Democratic Socialist Movement

For Struggle, Solidarity and Socialism in Nigeria

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YRC CONDEMNS LATEST INCREASE IN PETROL PRICE

WE REJECT THE ENTIRE LIBERAL POLICIES OF TINUBU GOVERNMENT NLC AND TUC CALL A 48 HOUR  GENERAL STRIKE IN CONJUNCTION WITH NEXT #EndBadGovernance PROTEST The Youth Rights Campaign (YRC) sees the continuous upward adjustment of the pump price of petrol by the NNPCL as a deliberate attack on the living standard of the Nigerian youths and workers. We hereby demand

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#ENDBADGOVERNANCE MOVEMENT LAGOS STATE – ARISE TO DEMAND IMMEDIATE REVERSAL OF FUEL PRICE HIKE

LATEST FUEL PRICE HIKE SHOWS PRESIDENT TINUBU IS NOT DONE WITH US YET IT IS HIGH TIME NIGERIAN PEOPLE AROSE IN THEIR MILLIONS TO DEMAND IMMEDIATE REVERSAL OF FUEL PRICE HIKE AND ALL ANTI-POOR POLICIES The #Endbadgovernance movement, Lagos State, has described the latest increase in petrol price as provocative, vexatious, and a further slap on the faces of poor

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AS HUNGER AND HARDSHIP INTENSTIFY, STEP UP THE STRUGGLE AGAINST TINUBU’S ANTI-POOR POLICIES

Build Action Committees at Workplaces, Campuses and Communities For a Rolling Mass Action and a 48-hour General Strike Now! One incontrovertible fact in Nigeria today is that the past one and half years of President Tinubu’s government is an absolute disaster for the working class, youth and poor masses. The reason for this is not farfetched. Right from the day

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YRC Condemns Conditions of Bail Granted to Adaramoye Michael Lenin and 9 Others

Demands Dropping of Trumped-up Charges and Release of all Detainees We Call for Solidarity from NLC, TUC and Civil Society Organisations to Ensure that all #EndBadGovernance Detainees Regain Freedom We, of the Youth Rights Campaign (YRC), unequivocally condemn the conditions attached to the bail granted to Adaramoye Michael Lenin, Mosiu Sodiq and 8 others, who have been incarcerated in connection

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#EndBadGovernance detainees: Michael Lenin and Others are Granted Bail

But Struggle Continues to drop all charges and free all jailed #EndBadGovernance activists On Wednesday September 11, Adaramoye Michael Lenin and nine others were granted bail by a Federal High Court at the Federal Capital Territory Abuja. The bail came with stringent conditions which include a surety each with 10 million naira bond and landed property in Abuja. They have

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Increasing Attacks on Democratic Rights in Nigeria: Solidarity Protest at Nigerian High Commission in London

Earlier today, Monday 9 September 2024, members of the Socialist Party, England and Wales, held a solidarity demo under the auspices of the Youth Rights Campaign (YRC) at the Nigeria High Commission in London where they submitted a petition demanding the release of NLC President Joe Ajaero along with Adaramoye Michael Lenin, Mosiu Sodiq, Daniel Akande as well as all

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Nigeria in crisis – an international appeal

Defend democratic rights in Nigeria Economy collapsing and anger mounting Government moves to intimidate and punish opposition Drop ‘Treason’ and ‘Terrorism’ charges against protest organisers Defend the right to protest and free the hundreds detained for protesting Fight to defend Nigerians from economic and social collapse Youth Rights Campaign international appeal for solidarity Urgent action is needed to support those

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CDWR CONDEMNS THE CONTINUOUS INCARCERATION OF MICHAEL ADARAMOYE, MOSIU SODIQ, ELEOJO OPALUWA AND OTHERS BASED ON A REMAND COURT ORDER CLANDESTINELY PROCURED BY THE POLICE

CDWR DEMANDS THEIR IMMEDIATE AND UNCONDITIONAL RELEASE The Nigerian Police and the Bola Tinubu-led regime are hell-bent on sustaining the incarceration of #EndBadGovernace protesters and activists. It is about 3 weeks, and still counting, since Comrade Michael Adaramoye (Michael Lenin), Sodiq Mosiu and others have been illegally and unjustly detained by the Nigerian Police on the order of Nuhu Ribadu,

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DSM Condemns Attack on NLC and Harassment of NLC President Ajaero by Tinubu Government

For a 24-Hour General Strike and Mass Protest to Reject Tinubu’s Civilian Dictatorship Free Michael Lenin, Mosiu Sodiq, Eleojo Opaluwa and all unjustly detained over #EndBadGovernance protest The Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM) condemns the continued brazen attack on the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) by the Bola Tinubu government, something which has been recently intensified. Not done with its criminal raid

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CDWR CONDEMNS GOVERNMENT’S CONSTANT ATTACKS ON JOE AJAERO AND NLC AND STANDS IN SOLIDARITY WITH NLC

WE DEMAND AN END TO ALL INTIMIDATION AND CONTINUOUS ILLEGAL DETENTION OF #ENDBADGOVERNANCE PROTESTERS The Campaign for Democratic and Workers’ Rights (CDWR) condemns the invasion of the headquarters of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the invitation of Joe Ajaero, the NLC President to be questioned on trumped-up criminal allegations (Criminal Conspiracy, Terrorism Financing, Treasonable Felony, Subversion and Cybercrime) by

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CDWR CONDEMNS THE INVASION OF THE NLC HEADQUARTERS AND THE ATTACK ON PROTESTERS

THESE ATTACKS INDICATE THE EMERGENCE OF A CIVILIAN DICTATORSHIP AND TYRANNY LABOUR MOVEMENT SHOULD ORGANIZE TO RESIST UNDEMOCRATIC ACTIONS AND ANTI-PEOPLE POLICIES The Campaign for Democratic and Workers’ Rights (CDWR) condemns the invasion of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) headquarters at night-time on Wednesday, August 7, 2024, in a commando style by armed security men. Aside from the invasion, the

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PRESIDENT TINUBU’S SPEECH IS INSENSITIVE AND OUT OF TOUCH WITH THE SUFFERING REALITY OF NIGERIANS

CDWR DEMANDS AN UNCONDITIONAL AND IMMEDIATE RELEASE OF MICHAEL ADARAMOYE, BABATUNDE OLUAJO AND OTHERS The Campaign for Democratic and Workers’ Rights (CDWR) considers President Tinubu’s broadcast speech of Sunday August 4, 2024 as a display of arrogance and insensitivity towards the harrowing plight and hardship of Nigerians. He actually used the broadcast to double down on his failed anti-people reform

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#ENDBADGOVERNANCEINNIGERIA

Resist All Anti-Poor Policies, No to Attacks on Democratic Rights and Fight for Socialist Change We of the Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM) and Youth Rights Campaign (YRC) call on workers, artisans, traders, youth and the poor masses to support the call for nationwide peaceful protest over the prevailing mass hunger and cost of living crisis. Prices of food, energy, medicine

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N70, 000 Minimum Wage is Relatively Small; Serious Struggle Could Have Won Higher Wage

Labour Leaders and Workers Must Fight for Full Implementation Without Retrenchment The leaderships of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and Trade Union Congress (TUC) have accepted N70, 000 as the new national minimum wage after a period of limited struggle and negotiation. We of the Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM) believe that labour leaders need to be sober over what they

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Ogun – Threats of Industrial Action Over N40b Unremitted Pension Funds:

CDWR Stands in Solidarity With Ogun Public/Civil Service Workers We Call on Governor Dapo Abiodun to Pay The 160 Months (15years) Unremitted Pension Deductions From Workers Salaries Without Delay. The Campaign for Democratic and Workers’ Rights (CDWR), Ogun state chapter, stands in solidarity with workers over the threats of industrial action to press home their demands for the payment of

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YRC SUPPORTS PLANNED AUGUST NATIONWIDE PROTEST AND CALL ON ALL NIGERIA YOUTHS, WORKERS AND OPPRESSED MASSES TO REJECT NEOLIBERAL CAPITALIST POLICIES OF THE TINUBU/APC ADMINISTRATION

The Youth Rights Campaign (YRC) welcomes the planned August nationwide #EndBadGovernanceInNigeria protest and calls on all those who are dissatisfied with the prevailing condition of hunger and hardship in Nigeria to join. As the saying goes, you can’t beat a child and expect the child not to cry. The Tinubu administration cannot subject the Nigerian working people and youth to

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CDWR SOLIDARIZES WITH SSANU, NASU AND ASUU’S STRUGGLE OVER UNPAID SALARIES OF MEMBERS

WE CALL ON THE GOVERNMENT TO PAY ALL BACKLOG SALARIES WITHOUT DELAY AND ADEQUATELY FUND EDUCATION The Campaign for Democratic and Workers’ Rights (CDWR) condemns the federal government’s refusal to pay University workers backlog of salaries owed to them. Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) and Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and Associated Institutions (NASU) members are owed four

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SUMAL WORKERS’ PROTEST: CDWR CONDEMNS KILLING AND BRUTALIZATION OF WORKERS AND DEMANDS IMMEDIATE PROSECUTION OF POLICE OFFICERS INVOLVED

WE CALL FOR A DEMOCRATIC PANEL OF ENQUIRY AND IMMEDIATE INTERVENTION OF NLC AND TUC TO ENSURE THAT WORKERS’ DEMANDS ARE ACCEDED TO WITH ADEQUATE COMPENSATION FOR THE DECEASED AND INJURED The Campaign for Democratic and Workers’ Rights (CDWR), condemns the reported killing of one Mr Bode, a staff of SUMAL FOOD LIMITED, and brutalization of many other workers from

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LABOUR LEADERS MUST RESUME MINIMUM WAGE STRUGGLE AND ORGANISE RESISTANCE AGAINST ALL ANTI-PEOPLE POLICIES WITH SERIOUSNESS

CDWR DEMANDS A LIVING WAGE FOR NIGERIAN WORKERS AND BETTER LIVING CONDITIONS FOR THE MASSES IN GENERAL The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and Trade Union Congress (TUC) have been at loggerheads with the government and private sector over a new minimum wage, and negotiations have been deadlocked for over 3 weeks and still counting. Government and Private Sector insistence on

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CDWR SUPPORTS OYO HEALTH WORKERS’ DECISION TO HOLD 7-DAY WARNING STRIKE

The strike  should not be limited to a Stay-at-Home Action but include a Series of Mass Action and a link with the state striking nurses and midwives to build a coalition for the actualization of demands The Campaign for Democratic and Workers’ Rights,  CDWR, Oyo state branch, welcomes the decision of the members and leadership of the Medical and Health