For Struggle, Solidarity and Socialism in Nigeria
Without trade unions, workers may not be so different from slaves. Trade unions are the reasons there exist the limited rights enjoyed by workers in the workplace and the many victories won through collective bargaining and strikes. But since the past few years, the potency of the trade union movement in Nigeria has reduced. Now when workers sneeze, oppressors no
Labour Must Fight all Anti-Poor Policies and For a Socialist Nigeria Two years ago, precisely May 30, 2022, Comrade Rufus Olusesan, popularly known as Ero, was unanimously elected as the President of Precision, Electrical and Related Equipment Senior Staff Association, (PERESSA). The union had been badly managed for years and was in a state of near collapse. Comrade Gideon Adeyeni
Our world today is in a climate emergency – “a code red for humanity” according to the UN Secretary-General. The UN Environment Programme has declared a climate emergency for the entire world. Average global temperature keeps rising alarmingly, while the endless release of greenhouse gases continues to change the composition of the atmosphere. The global average temperature in 2019 was
Students’ Fees Should be Recalculated at the Old Rate of N584.2, While the Universities Cover for the Difference Students’ Unions Must Take Up this Campaign in all Campuses Where Nigerian Students are Affected For a United Struggle of Students and Staff to Force University Managements to Accede to this Demand By Odun Eniayekan Leicester Branch, Socialist Party (CWI England &
Working People and Youth Must Remain Steadfast, Organise and Ready for More Concerted Struggle! On April 2, 2024, Bassirou Diomaye Faye, was inaugurated as the 5th Senegal’s elected President following his victory in the March 24th election. Faye won with over 54% of the total votes cast in the first round of voting. This makes the election historical given the
We Call for Immediate Reversal of the Sack and Payment of all Salary Arrears for the Affected Staff We Call on Trade Unions, Pro-democracy Groups, the Media and the Public to Support the Workers By Kola Ibrahim State Secretary, CDWR Osun The Campaign for Democratic and Workers’ Rights (CDWR), Osun State condemns in absolute terms the sack of hundreds of
Demand Provision of Social Amenities By Moshood Oshunfunrewa DSM Ajegunle Ajeromi-Ifelodun LGA and LCDA, Lagos, where despite receiving billions of Naira from both IGR and FAAC monthly distributions, the local government administrations in Ajegunle have fundamentally failed to fulfill their obligations to the people. Primary healthcare centers lie in disarray, roads deteriorate, and drainage systems remain clogged, while residents continue
We Say No to Privatization of the Water Corporation The Campaign for Democratic and Workers Rights condemns the sack of about 370 workers of the Lagos State Water Corporation (LSWC) on Monday, April 15, 2024. This mass sack violates Section 20 of the Labour Act and was carried out under an atmosphere of intimidation and harassment wherein hundreds of armed
Over the weekend of 20-21 April 1974, a small but crucial international meeting took place in a room at the Old Mother Redcap pub in Camden, London. This meeting decided to launch a new revolutionary Trotskyist international organisation, the Committee for a Workers’ International – the CWI. The new international was to be wedded to the ideas and methods of
We wish her family, friends and NULGE fortitude to bear the loss! The Socialist Party of Nigeria, SPN, Oyo state chapter, receives with huge shock and pain, the news of a sudden death of Comrade Famuti Ebunoluwa who was until her death, a staff of the Nigeria Union of Local Government Employees (NULGE), Oyo State chapter and member of the
ERC calls for the Constitution of Action Committee for an Effective Planning and Coordination of a Fight back The attention of the Education Rights Campaign (ERC), University of Ibadan branch has been drawn to different outrageous figures of school fees recently displayed on the portal of the university’s new intakes for the 2023/24 academic session. The new fees, as seen
We Demand Improvement in Pay and Working Condition of Nurses’ and other Health Workers The Campaign for Democratic and Workers’ Rights (CDWR), a campaign platform of the Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM), extends its unwavering solidarity and support to Nigerian nurses in their ongoing struggle against callous policies, attacks on personal freedom and neglect by the government. We call for the
TRADE UNIONS AND PRO-MASSES ORGANISATIONS SHOULD LEAD RESISTANCE AGAINST TARIFF HIKE The Bola Tinubu government through the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) has imposed another provocative hike in electricity tariff for Band A consumers by a whopping 230% – from N68 Kwh to N225 Kwh. According to NERC, this tariff hike affects about 15% of the total consumers and is
DSM Calls for Conference of Trade Unions, Left Organisations and Socialists to Discuss the Building of a Genuine Mass Working People’s Party The Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM) welcomes the current move by the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) to reclaim the Labour Party, so long as it is a genuine attempt to build a democratic working class party. The fact is
The brutal mindless removal of petrol subsidy by President Bola Tinubu on his first day as president symbolized a new phase of attacks on the living conditions of the working people and the poor in an attempt to get out of the deep crisis Nigerian capitalism is in. This was followed up by total devaluation of the Nigerian currency,