For Struggle, Solidarity and Socialism in Nigeria
Lagos Teachers angry over Strike Suspension Call On the NUT Leaders to Take Further Actions The shameful calling-off of the strike action by the Lagos state leadership of Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT) was greeted with anger from the rank and file teachers in the state. The 3-week strike was called off without securing any reasonable commitment from the state
Campaign for Democratic and Workers’ Rights (CDWR) Free 24 Activists in Osun Now! The Campaign for Democratic and Workers’ Rights (CDWR) condemn the unjust detention of twenty four (24) pro-democracy activists by the Osun State government in collusion with the judiciary and the police command, and demand their immediate release. On Monday March 23, 2009, Magistrate Olalekan Ijiyode of the
Osun Teachers’ Strike: DSM Commends Teachers For Immediate implementation of the TSS now! The Democratic Socialist Movement, Osun State Chapter commends teachers in Osun State, under the umbrella of Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT), for embarking on dogged struggle for the defence of their economic rights, vis-Å•-vis the implementation of the Teachers Salary Scale (TSS) which various state governments had
OSBC: Ojingolo wins DSM Member Secure Victory in a Workplace Victimization Case A member of the Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM) in Osun State, Tajudeen Oyeniyi popularly known as Ojingolo, has won a major victory in a case of official victimization at his workplace, Osun State Broadcasting Corporation (OSBC). After over four months of victimization through unwarranted demotion and dehumanization, he
TSS: Teachers Need Mass Action to Win the Struggle Students in primary and secondary schools in most states in Nigeria have been at home for over three weeks. This is as a result of the industrial action embarked upon by the Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT) over the non-implementation of agreement on 27.5% pay rise also known as Teachers Salary
THE NEW MINIMUM WAGE: HOW TO FIGHT AND WIN Apparently to underline its commitment to secure a new minimum wage for workers, the National Executive Council of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), on March 10, issued a 21-day ultimatum to the government “to open discussion with it on the proposed N52,200 new minimum wage”. Members of the Democratic Socialist Movement
LABOUR MUST SAY: UNCONDITIONAL NO TO DEREGULATION AND PRIVATISATION OF THE OIL SECTOR For clearly over two decades now a combination of international capitalist forces (particularly oil corporations and cartels) and their Nigerian pro-imperialist, capitalist backers have been waging a protracted, and sometimes ferocious war, with the labour movement in order to put oil, the mainstay of the Nigeria’s economy,
CDWR Calls for Significant Reduction in Prices of Petroleum Products By Rufus Olusesan, Chairman CDWR The Campaign for Democratic and Workers Rights (CDWR) considers the removal of N5 from the pump price of petrol, which hitherto was N70, as insulting tokenism. The poor working masses of Nigeria, whose appalling living conditions caused by the anti-poor, neo-liberal programme have been worsened