Imprisoned students get world-wide support Simultaneous pickets demand their release and the dropping of all charges Reports from socialistworld.net Ireland Socialist councillor has sharp exchange with Nigerian Chargé d’Affaires As students and other protesters marched to the courthouse in Oshogbo on Tuesday, 23 October, simultaneous embassy pickets took place across Europe. More are planned and messages continue to be sent
Day of Action Attack on Students Union and Activists at OAU : DSM, ERC Organise Protest March As part of the ongoing international campaign to free the detained student leaders from Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife, the Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM) and Education Rights Campaign (ERC) organised a protest march in Osogbo, the Osun State capital city, on Tuesday October
OAU Ile Ife Crisis: DSM Members Arrested Release Taiwo Hassan and Tunde Dairo Now! Also Akinola Saburi!! The Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM) strongly condemns the arrest of two of its members at Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile Ife, today, Thursday October 11, by armed police at the behest of the management of the institution. The comrades are Taiwo Hassan Soweto,
Credit crunch threatens global downturn The global capitalist economy has been hit by a major credit crunch. Editorial from October issue of Socialism Today, monthly magazine of the Socialist Party (CWI England and Wales) The collapse of the sub-prime mortgage business in the US, brought home by the collapse of two hedge funds managed by Bear Stearns investment bank, provoked
The following article is based on an introduction speech on Africa given during the 2007 CWI Summer School, in Belgium, on 3 August. Readers can also find articles on the recent strikes in Nigeria and South Africa on www.socialistworld.net. Workers’ struggle and capitalist nightmare Economic ‘upswing’ offers no improvement for the masses Per-Ĺke Westerlund, CWI Sweden “Many features of this
A revolutionary fighter – What is Che’s relevance today? Tony Saunois, CWI “..it is not for revolutionaries to sit in their doorways of their houses waiting for the corpse of imperialism to pass by” (Second Declaration of Havana, 1962) “Shoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man”. These, according to some accounts, were the last words of defiance