Day: June 8, 2018

INTENSIFY THE STRUGGLE AGAINST CRAZY BILLING AND PLANNED ELECTRICITY TARIFF HIKE By M.A. Shoyombo The Coalition for Affordable and Regular Electricity (CARE) – formed by Socialists and community activists – is opposed to any arrangement that will lead to increase in electricity tariff in order to accommodate the greedy interest of the power sector companies that have woefully failed in

A CALL FOR COLLABORATION TO BUILD THE SOCIALIST PARTY OF NIGERIA (SPN) An Open Letter to Trade Unions, CSOs and Change-Seeking Individuals By Chinedu Bosah, SPN National Secretary The formation of the Socialist Party of Nigeria (SPN) was initiated in 2013 by the Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM) in alliance with working class, students and youth activists across the country who

AMBODE DEMOLITIONS CREATE JOBLESSNESS, HOMELESSNESS, SORROW, TEARS AND BLOOD By Chinedu Bosah The right to decent housing and environment for all is an inalienable right but profit motive has led to wave of demolitions by successive governments (states and federal) in Nigeria that undermines the interest of the vast majority. Lagos leads in these attacks. The first major demolition in

DAGGA TOLAR DISCUSSES MINIMUM WAGE, MAY DAY Between May 1 and May 8, 2018, Dagga Tolar, the Branch Chairman, Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT) and Acting General Secretary of Democratic Socialist Movement, was the Personality of the Week on the social media platform of the Lagos State Wing of NUT. He fielded questions from tens of teachers on many issues

2018 BUDGET DEEPENS UNDERFUNDING OF PUBLIC EDUCATION For a United Struggle of Students and Workers to Demand Better Funding of Education By Wole Olabanji, ERC National Mobilisation Officer The National Assembly has passed the 2018 Appropriation Bill on Wednesday, 16th May 2018. The budget failed to take into cognizance the problems of fee hikes, accommodation crisis and moribund teaching facilities

GAZA PROTEST MASSACRE: For Mass Struggle to Lift the Siege! By Secretariat of Socialist Struggle Movement (CWI in Israel/Palestine) While in Jerusalem a messianic inauguration ceremony was held at American embassy, in the Gaza Strip the day of the embassy’s transfer was the deadliest day since the war in 2014. The Netanyahu government, hand-in-hand with a despicable incitement campaign, sent

THE FAILURE OF VISIONSCAPE AND PSP: LG Should Manage Refuse Disposal as Mandated by the 1999 Constitution Visionscape Should End Victimization of Workers and Improve Working Conditions By Chinedu Bosah The Lagos State Government has contracted Visionscape Sanitation Solutions to manage refuse disposal of residential houses and others thereby sacking the Private Sector Participation (PSP) Operators. Refuse management has gone

LABOUR STRUGGLES – HEALTH WORKERS ON STRIKE Dangote and Dock Workers Still in Court BUA Workers Agitating Over Sack of Leaders and Unfair Labour Practices By Chinedu Bosah Health workers in Nigeria except doctors have embarked on strike since April 17, 2018 over improvement of welfare and working conditions but the capitalist APC-led Buhari government just like the previous government

AREGBESOLA GOVERNMENT’S 8-YEAR ADMINISTRATION IN OSUN STATE: A Short Review By Kola Ibrahim By November 26, 2018, the two terms totalling 8 years of Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola will come to an end. In preparation for this, gubernatorial election is to hold, according to Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), on September 22, 2018. Various candidates in political parties, including major bourgeois

OYO COUNCIL POLL: A Show of Shame and Staged-Managed Electoral Fraud Lesson for SPN and Tasks Ahead By Abbey Trotsky On the 12th May, 2018, the Oyo State Independent Electoral Commission, OYSIEC conducted elections into 33 local government areas, LGA, and 35 local council development areas, LCDA, in the state. According to the result of this election declared by OYSIEC

MINIMUM WAGE For a 24hr Warning General Strike and Nationwide Mass Protests Now Only Mass Actions Can Win Demand and Implementation By Peluola Adewale President Muhammad Buhari’s Government has created an impression that it is willing to increase the minimum wage. But it is clear that, just as Jonathan did in 2011, the main reason for this seeming disposition is

Socialist Democracy June-July 2018 Edition 3 YEARS OF BUHARI/OSINBAJO APC GOVERNMENT: Which Way Nigeria? (Extract of the resolutions reached at 22nd DSM Congress held on 14 -15 April, 2018) Perhaps more than any written texts could have done, the events of the past three years in Nigeria have in immeasurable ways confirmed the teachings of Marxism. In 2015, driven by