For Struggle, Solidarity and Socialism in Nigeria
LABOUR’S DEMAND FOR FIFTY TWO THOUSAND TWO HUNDRED NAIRA MINIMUM WAGE The Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM) enthusiastically and wholeheartedly welcomes and supports the demand of the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) for a new minimum wage of N52, 200 across the country. However, we wish to urge the NLC leaders, right from the beginning, to emphasise that the new minimum wage
OAU: STRUGGLE FOR REINSTATEMENT CONTINUES Peaceful protest billed for January 12 In furtherance of the struggle for the recall of 10 victimized student activists at the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife, the Students’ Union organized a symposium on Thursday 11 December 2008. The symposium held at the Afrika-Amphitheatre was part of the orientation program for fresh students. The theme of
2009 Budget: Poor Working Masses are in for Worse Living Conditions For the poor working masses, as usual, there is nothing to cheer at in the proposed 2009 Budget recently presented by President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua. The woe of poor Nigerians has in fact been compounded by the global economic meltdown which has expectedly taken its toll on the oil
CAMPAIGN FOR THE RECALL OF 10 STUDENT ACTIVISTS IN OAU A call for protest letters Below is a leaflet issued by the Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM) and the Education Rights Campaign (ERC) on the continued victimization of 10 student activists at the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife. The student activists have been suspended from the university for over a year
The Jos mayhem: Characteristic of a failed state Only working class solution can hold Nigeria together in harmony and peace The Jos mayhem that has claimed about 400 lives and several million naira worth of property and displaced about 500 people from their houses is a big tragedy for the poor working masses of the city. Yet again calamity has
POLITICAL AWAKENING PROPELS OBAMA TO VICTORY: But Can He Deliver? Ty Moore (Minneapolis) and Tony Wilsdon (Tacoma), Socialist Alternative (the DSM’s CWI sister organisation in USA) On Tuesday, voters delivered a decisive, historic defeat to the Republican agenda of corporate greed, corruption, and war. While the total voter turnout remains unclear, experts are estimating up to 64% of eligible voters
DSM SOCIALIST SCHOOL 2008: DEEPENING SOCIALIST IDEAS IN A PERIOD WHEN CAPITALISM IS IN CRISIS (By Peluola Adewale) The DSM’s Socialist School 2008 proved to be a great success in advancing the political understanding and commitment of both old comrades and new recruits. Significantly, the school held, between Saturday October 4 and Sunday October 5, was largely dominated by individuals
‘THE PEOPLE’S PEDAGOGUE’ PROF. OMOTOYE OLORODE RETIRES WITH STYLE Called For Reinstatement Of Victimised Students Activists On Saturday November 15 2008, lecturers, non teaching staff members, representatives of labour and pro-masses organizations as well as students gathered at the Oduduwa hall of the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU) to celebrate the retirement of Prof. Omotoye Olorode-a lecturer of Botany at the
UI: Agitation For Restoration Of Independent Unionism Gain Momentum (By H.T. Soweto, National Coordinator, ERC) About 7 years ago, the Prof. Falase-led Authorities of the University of Ibadan (U.I) banned the Student Union of the University after ceaseless challenge of the mass of students to the authorities’ control of their affairs. In the process, members of the then Union executive
BRT: A MODERN TRANSPORTATION WHERE WORKERS TOIL IN SLAVERY CONDITIONS Management Forced to Grant Some Concession (By Bosah Chinedu) The Bus Rapid Transport (BRT) system in Lagos is a road transportation scheme that has two separate entities popularly known as LAMATA and Lagbus. It is one scheme that has earned the Lagos State government some popularity even when it has
LAGOS STATE LOCAL COUNCIL ELECTION: A Bad Signal Of What To Expect In Year 2011 On October 11, 2008, the Action Congress (AC) controlled government of Lagos State finally held its own version of local council elections. In all its ramifications, the entire exercise, both in conducts and outcome was a big farce. As the third largest ruling party, which
GLOBAL ECONOMIC MAELSTROM: How Safe is Nigeria? (By Peluola Adewale) Capitalism is in deep crisis. Some have called it Armageddon. But by whatever name it is called, the global financial crisis has melt down the neo-liberal orthodoxy of capitalism. At present, the global financial maelstrom triggered by casino capitalism is raging like tsunami from one end of the earth to
OSHIOMHOLE: A Deserved Victory For The Working Masses, But Challenges Lie Ahead For the first time since November 4, Barrack Obama was eased out of front pages of Nigerian newspapers by the November 11 Court of Appeal unanimous affirmation of Adams Oshiomhole’s victory as the Governor of Edo State, South-South Nigeria. To the poor working masses of Edo, the emergence
Global Capitalist Crisis and the Task Facing the Working People Greater hard times are here for real. Inherently greedy and corrupt, capitalism has once again plunged the world economy and its people into an insoluble socio-economic crisis. Way back in 1989 and early 1990s, the economies of the Soviet Union and many others that were based on central planning but
OSHIOMOLE: A DESERVED VICTORY FOR THE WORKING MASSES, BUT CHALLENGES LIE AHEAD A SPECIAL STATEMENT BY THE DSM ON THE COURT VERDICT & SWEARING IN OF ADAMS OSHIOMOLE AS GOVERNOR OF EDO STATE The Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM) congratulates the poor working masses of Edo State on the swearing-in of Adams Oshiomhole as the Governor of the state following last
Nigeria’s Foreign Reserve: How Safe? By Peluola Adewale, Democratic Socialist Movement, Lagos At present, Nigeria’s external reserves, put currently at $63bn, are placed at the disposal of global financial sharks to gamble with, while there are monumental developmental challenges facing the country which require the injection of huge resources. Global capitalism is now in the midstream of financial meltdown. In
IF OBAMA WINS Looking beyond the hope bubble – a Nigerian view on the US Presidential elections By Taiwo Hassan Soweto, Democratic Socialist Movement (CWI in Nigeria) Americans have a decision to make on November 4, when the US presidential election is to be held. Evidently, Barack Obama’s candidature and campaign for the presidential seat has become a global phenomenon,
DSM Socialist School 2008: Deepening Socialist ideas in a period when capitalism is in crisis Peluola Adewale The DSM’s Socialist School 2008 proved to be a great success in advancing the political understanding and commitment of both established DSM comrades and new recruits. Significantly, the School held between Saturday October 4 and Sunday October 5, was largely dominated by individuals
Socialists and civil rights activists protest Channels TV closure Peluola Adewale, Democratic Socialist Movement, Lagos Channel TV protest Friday, September 20, saw socialist and civil society activists picket the National Broadcasting Commission’s office in Lagos in protest at the government’s summary closure of the Channels TV station. The march on the NBC, which was organized by the Democratic Socialist Movement
World economy Capitalist crisis Karl Marx was right Editorial from September 19 edition of The Socialist, weekly paper of the Socialist Party, CWI in England and Wales, and, at the end, comments by a prominent US economist who has come to the same conclusions, albeit from a capitalist standpoint, as the CWI regarding the crisis of the world economy. “It