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Education is not Business, Students are not Customers: Building a Fight Back against education attacks REPORT OF DSM STUDENTS’ WING MEETING By Ibukun Omole On Friday April 15th the students’ wing of the Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM) met. This students’ meeting took place on the eve of a DSM National Committee meeting and was attended by 23 students from 8
UNILAG students protest poor welfare conditions and high cost of living Comrades Julius Samuel (Prakash) and Ilesanmi Samson (samkol), ERC UNILAG branch coordinator and mobilization officer respectively. On Wednesday, April 6 2016, the University of Lagos students led by the students’ union leaders started a crucial peaceful protest to decry the management’s obvious nonchalance and uncaring attitude towards the precarious
Reopening of Shut Secondary Schools in Ile-Ife: Aregbesola government should educate young people; not jail them The attention of the Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM), Osun State Chapter, has been drawn to the reopening of the four secondary schools in Ile-Ife, which were previously shut down by the Osun State government over students’ protest. We in the DSM however reject all
2016 BUDGET: EDUCATION SECTOR REMAINS UNDERFUNDED! Despite a background of Student leaders taking to the airwaves in an attempt to create bandwagon of applause for the 2016 budgetary allocation for the education sector, the allocation still remains lower than that of 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2015. These previous budgets were not also proportionate to the needs of the sector in
UNIABUJA: SYMPOSIUM EMPHASIZES NEED FOR STRUGGLE TO DEFEND PUBLIC EDUCATION “With this APC administration, if we are not careful, all of the gains of the 2013 ASUU struggle may go down the drain” – ASUU leader Report by Akande Daniel The Education Rights Campaign (ERC) and the Academic Staff Union of the Universities (ASUU), University of Abuja chapter, jointly organized
OOU LECTURERS STRIKE: GOV IBUKUNLE AMOSUN AND THE BURDEN OF UNPAID SALARIES For a United Mass Action by Workers in Ogun State The Socialist Party of Nigeria, Ogun state chapter, strongly condemns the refusal of Gov Ibikunle Amosun to pay lecturers of the Olabisi Onabanjo University (OOU), 16 months’ salary arrears, something which has forced the branch of the Academic
SPN Rejects Mass Retrenchment in Osun State Tertiary Institutions The Socialist Party of Nigeria (SPN), Osun State Chapter condemns in absolute terms the mass retrenchment of staff of state-owned tertiary institutions in Osun State. We call for the immediate reversal of this retrenchment by the Rauf Aregbesola-led Osun State government and end to all anti-worker policy of the government. We
WE CONDEMN AND REJECT CLOSURE OF SCHOOL AND PROSCRIPTION OF STUDENTS’ UNION IN OAU The Education Rights Campaign (ERC) wishes to condemn in strong terms the undemocratic decision of the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU) authorities to close down the University and proscribe the Students Union. For us, proscription of the Students Union at the slightest hint of students’ protest or
NO TO MERGER OF TERTIARY INSTITUTIONS IN OSUN STATE Workers’ Unions and Students in tertiary institutions (ASUP, COEASU, NASU, SSANIP, etc.) together with communities must reject these policies We reject all Austerity Measures of the Aregbesola Government The Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM) Osun State Chapter condemns in absolute terms the planned merger of polytechnics in Iree and Esa-Oke and Colleges
Victory At Last! Lanre Akinola and Rasheedat Adeshina get certificates after 16 years’ victimisation The Education Rights Campaign (ERC) welcomes the release of the withheld certificates of the duo of Lanre Akinola, a member of Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM), and Rasheedat Adesina by the authorities of the University of Ilorin after 16 years of prolonged legal and political battle for
Aregbesola Government Should Accede to the Demands of Lecturers and Medical Officers in Osun State Government should pay all outstanding salaries, deductions and pensions of workers Aregbesola should Stop Bullying the Press The Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM), Osun State, bemoans the failure of the Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola-led Osun State government to accede to the genuine demands of the academic staff
The Continuing Quest to Rebuild NANS and the Students’ Movement Presented by Comrade Lanre Arogundade, NANS President, 1984 – 85; Chairman of Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Lagos State Council, 1995 – 99 and member Democratic Socialist Movement, DSM, at the National Students’ Retreat in Memory of Comrade Chima Ubani @ Bayero University, Kano on September 21, 2015 Introduction May
ERC OAU HOLDS SYMPOSIUM ON THE STATE OF PUBLIC EDUCATION UNDER BUHARI GOVERNMENT Adaramoye Michael Lenin (DSM OAU Branch) Cross section of audience – photo DSM The Education Rights Campaign (ERC), OAU Branch hosted the ERC National Symposium on Thursday 20th August, 2015 with the theme: ”Buhari Presidency: A New Dawn for the Education Sector?”. The symposium was not only
WE OPPOSE THE PROSCRIPTION OF STAFF UNIONS IN TAI SOLARIN COLLEGE OF EDUCATION, OMU-IJEBU Amosun regime must stop the attacks on workers’ rights We of the Democratic Socialist Movement, Ogun State branch, condemn in strongest terms the suspension of the activities of the staff unions in Tai Solarin College of Education, Omu-Ijebu, Odogbolu Local Government Area, Ogun State. Ogun State
BUHARI’S VICTORY: NEW DAWN FOR THE EDUCATION SECTOR? DSM Students’ Wing Holds National Meeting on 17th April, 2015 By Ayoade Adedayo The Students’ Wing of the Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM) recently held its National Meeting on 17th April, 2015 as part of the National Committee Meeting of the DSM that held between 18th and 19th April, 2015. The meeting, held
DSM WEEK 2015: DSM-OAU CELEBRATES GENUINE IDEAS OF MARXISM By DSM Reporters The Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM) branch of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife, recently held a series of political activities tagged “DSM Week 2015”. The DSM week, which is an annual event, started on Monday, 9th March with political gyration (singing, speech making and social interaction) and publicity and
PLANNED VICTIMISATION OF ERC MEMBERS AND ATTACK ON DEMOCRATIC RIGHTS AT THE POLYTECHNIC OF IBADAN Call for Solidarity Actions *We call on trade unions including the staff unions in the polytechnic, civil society organizations, radical student unions, youth organisations and socialists, locally and internationally, to prevail on the management to halt this attack on democratic rights* On the Wednesday, 11
OAU Authorities Should Reinstate Victimized Student Activists The Campaign for Democratic and Workers’ Rights (CDWR), Osun State Chapter hereby calls on the authorities and Prof. ‘Tale Omole-led administration of Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife to reinstate six (6) student activists currently under politically motivated suspension. Five of these student activists: Olubanji Oluwole, Adabale Olamide, Adewumagun Johnson and Sanyaolu Adejuwon were
Austerity: An Open Call for the Building of a Movement to Resist Imminent Attacks on Public Education Statement of the Education Rights Campaign (ERC) to Students Unions, NANS, NAPS, left organisations, radical groups and activists in the Students’ Movement Nigeria has entered into a period of economic crisis arising out of the plunge in crude oil price. Crude oil sale
ATTEMPTS TO COVER UP BRUTAL ATTACK ON ERC MEMBERS AND ACTIVISTS IN OAU BY THE POLICE AND MANAGEMENT ERC Demands Arrest and Prosecution of the Perpetrators * For an Independent and Democratic Commission of Inquiry Since Sunday 30 November 2014 when Pro-Goodluck Jonathan Students’ Union leaders viciously attacked members of the Education Rights Campaign (ERC) and radical student activists for