For Struggle, Solidarity and Socialism in Nigeria
COURT NULLIFIES TARIFF HIKE Time to Consolidate the Mass Struggle for Reversal of Power Privatisation and End “Crazy” Billing Justice Idris Muhammed of the Federal High Court, Lagos, has nullified the exploitative electricity tariff hike in a landmark judgment delivered on July 13, 2016; variously describing the tariff hike as reckless, criminal, illegal and irresponsible. This judgment is a victory
CDWR CONDEMNS ATTACK ON STREET TRADERS No to Ban on Street Trading in Lagos The Campaign for Democratic and Workers’ Rights (CDWR) condemns in strong terms the decision by the Akinwumi Ambode-led APC government of Lagos state to ban and criminalize street trading and its patronage. This decision also negates the rights to life and dignity of the mass of
Oyo Strike: Socialist Democracy Special Edition July 2016 WORKERS ON INDEFINITE STRIKE OVER UNPAID WAGES Workers Insist on “No Pay No Work” Workers and students hold mass protests against school privatization By CWI Reporters The fall in international oil prices has triggered a massive crisis in Nigeria, one of the world’s major oil producers, dependent on oil income and, with
Time for a 24-hour General Strike and Mass Protest In solidarity with workers and pensioners in over 27 states who are being owed backlog of salaries and pensions For an increase in the national minimum wage in line with inflation rate By DSM NEC The Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM) calls on the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union
OYO WORKERS AND PENSIONERS Be Steadfast, Victory is Possible!! We say no to School Privatisation By Abiodun Bamgboye (Abbey Trotsky) The Socialist Party of Nigeria (SPN), Oyo State Chapter, strongly supports the strike and struggle of workers and retirees in Oyo State over non-payment of salary and pension arrears. The workers are owed salaries for six months while retirees have
Hijab Crisis in Osun State: Avoidable Distraction caused by Aregbesola Government’s Policies The Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM), Osun State Chapter, is greatly worried and concerned by the worsening dimension of the religious crisis in Osun State which is compounding the woes of the already crisis-ridden education sector. It is no exaggeration to say that a state of religious anarchy currently
THE RETURN OF MILITANCY IN THE NIGER DELTA NIGER DELTA AVENGERS ATTACK OIL INFRASTRUCTURE AS GOVERNMENT MILITARISES COMMUNITIES By Chinedu Bosah Militancy has staged a dramatic comeback in Nigeria’s Niger Delta. Between 2008 and 2009, it was the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), now the Niger Delta Avengers (NDA) seems to have stunned everyone by blowing
Socialist Democracy General Strike Special Edition May 2016 FUEL PRICE HIKE AND ELECTRICITY TARIFF Enough of Suffering and Smiling Fight until Total Reversal Buhari/APC Change is anti-poor Change Support Struggle for Socialist Change By HT Soweto There is no other way to describe the announcement on Wednesday 11 May 2016 by the Minister of state for petroleum, Ibe Kachikwu, of
OIL SECTOR: Deregulation is Deadly Poison By Kola Ibrahim The Buhari/APC government, after perambulating for a year, has come down to its real agenda continuation of the ruinous neo-liberal policies of the past i.e. deregulation and privatization. The government has hiked fuel price from N86 to N145. Before the new increment, the government had deliberately allowed fuel marketers to unofficially
RISING COST OF LIVING: How will the Poor Survive? By Chinedu Bosah Before now, the cost of living was mostly impacted by the continued free fall of Naira against the dollar occasioned by fall crude oil price and weak productive economy. And as a largely import dependent country, prices of goods and services moved up. This would not have been
SPN SUPPORTS N56,000 NATIONAL MINIMUM WAGE Labour Must also Fight for Settlement of Unpaid Salaries and Pension By Segun Sango National Chairperson, SPN The Socialist Party of Nigeria (SPN) welcomes the recent decision of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and Trade Union Congress (TUC) to demand the new national minimum wage of N56, 000. We hold that this is long
RISING COST OF LIVING: NLC and TUC Must Lead Struggle for a New Living Wage By Bosah Chinedu Since 1945 when Nigerian workers embarked on 45 days general strike against the Colonial authorities for a 50 percent increase in the Cost of Living Allowance (COLA), every slight increase in the wage and condition of workers since then has been won
AMBODE PUNISHING POOR PEOPLE FOR BEING POOR No to KAI and Task Force By Ayo Ademiluyi There is nothing to describe the height of assault on democratic rights of ordinary citizens by the Lagos State than the distasteful experiences in the hands of various “enforcement and monitoring” agencies of the Lagos State Government. Among several others, the most notorious are
Reduction in the Price of Petrol is a Gimmick for Full Deregulation of the Oil Sector The removal of subsidy on kerosene is anti-poor Labour must go beyond scratching the surface and commence immediate mobilization against deregulation and privatization of the oil sector By Abbey Trotsky For over two decades now, a combination of international capitalist forces (IMF, World Bank,
Linda Workers Again Protest Unfair Labour Practices Strike and Protest of Workers Forced Management to Recall sacked Workers By Bosah Chinedu The Campaign for Democratic and Workers’ Rights (CDWR) salutes workers of the Linda Company, producer of Xpression weave-on, for fighting back anti-workers’ policies and the sack of 8 union leaders for their role in defending workers’ interests. As a
Hold Local Government Elections in Osun State Now! No to All Austerity Policies on the working and poor people For a Working People led Probe Into the Finances of the Aregbesola Government By Alfred Adegoke, Osun Chairperson, SPN For the past five years, the Rauf Aregbesola government has been appointing people into the local government councils without elections. This is
CRIN IBADAN: Mass Struggle of Workers and Community People forced Management and government to Reverse Attacks CRIN Struggle and its Lessons are of Essence to Labour Movement Today By Abbey Trotsky, Coordinator, CDWR, Oyo State Following the six-week of spirited struggle of workers of the Cocoa Research Institute of Nigeria (CRIN) Ibadan with support of the host community that forced
US: Bernie’s Political Revolution opens New Era for American Politics Build #Movement4Bernie to Defeat the Billionaire Class and the Democratic Party Establishment Bernie Sanders’ victory in New Hampshire in early February was a political earthquake that rocked the U.S. presidential elections and the entire establishment. For the first time in U.S. history, a candidate who calls himself a socialist won
SOUTH AFRICA: Worker and Student Protests Intensify #OutsourcingMustFall Campaign Becomes Point of Reference for the Working Class Reporters from the WASP, (Workers and Socialist Party, CWI, South Africa Across South Africa protests and strikes by workers and students are continuing across the higher education sector. Protests at the University of the Free State (UFS) grabbed headlines on Monday night when
Alarming Shortage of Teachers in Lagos Public Schools By H.T. Soweto and Aj Dagga Tolar, ERC National Coordinator and Chairman, NUT Ajeromi-Ifelodun respectively It is no news that public education in Lagos state faces several crises. Some of these include leaking roofs, flooded school premises, overcrowded classroom, unsafe and unhealthy school environment, decaying infrastructures and a curriculum largely aimed at