions and democratic rights have been unleashed on workers of Cocoa Research Institute of Nigeria (CRIN) since the assumption
JONATHAN’S NATIONAL CONFERENCE: AN EXPENSIVE SIDESHOW By Segun Sango National Chairperson Socialist Party of Nigeria and General Secretary Democratic Socialist Movement “Jonathan is set to release by mid-February the modalities for the convocation of the proposed national conference, The Guardian has learnt. Contrary to earlier expectations, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) or any organ of government will not be
Education Rights Campaign PRESS STATEMENT ERC BACKS ON-GOING ASUP AND COEASU STRIKES ASUP and COEASU Should Name a Day of Mass Action to Compel Federal Government to Meet their Demands! The Education Rights Campaign (ERC) fully supports the ongoing indefinite strike actions by the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP) and the College of Education Academic Staff Union (COEASU). These
A Political Party of the Working Class is Born Socialist Party of Nigeria (SPN) Holds Inaugural Convention By Hassan Taiwo Soweto, National Youth Leader, SPN Segun Sango SPN National Chairperson, photo Uche Uwadinachi, member DSM “Today we are beginning a new chapter in the history of Nigeria; a chapter that will be dominated by the political struggle of the working
SOCIALIST DEMOCRACY SEPTEMBER – OCTOBER 2013 EDITION EDUCATION CRISIS: Need for United Mass Action (By Kola Ibrahim, Protem Secretary, Osun State SPN) That education in Nigeria is in its death agony is no more news on the basis of facts being reeled out daily. From chronically inadequate facilities, to poor conditions of study and living of students, inadequate staff, poor
FIRST 2 YEARS OF JONATHAN ADMINISTRATION: Glitz and Glamour of the Midterm Report Cannot Hide the Failure (By Peluola Adewale) In May President Goodluck Jonathan celebrated the first two years of his administration with a self-praising and highfalutin midterm report. He was elected in 2011 election though he had been in power as the acting President since 2009 following the
PENSIONERS’ WOES: The Need for Labour Movement’s Concerted Response (By Kola Ibrahim, Protem Secretary, Osun State SPN) “Since we were retired, no kobo was paid to me. Every time, we would be called to come to Awolowo Road, Ikoyi, to fill one form after another. Sometimes, we sleep at Awolowo Road on the bare floor, for us to be attended
NGF ELECTION AND THE UNDEMOCRATIC RULING CLASS (By Chinedu Bosah) The Nigeria Governors Forum (NGF) election that took place on May 24, 2013, has come and gone but the controversy still lingers on. Rivers State Governor Rotimi Amaechi scored 19 votes while Plateau State Governor Jonah Jang scored 16 votes with Yobe State Governor absent. The NGF was formed several