For Struggle, Solidarity and Socialism in Nigeria
OTODO GBAME: Ambode/APC Government Renders Thousand Homeless on Behalf of Rich Property Tycoons By Chidinma Ibeh, DSM, Ajegunle The unfortunate and brutal invasion of the poor waterfront slum community of Otodo Gbame in Lekki by the Lagos state government has once again brought to light the plight of the poor against an insensitive government. It will be recalled that some
YOUTH UNEMPLOYMENT IN NIGERIA: A Ticking Time-Bomb By Wole Olubanji Protem Coordinator, Youth Rights Campaign (YRC) According to official statistics, and the latest data released by the nation’s Bureau of Statistics, over 28 million Nigerians are currently unemployed or underemployed. But what is more worrisome is that a large number of this unemployed population are young people between the age
4 YEARS AFTER PRIVATISATION, ELECTRICITY SUPPLY HAS GONE WORSE AMIDST EXTORTION OF CONSUMERS For Renationalisation of Electricity under Democratic Management and Control By Chinedu Bosah Almost 4 years into privatization of the power sector, electricity supply across the federation remains epileptic and the private power companies have shown lack of capacity to stabilize the sector let alone improve it. Besides,
ERGP: No Illusion in another Pro-Capitalist Agenda By Peluola Adewale To address the current economic crisis, one of the worst in the history of Nigeria, Buhari/Osinbajo government launched the Economic Recovery and Growth Plan (ERGP) in February 2017. The plan which covers a period between 2017 and 2020 has been presented by the government and many bourgeois economists to the
MINIMUIM WAGE: Strategy to Fight, Win and Force the Implementation For a mass workers’ political party to wrest political power from the capitalist vampires By Abbey Trotsky If the 2011 minimum wage amendment Act is anything to go by, the N18, 000 minimum wage signed into law on the 25th of March, 2011 by the President Goodluck Jonathan-led government should
BUHARI/OSINBAJO GOVERNMENT: Two Years of Broken Promises By H.T. Soweto Socially, economically and politically, Nigeria is faring worse than two years ago. Every segment of the polity reeks of crises and instability. Responsible for this calamitous state of affairs is no other factor than the neo-liberal capitalist policies of the Buhari/Osinbajo APC administration as much as that of previous administrations.
ACQUITTAL OF SARAKI BY CODE OF CONDUCT TRIBUNAL SHOWS THE LIMITATION OF CAPITALIST GOVERNMENT’S ANTI-CORRUPTION FIGHT After a long trial, the Code of Conduct Tribunal delivered a ruling on the No-case submission of the Defence Counsel of Senate President Bukola Saraki, which struck out all the charges filed against him. This has drawn the ire of layers of working masses
ONE MONTH 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 About one month ago, six secondary school students of Lagos State Model College, Igbonla-Epe, were kidnapped. Uptill now, there is no news of their release despite
May and Tories must go! After Britain’s election: Organise, strike, resist, to fight for Corbyn’s policies (Click to enlarge) By Hannah Sell, Socialist Party of England and Wales deputy general secretary. 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
RISING ETHNIC TENSION: Labour Must Act Urgently to Prevent Anarchy Only a programme of struggle can unite working people and youth across sectarian divide The Socialist Party of Nigeria (SPN) strongly condemns the 3-month ultimatum issued by a coalition of 16 so-called Northern youth groups to people of Igbo extraction to exit the North. This sort of sectarian and reactionary
ELECTRICITY CRISIS: AJEGUNLE RESIDENTS HOLD PROTEST REJECT OUTRAGEOUS BILLING AND DEMAND RENATIONALIZATION OF THE POWER INDUSTRY COMMUNITY RESOLVE TO CONTINUE THE CAMPAIGN UNTIL EKEDC ENDS OVERBILLING No Light, No Payment – photo DSM (Click to enlarge) By Fidel Davynovich, DSM Ajegunle Branch The No Payment for Darkness, No Disconnection campaign initiated last April by the Ajegunle, Lagos, branch of the
SPN Registration Case Adjourned Again Snail pace of the Judicial system helping to perpetuate INEC injustice against us By Peluola Adewale The long standing legal action of the Socialist Party of Nigeria (SPN) against the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) blocking its registration suffered another adjournment on Wednesday June 7. This was the 18th time since November 19 2014 when
Britain: Mobilise for a mass movement after 8 June (Click to enlarge) Editorial of the June 1 issue of the Socialist, paper of the Socialist Party in England and Wales The closing gap between Labour and the Conservatives (Tories) in the opinion polls for the June 8 general election has confounded all wings of the British capitalist establishment. The right
DSM CONDEMNS THE ARBITRARY CLOSURE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF IBADAN (UI) AND THE SUSPENSION OF THE STUDENTS’ UNION BY THE DESPOTIC PROF. OLAYINKA-LED MANAGEMENT. Workers Unions (ASUU, NASU, NAAT & SSANU) and Parents must condemn administrative highhandedness and attacks on democratic rights of students The Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM) University of Ibadan Branch condemns in totality the arbitrary closure of
Venezuela: The Constituent Assembly and tasks for revolutionaries Combat the counter-revolution with socialist, not capitalist policies Izquierda Revolucionaria and Socialismo Revolucionario (CWI in Venezuela) On 1 May, President Nicolas Maduro announced the calling of a Constituent Assembly, “to achieve peace the Republic needs…. to defeat the fascist coup… so that it will be the people and their sovereignty which impose
Jingo at 70 A Revolutionary and Committed Working Class Fighter Dipo Fashina – photo DSM (Click to enlarge) The Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM) joins other socialists, trade unionists, students and working class activists to celebrate Dr. Dipo Fashina on the occasion of his 70th birthday. We proudly celebrate Jingo as one of the best of his generation – a consistent
Two Years of Buhari Government is a Failure and characterized by Mass Suffering A call for a Mass Working Peoples’ Party This May 29 marks the second anniversary of Muhammadu Buhari-led government. For the working people, the last two years have been a monumental disaster wrought by the anti-poor capitalist policies of the government. So what the masses have bitterly
BUHARI/APC GOVERNMENT: TWO YEARS OF BROKEN PROMISES Anger will grow as well as the Search for Genuine Change By H.T Soweto Socially, economically and politically, Nigeria is faring worse than two years ago. Every segment of the polity reeks of crises and instability. Responsible for this calamitous state of affairs is no other factor than the neo-liberal capitalist policies of
Dagga Tolar re-elected as Chairman of Teachers’ Union in Ajegunle, Lagos By HT Soweto Dagga Tolar at a DSM meeting – photo DSM (Click to enlarge) Comrade Dagga Tolar (Segun Ajayi) has won re-election as Chairman of the Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT) in Ajeromi Ifelodun Local Government Lagos State. Another three positions were won by candidates of the Teachers
LAND GRAB IN JIGAWA STATE THREAT TO STRIP OVER 100,000 PEASANTS OF THEIR SOURCE OF LIVELIHOOD DSM CALLS ON AFFECTED FARMERS TO CONTINUE STRUGGLE UNTIL VICTORY The Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM) Northern Nigeria Chapter strongly condemns the attempt to strip over 100,000 peasants/small scale farmers of their source of livelihood by a Chinese company, known as Lee Group, with connivance