Democratic Socialist Movement

For Struggle, Solidarity and Socialism in Nigeria

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CDWR SUPPORTS EGBIN POWER WORKERS’ DEMANDS FOR A ‘CONDITION OF SERVICE’ AGREEMENT

CDWR DEMANDS A CONDITION OF SERVICE FOR EGBIN POWER WORKERS AND AN END TO EXPLOITATIVE CONTRACT STAFFING AND OTHER ANTI-PEOPLE POLICIES AT EGBIN POWER PLC The Campaign for Democratic and Workers’ Rights (CDWR) condemns Egbin Power Plc management for resisting negotiation of Condition of Service with workers and their union. Egbin Power Plant workers and the National Union of Electricity

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TINUBU TAX REFORM

The CDWR holds public symposium and calls on workers to organize actions to reject the bills and fight for a political alternative. By Davy Fidel On Tuesday 11 March 2025, the Campaign for Democratic and Workers Rights (CDWR) organized a public symposium to discuss the implications of President Bola Tinubu’s Tax Reform Bills currently before the National Assembly for working

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CDWR Demands End to Exploitation of Lagos State Sweepers

The Campaign for Democratic and Workers’ Rights (CDWR) condemns the response from the Lagos State Waste Management Authority (LAWMA) concerning the inhumane treatment and exploitation of Lagos State sweepers. Rather than addressing the grave issues raised, LAWMA’s response was a futile attempt to save face, revealing its complicity in the unjust and exploitative system it oversees in connivance with contractors

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CDWR Holds Symposium on Tax Reform Bill – Participants Call for Mass Struggle to Defeat Bill

At least 53 trade union and civil society activists gathered on Tuesday, March 11, at the International Press Centre (IPC), Ogba, Lagos for a public symposium organized by the Campaign for Democratic and Workers Rights (CDWR) on the Tax Reform Bill currently before the National Assembly. The Lagos State Councils of both the NLC and TUC were represented in addition

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2025 – OYO: INDEFINITE STRIKES OF LAUTECH RESIDENT DOCTORS AND WORKERS IN STATE-OWNED TERTIARY INSTITUTIONS

INDEFINITE STRIKES OF LAUTECH RESIDENT DOCTORS AND WORKERS IN STATE-OWNED TERTIARY INSTITUTIONS ARE DIRECT MANIFESTATION OF THE GOVERNMENT’S FAILURE TO PRIORITIZE THE WORKERS’ WELL-BEING, EDUCATION, AND HEALTHCARE NEEDS OF THE PEOPLE CDWR Calls on NLC and TUC to prevail on the Makinde-led Government to Meet the Demands of Striking workers The Campaign for Democratic and Workers’ Rights (CDWR), Oyo State

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CDWR CONDEMNS THE MANAGEMENT OF KADUNA ELECTRIC FOR ILLEGALLY SACKING 900 WORKERS

CDWR DEMANDS REINSTATEMENT OF ALL SACKED WORKERS AND MEET THE DEMANDS OF WORKERS AND UNION The Campaign for Democratic and Workers’ Rights (CDWR) condemns the management of Kaduna Electric for sacking 900 workers in response to legitimate demands of workers for better working conditions. We hereby demand the immediate and unconditional reversal of this unjust sack and the reinstatement of

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TELECOM PROTEST – LABOUR NEEDS CLEAR PLAN TO DEFEND THE WORKING CLASS AND POOR

NLC PLANNED PROTEST AGAINST TELECOM TARIFF HIKE: DSM URGES LABOUR TO ADOPT A COHERENT PROGRAMME TO SERIOUSLY DEFEND THE INTEREST OF THE WORKING CLASS AND THE POOR MASSES Statement of the Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM) Ordinarily, the announcement of the decision of the leadership of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) to hold a nationwide mass protest on Tuesday 4 February

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CDWR SUPPORTS NLC-LED PROTEST RALLY AGAINST 50% HIKE IN TELECOMMUNICATION TARIFF

CDWR CALLS ON NLC TO LEAD A DETERMINED MASS RESISTANCE AGAINST ALL ANTI-POOR POLICIES The Campaign for Democratic and Workers’ Rights (CDWR) condemns the recent approval of 50% tariff hike in telecommunication services by the Nigerian Communications Commissions (NCC). This outrageous hike in telecoms tariff will worsen the already high cost of living and increase cost of doing business; thereby

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NUPTE AND WORKERS OF TRANEX EXPRESS PICKET COMPANY OVER ANTI-LABOUR PRACTICES

CDWR SOLIDARISES WITH WORKERS AND CALLS ON MANAGEMENT TO MEET WORKERS DEMANDS The leadership of the National Union of Postal and Telecommunication Employees (NUPTE) and workers of TRANEX Express Plc picketed the company’s headquarters at Oshodi, Lagos, on Wednesday January 22, 2025. The union and workers embarked on the picketing and strike action after the management refused to meet the

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Bene Madunagu: Tribute to an exceptional socialist class fighter 

Comrade Bene Madunagu, who died recently and is being buried in Calabar today, January 17, was a striking example of a dedicated and committed socialist. As a working-class oriented class fighter, her monumental contributions to the struggles for the liberation of Nigerian working masses and the poor, and particularly that of women, are perhaps under-documented or not as highlighted as

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OYO STATE: Makinde’s N80, 000 minimum wage approval amidst fee hike across state-owned tertiary institutions is a Greek gift!

CDWR holds that the state leadership of Labour ought to have demanded payment of arrears of the approved minimum wage from July and immediate reversal of fee hike including adequate funding of all the state-owned tertiary institutions The attention of the Oyo State branch of Campaign for Democratic and Workers Rights (CDWR) has been drawn to several media reports over

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CDWR BACKS STRIKING LAGOS HEALTH WORKERS WARNING STRIKE

CALLS ON LAGOS STATE GOVERNMENT TO MEET HEALTH WORKERS DEMANDS The Campaign for Democratic and Workers’ Rights (CDWR) backs the striking Lagos health workers in their struggle and demand for the implementation of the 25% adjustments to the Consolidated Health Salary Structure (CONHESS). We condemn the refusal of the Lagos State Government to implement the 25% CONHESS adjustments. The Lagos

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FROM “RENEWED HOPE” TO “RENEWED HOPELESSNESS”

Tinubu’s Capitalist Policies Have Failed! Time for a Socialist Alternative At a recent high-level meeting in Nigeria’s capital Abuja in May this year, the British High Commissioner to Nigeria, Dr. Richard Montgomery, said the following “I’d like to use this opportunity to express the whole lot of support of my government to the Renewed Hope Agenda of His Excellency, the

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FREQUENT FUEL PRICE HIKES WORSEN IMPOVERISHMENT OF THE MASSES

For a 48-hour general strike as first step Now! A Conference of Trade Unions, Left Activists and Socialists to Discuss Alternative to Neo-Liberal Capitalist Programme is Needed The frequent increase in the price of petrol is yet another proof that there is no let off for working people and the poor from the devastating attacks on the living standards by

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MINIMUM WAGE: Workers and Labour Leaders Need to Fight for Full Implementation and Resist Anti-poor Policies

There is little to celebrate over the N70,000 new national minimum wage considering the rising inflation that reduces its value on a daily basis. Its dollar value is, at the time of writing, is under US$42, this is almost half the US$83 value of the outgoing N30,000 minimum when it was introduced in 2019. Nonetheless, we recognize that N70,000 minimum

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LABOUR PARTY CRISIS: Trade Unions and Left Organisations Must Build a Genuine Working People’s Party

By the October 8, 2024 judgment of the Federal High Court Abuja, Julius Abure led executive is the official leadership of the Labour Party (LP), unless there is a contrary order by a higher court. Therefore, the separate attempts to remove Abure leadership and reclaim the party by both the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and a group led by Peter

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SUMAL FOOD LIMITED Vs ABBEY TROTSKY:  CDWR Demands an End to Continued State Prosecution

The Campaign for Democratic and Workers’ Rights (CDWR) calls on trade unions, pro-masses’ organizations, and activists to support the demand for an immediate end to the continuous persecution of Comrade Abiodun Bamigboye, popularly known as Abbey Trotsky, on trumped-up criminal charges by the Nigeria police at the instance of the management of the SUMAL FOOD LIMITED Ibadan. By Yusuf Abiodun

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NON-COMPLIANCE WITH THE STRIKE BY SOME STATE NLC LEADERS INDICATES WEAKNESS IN THE MOVEMENT

IT IS HIGH-TIME 48-HOUR GENERAL STRIKE IS CALLED TO IMPLEMENT N70,000 MINIMUM WAGE ACROSS THE BOARD AND TO RESIST ALL ANTI-POOR POLICIES A strike action was declared and scheduled to commence on December 1, 2024, in states where the N70,000 minimum wage has not been implemented. This was in line with the resolution of the Central Working Committee (CWC) and

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New Minimum Wage in Osun State: We call for substantial consequential salary and pension increment across the board

Implementation of new minimum wage must not lead to retrenchment of workers, or reversal of already-won concessions NLC and TUC leadership must call congress of workers to take final decisions The attention of the Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM), Osun State has been drawn to a press release by the Osun State government, announcing a new minimum wage of N75,000 (seventy

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OYO STATE: Fee hikes across the state-owned tertiary institutions further exposes anti-poor character of Makinde-led government

ERC demands an immediate reversal of fee hike and adequate funding of all the state-owned tertiary institutions We call on the state NLC, TUC and civil society organisations to also demand the reversal of the fee hikes The Education Rights Campaign (ERC), Oyo State Chapter, condemns a recent wave of fee hikes across the Oyo State owned tertiary institutions and

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