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August Special Edition of Socialist Democracy NCP: Right Wing NEC Seeks To Destroy Party’s Radical Tradition; Expels, Suspends Socialists and Left Opponents. Segun Sango, Lagos Chair of the NCP and General Secretary of the Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM) has been expelled by the Dr. Osagie Obayuwana led national leadership of the NCP. The expulsion letter signed by Mallam Yunusa S.
OBASANJO AGAIN? NO WAY! Officially and publicly, President Olusegun Obasanjo has not announced his intention to remain in power beyond May 2007, his terminal period as President under the military imposed 1999 constitution. Notwithstanding his ostrich game on this issue, all key economic and political features and manipulations going on under the regime clearly point only in one direction –
Socialist Democracy special issue – February 2006 REMOVAL OF GOVERNOR LADOJA AND THE LABOURING MASSES On 12 January, 2006, Chief Rashidi Ladoja was removed from office by the factional majority of the Oyo State House of Assembly, as the governor of Oyo State. However, a critical appraisal of the process through which Ladoja’s removal was effected clearly shows that the
Contents LASCO’S RALLIES: WHERE DO THE MASSES GO FROM HERE? CORRUPTION: DPS ALAMIEYESEIGHA AND TAFA BALOGUN SAGA BELLVIEW PLANE CRASH: "Dividend" Of Privatisation CHIMA UBANI (1963 – 2005) The Demise Of A Class Fighter CLAMP DOWN ON ETHNIC GROUP LEADERS What It Means LAGOS POLICE-ARMY CLASH A Manifestation of Societal Rot FLOUR MILLS Victimised
September 14, 2005 Special issue Socialist Democracy NLC/LASCO protests: Fuel price hike, chase out Obasanjo regime The current hike of fuel price is totally unjustifiable. According to the government, petroleum products are being subsidised by $4.5 million a day. However, when this so-called subsidy is compared with what income is daily generated from oil sales, then, the absolute anti-poor
Socialist Democracy Aug – Sept 2005 Index Contents After Failed National Confab: Labour Must Fight Consistently The Paris Club “Debt Relief” Package: A Big Con Proposed Fuel Price Hike: Mobilise For Regime And System Change! Fresh Democratic Election Must Be Conducted For Lagos State Local Councils Six Apo Killings Funding Privately Owned Commercial Banks With Public Money Is Super Corruption
Contents INCESSANT FUEL HIKE: Labour Needs Revolutionary Mass Actions To Defeat This Baseless And Provocative Anti-poor Policy NATIONAL CONFAB IS AN EXPENSIVE JOKE: Labour Leaders Should Pull Out Immediately ADAMS OSHIOMHOLE LED NLC: Six Years Of Missed Opportunities OBASANJO’S ANTI-CORRUPTION POSTURING WILL NOT HALT TREASURY LOOTING 2005 TRADE UNION ACT: undemocratic and Anti-Labour – DSM Complete text on one page
Contents INCESSANT FUEL HIKE: Labour Needs Revolutionary Mass Actions To Defeat This Baseless And Provocative Anti-poor Policy NATIONAL CONFAB IS AN EXPENSIVE JOKE: Labour Leaders Should Pull Out Immediately ADAMS OSHIOMHOLE LED NLC: Six Years Of Missed Opportunities OBASANJO’S ANTI-CORRUPTION POSTURING WILL NOT HALT TREASURY LOOTING 2005 TRADE UNION ACT: undemocratic and Anti-Labour – DSM Complete text on one page
Socialist Democracy March – April 2005 Contents – OBASANJO’S NATIONAL CONFAB: A Journey Without Destination – NANS Declares March 15 As A Day Of Mass Action Against Hostel Privatisation – International Women’s Day 2005 – HEALTH WORKERS’ STRIKES: Metaphor Of The Sorry State of Health Sector – NEPA BLACKOUT: No Solution Within The System
Socialist Democracy January 2006 January 12, 2006 World Social Forum, Bamako, Mali This year the World Social Forum is taking the form of three polycentric events. Two are taking place in January 2006; one in Bamako (Mali) and the other in Caracas (Venezuela). The Karachi (Pakistan) event has been postponed until later in 2006 due to last year’s tragic earthquake.
Contents FUEL PRICE HIKE, MASS POVERTY, UNEMPLOYMENT, ETC Kick Obasanjo’s Government Out Now! PRIVATISATION OF SCHOOL HOSTELS NIGER DELTA: OBASANJO HELD MEETINGS WITH MILITANTS OBASANJO’S ANTI-LABOUR BILL ROTIMI EWEBIYI: MEMORIAL MEETING IRON AND STEEL SECTOR’S HISTORIC DECAY THE PENSION REFORM PRE-GENERAL STRIKE RALLIES DRAW WIDE SUPPORT TRADE UNION BILL – A Very Reactionary Legal Shackle HOW TO MOVE NCP FORWARD
Socialist Democracy Special Bulletin October 2004 KICK OUT OBASANJO GOVT NOW! Resist All Anti-Peoples Policies Time for System Change Again, the pump prices of the petroleum products have been increased. Nigerians have almost lost count of the number of times the price of these essential commodities have been hiked in the life of the Obasanjo’s led government. It is one
Contents GENERAL STRIKES: How To Fight And Defeat Obasanjo’s Anti-poor, Capitalist Government ROTIMI EWEBIYI: A Rare Socialist Class Fighter Passes On HOW TO COMBAT HIV/AIDS “Working class living condition in Europe is far less glamorous than many Nigerian youths may actually think” AS CLASS DIVIDE SHARPENS: Ruling Class Must Prepare For Class War SEIZURE OF FUNDS OVER NEW LOCAL GOVERNMENTS:
Contents MASS MOVEMENT IN 2004: REVOLUTIONARY STRATEGY NEEDED THE LAUNCHING OF NEW LABOUR PARTY: A WELCOME DEVELOPMENT BUT…… TRADE UNIONS: * FIGHT OBASANJO’S ANTI-LABOUR BILL * ENIGEERING WORKERS’ LEADER: "TIME FOR SYSTEM CHANGE" * FIGHT PRIVATISATION AND RETRENCHMENT WORKPLACE NEWS: * SEWUN, AMPISEN SIGN COLLECTIVE AGREEMENT * RECALL GIL SACKED WORKERS NOW! * CIU DEMANDS OLOWOOKERE’S RECALL NO TO DE-REGISTRATION
Socialist Democracy Sept – Oct 2003 Index Socialist Democracy Paper of Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM) Download rtf file Resist Obasanjo’s Anti-Poor Agenda Editorial Anambra Coup: Lessons For The Working Masses Lagos: Round Two Of Working Class Repression Workers, Pensioners Groan Over Unpaid Wages NCP Condemns Invasion Of Ojota Garage How To Build NCP After The Elections
26th July 2003 Socialist Democracy Paper of Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM) Special Bulletin August 2003 General Strike against fuel price rise: The Lesson For The Working Masses After eight days of grim heroic struggles, the Obasanjo government was forced to reduce the recent increment in fuel prices by 15%. Now petrol officially is to sell at N34 per litre instead of
Socialist Democracy April – May 2003 2003 ELECTIONS: VOTE NCP REJECT PDP, AD, ANPP AND OTHER MONEYBAG PARTIES BUILD A MASS MOVEMENT FOR SOCIALIST CHANGE Vote NCP – Reject PDP, AD, ANPP And Other Moneybag Parties; Build A Mass Movement For Socialist Change Why We’ll Vote For NCP Interviews With DSM Comrades Standing As NCP Candidates End
Socialist Democracy Feb – Mar 2003 2003 Elections REJECT THE MONEYBAG PARTIES * Build A Mass-Based NCP * Fight For Socialist Policies To End Nigeria’s Crisis The tempo of political activities has quickened in the country following the release of the time-table for the 2003 national and state elections by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). By this time-table, election
Socialist Democracy Nov – Dec 2002 Political Violence, Election Rigging … Only The Masses Can Save Civil Rule The recent period has witnessed an upsurge in political violence as a result of unbridled rivalry between the different factions of the capitalist ruling elite in different parts of the country. During the same period, the so-called Independent National Electoral Committee