GAMBIA: Election stalls in a stalemate! An end to Jammeh rule will offer relief but not a permanent respite unless there is a break with capitalism Workers and poor masses must be united in a struggle for a socialist Gambia! By Abbey Trotsky The Gambia presidential election held on December 1, 2016, has ended up in a stalemate despite producing
LOOKING FOR A WORKING CLASS ALTERNATIVE TO THE BUHARI/APC CAPITALIST CRISIS? SUPPORT THE DSM APPEAL FOR DONATIONS TO CARRY ON OUR WORK We write to appeal for generous donations towards the running of the Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM) and our intervention in workers, students and poor masses’ struggles over the next three months. This include running of the secretariat, visit
RIVERS RERUN ELECTION By Chinedu Agbebire Nearly two years after the 2015 general election, the Rivers state legislative rerun election finally took place on December 10, 2016 with the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) winning two senatorial seats while the All Progressive Congress (APC) won one senatorial seat amidst the usual Nigeria election features such as killing, maiming, ballot snatching, shooting,
Fidel Castro and the Cuban Revolution Reports of activities of DSM/ERC branches commemorating the death of Fidel Castro Following the death of Fidel Castro at the age of 90 on November 25, 2016, there has been a renewed attempt to denigrate Fidel Castro and consequently the Cuban revolution and socialist ideas in general by pro-capitalist western media. There has been
ERC CONDEMNS POLICE VIOLENT ATTACK ON LAUTECH STUDENTS’ PEACEFUL PROTEST Aregbesola and Ajimobi are to be Blamed for the Crisis in LAUTECH The Education Rights Campaign (ERC) strongly condemns last Friday’s (9th December 2016) violent attack unleashed by armed police on protesting students of the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH), Ogbomosho. We condemn the police for this violent attack.
AFTER ONDO STATE ELECTION: WHAT NEXT FOR THE WORKING PEOPLE? Owoyomi Damilola Owot SPN Ondo State Amidst the economic recession viz-a-viz non-payment of 7-month salaries, Ondo State people went to poll to decide who would govern the state for the next 4 years. The gubernatorial election, beleaguered from inception by all kinds of crises and contradictions, came up on the
Three day nationwide strike shuts down Sudan in unique defiance of Al-Bashir’s rule Escalation of the struggle needed to overthrow repressive regime Serge Jordan, Committee for a Workers International The streets and public squares of Sudan’s major cities were left looking deserted from their usual traffic and pedestrian frenzy as the country was shaken by three days of “civil disobedience”
Fidel Castro, leader of 1959 revolution, dies at 90 Castro’s life and the Cuban Revolution Tony Saunois, Committee for a Workers’ International Millions of workers and youth in Cuba and globally will mourn the passing of the leader, who along with Che Guevara, is most closely associated with the 1959 Cuban Revolution. At the same time, the forces of capitalist
ERC SUPPORTS ASUU’S WARNING STRIKE OVER NON-IMPLEMENTATION OF 2009 AGREEMENT CALLS FOR DEMOCRATIC MANAGEMENT OF UNIVERSITIES FOR A JOINT ACTION OF EDUCATION WORKERS AND STUDENTS The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) is holding a week long warning strike that started on Wednesday, November 16, over the failure of the federal government to honour its aspects of the FGN-ASUU 2009
SACK OF 16 NLC AND NUT LEADERS IN OGUN STATE IS A DISPLAY OF EXECUTIVE RECKLESSNESS BY GOV. AMOSUN’S
SACK OF 16 NLC AND NUT LEADERS IN OGUN STATE IS A DISPLAY OF EXECUTIVE RECKLESSNESS BY GOV. AMOSUN’S GOVERNMENT DSM DEMANDS IMMEDIATE AND UNCONDITIONAL RECALL OF THE SACKED LEADERS AND MEETING OF WORKERS’ DEMANDS The decision of the Governor Ibikunle Amosun-led government of Ogun state to dismiss the chairman of the Ogun state Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) Mr. Akeem
ERC CALLS FOR IMPROVED BUDGETARY ALLOCATION TO PUBLIC EDUCATION Report of the Closing Ceremony of the 2016 ERC Free Holiday Coaching By ERC Reporter, Ajegunle After six weeks of intensive teaching by a committed team of volunteer teachers, the eleventh edition of the Education Rights Campaign (ERC) free holiday coaching organized for indigent secondary school students in the Ajegunle community
REPRESSIVE STATE POLICY TRIGGERS ATTACKS ON SHIITES BY ARMED SECURITY OPERATIVES AND IRATE YOUTHS By Wole Olubanji The Shiites, members of Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN), were yet victims of another state-triggered and possibly state-sponsored attack, on Wednesday, 12th October 2016. The Kaduna-State government had banned the IMN in the evening of Friday, 7th October, 2016; eleven days before these
VICTIMISATION OF UNIONISTS AND ATTACKS ON DEMOCRATIC RIGHTS IN FEDERAL COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE A Call for Solidarity Action By Abbey Trotsky, Coordinator CDWR, Oyo State Since Monday 15th August, 2016, four leaders of the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP) at rhe Federal College of Agriculture (FCA) Moor Plantation, Ibadan Chapter have been placed on an indefinite suspension without pay
CRISES OF PUBLIC EDUCATION IN THE ERA OF ECONOMIC RECESSION By F.A. Kafu, ERC, UI Branch Last year, many Nigerians had their hopes raised that change had come with the coming to power of Muhammadu Buhari APC-led administration. Now it is clear that Nigeria’s economy can never be restructured in favour of ordinary Nigerians by the Buhari/APC administration because it
LAUTECH CRISIS: We Condemn Attack on Osun Indigenes For Immediate Payment of Workers’ Salaries and Re-opening of the University By Chinedu Bosah, National Secretary, SPN Campaign for Democratic and Workers’ Rights (CDWR) condemns in its entirety the attack on Osun State indigenes working at Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH), Ogbomoso, Oyo State; a University jointly owned by the governments
STOP DEMOLITION OF HOUSES IN ABUJA Govt Should Pay Adequate Compensation and Build Mass, Decent and Affordable Houses By Dimeji Macaulay, Secretary, SPN, FCT Chapter The Socialist Party of Nigeria (SPN) Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Chapter condemn in strong terms the continued demolition of houses, attaché and garden by the Abuja Development Plan, an agency under the Federal Capital Territory
SYRIA: Horror Deepens in Aleppo No Solution on Basis of Imperialism, Capitalism and Landlordism By Sami El-Sayed, Socialist Party (CWI in Ireland) Over the past five years, Syria has endured a civil war of terrible brutality and human suffering. It is partly a sectarian conflict, fueled by outside European, US and Russian powers, all vying for influence in the region.
US: ‘Lesser Evilism’ No Solution Change Through Mass Struggle – A New Party Should Act as an Organizer and for Solidarity By Patrick Ayers and Ty Moore, Socialist Alternative (CWI supporters in US) With the presidential race entering the final lap, panic is setting in as Hillary Clinton fails to pull ahead of Donald Trump in the polls. In a
ELECTRICITY CRISIS: Discos Offer No Respite For Power Consumers Scandalous Efforts to Frustrate Victorious Court Judgment Against Tariff Hike Must be Resisted by Mass Actions By Ayo Ademiluyi Despite the landmark judgment delivered by Justice Muhammed Idris of the Federal High Court, sitting in Lagos nullifying the electricity tariff hike unjustly and illegally imposed by the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission
CRIN IBADAN: 95 Sacked Workers Reinstated After Three Years of Struggle Lessons and the Relevance to the Labour Movement By Abbey Trotsky The 95 workers of the Cocoa Research Institute of Nigeria, CRIN, Ibadan, who were arbitrarily sacked in one fell swoop by the former Prof. Akoroda-led administration, on the 24th of January, 2013, for participating in an industrial action