YAR’ADUA AND FASHOLA’S FACE-OFF OVER LCDA Needless Distraction In The Face of Crying Needs And Mass Poverty By HT Soweto One controversy that is on now is the legitimacy or otherwise of the 37 Local Council Development Authorities (LCDA) set up by the former Action Congress (AC) governor of Lagos State Bola Tinubu during the regime of former president Olusegun
ERC LEADING NIGERIAN STUDENTS ON PROTEST RALLY IN SOLIDARITY WITH ASUU, SSANU AND NASU By Keye Ewebiyi The eight-week old nationwide strike actions of the ASUU as well as the national strike embarked upon by the SSANU and NASU have paralyzed academic activities in the public universities. This has led Nigerian students under the banner of the Education Rights Campaign
SLAVE CAMPS IN EVERYWHERE Labour Should Defend Workers Rights And Dignity! By Sola Akinbinu Nigeria has become safe heaven for all kinds of anti-workers activities. Most of the companies, particularly those owned by Indians and Chinese, are sweatshops with no safety measures. This does not suggest that it is only Asian owned companies that operate ruthless exploitation of workers. Many
DEREGULATION AND LIBERALIZATION Yar’Adua deepens Agenda for Economic Stagnation and Mass Misery Labour Should Declare 48 Hour General Strike and Mass Protest By Segun Sango The Yar’Adua government appears to have discovered a magic formula that will end the age-long backwardness and underdevelopment of the country’s economy. This formula is called deregulation and liberalization. According to government’s spokespersons, once the
BOKO HARAM AND IMPERATIVE OF A WORKING CLASS ALTERNATIVE By Dagga Tolar and Kola Ibrahim What began as an attack on public institutions of the state by an Islamic sect, Boko Haram, in Borno, spread to other northern states of Bauchi, Kano, etc. and left in its wake the killing of about 800 persons. Members of Boko Haram under the
NIGER DELTA An Amnesty Doomed To Failure: Working Class Solution Urgently Needed Suddenly, peace in the Niger Delta has become the most sought after commodity, almost placed at par with oil. No more war, the hundreds and thousands killed or uprooted from their communities in Gbaramatu area of Delta State through military assaults, never existed! All that matter now is
NIGERIA BANKING CRISIS: CRISIS OF CAPITALISM Nationalize Bailed-Out Banks With Democratic Management and Control By Elected Workers And Trade Unions By Peluola Adewale The current crisis in Nigerian banking system, which has witnessed the removal of chief executive officers of 5 banks and their directors, has further underlined the utter failure of profit-first, iniquitous capitalist system and the incapacity of
FREE THE BRT LAGBUS 5 CAMPAIGN (Updated) Chinedu Bosah, Lagos UPDATE: DETAINED LAGBUS WORKERS RELEASED Update August 25, 2009 The five Lagbus workers detained have been released on Police bail and will now have to report to the police next Friday, August 28. The workers have sent greetings to all DSM comrades and the CWI internationally for their campaign to
South Africa Working class masses give president Zuma baptism of fire No honeymoon for Zuma government New government comes up against militant action Weizmann Hamilton, Democratic Socialist Movement (CWI in South Africa) Barely 100 days into Jacob Zuma’s presidency, the class contradictions that have produced political polarisation and then a split in the ANC, have sharpened with a vengeance. The