For Struggle, Solidarity and Socialism in Nigeria
By Ben Taafe, Coordinator, ERC, UI The Students’ Union (SU) of the University of Ibadan in February 2020 organized activities for remembrance of Kunle Adepeju who was killed on February 1st, 1971 by soldiers invited to campus by the then Vice chancellor of the university, Professor Adeoye Lambo, to suppress the legitimate protest of the students. The protest was against
For a democratic control of local government administration by elected representatives of workers and community people By Akande Daniel Babatunde, CDWR, FCT Chapter, Abuja Karu local government is in Nasarawa State and under the leadership of Samuel Akala as the Chairman who has introduced a new wave of exploitative policies that negatively affects market men, market women and artisans in
SPN demands the restoration of NURTW under democratic management and control of elected representatives of commercial drivers an operators of motorcycles and tricycles By Abbey Trotsky, Acting National Chair, SPN The Socialist Party of Nigeria, SPN, Oyo State Chapter, faults the decision of the Engr Seyi Makinde-led government to impose and force on mass of poor but struggling commercial drivers
For renationalization of power sectors under democratic control of workers and consumers By Shoyombo Monsuru, National Secretary CARE The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) and the Buhari-led federal government have reiterated their plan to increase electricity tariff in line with the December 2019 Minor Review of Multi Year Tariff Order (MYTO) that will take effect on April 1, 2020 and
An appeal for local and international solidarity actions and financial support By Rufus Olusesan, National Chair, CDWR Following the intervention of the Campaign for Democratic and Workers’ Rights (CDWR) – a campaign platform of the Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM) – in the strike action of casual workers of Sumal Foods Limited Ibadan over pays and poor working conditions on the
NLC, TUC and ULC must launch a national campaign on high spate of insecurity and social issues like education, health and jobs By Abbey Trotsky & Chinedu Bosah The Socialist Party of Nigeria (SPN) acknowledges the failure of Buhari government through the police, military and other security agencies to tackle the high spate of insecurity like banditry, kidnapping, social conflicts
Neither free trade nor protection are real solutions By Kola Ibrahim On 6th July, 2019 President Muhammadu Buhari (rtd.), signed Nigeria into the much-touted African Continental Free Trade Area Agreement (AfCFTA), at the Extra-Ordinary Meeting of the AU Heads of Government in Niger. With this, Nigeria, which had earlier suspended its ratification of the AfCFTA in March 2018, became the
Labour should mobilise for mass actions for full minimum wage implementation without retrenchment and against all anti-people policies By Chinedu Bosah, CDWR Publicity Secretary An improved Minimum Wage was legally supposed to take effect in January 2016 after negotiations in 2015. But, aside from the law, inflation arising from the devaluation of Naira and the implementation of anti-poor capitalist policies
*For a mass working people’s party on a socialist programme By H.T. Soweto The rising spate of repression under the Buhari/APC administration reflects the mortar fear of the capitalist class of impending class battles and/or the sort of mass movements seen in recent months in countries like Sudan, Algeria, Hong Kong, Chile and France – the glaring signs of which