NLC Anti-privatization Protest Protest again Highlights Labour’s Weak Resistance to Government Anti-poor Policies By Peluola Adewale NLC Anti-privatization Protest – photo DSM Protesting intensified attacks on the living conditions of Nigerians by Jonathan government, the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and Trade Union Congress (TUC) organized a rally on Thursday September 22 in Abuja, Nigeria’s Federal capital. The protest march tagged
DSM National Committee Meet to Discuss and Organize For a Socialist Alternative Segun Sango giving lead-off on Nigeria – photo DSM On Saturday 17 and Sunday 18 September 2011, the National Committee (NC) of the Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM) – CWI Nigeria – met in Lagos. The purpose of this NC meeting, as DSM General Secretary Segun Sango said when
ASUU BEGINS ONE-WEEK WARNING STRIKE For a joint struggle of education workers, students and the working masses The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) began a one-week warning strike on Monday 26 September 2011. The warning strike of ASUU is in protest against the refusal of the Federal government to fully implement the 2009 FGN/ASUU agreement. This agreement, which among
BOMBING OF UNITED NATIONS’ BUILDING Terrorism Takes Root in Nigeria Amidst Deep Social and Economic Crisis (By H.T. Soweto) On Friday 26 August 2011, Nigerians were thrown into panic as a suicide bomber rammed a car laden with deadly explosives through two security barriers into the reception area of the office of the United Nations in Nigeria’s capital city of
AJEGUNLE ERC HOLDS 2011 FREE HOLIDAY COACHING By Ho2 Moshood The Ajegunle, Lagos, branch of the Education Rights Campaign (ERC) has concluded its 2011 free holiday coaching. The ERC is a campaign initiated by the Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM) – CWI Nigeria – since 2004 to campaign against education underfunding, fee hikes and for provision of free and functional education
OAU: STUDENTS LET DOWN BY NEW VC Urgent Necessity To Take The Struggle To A New Level By Adewale Stephen On September 6, 2011, the new Vice Chancellor, Prof. Tale Omole, of the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU) Ile Ife called for an interactive session with students at the University Afrika Amphi-Theatre. While thousands of expectant and anxious students thought the
MASS FAILURE IN 2011 UTME AND 2011 WASSCE Urgent Mass Actions Needed To Save Public Education By H.T. Soweto That education in Nigeria is collapsing is hardly debatable. The mass failure in UTME and WAEC says it all. On Friday 24 June 2011, the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) released the results of the 2011 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination
FOI: Beyond Illusions By Lanre Arogundade The authors of the freedom of or access to information law conceive it as a potent anti-corruption weapon in capitalist democracies. In Nigeria, successive years of corrupt rule by the military and civilians, gave actual impetus to the FOI idea and made it popular among different layers of society. Its principal proponents were however
Deregistration of 7 Political Parties by INEC is undemocratic By Bosah Chinedu The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), relying on section 78 of the electoral Act, has recently deregistered 7 political parties on the grounds of not fielding candidates at the last general elections let alone winning a seat at the parliament or any executive position. Section 78 of the
THE GREEK CRISIS By Victor Osakwe While the bulk of the world’s capitalist economies are in crisis, the Greek economy is in one of the most severe situations of all. Greece, with a population of 12 million, is facing an economic crisis that makes the government unable to pay a debt owed to big banks and other creditors. It borrowed
TUNISIA: After Ben Ali’s Ouster: Big Mood for a Second Revolution At the recent Summer School of the Committee for a Workers’ International (CWI) held in Belgium H.T Soweto (DSM, CWI) spoke with three comrades of CWI in Tunisia on the current situation of the revolution in the country which set alight the entire Arab world and now Israel with
LYBYA: After Gaddafi – Stop the Revolution’s Derailment – Independent Workers’ Action Needed! By Robert Bechert, Committee for a Workers’ International (CWI) Almost every day there are warning signs of the dark shadows that NATO’s intervention has thrown over the Libyan revolution. In a country with hardly any tradition, so far, of a workers’ movement, the distorting effects and dangers
ZARTECH Workers Agitate For Improved Welfare Conditions As They Seek To Change Their Union Affiliati
ZARTECH Workers Agitate For Improved Welfare Conditions As They Seek To Change Their Union Affiliation By Abbey Trotsky The determination to keep the fight for improved living and working condition alive has been demonstrated by workers in ZARTECH Nigeria limited, Oluyole, Ibadan with their ongoing agitation to change their union affiliation from the Agricultural and Allied Employees Union of Nigeria
DANGOTE PASTA SACKS 250 WORKERS FOR JOINING UNION CDWR Demands Unconditional Reinstatement of All Workers and the Respect of Their Rights to Unionise By Victor Osakwe, Secretary, CDWR For over one year now the inalienable rights of workers to freely associate has been brutally attacked by the management of Dangote Pasta Plant Ikorodu, a company owned by Aliko Dangote, the
FLOODS: Consequences of Lack of Planning By Bosah Chinedu The downpour across the country and its attendant flood has continued to leave behind loss of billions of naira worth of properties, deaths and homelessness. Floods are the Nigeria’s tsunami or hurricane, even though it could have been avoided if society was well planned. The states which are the worst affected
THE STRUGGLE FOR N18,000 MINIMUM WAGE For A Two-Day General Strike Now! No To Retrenchment of Workers By H.T. Soweto The current administration had hardly been inaugurated when workers were set on a warpath with the Federal and state governments over the implementation of the N18,000 new National Minimum Wage. Especially in the public sector, strike activities involving tens of
ROBBERY UNDER THE GUISE OF PRIVATISATION Labour Should Immediately Pull Out of Privatisation Council Now and Champion a Clear Pro-Working People Alternative By Peluola Adewale Just as obtained in the power probe by the House of Representatives in 2008, Nigerians have been treated to a reality show of monumental frauds and daylight robbery perpetrated in the name of privatization exercise.
GOODLUCK JONATHAN FULL TERM PRESIDENCY: Can the Economy and Policy Get Better? To his bourgeois promoters plus also the few elements who wrongfully have hope in him, Goodluck Jonathan is a God-sent president to effect Nigeria’s socio-economic “transformation”. He is the only politician, who became a governor and then later president within a period of 5 years, without ever having
OYO STATE MINIMUM WAGE STRUGGLE: AN IMPRESSIVE DISPLAY OF WORKERS POWER! more coordinated mass actions could have won implementation of the N18000 minimum wage By Biodun Bamgboye Abbey Trotsky addressing striking workers in Ibadan, Oyo state – photo DSM It was in Oyo state that the struggle for the implementation of the N18,000 minimum recorded the first impressive display of
GOODLUCK JONATHAN FULL TERM PRESIDENCY: CAN THE ECONOMY AND POLITY GET BETTER? Segun Sango, DSM General Secretary To his bourgeois promoters plus also the few elements who genuinely but wrongfully have hopes in him, Goodluck Jonathan is a God-sent president to effect Nigeria’s socio-economic “transformation”. Proof – he is the only politician, who became a governor and then later president