For Struggle, Solidarity and Socialism in Nigeria
Organize and Mobilize for Mass Actions Now! We Call on NLC and TUC to Urgently Declare a 48-Hour General Strike Ordinarily, Nigerians are no strangers to suffering. But if the truth must be told, the kind of suffering and misery being experienced by the mass of Nigerians over the past few months is second to none. The bitter truth is
Only a government of Workers and Poor Formed on a Socialist Programme can Guarantee the Reconstruction of Society in the Interests of Working People By Abbey Trotsky Barring any last-minute changes, the 2023 general elections will be taking place against the background of economic, political and social crisis currently bedeviling the country and an obvious absence of a mass working
A Frankenstein Monster Created by the Failure of Capitalism By H.T. Soweto The 28 March 2022 horrific terrorist attack by bandits on a Kaduna-bound train will continue to evoke outrage for some time to come. Coming about seven years since the Buhari government came to power on a mandate to end rampaging insecurity whose main manifestation as at then was
Public Ownership of Power Sector Under Workers and Consumers’ Democratic Control is the Way Out By Chinedu Bosah The Minister of Finance, Mrs. Zainab Ahmed disclosed on Thursday, March 10, 2022, that the federal government had quietly removed subsidy on electricity tariff. The implication of this policy is that working people and the poor masses will be forced to pay
Working People Must Resist Capitalist Attacks and Fight for Socialist Alternative By Peluola Adewale In February the National Bureau of Statistics announced that Nigeria’s economy grew in 2021 by 3.4%, which is the strongest since 2014 and faster than the forecasts by the Central Bank as well as the IMF and World Bank. For an economy that contracted by 1.92%
Which Way Forward for the Working People, Youths and the Oppressed in Osun State By Alfred Adegoke, Coordinator DSM Osun State It is no more news that Oyetola lost to Demola Adeleke his PDP rival in the first round of the 2018 Elections, a first round which was declared inconclusive by INEC, leading to a controversial re-run that declared Oyetola
But Warns Autonomy Does not Guarantee Decent Conditions for Working People and Youth By Chinedu Bosah The Socialist Party of Nigeria (SPN) supports the demand and agitation for autonomy for local governments. We also welcome the agitation for financial autonomy for the state legislature. It is undemocratic for one tier or arm of government to be made dependent on another
Workplace and industrial accidents leading to permanent disability or death are now widespread. It is more prevalent in factories and workplaces wherein machines are used for production and services. Factory owners purchase outdated and dangerous machines because they are relatively cheaper while workers with little or no training are employed in poor working conditions and forced to man the machines
ERC Calls for Solidarity Actions from Labour and Students to Compel Government to Meet Demands of Striking Unions By Ogunjimi Isaac Ayobami, ERC Deputy National Coordinator For about three months now, public Universities have been shut down due to strike actions of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Senior Staff Association of Universities (SSANU), Non Academic Staff Union (NASU)
Between the end of 2021 and the beginning of 2022 in Abuja, two different unions of public sector workers went on strike over their wages and working conditions. By Omole Ibukun, DSM Abuja The Nigeria Union of Teachers went on strike twice over the non-payment of their 2014 to 2018 promotion arrears and the lack of funding of Local Education
The Ajegunle Peoples’ Movement (APM), a community-based platform of the Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM), condemns the violence in the local government mostly orchestrated by bourgeois politicians using political thugs and hoodlums. By Moshood Osunfurewa, DSM Ajegunle, Lagos, branch The Ajegunle Peoples’ Movement (APM), a community-based platform of the Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM), condemns the violence in the local government mostly
NULGE, OYO STATE Nigeria Union of Local Government Employees (NULGE) Oyo State Chapter joins all workers here in Nigeria and across the world to commemorate the year 2022 edition of the International Workers Day popularly known as May Day. We hereby use this medium to charge our members to remain diligent in the course of their daily duty and
We demand adequate compensation for the family and calls on the state leadership of NLC and TUC to commence campaign against casualisation and poor working conditions across workplaces in the state! The Campaign for Democratic and Workers Rights, CDWR, Oyo State Chapter, decries the tragic death of one Mr Nurudeen Abdukareem, at Premier Feed Mills, a subsidiary of Flour Mills
We remain committed to the building of a Mass Workers’ Political Alternative to Rescue Nigeria through Socialist Transformation The Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM) rejects the judgement of the Supreme Court which was delivered on March 25 2022 and upholds the deregistration of 22 political parties, including the Socialist Party of Nigeria (SPN), by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). We
The world has been plunged into another catastrophe on top of the COVID-19 pandemic, following the murderous Putin regime’s invasion of Ukraine. The war, which has raged for more than two weeks, has brought with it carnage and human suffering not experienced in Europe since the Balkan wars in the 1990s. By Tony Saunois, Secretary, Committee for a Workers’ International