For Struggle, Solidarity and Socialism in Nigeria
GOVERNMENT MUST MEET THE DEMANDS OF LASU STUDENTS ON FEE REDUCTION! For united action and solidarity protests involving staff unions and students union The Education Rights Campaign (ERC) expresses its unflinching solidarity with the ongoing mass occupation undertaken by the Students’ Union of Lagos State University at the Governor’s office. We call on the All Progressive Party (APC) controlled Lagos
10th anniversary By Peluola Adewale Rotimi, photo by DSM We are republishing this obituary to mark the 10th anniversary of the death of Rotimi Ewebiyi who played a key political and organisational role in the building the DSM during the military dictatorship and the first years of civilian rule. RE is dead! It is shocking and heart-rending. This is a
ERC condemns arrest and arraignment of LASU students Continue protests until the fees are reversed The Education Rights Campaign condemns the arrest and arraignment of eight students of Lagos State University (LASU) following the protest led by the Students Union on Tuesday, June 3, 2014 along Oshodi end of Lagos-Ibadan expressway. We also welcome the steadfastness of the students in
ERC condemns Police Repression of Protesting LASU Students Reverse the Fees Now! The Education Rights Campaign (ERC) condemns the assault on protesting students of Lagos State University (LASU) by the police in Lagos on Tuesday June 3, 2014 on the order of the Lagos State Government. The students in their hundreds led by the Students’ Union executive continued their peaceful
Increase in Electricity Tariff is Callous and Shameful We call on NLC, TUC, NUEE, SSAEC, etc to declare 24-hour strike and protests The Socialist Party of Nigeria (SPN) condemns in absolute terms the latest obnoxious hike in electricity tariffs by the government in collusion with the private owners of electricity companies. According to the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC), a
Strike in Osun tertiary Institutions: Aregbesola Govt. should Accede to Demands of Striking Workers We condemn the strong-arm tactics of the government We call of striking workers and students to organize united protests The Education Rights Campaign (ERC), Osun State Chapter, condemns the indifferent attitude of the Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola-led Osun State government to the ongoing strike of the teaching
PLAN TO HIKE FEES IN OAU: ERC Says NO Education Rights Campaign press statement Over the past few days, the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU) Ile Ife has been agog with agitations and protests by students over plans by the Management to hike fees in the University. According to the details of the plan, the hike will affect mainly fresh students
OAU Students protest against obnoxious fee hike By Sogo Oladele DSM OAU Branch OAU Students Protest March to Ife town, photo by DSM Students of the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife, numbering over 5, 000, trooped out on 20 May 2014 to protest the astronomical increment of fresh students’ fee from N17,000 to about N80,000, (excluding the acceptance fee of
Reject Planned Fee Increase in OAU Student Union Should Call an Immediate Congress Mass Actions Including Protests, Rallies, Media Campaign Should be Organized ASUU, SSANU, NASU, NAAT and Alumni Association Should Reject the Fees The Education Rights Campaign (ERC) hereby totally rejects the planned fee increment by management of Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife. We call on Nigerian students, especially
ASUU NDC 2014 ERC Salutes ASUU for Championing the Struggle to Save the Public University System from Collapse The Education Rights Campaign (ERC) warmly welcomes the leadership and members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to this year’s edition of the biennial National Delegate Conference of the union. No doubt ASUU has demonstrated how the rest of the
Electricity Workers Union Pickets DISCOS over Pension, Retrenchment and Attacks on Union Right Electricity Privatisation must be reversed! For a Day of General Strike and Mass Protest By Dimeji Macaulay Protest March, photo DSM The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and National Union of Electricity Employees (NUEE), in conjunction with Joint Action Front (JAF), on Thursday May 8, 2014 picketed the
ABDUCTED GIRLS: WE SAY NO TO IMPERIALIST INTERVENTION! NLC and TUC must mobilize mass protests and one-day general strike against terrorist attacks on poor working masses, students & youths, joblessness, poverty wages etc Socialist Party of Nigeria press statement May 13, 2014 We of the Socialist Party of Nigeria (SPN) wholeheartedly welcome the campaigns for the return of the abducted
ASUP, COEASU AND ERC PROTEST REPRESSED BY POLICE More Actions Needed To Win the Struggle Dimeji Macaulay Hassan Taiwo Soweto, ERC National Coordinator, addressing ASUP, COEASU and ERC protest rally, photo DSM Members of the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP), the Colleges of Education Academic Staff Union (COEASU) and the Education Rights Campaign (ERC) with hundreds of students led
CHIBOK GIRLS ABDUCTION Can Solution to Boko Haram Insurgency Be Found Under Capitalism? By Hassan Taiwo Soweto The abduction on April 14 by Boko Haram of over 200 girls from a public secondary school in Chibok – a small town in Borno State – has sparked global outrage. Widespread condemnation has come from far and near and almost the entire
May Day 2014: A Story of Compromised Labour Leadership, Clampdown on Democratic Rights and Independent Actions by Workers and Youths DSM Members Circulate over 20,000 Leaflets By Peluola Adewale Protest against LASU Fees at 2014 Lagos May Day Rally, photo by DSM The cozy relationship between the Labour leadership and government has never been this deep. While this has always
Socialist Party of Nigeria Press Statement We Reject Fuel Price Increase We call on NLC and TUC to Declare A ‘Day of Mass Mobilization’ with 24-hour Warning Strike The Socialist Party of Nigeria (SPN) strongly rejects any attempt of governments at all levels to increase the pump price of petrol under the guise of removing fuel subsidy. According to newspaper
MAYDAY 2014: WHERE NOW FOR THE LABOUR MOVEMENT IN NIGERIA? FOR 24 HOUR GENERAL STRIKE NOW! Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM) May Day Statement This year’s May Day celebration provides another opportunity to review the state of the Nigerian workers’ movement vis-Å•-vis the continuing multiple crises afflicting the country and the urgent need for it to lead all the oppressed sections
Education Rights Campaign Press Statement ERC CONDEMNS POLICE ATTACK ON ASUP AND COEASU PROTEST MARCH IN ABUJA Nigerians Must Rise to Resist President Jonathan’s Nascent Dictatorship Protests Must Continue Until the Demands of ASUP and COEASU are Met On Tuesday 29 April 2014, members of the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnic (ASUP), Colleges of Education Academic Staff Union (COEASU), Education
Resolution on World Relations Introduction Kola Ibrahim leading discussion on world relations at the DSM NC April 2014 , photo DSM Since the last Congress of this organization, global capitalist relations have continued to show that the only guarantee capitalism can offer humanity is barbarism. More than ever before, working and poor people are compelled to search desperately for solutions
National Committee (NC) Meeting, April 2014 Resolution on Nigeria’s Political and Economic Situation Introduction Segun Sango, General Secretary DSM at the DSM NC April 2014 , photo DSM Six months after the last Congress of our organization, the reality of the bankruptcy of Nigerian capitalist class has become starker than we moderately foresaw. Politically, economically and socially, the Nigerian neo-colonial