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ERC BACKS ASUU’s TOTAL AND INDEFINITE STRIKE CALLS ON THE BUHARI/OSINBAJO GOVERNMENT TO IMMEDIATLEY MEET THE DEMANDS The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has once again embarked on a total and indefinite nationwide strike. The Education Rights Campaign (ERC) fully backs this indefinite strike action and calls on government to immediately meet the demands in order to avoid a
As Buhari’s Anti-Corruption War Grinds to a Halt: Only Socialist Programme Can End Corruption By Kola Ibrahim One of the cardinal campaign agenda points of the Buhari/All Progressives Congress (APC) is the fight against corruption. Indeed, Buhari was elected on the basis of his assumed integrity and anti-corruption credential. However, two years on, the anti-corruption war has unraveled with government
RESTRUCTURING NIGERIA: The Roles of Nigerian Youth in National Rebirth No doubt, given the present parlous state of the country politically, socially and economically, it will be agreed by all that Nigeria needs an urgent restructuring. However, what we must understand is that restructuring itself is not a new idea in the history of Nigeria. Before now in Nigeria, we
Aregbesola Government Owes Workers and Pensioners The Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM), Osun State, hereby condemns the statement widely credited to the Governor of Osun State, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, to the effect that the government he is leading does not owe workers and pensioners. This statement is, at best, unfortunate coming from the governor of the state. We suspect that the
RESIDENTS OF AJAO ESTATE SAYS ISSUE PREPAID METER OR NO DISCONNECTION By Fidel Davynovich People of Ajao Estate, Lagos, on Sunday 18 June, 2017 held a Town Hall meeting to deliberate the crazy billing issued to them by Ikeja Distribution Company, and for them to agitate for no disconnection in the Estate. Groups and organizations which have helped organize people
YRC CALLS FOR INCREASE IN PAY AND REGULARIZATION OF EMPLOYMENT OF N-POWER VOLUNTEERS The Youth Rights Campaign (YRC) hereby calls for an increase in the pay of N-Power volunteers as well as improvement in their working conditions. This should start with increasing the monthly allowance of the volunteers from the current N30, 000 and the regularization of their employment unlike
CWI/IR unification: An historic strengthening of the forces of Marxism 22 July unification congress unanimously approves unification document and incorporation of IR into CWI As has been reported on the Committee for a Workers’ International (CWI) website, the CWI and Izquierda Revolucionaria (IR, Revolutionary Left) held a special unification congress on 22 July in Barcelona. This was the culmination of
LOCAL GOVERNMENT AUTONOMY CANNOT AUTOMATICALLY GUARANTEE DEVELOPMENTS The Socialist Party of Nigeria (SPN) supports the demand and agitation for autonomy for local governments. We however warn that the autonomy will not automatically engender development at the grassroots level except it comes by putting into power a workers and poor people’s government devoted to utilizing public resources to meet the needs
IN MEMORY OF BILLY BRIGHT ANOKWURU (1948 – 2010) “Every man’s life ends the same way. It’s only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another”– Ernest Hemingway. By Rufus Olusesan National Chairman, Campaign For Democratic and Workers’ Rights (CDWR) Like a thief in the night, like a candle in the wind,
LETTER TO THE EDITOR Who is to Blame for Incessant Strikes of Workers? Thirty-five year old Opeyemi Sonekan (not real name) was very heavy and in labour pains. She registered for anti-natal care at the government owned hospital in an urban city of Lagos State. It was her first pregnancy. The expectant mother was optimistic, hoping for a safe delivery.
EDUCATION SECTOR: Strike and Mass Struggle Imminent For a summit of all unions in the education sector to work out a plan of action By Michael Lenin Secretary, DSM OAU Branch The education sector continues to become an object of lamentation and pain to students and workers owing to its decadent state. Unarguably, other sectors are in similar ruin, but
LAUTECH: A Citadel Bedevilled With Crisis of Underfunding and Corruption The Task Before Students, Workers and Parents Towards a Permanent Solution By Alawode Motunrayo DSM LAUTECH Branch The academic activities in Ladoke Akintola University (LAUTECH), Ogbomoso, have been on and off for the past three years, with students shut out of the campus for six months, sometimes more than that,
RUSSIAN REVOLUTION JULY 1917: The Bolsheviks “Become A Power” By Vincent Kolo chinaworker.info (CWI in China, Hong Kong and Taiwan) Just over a century ago this July, 500,000 workers and soldiers marched through the Russian capital Petrograd, with tens of thousands joining marches in Moscow, Kiev and other cities. The demonstrations on 1 July (18 June according to Russia’s old
SOUTHERN CAMEROON CRISIS: The Working People Must Give the Lead By Dimeji Macaulay The media have recently beamed light on the rising secessionist movement in the Southern Cameroon and the rottenness of Paul Biya’s regime. The crisis in South Cameroon is one of the examples of rising developments of self-determination movements in Africa and many parts of the world. But
BRITAIN: Tories in Tatters Corbyn Proved Anti-Austerity Ideas Popular From the Socialist Party of England and Wales website. Theresa May’s failed election gamble is a nightmare for the capitalist class in Britain. Seven weeks ago most of Britain’s elite were hopeful that May would succeed in dramatically increasing the number of Tory MPs, thereby buttressing her government to be able
OSUN WEST BYE-ELECTION: An indicting Verdict on Anti-Poor Aregbesola Govt. PDP is no better alternative; we need a new mass party of the working and poor people By Kola Ibrahim, Secretary, SPN, Osun State The result of the recently held Osun West Senatorial By-Election is, in a way, an indicting referendum on the Aregbesola government; its policies, politics, corruption and
BIAFRA 50 YEARS AFTER: Socialists and the Struggle for Self-Determination By Chinedu Agbebire After 50 years of civil war which consumed nothing less than 3 million lives and properties worth billions of naira, the agitation for a sovereign state of Biafra has resumed with much vigor and echo. This campaign with its consequent tension was heightened on June 7, 2017
6 WEEKS AFTER, SIX STUDENTS OF LAGOS STATE MODEL COLLEGE CONTINUE TO LANGUISH IN KIDNAPPERS’ DEN ERC Demands their Immediate Rescue Calls for policies to address the social roots of kidnapping and other crimes By Nurudeen Omomeewa, ERC, Lagos State Coordinator On 25 May 2017six secondary school students of Lagos State Model College, Igbonla-Epe, were kidnapped from their dormitories. As
DOCK WORKERS FIGHT FOR THEIR 10 YEARS UNPAID WAGES; TAKE ENL TO COURT By Fidel Davinovich, DSM Ajegunle Dockworkers employed by ENL Consortium Limited, operators of terminal C and D have been on protest since March 2016 over unpaid time related wages between 2008 and 2016 as agreed collectively by the industry. ENL is one of the terminal operators after
DANGOTE GOT HIS WEALTH FROM EXPLOITATION OF WORKERS LIKE ME – SAYS IBRAHIM ABUBAKAR, FORMER EMPLOYEE AT DANGOTE CEMENT PLC. Ibrahim Abubakar was a truck officer with Dangote Cement PLC until about 5 months ago. On the morning of 4 February 2017, Abubakar and 800 other truck officers were sacked in breach of their contracts. Since then, they have organized